Arts festivals

“Music has power – especially for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.” (AFA Website 2016). Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible neurodegenerative condition (that deteriorates significantly over time) of a patient’s memory and daily bodily functions. Since humans are living longer and our older population is increasingly getting larger there are more and more people suffering from Alzheimer’s than ever before. There are currently over 5.4 million Americans suffering…

very influential. I love to listen to his music, because it is so beautiful. He has blues and jazz influences in his music, and I love how he can improvise on stage at any given time. I like to watch his live videos at various festivals he has attended, like Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock. Jimi is very well known for his ability to manipulate the feedback from his guitar. I would love to learn how to do that, because it sounds so good. This also contributed to the psychedelic sound of his…

JEAN-JAQUES BEINEIX: Beineix started his career as a assistant director on fifteen adverts before releasing his first feature in 1981 ‘Diva’, which attracted the attention of key post-modernism theorist Frederic Jameson, who identified it as the first French postmodern film. Despite ‘Diva’ becoming a cult film for the youth of the time, the French film critic establishment did not appreciate the superficial aspects of its postmodern aesthetics. It was simply considered an irrational attachment…

I began writing scripts of my own and went on to submitting one of them to the Sundance Film Festival for their annual Screenwriter’s Program. I prayed that I would get the help necessary to help fund my idea and turn it into a film, but unfortunately my story got rejected. This screenplay that I worked on day and night, was a story fueled by personal…

(Cooke). She studied a foundation course at Central St Martins, and obtained her degree at Falmouth College of Art and her master degree at the the Royal Academy Schools (Wright). She did a variety of job to support her artistic life before she became famous. After she received different awards and distinctions such as Turner prize nomination and the Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Art Prize 2012 (Wright), she was finally able to work as a full-time artist (Cooke). Her formal academic…

If anyone asks me what have motivated my life, my answer would be this: “The two gears that have been driving my life are art and social engagement.” Since childhood, I have experienced various genres of art, covering classical music, traditional Korean painting, and creative writing. With all these experiences, I fell in love with art, more specifically with the delights generated from expressing my imaginations and communicating others with the language of beauty. In the mean time, I have…

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…

storm that demands the articulation of feelings and concepts that will forever challenge and cause us to grow and define what it means to be human. William Lawrence’s emphasis on the arts as a crucial element to the evolution of society resonates so profoundly within me; I wish to take part in a school that seeks to use art as a tool to impact others and I. I visualize Sarah Lawrence as a home where I can take charge of my own education, a place that allows me to mold a curriculum I desire by…

Outside of Hell On Wheels, Pawnee Killer continues to bring an awareness and understanding to my non-indigenous brothers and sisters on the plight of my Indigenous people through personal interactions at festivals and other…

Paintting and writing on walls is nothing new for this era. In prehistoric times , people in Africa and Europe painted pictures of animal, tings and people in caves . Graffiti has been found in plenty of ancient sites such as Greece,Italy , Toronto, and Iraq. In the Roman towns of Italy, archaeologists found plenty of graffiti written in Latin and other Languages, including romantic and harsh messgaes. In the 1960’s , young adults in New York City used untensils to write their Initals, or…