Sentences with phrase «cultural contributions»

It was a return to his Jewish heritage and also represented a big cultural contribution by the director.

Students learn that architecture is a meaningful cultural contribution, requiring both imagination and material realization within a larger social and ethical context.

The region also boasts many other impressive cultural contributions.

You want to keep the classical, as one root, and have respect for the beauty of that particular cultural contribution.

What a privilege it is to spend time with artists and learn how they gain the confidence and courage that allow them to transform their visions into memorable cultural contributions.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and by the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society.

2007 — Recognized and Honored by the American Psychiatric Foundation for cultural contributions to children and families in Calvert County

Founded in 2014 by non-profit arts organizations, the network celebrates the rich history of SoHo's unique creative community and advances the neighborhood's continued cultural contributions to the lives of both residents and visitors.

More recently, he was awarded for outstanding cultural contributions by two Los Angeles city officials: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in 2009 and Council Member Bernard Parks in 2012.

This led to a mixture of both cultures, which is shown in their appreciation for the cultures of both areas, and led also to some interesting cultural contributions in China.

Nevertheless, while educational efforts that seek to go beyond nationalist and religious orthodoxies could foster greater appreciation for the myriad different cultural contributions to human civilization, such steps alone are unlikely to be sufficient to achieve wider geopolitical goals.

Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman - directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.

Those debatable cultural contributions are the subject of The Weird World of Blowfly, an aptly titled documentary directed by Jonathan Furmanski, with an emphasis on the word «weird.».

Redford commented on his longtime connection to France and expressed gratitude to the people of France for their incomparable cultural contribution to the world and for embracing not only his personal work over the years but that of the new, independent international voices brought forth via Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Channel.

Pittsburgh's black residents, Whitaker argues, offered cultural contributions that significantly shaped black history — and the nation.

In addition, the magnitude of the alumna's cultural contributions throughout Cooper Union's history is extraordinary.

She references the slave industry and its legacies, and addresses the hidden and neglected cultural contribution made by real but forgotten people.

Music and dance were integral to the Black Mountain program and accounted for some of the most precocious cultural contributions.

Himid campaigns for the recognition of the black diaspora's cultural contribution through projects based in museum collections.

Snow was born in Manhattan in 1981 to a family whose cultural contributions included the Menil Collection in Houston and the Dia Center for the Arts in Manhattan and Beacon, New York.

As a training ground for curators, a springboard for artists, and a leader in constructing the narrative of African American and African Diaspora art, the Studio Museum has been effective in illuminating the local national and international cultural contributions of black artists to the broader art world and public.

When the Institute was founded in 1994, with support from the Arts Council, its aim was to acknowledge the diverse cultural contributions and perspectives of artists and thinkers from Britain and across the world.

In 2014, he was awarded the title of Young Space Leader for his extraordinary cultural contributions to astronautics.

Journeys to Oxford is a Museum of Oxford exhibition celebrating the vibrant cultural contributions made to life in Oxford by those who have travelled here to live, work, visit and study.

The collection of art, artifacts and documents captures the historic progress and cultural contributions of African Americans.

The calendar, architecture, stone carving, urban planning, as well as sacred rites relating to the ceremonial ball games, the jaguar cult and spiritual value of jade, were important cultural contributions that the Olmecs passed onto subsequent civilizations like the Mayan and Toltecs.

Judd Foundation is a founding member of the SoHo Arts Network, a working network of art spaces dedicated to celebrating the rich history of SoHo's unique creative community and to advancing the neighborhood's continued cultural contributions to the lives of both residents and visitors.

Students at Pratt learn that architecture is a meaningful cultural contribution that requires both imagination and material realization within a larger social and ethical context.

Fourth, a team needs shared values and cultural contribution, not cultural fit.

At a company event called 10X — an all - hands meeting at which employees give presentations and receive feedback on their cultural contributions — Jackie admitted that she had become a selfish employee.

One might see this as less social and more artistic, insofar as the Christian vision inspired the creation of American artifacts that comprised its cultural contribution to human life.

Just as it did in the distant past, sea salt production makes important economic and cultural contributions to the regions in which it is produced.

He stated that the lottery, since it was created in 1990 and held every year since it was initiated under the Immigration Act, allowed 50, 000 people from other countries to acquire visas, issued as part of the programme every year, to migrate to the US in order to «add their vibrancy and make cultural contributions to the US.

For nearly three decades, the largest city in western Massachusetts has held a flag raising ceremony on the first Monday in November to celebrate Puerto Rican heritage and the cultural contributions of the people from the Caribbean island.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein and the Ulster County Office of Economic Development Ulster County also honored Fiori for her economic and cultural contributions to Ulster County's communities.

The book described the differences in lifestyle, public achievement, and cultural contributions of the influential elites of the two cities going back to Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, and Stephen Girard, to Adamses, Cabots, and Lowells.

Marine and coastal environments make significant economic, social and cultural contributions to the people of Africa.

(Unrated) Yet another bio-pic chronicling the cultural contributions of Leonard Chess (Alessandro Nivola), co-founder with his brother Phil (Jon Abrahams) of the legendary record label which bore their name.

(In French, Greek, Arabic and English with subtitles) Passione (Unrated) John Turturro directed and narrates this labor of love exploring the musical and cultural contributions of the City of Naples.

The Colors of the Prism, The Mechanics of Time (Unrated) Avant Garde Movement retrospective exploring the cultural contributions of such visionary American composers and choreographers as Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Gavin Bryars.

This must change if the true economic and cultural contribution of the UK's games sector is to get the recognition it is due.

Do you accommodate their schedules and consider their cultural contributions or differences?

CARS.COM — For a place at least half the people you talk to mistakenly think is in Kansas, the so - called Paris of the Plains, Kansas City, Mo., has more than its share of cultural contributions to this country.

Another cultural contribution of blaxploitation movies was its music - a brand of funk, jazz and soul that provided much of the backbone for the narratives and became the genre's calling card.