Sentences with phrase «from around your hometown»

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A cool aspect to this event is that a production crew from Trinity visited several of the speakers» hometowns to highlight how economic inequality has affected people around the world.

On Tuesday I had the pleasure of taking a film production crew from the Trinity Institute of Trinity Wall Street in New York around my hometown of Dayton, TN to introduce them to people in this community who are doing amazing work among the economically disadvantaged.

After spending some time thinking about how I could help those around me, and a little prodding from my brother Steven, I realized that I could make a difference where it matters most, my hometown.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Whether you are headed around the corner, exploring your own hometown or trekking across the globe, try these Ayurvedic essentials for healthy travel to maintain optimal health even when away from home.

It's not really far from my hometown, around 2 hours and half.

You can meet people from all around the world or people from your own hometown.

It was around that time I had received, for my birthday, a subscription to Entertainment Weekly, and my understanding of the movies that were playing in major cities (not the small city an hour away from my rural Virginia hometown) started to grow even if I had limited access to them.

Ned sticks around his hometown to try and make some money from his family (they have a mutual agreement to not lend money to each other), so he can afford to stay in his ex-lover's goat barn.

In this series of podcasts, Desiato aims to explore the unique cultures that spring from prominent comics shops around the country including NYC's own JHU Comic Books and one of my New Jerseyean hometown stores, Fat Moose Comics.

Although spectators and dog enthusiasts from around the globe will be at the Garden, this event is a favorite with the hometown crowd as well.

The game starts off with you in your hometown of Rim Elm, you walk around and meet and talk to everybody in the town and learn how to use the turn - based martial arts fighting system with help from a friend.

The story follows 4 little heroes from the world known as Luxendarc: Agnès Oblige who is the Wind Vestal that finds the Wind Crystal shrouded in darkness and sets out to restore all 4 crystals back to normal to fend off incoming evil, Tiz Arrior who witnesses his brother and his entire hometown get swallowed up by a great chasm, Edea Lee who is of the Duchy of Eternia who then goes traitor once she learns of the evil they are committing, and Ringabel who is a mysterious vagrant that has no recollection of his past and carries around a notebook that seemingly tells the future.

Shantae is a half genie who travels around the islands near her hometown of Scuttle Town using her hair as her main weapon, attempting to free her home town from the evil magic of Ammo Baron.

From squishing a gummy bear to look like a colorful bear skin rug to turning leftover coffee sludge into his hometown's skyline, Davis is playing with the world in a style that's very much his own, which itself bounces around, depending on available materials for the idea as well as the proper outlet.

You may not know his name, but his iconic work can be found everywhere from the streets of his hometown, Los Angeles, to galleries around the world — not to mention tattooed on thousands of men.

Though they hail from around the world, many of these painters have left their hometowns to seek out art - world hotspots, sometimes very far from their origins.

Laura Lima, working around the subject of social relations and human behavior, currently has two performance artworks at Zürich's Migros Museum that she is directing from a distance: the artists, who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, has dispatched actors in her stead to enact dramaturgic scenes from her hometown.

A wreck filled with broken white porcelain from Dehuain Cai's hometown, the work has been shown at many important museums around the world.

Since returning to her hometown from New York three years ago, Hughes has concentrated on taking time for herself, palling around with her dog Chicken Nugget, and creating works that have made her an internationally recognized painter.

In other conceptual, mail art - related works made throughout the 1970s, Boetti would use different stamps and arrange them in permutations on the envelopes to compose his art, and send postcards picturing a monument in his hometown from places around the world.

Ensor was born in Ostend, Belgium, and despite his success barely left his hometown during his lifetime; his family's curio shop, which was filled with exotic objects including parrots, a monkey, and masks from around the world, surely influenced the imagery of his mature work.