Sentences with phrase «for cultural preservation»

«While we welcome the previously announced $ 40 million to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies for cultural preservation and promotion over the next four years — there is little else.»

President Trump's decision to withdraw from UNESCO undermines the historic role of the United States as a leader in this effort and weakens our position as a strong advocate for cultural preservation.

Each year since 2001, through its U.S. Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...

U.S. Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation Awarded to Santa Rita Archaeological Park Conservation Project.

Not exact matches

In the spring of 1952 Buber was awarded the Goethe Prize by the University of Hamburg for his «activity in the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual tradition.»

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Christine: You serve on the board of directors for the Arlington Center for the Arts as well as the Arlington Cultural Council; what's your read on the public schools these days as far as preservation of arts?

By Morkporkpor Anku, GNA Peduase (E / R), Nov. 12, GNA — Ms Abla Dzifa Gomashie, the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has called for the support, promotion and preservation of the country's cultural heritage.

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.

Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an international research community to study the primary causes of damage to cultural heritage in times of conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed at the September 19 meeting.

Chuipka says that carving up the monument and cherry - picking popular sites for protection undermines a key reason for creating it: the preservation of an interconnected cultural landscape.

Fast and furious, these comedies have become cultural high - water marks for cinema and, as is the case for this Criterion Collection release, selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

They are the values that world leaders have been advocating for the past 75 years, including human rights, religious pluralism, gender equity, environmental protection, sustainable development, poverty alleviation, the prevention and cessation of conflicts between countries, the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian assistance, and the preservation and celebration of cultural diversity.

There is, of course, mandatory copyright deposit at the Library of Congress, but it is neither reasonable nor wise to place all our hopes for preservation of the cultural record on any single library, particularly in an age of massive governmental disinvestment in scholarship and cultural heritage.

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Gibson Worsham, Member of the Cultural Studio and a historic preservation specialist for Glave & Holmes Architecture, describes his involvement in the Bath House restoration process.

As official programs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide provide the recognition to travelers, civic leaders, and the global cultural, heritage, and historic travel market that member hotels are among the finest historic hotels across America and around the world.

Active in the San Francisco arts and cultural community, Haines is a founding advisor for the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium, a member of the Contemporary Advisory Committee at the Asian Art Museum, and a board member for the Semshae Foundation to support the preservation of Tibetan music.

Announcing the African - American Cultural Heritage Action Fund National Trust for Historic Preservation You can help save the irreplaceable historic buildings, monuments, communities and landscapes that the National Trust for Historic Preservation has designated National Treasures.

For Members: Alcatraz Gardens Tour May 11, 2018 8 - 11 am Location: Alcatraz Join Alcatraz Gardens Project Manager Shelagh Fritz to learn about the preservation process of a unique cultural landscape.

According to a report published in 2009 by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO): «Tourism is an effective way of redistributing wealth and a catalyst for gender equality, cultural preservation and nature conservation.»

Ponomarev is also responsible for the upcoming Antarctic Biennale, which will similarly seek to preserve cultural history in ways similar to the preservation of the earth in the deep ocean seas.

Getty Research Institute names Mary Miller as next director The J. Paul Getty Trust has announced the appointment of Mary Miller, currently a professor of art history at Yale University and senior director of Yale's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, as its next director.

The Hammer Museum, in partnership with Ari Bhöd — the American Foundation for Tibetan Cultural Preservation — is pleased to present The Mandala Project.

BAC Arts in Education programs are made possible, in part, by public and private funds from Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, CME Group Community Foundation; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Tiger Baron Foundation; The H.W. Wilson Foundation; Henry Nias Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation; New York City Department for the Aging; New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council.

«As Franklin Furnace approaches its 40th anniversary in 2016, collaborating with a formidable educational institution like Pratt will make it possible for us to provide public and pedagogical access to emerging artists, and for Pratt and Franklin Furnace to undertake long - term preservation and documentation projects that will have cultural impact long into the future,» said artist Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace founding director and visiting associate professor of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.

For a public symposium held on January 19, 2018, Miguel de Baca further explores ideas first introduced in his book Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture by considering Truitt's oeuvre in the context of the cultural practice of historic preservation and the idea of the 20th - century «monument.»

She also serves as the 2015 — 16 Chair of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group and on the Professional Fine Arts Committee of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies.

Past recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal have included Harold Williams and Nancy Englander, who were honored for their leadership in creating today's Getty; Lord Jacob Rothschild, for his leadership in the preservation of built cultural heritage; Frank Gehry, for transforming the built landscape with buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Yo - Yo Ma, for his efforts to further understanding of the world's diverse cultures; Ellsworth Kelly, for paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality; Anselm Kiefer, painter and sculptor noted for his powerful work and complex subject matter; and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, college professor and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday - 6:00 or 6:15 Thursday - 8:00 Sunday - 4:00 ABOUT THE EVENT OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 7, 2010 The Hammer Museum, in partnership with Ari Bhöd — the American Foundation for Tibetan Cultural Preservation — is pleased to present The Mandala Project.

Specializing in: • Developing exhibitions internationally, securing loans from institutions and private collections • Strategic planning and project management for museums and foundations • Site - specific installations by artists, designers and architects • Building and developing institutional and private collections of contemporary and modern art globally • Creating strategic partnerships between private funding sources, museums and cultural institutions • Initiate and oversee local and global fundraising projects • Collaborate and facilitate with partnering institutions • Serving as active board member in the private and public sector • Historic building preservation and conservation

May 18th 3 - 4 pmThe Democracy Lab The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy111 N. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012 The event is free and was made possible by 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County Department of Cultural Affairs and theJapanese American National Museum.

Committed to cultural preservation and the promotion of work by emerging artists, the gallery serves as a platform for dialogue between contemporary artworks and the printed matter that informs, inspires and in some cases serves as raw material in the creative process.

Julia Stoschek belongs to an exclusive group of people who have put together idiosyncratic collections with great dedication, have made these accessible to the public in their museums and who do not shy away from raising significant private funds for the preservation of cultural objects and the running of their exhibition institutions.

Golden was appointed by the President to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House in 2010, is the 2015 — 16 Chair of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group and serves on the Board of Trustees of Creative Time.

Groups like ICE FREE QUEENS, Queens is not 4 sale, Mothers on the Move, Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network, Equality for Flatbush, People's Cultural Plan, Take Back the Bronx, Brooklyn Hi - Art Machine, Mi Casa No Es Su Casa, East Harlem Preservation Coalition, East Harlem Anti-Rezoning Project, East Harlem No Se Vende, Defend Corona, Queens Neighborhoods United, SPARC, Chinatown Art Brigade, Decolonize This Place, People's Power Assembly Queens, People's Power Assembly Manhattan are all trying to solve problems that artists and gallerists haven't even figured out how to articulate, because the violence against working - class neighborhoods is palpable to us.

The Grace Museum is the cultural cornerstone of Abilene and serves Central West Texas and the state through unique exhibitions of historic and contemporary American art, and local history; the preservation, interpretation, research, and presentation of important art and history collections; art education outreach and distant learning; and lectures and informative programs for people of all ages.

Previously, d'Anthenaise served as a Conservateur du Patrimoine, working for preservation and restoration of historic buildings and the Cultural Service of French Foreign Affairs, where he directed the Alliance Française in Singapore.

For example, the works in her interdisciplinary project Whistling and Language Transfiguration (WaLT)-- a vinyl record edition of a translation of Zapotec into whistling, sheet music of the transcription of the whistles into musical notes, and a linguistic abacus to help mark verbal variations in the recorded translation — represent Porras - Kim's effort to maintain the viability of the Zapotec language by pointing out its unique qualities, and contribute to the preservation of a language that was and is the cultural heritage of the Zapotec people.

Six years later, plans to establish a history museum became feasible when the museum united with the Abilene Preservation League to restore and remodel the Grace Hotel for use as a cultural center.

For his inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Tasset created «Artist Monument,» a monument which is the vehicle of cultural commemoration and preservation, honoring artists who, like himself, work to capture a moment of time in an object.

Lowe has been recognized internationally for his work in urban revitalization and cultural preservation most recently receiving the Leonore Annenberg Award for Art and Social Justice in 2010.

While his self - interests were certainly tied to art brut gaining prestige and cultural value — not to mention that he heavily borrowed many formal and stylistic elements for his own art practice — Dubuffet is responsible for the preservation of this work as well as the only records of many of these individuals» lives.

The Vero Beach Museum of Art provides cultural leadership and enrichment for the public through a wide variety of educational, studio art and humanities programs; a diversity of quality exhibitions; and the collection, preservation and presentation of important American and international works of art.

Launched in 2004, this group works with a wide range of partners to facilitate a balance between sound development practices and effective protection and preservation of Greene County's natural and cultural resources for future generations.

It's a fantastic example of the power and importance of architectural preservation, not just for cultural reasons but for environmental ones: remember that the greenest brick is the one that's already in the wall.

The collective right to cultural preservation can not be presented as justification for depriving individuals of their basic... [more]

Statutes of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, November - December 1956.

As a result, insisting on cultural preservation as a basis for TK protection will not be able to address the urgent need to save TK.

Panels like DARPA's thirst for innovation and how Google is aiding Native American's cultural preservation remind us that geek spring break isn't all about beers, tacos and memes.