Sentences with phrase «cultural center from»

It has been said that Manhattan is the cradle of the United States, an economic and cultural center from which springs all that is good and positive in the nation.

Lee acted as artistic director and instructor at the Korean Youth Cultural Center from 2002 to 2008, resident artist and instructor at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center from 2008 to 2011, and has been a guest instructor at San Francisco State University, Saint Mary's College, UC Berkeley and Northern Illinois University.

Ceromantia, The solo exhibition of new work, will be on view at the exican American Cultural Center from Septebmer 16 through November 22, 2016

Organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Skirball Cultural Center, this traveling exhibition was first presented at the National Gallery of Canada from 2010 to 2011, followed by acclaimed runs at the Skirball Cultural Center from 2013 to 2014, the Crystal Bridges Museum in 2014, and the National Academy Museum in New York City from September 2015 to January 2016.

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But a new report from the Terner Center at UC - Berkeley shows that development fees — which pay not only for housing, but also for inspections, administrative services, parks, schools, and cultural amenities — here and elsewhere across California can have a significant impact on housing prices.

Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Nader Wanis, director of the Arkan Cultural Center in Alexandria, was worshiping at the Anglican Pro-Cathedral only two streets from St. Mark's when the bomb went off.

If you haven't noticed, Christianity has been beating a steady retreat from the cultural and moral center of Western public life.

Many scholars and poets from Khurasan and neighboring lands settled in India after the invasion of Babar, and soon the Mughal court became the center of intense literary and cultural activity.

During this time Egypt continued to be a center for continuing cultural and commercial emigrations from neighboring Arab countries as well as a crossroads for the infiltration of Western culture — an infiltration which remained within the bounds imposed by the desire to maintain the Arabic and Islamic character of the culture of Egypt.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The senior leader of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn revealed on Twitter his departure from the US President's Evangelical Advisory Board.

Go visit the Polynesian Cultural center in Hawaii (which is run by the Mormon Church) and you will see thet have a map showing emigration from south America to Hawaii.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

Other civilizations of the Old World were all derived from this cultural center or were strongly influenced by it; only the New World was entirely independent.»

Two days after President Obama came out in support of a plan to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, the controversial project has received yet another high - profile endorsement — this one from the chief of the terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

As Kramer progressed through the 1950s and 1960s, he confronted an increasingly painful dichotomy: on the one hand, his brilliance as an art critic propelled him toward the center of the cultural establishment (he eventually became chief art critic of the New York Times); on the other hand, his political and moral concerns estranged him from the growing radicalism of the intellectual class that controlled the establishment.

Statistical decline, cultural marginalization and religious displacement from the center is the recent story of the mainline churches.

The history of the San Francisco Zen Center from the late «50s to the present shows a continuous movement from general intellectual and cultural interest in Zen to high and demanding standards of practice.

We try to come at the same desired center from opposite ends, one from the priority of the text and the other from a cultural frame of reference.

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 pcenter and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 pCenter, killing more than 2,700 people.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

Her concept contains what black feminist scholar Bell Hooks in From Margin to Center identifies as cultural codes.

See also Steven Tipton's study of ethical configurations in a Christian sect, a Zen center, and a human potential movement, in Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1982), 244 - 77.

Guests will be able to sip and savor reds, whites, and sparkling wines from several different Italian regions, all while enjoying the gorgeous architecture of the cultural center and delicious hors d'oeuvres catered by Ace Endico and DeCicco & Sons.

Sistrunk and 20 or so boys from his youth sports program recently marched outside the Chicago Public Library demanding that New York City artist Eric Fischl's oil painting Boys at Bat, which is hanging in the library's cultural center as part of a touring baseball art exhibition, be removed.

The food scene is thriving in Spartanburg, but if you can tear yourself away from the table for a moment, head to Chapman Cultural Center to see 4 (yes, 4!)

LONG GROVE — The Long Grove Village Board has given the Plan Commission six weeks to review a controversial petition for a country inn, restaurant and cultural center on Old McHenry Road across from Kildeer School.

Despite a commitment from the Joliet Park District to expand a recreational center on the city «s east side, members of the area «s Hispanic community are complaining that the plans indicate a cultural insensitivity.

Gause is one of 25 «Grandma, Please» volunteers, who will be honored Monday in a 10 a.m. awards ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Started 10 years ago as a service for senior citizens by the Uptown Center Hull House Association and supported by the Chicago Community Trust, the program handles at least 800 calls a month from youngsters who come home after school to an empty house and want to talk to a grownup.

From Naper Settlement's historic buildings and re-enactments to the exhibits at the Naperville Art League's Fine Art Center and Gallery, the city's cultural repositories attract thousands of visitors.

Saturday, April 9th, 2016 come out to the Torrance Cultural Arts Center from 10 am to 3 pm and enjoy this fun family event with lots of unique and fun hands on...

Simkin Center strives to provide a learning environment free from institutionalized racism and oppression, and is dedicated to health and race equity and cultural awareness in supporting maternal, infant and family health.

Her issue focus has ranged from climate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish History).

The French Cultural Center is hosting a book sale this Saturday from 9:30 am to 4 pm.

Mr. Arnault, a photographer, is married to a member of the academy, Katarina Frostenson; is a close friend to other members; and is co-owner, with Ms. Frostenson, of Forum, a cultural center in Stockholm that received funding from the academy.

The Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, 1201 Pine Ave., Niagara Falls, will host a «Tour Through Time» Members Mixer from 6 to 8 p.m. May 14.

Tejada, founder of The Mirabal Cultural and Community Center in Washington Heights, a Washington Heights - based nonprofit, said his largest support comes from the community, primarily residents his organization has helped throughout the years.

County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef, in partnership with the Arts Council of Rockland (ACOR), is seeking nominations from the County's arts community and the public for the 24th Annual County Executive Arts Awards, which will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 at the Cultural Arts Center at Rockland Community College.

Across the page from the $ 412,000 in SAM funding Cahill obtained was a notation of the $ 2.1 million Cahill secured for the proposed Irish Cultural Center on Abeel Street in Kingston.

These included The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, dancers from the Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institute, the New York Chinese Cultural Center, the Harambee Dance Company (African dance), the Val - Inc (Afro - Electronic), the Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society (Caribbean), and Kahurangi Maori Dance Company (New Zealand) also performed.

From 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., a wake will be held for the late Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson, Christian Cultural Center, 12020 Flatlands Ave., Brooklyn.

Juanita Perez Williams, Judge Advocate General in the Navy from 1989 through 1995, stands in front of an exhibit honoring Hispanic veterans and their families at La Casita Cultural Center in this file photo.

For Casabe, it all started when Fernando Salicrup's arts group, Taller Boricua, was evicted from a city - owned cultural center in 2011 after more than a decade.

Pursue your passions in western New York with lakes, grapes, wineries, cultural centers like the Chautauqua Institution, museums like the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Center for Comedy and soon to be National Comedy Center, and an abundance of outdoor recreational opportunities from fishing to snow sports.

The agency received more than 200 applications — including one from Park51, the planned mosque and cultural center near Ground Zero — but has yet to assemble the committee that will select the recipients.

County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef, in partnership with the Arts Council of Rockland (ACOR), is seeking nominations from the county's arts community and the public for the 24th Annual County Executive Arts Awards, which will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 at the Cultural Arts Center at Rockland Community College.

Two co-founders of the controversial plan to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero are mulling a new, rival...

Known for the Saratoga Race Course, horses, mineral springs, and great restaurants and shopping, this exciting historical and cultural center is located minutes from Albany and is a short drive from most Northeast locations.

Residents and visitors alike enjoy four unique seasons of entertaining events, historic masterpieces, unique cultural attractions, regional shopping centers, and a taste of culinary delights from around the world.