Sentences with phrase «cultural tours of»

He had his first solo exhibition in 1986, and, in 1993, he initiated cultural tours of Beijing's hutongs to give foreigners a glimpse of a vanishing culture and architecture in an effort to preserve them.

SAS Travel Peru also offers excellently guided cultural tours of the Sacred Valley, South Valley tour, Moray, Salt - mines and combined Cusco City tour with Saqsawaman, Tambomachay, Qenqo, Pucapucara and the amazing Koricancha or for those who want a little excitement around Cusco there «s white - water rafting in the Urubamba River, mountain biking in Maras, Moray and salt - mines, horseback riding in the Sacred Valley or near Cusco, climbing, paragliding and more.

Or you can take a speedboat to Addu Atoll and visit Shangri - La's Villingili Resort, which offers several different types of cultural tours of the island.

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Nightly rates include all meals, morning coffee and tea service brought to your room, daily boat transfer to the sandbank beach and guided historical and cultural tours of Ibo Island.

Native Santa Fean available to guide adventurous, fun and memorable day hikes in the Santa Fe area as well as historical and cultural tours of the city and surrounding region.

That's the nickname for a month long cultural tour of Taiwan sponsored and partly subsidized by the Taiwanese government.

Cruising the Dalmatian Coast: from Šibenik to Zadar offers an astonishing historical and cultural tour of one of Croatia's most diverse coastal regions

After breakfast, complete your cultural tour of the capital with museum visits and after lunch, in a local restaurant, spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Pedro took about 15 of us on an enjoyable cultural tour of several traditional Mayan villages around the lake.

Discover Phuket's rich history and traditional life on a cultural tour of Phuket Town.

On this historical and cultural tour of Kona, you'll take a step back in time to Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, which translates to «Place of Refuge at Honaunau.»

We have finally returned home after a wonderful cultural tour of Spain.

A cultural tour of Peru will show you the ancient traditions that have shaped this land.

Immerse yourself in the history of the glorious temples of the Khmer regime on a cultural tour of Cambodia.

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(Cultural activities such as a detailed tour of Shanghai's Kun Opera are already available on the platform.)

He affirms what the report gets right in its defense of the humanities while rightly pointing out the paucity of where the report lands — creating cultural tour guides.

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey by Edith Hall Johns Hopkins University Press, 304 pages, $ 35 Edith Hall's The Return of Ulysses is a sweeping tour of almost all one could wish to demonstrate about the spell of Homer.

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.

Visitors to the mosque can take a free audio tour, which touches on the tenants of Islam, cultural lessons, and the construction of the impressive monument.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

Then, an extensive tour of Germany, when she played Oya, Sango's wife, courtesy of a Nigeria - Germany cultural exchange — Berlin, Sabrieakan, Hanover, Bonn, Bremen, Geneva (Switzerland) and Amsterdam (Holland), a proud troubadour, showcasing the artistic trove of her country.

The «Only in Queens» Summer Festival will also offer a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public reuse.

Artist studio tours have become key components in the cultural tourism economy of a number of Hudson Valley communities, including

«Whether you're looking for family fun, cultural activities, conference space, group tour opportunities, team - building programs, a great spot for dining or just want a romantic getaway, the Westchester Destination Guide will help you plan an unforgettable experience for business or leisure travel,» said Natasha Caputo, director of Tourism and Film.

It stretches from consumer goods such as fruit and vegetables and cosmetics to touring Israeli cultural troupes supported by their Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In this impressionistic tour of the solar system, the best - selling author emphasizes cultural and historical perspectives on the planets rather than science.

Today you'll enjoy a guided tour of Victoria, taking in the unique architecture and rich cultural heritage of this peaceful colonial city.

Google has partnered with the nonprofit to launch Open Heritage, which uses CyArk's data to create VR tours of 27 cultural sites around the world, from the Buddhist temples of Bagan, Myanmar, to the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado.

For foodies, Food Tours of America with their food tasting and cultural tours can be a good choice.

If you'd both like to explore and perhaps learn something new, The Glasgow School of Art hosts walking tours showing how artists, designers and architects have contributed to the city's cultural regeneration.

Boston, MA About Blog Bites of Boston Food Tours offers walking art, history, & cultural tours while eating through the food scene of Boston in the South End & Allston MA.

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With the exception of Kendrick's favorite current collaborator (and tour mate) James Blake, the entirety of his Black Panther record is comprised of PoC musicians, emulating the cultural portrait Coogler has set out to make.

Brazilian writer - director João Moreira Salles intercuts his mother's movies of a 1966 group tour in China during the inception of the most radical phase of the Cultural Revolution with archival footage from three other radical movements, all from 1968: The May uprisings in France; the brutal ending of the Prague Spring; and the brief rebellion in Brazil against the reigning military dictatorship.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Perhaps the most important outcome of a school tour is whether it cultivates an interest among students in returning to cultural institutions in the future.

Students at high - poverty schools score 11 percent of a standard deviation higher on the cultural consumer scale if they were randomly assigned to tour the museum.

Can trips to other types of cultural institutions produce the positive outcomes observed from tours of the Crystal Bridges art museum?

Policymakers should consider these results when deciding whether schools have sufficient resources and appropriate policy guidance to take their students on tours of cultural institutions.

Students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of an art museum experience improvements in their knowledge of and ability to think critically about art, display stronger historical empathy, develop higher tolerance, and are more likely to visit such cultural institutions as art museums in the future.

To nurture the same global citizenship in today's students, Berseth encourages educators and parents «to expose students to new cultures, whether through a trip to a neighboring U.S. state, a historic tour of Europe, hosting a cultural exchange student, or even engaging with a new community at home.»

In recent years, cultural institutions have experienced sharp declines in the number of school tours attending their exhibits.

«Policymakers should consider these results when deciding whether schools have sufficient resources and appropriate policy guidance to take their students on tours of cultural institutions,» they say, adding, «School administrators should give thought to these results when deciding whether to use their resources and time for these tours.»

The educators were afforded a tour of the Uluru - Kata Tjuta cultural centre, and were also given a guided tour of the extremely scenic Kings Canyon rim early in the trip.

During our tour, Chris Rush, the program's co-founder, emphasized that the key cultural mindset that changes with School of One is not the technology, but the way in which the program thinks about student progress.

In addition to matches with competitor schools, the itinerary for the international rugby tour included a number of cultural experiences designed to broaden students» awareness of the history and culture of the countries they visited.

With a knack for finding the humor in the quirks of the American cultural landscape, Hughes takes us on a tour from the Mall of America in Minneapolis to what he calls the «maul» of America - Custer's last stand - stopping at road - sides and discoursing on sandwiches, the shape of cowboy hats, the evolution of barn roofs, the 28.99 wording of jokes, the wearing of moustaches, and, of course, the telling features from tepees of different tribes.

Boston, MA About Blog Bites of Boston Food Tours offers walking art, history, & cultural tours while eating through the food scene of Boston in the South End & Allston MA.

I'm the only one interested in any sort of cultural tours or even foodie tours for daytime activities.