Sentences with phrase «artist community town»

Country doctor in a beautiful artist community town in the Blue Ridge, serving the poor, working as the medical examiner, doing house calls for the elderly and disabled, chasing hurricanes in a disaster team.

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Become a part of the inspiring community of Old Town School artists.
11 am: Doors open to Subscribers, FlexPass holders, and Community Members Ongoing: Self - guided backstage tours, Costume Corner, Scavenger Hunt 11:30 am: Props Activity: Build your own Rabbit Session # 1 (paint shop) 11:45 am: Cutting of the 30th Birthday cake 12 pm: Doors open to the general public 12 pm: 2012 - 2013 Season Talk with Managing Director Michael Maso 12:30 pm: Props Activity: Build your own Rabbit Session # 2 (paint shop) 1 pm: Audience - participatory reading of a 10 - minute play: The Pickup by HPF Lawrence Goodman (onstage) 1:30 pm: Shop Talk: Costumes, The Art of the Quick Change with Costume Director Nancy Brennan (onstage) 1:30 pm: Props Activity: Build your own Rabbit Session # 3 (paint shop) 2 pm: Audience - participatory reading of a scene from Our Town (on stage) 2:15 pm: Shop Talk: Paints, Marble Magic & Scenic Painting Technique with Scenic Charge Artists Kristin Krause (paint shop) 2:30 pm: Audience - participatory reading of 10 - minute play: Diamonds by HPF David Valdex - Greenwood (on stage) 2:45 pm: Raffle drawing 3 pm: Open House ends
Sundance really likes to push the idea that it's a «community» — a network of artists converging on the same Utah ski town every January to support each other's work, exchange positive reinforcement, and just bask in the glow of general movie appreciation.
Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist.
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This community immersed in art is home to many successful artists, some who have helped define Cannon Beach as one of the country's top small art towns.
The cultural scene is alive and well with crafts and artists galleries, community theater groups, and visitors love our local weekly newspaper which gives a glimpse into the bucolic life in the small town of Cambria.
Journey along the Parkway to the quaint town of Gatlinburg, nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains where you can tour the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community, the largest assembly of independent artists offering one of a kind crafts.
But there's a hospital; a number of excellent restaurants including a gourmet organic bistro; a fancy polo club where you can enjoy mimosas and watch a game over brunch; a community arts centre that received equipment and training from the Cirque de Soleil whose founder has a house here; a turtle conservation project; music festivals during the high season; ibogaine clinics that treat drug addicts with a African plant medicine; a skate park; an excellent multi-lingual folky band that plays every week at a bar serving both excellent pizza and gourmet teas; and the town attracts all sorts of creative, interesting people — surfers, dancers, writers, artists, musicians, yoga teachers, hippies.
There is an old fashioned cove at the corner of the tiny bohemian town that is as much frequented by the artist community as those seeking a respite from the more overtly pretentious and crowded luxury resort destinations in Costa Rica.
Known for its mild year - round climate and artist community, the seaside resort town of Laguna Beach beckons families to enjoy its scenic beaches and kid - friendly attractions.
Ubud Town, renowned for its artist community and beautiful surroundings and especially popular with Bali's most culturally inclined tourists
The colony transformed the surrounding town, and today it provides almost daily workshops and business classes for artists, as well as studio space with professional equipment and events for the community.
Cape Town - based artist Sue Williamson (b. 1941, Lichfield, England) uses politically charged photographs as a conduit for cultural resistance, highlighting the issues marginalized communities face.
With the help of three artists, Allison Smith, Francis Cape, and Nari Ward, the Payne Room of the Tang Museum will be transformed in the spirit of convention halls and town halls to evoke and critique ideas of patriotism, community, citizenship, and activism.
Create an exchange, make connections with artist communities in other cities and towns, rather than badger galleries.
Interdisciplinary artist Nick Cave creates a dance - based town hall — part installation, part performance — to which the community of New York is invited to «let go» and speak their minds through movement, work out frustrations, and celebrate independence as well as community.
Continuing my roadtrip north of the city, I headed west from the Berkshires to Hudson and Beacon, two more towns that have absorbed many exhausted Brooklyn artists who have decided to join art communities elsewhere.
In towns like New York and Los Angeles, you'll notice that communities of artists and musicians, for example, can be virtually indistinguishable.
The 1,195 grants in this round are distributed under the categories of Art Works II, which funds the creation of art that encourages public engagement, lifelong learning, and community building; Our Town, a creative placemaking program that supports partnerships of artists, arts organizations, and municipal government to revitalize neighborhoods; Research: Art Works; and includes state and regional arts agencies.
The Project Space will serve as a research laboratory and forum for public events and artists commissioned to make new work, investigating the unique development and shape of «community» in the New Town of Milton Keynes.
In 1935, he settled in Lambertville, New Jersey, a town near New Hope, Pennsylvania that was home to an artistic and intellectual community, which included a group of modernist artists called the Independents.
Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory urban design of community centers, public parks, urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by artist Noemí Segarra.
Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople in cities and towns across the country to feed the hungry in their communities.
Each artist represents meaningful conversations happening in rural communities, small towns, and more densely populated urban centers all across the country,» said Alligood.
(3) The elemental qualities of his work may also relate to the wild environment of the Cornish countryside, where Davie maintained a studio from the 1950s on and was an influential member of the artists» community based in the seaside town of St. Ives.
Set in the East Hampton Town community of Springs, the off - the - beaten - track community has a rich contemporary artist community with a storied history.
The Our Town grant program is designed to support «creative placemaking,» or «when artists, arts organizations, and community development practitioners deliberately integrate arts and culture into community revitalization work...» Among the winning projects are a $ 200,000 grant for installations in some of Los Angeles» most densely populated and underserved communities and a $ 100,000 donation for an artist residency at Boston City Hall.
This past weekend we hosted three workshops: a Core Skills Weekend in Cary, NC (in partnership with North Carolina Arts Council and the Town of Cary), an Artist - Community Engagement workshop in Atlanta, GA (in partnership with Flux Projects and PushPush Theater, and sponsored by Tequila Herradura) and a Financial Literacy Workshop at the Convening Culture Conference in Orlando (in partnership with the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs).
«The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail Collective is a diverse and lively community of professional artists who live and work in the beautiful Waveney Valley, all within reach of Harleston, a small market town on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk.
This is essential to accommodating visiting artists as they immediately become part of the Cape Town community.
Zygote is hosting an artist talk with our current resident international artist, Khela Chepape Makgato, which will double as a fundraiser for the community - based programs he runs in his home town.
Zanele Muholi, a Cape Town - based artist and visual activist, explores the struggles of the LGBTQI community through music, performance and discussions
As director of Island Mountain Arts, an artist - run centre in the former gold town of Wells, B.C., she understands the challenges of nurturing an arts community in a remote region.
As a pilot, this first taster of Growing Communities focuses on members of Transition Town Lewes in England — the same folks who brought us this rather catchy video and rap about our dependence on oil — and discusses everything from individuals keeping chickens in old playhouses in their backyards, through urban beekeepers in their local graveyard, to a collective artists studio that has transformed the land around it into a community garden.
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