Sentences with phrase «as cultural venues»

Naturally the Apartments are within easy reach of many of Melbournes famous restaurants as well as cultural venues like Princess Theatre and Her Majesty's Theatre as well as the new Queen Victoria shopping Complex

The parliament attracts visitors not only to see a democratic institution representing Flanders, but also as a cultural venue for unrelated events.

After the fall of the Wall, the Palace lost its initial function and was re-used as a cultural venue for about fifteen years.

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The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

By introducing simple measures, such as audio description, tactile displays and through harnessing the power of IT, art and cultural venues would make an important contribution towards promoting inclusion and equality for disabled people.

An important cultural, artistic, and educational center for the province, Fredericton is home to three universities, as well as cultural institutions such as the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the York - Sunbury Museum, and The Playhouse a performing arts venue.

From St Martin's church to the Bull Ring, there are so many cultural landmarks that stand out as idyllic backdrops to dates, and with a plethora of eateries and entertainment venues, the city is leading the UK into a future that places the nation among the best worldwide date locations.

Dominic Cooke's On Chesil Beach, adapted from a dour novella by Ian McEwan, transforms cultural myth into hard fact, framing the marriage bed as not a venue for bawdy larks, but face - clawing torment.

Though rural communities can offer unusually tight social connections, they can lack other amenities that might attract young teachers, such as cultural diversity and proximity to entertainment venues.

The trial, which is expected to be run in 200 schools, will cover a range of cultural learning experiences including visiting venues, seeing theatre performances and exhibitions as well as learning through practical activity.

Cultural and musical acts regularly tour venues such as the Gold Coast Convention Centre and the Gold Coast Arts Centre, while festivals including the Surfers Paradise Festival, the Gold Coast Film Festival, the Tambourine Mountain Scarecrow Festival, Big Day Out, and Kirra Surfstock take over precincts across the city.

Chapel Street provides an historic setting with diverse dining in many cafes, restaurants and bars as well as innovative architecture with exciting arts and cultural venues.

As a result of enquiries from existing customers and friends, we recently set up a cultural tourism service to provide corporate incentives and organised tours for special interest groups who are looking for destinations, venues and activities that provide something really different for the seasoned traveller.

Thanks to the multiple attractions of Chinatown, boutique retailers, cultural venues such as the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, small galleries, and the many pubs, eating places and nightclubs that line its glittering streets, it's where locals and visitors rub shoulders in the pursuit of adventure or just plain fun.

Guests can explore nearby cultural venues and museums, such as the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, home to the famous Vermeer painting «The Girl with the Pearl Earring.»

This is why Bit, in line with its history and tradition that sees it protagonist of tourism not only as a venue for business but also as an opportunity for meetings and cultural debate, has decided to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by promoting, in Italy and abroad, a small refined book entitled Case Museo in Italia.

As the capital city of the country, Manila has a long and fascinating history that left a great number of cultural and religious edifices for you to visit, as well as a tremendous choice of dining, shopping, and nightlife entertainment venueAs the capital city of the country, Manila has a long and fascinating history that left a great number of cultural and religious edifices for you to visit, as well as a tremendous choice of dining, shopping, and nightlife entertainment venueas well as a tremendous choice of dining, shopping, and nightlife entertainment venueas a tremendous choice of dining, shopping, and nightlife entertainment venues.

From its prime seafront location on Doha's prestigious Corniche, guests can easily access local corporations and government offices in the diplomatic and business districts, as well as a number of world - class shopping venues and cultural attractions.

As such, they provide the perfect base from which to explore Melbourne's wide variety of specialty restaurants, cafes and bars, stylish and cutting edge fashion boutiques, world class - shopping centres and entertainment precincts, iconic and hollowed sports grounds and cultural venues.

Other facilities including Victoria Hall, a venue for several activities such as yoga, meditation, meeting, spiritual workshop, as well as cultural activities like Balinese dance and demonstration of local arts and crafts, weaving, making offering and Balinese cooking classes.

The establishment is within quick and easy reach of shopping centers, hospitals, casinos, cinemas, cultural sites, museums, theatres, as well as major sports venue...

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is home to many unique and beautiful landscapes that are ideal venues for a variety of special activities such as cultural programs, picnics, wedding ceremonies, festivals, athletic events, and film and photography projects.

Enjoy exploring cultural venues such as the Huntington Library and the Botanical Gardens or iconic attractions like Hollywood and the Santa Monica Pier.

Campbell adds, «As a leading alternative arts center in the United States, this is the mission, and therefore the role, I see for 18th Street Arts Center: to question, probe, reflect on tough subjects that other cultural institutions or market driven venues will not address.»

She has read, exhibited and performed her multidisciplinary work at events and venues including the Miami Book Fair International, the Ashé Cultural Center and the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans; Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, PR; Girls» Club in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Sweat Records in Miami, FL; and ArtCenter South Florida, as well as readings and performances as a member of the Miami Poetry Collective.

His art has been exhibited in numerous venues throughout Ethiopia such as the National Museum, Goethe Institute, and Italian Cultural Institute.

Taking place at over 80 of New York's most exciting art and cultural venues, Performa 09 was created as a collaboration between all of these moving parts, so a portrait of the city's remarkable history of cultural innovation also emerges from these pages.

His work has been shown across Europe and in the USA — as well as in Brazil, Singapore, China, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and South Africa; in venues such as the LACE, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), Art Interactive (Boston), Museum of the City of New York, Residency Unlimited (NY), MOCA (Cleveland), MMOCA (Madison), Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts (Princeton), Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), DAZ, Berlinerpool (Berlin), Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin (Paris), National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum (Kaunas), Hélio Oiticica Art Center (Rio de Janeiro), S.P. Cultural Center (São Paulo), Oriente Foundation (Macao), EDP Museum, Gulbenkian Foundation, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Goethe - Institut (Lisbon), Galeria Presença, and Soares dos Reis Museum (Porto).

Teixeira's work has been shown internationally, in venues such as LACE (Los Angeles); Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena); Residency Unlimited, Museum of the City of New York (NY); Art Interactive (Boston); MOCA (Cleveland); MMOCA (Madison); DAZ (Berlin); Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart); Recontres Internationales Paris / Berlin (Paris); National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow); M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum (Kaunas); Hélio Oiticica Art Center (Rio de Janeiro); the S.P. Cultural Center (Såo Paulo); EDP Museum and Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), to name a few.

Following the restoration of the Board of Officers Room, which hosts the Armory's recital series and has become an acclaimed chamber venue in New York, the revitalization of the Veterans Room ensures the room's active use as a cultural salon for cross-disciplinary programming into the next century.

Burcaw has worked as an artist, a curator and a teacher, and has exhibited work at venues throughout New York City, including Denise Bibro Fine Art's Winter Salon, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and at Artists Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space.

Since then, various venues have been used for the following events — such as a garden, a bar or a cultural center.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Funding cuts have meant that cultural venues are closing or being merged, and just as we are getting somewhere, we need to maintain growth to continue and sustain the city.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Wexner Center for Arts in Columbus, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, the Images Festival in Toronto, Possible Project Space in Brooklyn, the Big Screen Project in New York, the Ben - Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, and the Kulturhuset in Stockholm.

As the hyper - commodification of real estate in Toronto continues to mount, alternative venues must evolve in order to continue creating unrestricted exhibition areas for artists and cultural producers.

Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal Established in 1964, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal - Canada's only cultural venue devoted to both performing and visual arts - maintains a collection of over 7,000 works of art by more than 1,500 contemporary artists, focusing on postmodernist Canadian art, as well as important international artists.

By collaborating with offsite venues that are public as well as educational spaces for cultural promotion, Copeland will produce an environment that will question the idea of what an exhibition can be and how peripheral structures and strategies can affect and inform the center both in terms of space (The David Roberts Art Foundation) as well as common cultural thought.

Since the late 70's, Thomas Struth has been capturing our time, reconciling forms of documentation and contemplation: the world today as seen in empty streets of different cities, cultural venues, worship scenes, but also nature, family portraits, and more recently industrial and technological locations, often underlining the relationship with the sublime.

He received a MFA (2011) in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has performed, curated, and presented work internationally at such venues and institutions as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Whitney Biennial (NYC), Postgarage (Graz, Austria), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges (Bourges, France).

He has performed, curated, and presented work internationally at such venues and institutions as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Whitney Biennial (NYC), Postgarage (Graz, Austria), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art Bourges (Bourges, France), and Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria).

He has exhibited and performed extensively in the U.S. as well as internationally at venues such as Madrid Abierto / ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05 and 07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, The Pontevedra Biennial, The Queens Museum of Art, MoMA, Printed Matter, P.S. 122, Hemispheric Institute of Performance Art and Politics, Princeton University, Rutgers University, The Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, The MacDowell Colony, Provisions Library, El Museo del Barrio, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Center for Book Arts, Longwood Art Gallery / BCA, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Franklin Furnace, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others.

Elizabeth Price is selected by the Whitechapel Gallery as part of Artists» Film International, a collaborative project which showcases artists working with film, video and animation from 15 partner organisations around the world and presented over the course of a year in each venue: Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade; Video - Forum (n.b.k), Berlin; GAMeC, Bergamo; Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires; New Media Center, Haifa; Hanoi / DOCLAB, Hanoi; Para / Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul; Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan (CCAA), Kabul; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Project 88, Mumbai; KINOKINO Centre for Art and Film, Sandes, Norway; Cinematheque de Tanger, Tangier and City Gallery Wellington, Wellington.

The venue consists of one smaller and two large spaces, which welcome video art and installation, as well as cultural and social events.

A former steel plant in Volklinger now used as a venue for major cultural events is playing host to a number of works by famous street artists for Germany's Urban Art Biennial.

Newly - minted director Gonzalo Casals, a veteran of Friends of the High Line and the Museo del Barrio, hopes the upgraded venue, doubling the museum's exhibition space, will allow the 30 - year - old institution to «reframe scholarship from a queer perspective» and also raise its profile «as a cultural hub for the LGBTQ community.»

As with her more recent ventures, Macuga explores the cultural history of the venue and melds it with recent events.

Gregory Gómez (b. 1958, Buffalo, N.Y.): An educator as well as an artist, Gregory Gómez has exhibited his work at the Brush Art Museum, the Boston Center for the Arts, the Fitchburg Art Museum, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Massachusetts, among other venues.

No wonder then that this venue's slate of group exhibitions, solo shows and performances (notably in the form of Tommy Hartung's video adaptation of the BBC's classic Ascent of Man series, and Debo Eilers's Day - Glo assemblages of everyday flotsam paired with screen grabs of cluttered computer desktops) appears to express some idea of art as a form of cultural physics.

Responding to the exhibition space, the work focuses on the Fondazione's symbolic value as an abandoned industrial building converted into a cultural venue.