It a picture paints a thousand words, how many words does a painting convey? The answer is in the eye of the viewer as much as in the creativity of the artist. In this month's articles we will show you places that have been recreated in paintings as well as locales that house great paintings.
Our Tour Hosts will introduce you to fabulous landscapes that have been the subjects of the great...
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Auckland Seafood Festival is a two-day celebration showcasing the vast array of seafood found in surrounding New Zealand waters. Auckland Fish Market hosts the festivities, which include a street party, free family entertainment, cooking classes, and of course, food.
Because proceeds from the festival go to charities that benefit fishermen and sea...
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Learning Vacations That Make A Difference In The World And In You
Written By Anna Angelidou Posted on History
When I was asked to write an article on educational programs I thought this was going to be a piece of cake since I have been designing them for over a decade. My only problem was on deciding what to write about first. So I sat down and wrote a list about which programs I considered to be the most rewarding. That same evening I had been invited to the 20th year anniversary of the Elix volunteer organization and was planning to go and see what it was all about.
I really did not know what to expect because I had not dealt with volunteer programs before in the past; but I pretty much anticipated a pleasant and polite plea for contribution, funding and support. I was wrong.
As I listened to the panel of speakers something began to happen inside of me. I felt a part of me which I hadn’t felt for a very long time begin to...
With the typical disorientation of a traveler, I knew I wasn’t in my own bed from the moment I awakened. The birds outside my room’s open window were welcoming the day with songs different from those of the birds back home in Texas — their voices were richer, clearer, more tropical. I felt a light breeze waft over me and then I opened my eyes,...
“Looka, looka. You buy, okay?” a Muslim Hui woman wearing a straw hat with an orange scarf approaches me on the beach in Sanya on Hainan province, China. Golden, white and rose colored pearls of dubious quality dangle from her outstretched arms. At least twenty more strands are draped around her neck. They can be purchased for about $3...
“If you had told me then that this is how my life would be,” said a smiling Carol Ann Harvey-Clark, one day last fall, “I would’ve said ‘You’re out of your tree!’”
One would think, after all, that Carol had gotten used to the change in direction her life’s work had taken. It had been 16 years since...
As New Yorkers who live part-time in Nova Scotia, Canada, and run a summer school for adults to learn traditional crafts and painting, we’re often asked how we happened to get there and how we came up with the idea for Lunenburg Seaside Craft School.
You could call it serendipitous; perhaps it was also inevitable. Think two people smitten by a...
As we all know learning can take many forms; formal and informal, knowledge gained through an academic route or through experiences gained over time, and as they say… there are different horses for different courses.
For me, every day presents a chance to learn something new, it could simply be a finding a new recipes, learning a new Irish tune,...
With the red roofs and fabled cathedral spires of Prague spanning the skyline below them, and the Vltava River flowing softly in the foreground, a group of seven painters stand at easels propped on a ledge in Letna Park. Tatiana, their arts teacher for the morning, is instructing them in the joys and practicalities of painting en plein air, and their subject today is the city...
Eric Strout sits in the predawn stillness, adjusting the tension on the coconut drum he finished the night before. By his side are his wife and a dozen new friends. They’d spent the last week under the direction of kumu hula Kapono‘ai Molitau–sanding coconut shells, cutting lacings, soaking rawhide in the ocean to stretch the skin tight, and...
Many years ago, to help me celebrate a milestone birthday, my husband whisked us off to northern Spain to visit friends. Our friend’s town of Ascara had a population of 27 and everyone lived in old stone houses nestled together on top of a hill. Below the town, golden fields planted in rows were set against a big blue sky that completely surrounded us.
There are places in the world where the landscape takes your breath away and that is enough to inspire an experienced artist. Sometime there is a place that is so much more than what is on the surface of the landscape. Orkney, Scotland is that type of place.
It has been attracting well known artists from the south for years. Many English artists have...
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Auckland Seafood Festival is a two-day celebration showcasing the vast array of seafood found in surrounding New Zealand waters. Auckland Fish Market hosts the festivities, which include a street party, free family entertainment, cooking classes, and of course, food.
Learning Vacations That Make A Difference In The World And In You