Sentences with phrase «sacred places»

From our sacred places to our urban centres, from our organisations, to office blocks and the halls of government, to our enterprises and businesses, and from our grandmothers and lawmakers, to our sisters in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer community and to leaders who stand and speak at the forums of the UN — I hope to highlight the diversity that exists for us all as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls.

Pune, India About Blog Hindu Blog is an online magazine that updates regularly about matters related to Hinduism (like festivals, astrology, temples, sacred places, fasting, rituals), the latest developments in Hindu society and religion and explores Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism).

Grant believes that the freedom of religion issue as it pertains to sacred places may need to be decided by the government, in legislation.

However, this case suggests that Indigenous spiritual beliefs connected to land will be difficult to protect from development, as the court held that protection of the object of spiritual beliefs (such as spiritual or sacred places) is not within the scope of section 2 (a).

The court found that religious freedom under section 2 (a) does not include protection of the objects of the religion, such as sacred places.

With regard to exploration in the few remaining sacred places like the Artic Wildlife Refuge, under the sea, etc., I hope to God we grow some backbone and say «enough is enough».

A twenty year retrospective of Bundjalung artist Adrian Cameron's meticulous and mesmerising paintings depict local animals, spirits, sacred places and dreaming.

Though the trompe l'oeil stone effect alludes to sacred places, my sculptures are hollow.

Represented in miniature by the assemblage of 9 mm cartridges or components of automatic weapons, these works depict sacred places — namely a mosque, a synagogue and a church.

The second part is about interpretation, mythologizing the old world, and creating sacred places to perform spiritual rituals.

This forthcoming book chronicles his recent journey to the Four Corners region of Arizona through drawings and writings about the sacred places he visited.

Not only does she bury these works in historic and sacred places.

Located in Northeastern Arizona, Canyon de Chelly was, and remains, one of the most sacred places for the Navajo.

She is a specialist in ancient South American art and architecture and her dissertation, entitled The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for the Communion Between Humanity and Nature, argues that huacas, or sacred places, defined the relationship between nature and human ritual practice.

Partners for Sacred Places, founded in 1989, works to build the civic value of historic sacred places and the capacity of congregations to better serve their communities as anchor institutions, helping to shape vibrant, creative communities.

We discuss, among other topics, about photography in the Middle East with Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director at East Wing; net art and networked cultures with Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam - based journalist and critic; urban digital art and criticality in the media city with curator and researcher Tanya Toft; art and technology with curator Chris Romero; the politics of surveillance and international security with political scientist David Barnard - Wills; art and architecture with Maaike Lauwaert, visual arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerländer.

2017 — LOG at LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Maria Britton — AWKWARD MOMENTS, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 2015 — SACRED PLACES, Smithy Center for the Arts, Cooperstown, NY 2014 — MEMENTO MORI, Field Projects, New York, curated by Deborah Brown — CROWD, curated by Andrea Brown for The Outsider's Studio Collective, Liberty, NY 2013 — NYFA@GOVERNORS, curated by New York Foundation For The Arts for Governor's Island Art Fair, New York 2012 — DAY JOB, curated by Nina Katchadourian, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2011 — HEAD CASE, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, curated by Laurel Farrin — 30: A BROOKLYN SALON, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer — CHAIN LETTER, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA — NEXT Art Fair, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago 2010 — DAY JOB, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian 2009 — ONCE UPON A TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL — THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson

The Maya believed caves were the Underworld, and as such, they were regarded as the most sacred places.

«Golfito and the surrounding areas are environmentally sacred places, which we will embrace through our design.

Be sure that you visit all the sacred places, temples, palaces and the famous Inca bride.

The Mayans consider cenotes to be sacred places, providing access to the underworld.

One of the most sacred places in Bali is located in Uluwatu.

As you wade, walk and swim through the dark underground river using only the light from your headlamp, one can begin to imagine why the Maya used caves as sacred places.

Held on the day the earth is the farthest from the sun, Aymara New Year features ceremonies in the Valle de la Luna and Tiawanaku, which the Aymara consider one of their sacred places.

In the middle of such green and dense forest, lives over 600 tame and friendly monkeys that all the time appeal to visitor, Part from functioning as sacred places, the forest along with the monkeys comes to be fascinating tourist object that is worth visiting.

A few minutes drive beyond Izcuchaca, we reach the sacred Inca shrine known as Quillarumiyoq («Moonstone» in the Quechua language of the Incas), one of the finest of the carved rock huacas (sacred places) in the vicinity of Cuzco.

Mount Sinai, one of the most important sacred places in the Christian, Jewish and Islamic religions, is home to another ancient monastery, St Catherine's, which overlooks a spectacular gorge.

This 20 - mile - long (32 - km) river once wove through seven different ancient temples and is considered one of Hawaii's two most sacred places.

It is admirable for its colossal constructions with their impeccable finish, perfectly assembled sets of symmetrical benched terraces, ceremonial centers, like the Intiwatana which must have been used to observe solar movements, as well as for its sacred places, towers, fortified walls, cemetery, urban areas, stone buildings, narrow streets, stairways and aqueducts, to irrigate its agricultural and urban sectors.

These sacred places were used for important ceremonies conducted to appease the gods of the underworld.

The gathering at Limuw reaffirmed and celebrated the relationship of all people to our Mother Earth and reminded all gathered of the sacred places on this earth and of our responsibilities as caretakers of this land.

Throughout the expedition, visitors will get the opportunity to slip into the crystal waters of a fresh Cenote (sinkhole), which are sacred places for the Mayans.

Deities that influenced life and death, those that controlled rain, and agricultural fertility, all resided in these dark, mysterious but sacred places.

At present, it is staged in several sacred places of the city of Cusco, the main one being the Esplanade of Saqsaywaman, in an impressive artistic display, with beautiful choreographies and costumes which give a special touch to the Sanctuary of Saqsaywaman which is visited every 24th of June, by a multitude of Cusco's inhabitants, as well as by a great number of foreign and national visitors who give a higher level to the Íncas» most important festivity.

Enigmatic and unique, these magical formations filled with crystal waters were sacred places for the Mayan civilization, and now welcome visitors for a sparkling dip.

traditional architecture and material traces of living non-monumental cultures, including technical heritage and unbuilt sacred places

This monument displays important constructions, with huge polyhedrons, forming the walls and trapezoidal portals of its sacred places and Temple, where one can appreciate the stone façade composed of 6 perfectly fit red porphyre monoliths.

To help your senior cat get to those sacred places more easily, consider adding things like ramps or small steps so there is less of a need for your cat to jump and put unnecessary pressure on their joints.

These sacred places are making a lasting impact on the lives of children all across the country every day.

With this in mind, ACE works to bolster the ever - increasing standard for academic excellence in Catholic schools, while maintaining — indeed, reinvigorating — the Catholic culture and identity that make these sacred places one our of greatest national treasures.

The story of Mount Rushmore and Gutzon Borglum's gigantic sculptures won't pass muster - the Black Hills are sacred places to Lakota Indians.

Four full lessons looking at the sacred places for the following Religions: Hinduism Sikhism Islam Christianity For each lesson essentially everything you need has been provided here.

There's hollowness to their time together, a revelatory sadness hiding beneath the façade of sacred places and objects that hold no spiritual value over them.

Babylonians and Assyrians valued this resin for its intense aroma and white smoke when burned, wafting to heaven as incense in their sacred places.

«If we can not protect our sacred places, don't even think you're free,» he told them.

But the site currently hosts the Dome of the Rock and the Al - Aqsa Mosque, two of the most sacred places of Muslim prayer, making excavation tantamount to an act of war.

Further, the number of Muslim clerics who have advocated for peace is huge - from the Grand Mufti Talip Atalay of Cyprus to Jordan's top cleric, to the Nairobi Muslim Cleric's Peace Caravan to Iraq's Ali al - Sistani issuing a fatwa last year calling for «Citizens to defend the country, its people, the honor of its citizens, and its sacred places,» against the Islamic State of Iraq.

But what I think is important is that families who choose to adopt consider openness and it's prospective benefits, keeping their hearts and hands open to see what beauty lands in those sacred places.

They are also sacred places to local Aboriginal people and provide communities with recreation and tourism.

And even when one comes into sacred places where folk in organized philanthropy, social service or the church are supposedly working unselfishly for the good of men, jealousy is as present as it was on that last night when the Master with his disciples ate the memorials of his sacrifice and «there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.»