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"Graphic Thought Facility have created a perennial calendar for Tate. The Perpetual Postcard Calendar includes 24 postcards from Tate's collection, each with a different month or date on the reverse. Have fun experimenting with different postcard combinations, add your own favourite postcards and give your calendar a fresh, new look every day."
THE JOSEPHINE HART POETRY HOUR.
THE JOSEPHINE HART POETRY HOUR
‘Poetry, this trinity of sound, sense and sensibility gives voice to experience in a way no other literary art form can. It has never let me down.’
Josephine Hart 2005
What is the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour?
Since January 2004, Josephine Hart has been hosting The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at monthly readings at the British Library in London (www.bl.uk) . Ralph Fiennes, Brian Cox, Roger Moore, Edward Fox, Eileen Aitkens, Grey Gowrie, Dominic West, Tom Hollander, Edna O’Brien, Harold Pinter, Harriet Walter, Bob Geldof, Juliet Stephenson and Elizabeth McGovern have read the work of the great poets to spell-bound audiences. Josephine Hart devotes each evening to one or two poets, introducing and setting their poems in the context of their life. `The idea is simple’, she says ` An understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening to each poem more intense.’ The readings by some of our finest actors then ignite the poems. They have become a ‘hot ticket’ in London and plans are afoot for taking the poetry overseas.
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ll proceeds above costs go to the Actor’s Centre; a unique space in the heart of London where those who practice the craft of acting can strive for excellence. www.actorscentre.co.uk
What is the aim of the Poetry Hour?
The aim of the poetry hour is to reach a wide audience, namely schoolchildren who may not have been exposed to poetry in the best way. Josephine Hart hopes that by “guiding the reader through the poems in relationship to the poet’s life, I hope to help people read the poetry again – or to read them for the first time.” The relevance of poetry to the world today is huge, it can provide one “with a route map through the world and its worldliness…Without poetry I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable, and infinitely less enjoyable.”
This is not the age of information.
This is not
the age of information.Forget the news,
and the radio,
and the blurred screen.This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.People are hungry,
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.David Whyte
Link: stickybackplastic.
his clock is made for two sisters, turning 12 and 21 years old. It shows the amount of days each has lived. Each loop of thead is equal to a day. T
he clock is wall mounted
and comes with to keys that open the box when the thread needs to be changed. The battery should be replaced every birthday.
measuring time with a ribbon
Sydney Esquisse 05 aims to provoke artists, designers, architects, film makers, performers and all other creatives with good ideas and the ability to put them into reality to buy in and explore the role of shopping as a driving force for the way we live, play and work. This theme is not intended as the law of SE. It merely acts as a starting and reference point for each project. Following are some ways that one can critically and creatively explore and communicate new ways of experiencing and understanding that powerful cultural experience of buying things...se
A Perfect Weekend, or how design can have a social impact and modify habits and behavior. A Perfect Weekend is a story or rather the continuation of a story started by Aldo Cibic with “Microrealities” in the last edition of the Venice Biennial and followed by “A simple life” exhibited in Verona in the “Abitare il Tempo” fair. A story that offers us alternatives for living better and more consciously than before. A story that takes the shape of a tent or several tents but isn’t a story about camping. And, if anything, is an enticement to be sociable and spend time with others. To rediscover basic, old-fashioned values without rejecting or losing that pleasure and quality of things that makes life better. A Perfect Weekend is an economically (and ecologically) sophisticated answer of apparent and manic luxury, or of downward ratification. Which is why the “5 star” tent, to use a standardized code, was made as an alternative route and reality to the insane crowding of mass movement and becomes the icon for a new lifestyle. A Perfect Weekend, by complimenting the design with detailed socioeconomic research, aims to open new roads to consumption of objects that reduce consumption over time, to rediscovering the quality and core of things, without falling into an impoverished aesthetics. A Perfect Weekend springs from reflection on the reduced buying power of the middle classes, but is also an attempt to reeducate people in material and immaterial values, ethics and aesthetics. While at the same time searching for materials, form and structure. In harmony with space.
Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side. -William Channing
The Fabrica Idea
Fabrica is the Benetton reasearch centre on communication, is primarily a meeting place. Meetings between people, of course, but also between artistic fields, languages, forms of expression, territories. Even the space, the architecture is witness to this. An old villa, restored and augmented by one of the most renowned contemporary architects, Tadao Ando, like a bridge thrown between the past and the future, with cement roots solidly anchored into the earth and columns that stretch into the emptiness to hold up the sky. Is Fabrica a school? A research center? A cultural reservoir? Fabrica is a little of each but in the end doesn't allow itself to be rigidly cataloged and homogenized. This is also a sign of its uniqueness and innovation. So far, as a center for the production of culture, it has been actively involved with films awarded prizes at international festivals, books, CDs and DVDs published by renowned publishers, musical projects, exhibitions, objects and international campaigns for major institutions. Each year a group of young artists invited from all over the world, is dedicated, through photography, design, music,video, writing, interactice and visual communication, to uncover the future. -Fabrica
Build Your Own Chicago is a series of postcards published by
Wurlington Brothers Press which can be cut and assembled into miniature paper models of prominent Chicago landmarks. We look for some of the spirit, if not the complexity, of the beautiful "Micromodels" designed by Geoffrey Heighway in the 1950s... All by Matt Bergstrom.
Chicago Map Baseball from Lille
The Chicago Architecture Foundation is dedicated to advancing public interest and education in architecture and related design. Because no art other than architecture so vividly expresses what Chicago is and where it is going, CAF will educate the public to expect the highest standards from Chicago's built environment.
Architectural Digest Architecture Days Chicago May 4-10th 2005
Landscape2go.com & The Glass Garden win the Rome Prize.
Inspired by the 19th century woodblock prints of Japanese artist Hokusai, the Lullaby Garden is a vision of lines. These curvaceous, flowing lines roll and rise, taking the visitor on a journey over golden fields and into ocean waves that draw one deeper toward a dark whirlpool emanating soft Vietnamese lullabies.
The Lullaby Garden is made from 200 hand-knitted nylon carpets draped over the sculpted landform, then sewn together
on site. Sixty villagers in Vietnam spent 3 months knitting to create this unique tapestry. The entire garden is wrapped
with strands of clear monofilament to form a translucent wall which conceals and reveals depending on the light.As the sun moves across the sky, the carpet surface changes from velvet to a glistening sheen. In this stylized landscape,
there is no path, just a quiet musical voice calling from your childhood inviting you to take a chance and wander.Leave your shoes; immerse yourself.
The wonderfully wavy Mobius Climber brings fun to your park or playground.
Get creative in 2005 – on the first Saturday of every month there are special activities including: making crowns, cushions and tea caddies, decorating Easter eggs, making furniture out of food or you can listen to a Chair’s Tale. Keep an eye on the What’s On page for all the latest dates for your diary!
Katherina Saunders...lives in Shropshire with her husband and 3 children. She teaches children to cook from her home and recently designed Ella's Kitchen Cabinet... named after her grandmother (who gave her the original cabinet) and her 10 year old daughter...In designing the Ella's Kitchen Cabinet, Katherina has stayed faithful to the original design and has used manufacturing processes that would have been used to make the original.
Ella's Kitchen Cabinet has been made to be an heirloom for the future and passed down from parent to child as hers was. She hopes that it will bring you joy and many happy cooking memories in years to come. -Ella'sKitchen
Letterpress Birthday Cake Card by Pancake & Franks
Domestic Bliss by Julie Haslam presents a range of extra special kitchen Tea Towels. The images presented are inspired by domesticity and are printed using the latest in high technology. This makes the fusion an interesting mix of both the old and the new.. -Julie Haslam
A Calendar for the kitchen
that never goes out of date “As you get older, the years seem to go past so quickly. Instead of being reminded of this, just have one calendar that will last forever. -Nigella Lawson
Novacart paper baking molds are designed to be part of the packaging... They are of a rigid freestanding construction and are available in a variety of shapes and sizes. Our baking molds standard color is a dark brown paper background and gold floret print over lay.
Panimold Wood Baking Basket
Haba Toys Wooden Eggs
