Paola Gaviria

Escape Into Life

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Feb 4th
2010

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Paola Gaviria is an outstanding artist born in Quito, Ecuador and raised in Colombia. In the last six years, she has been drawing in different cities around the world—from Paris to Sydney, where she now lives and sees her life as a foreigner through lines and colors. Her latest exhibition, “Drawing Around,” which is featured at the First Draft Gallery, captures the eclectic scenarios of Sydney’s red-light district, Kings Cross, where she lives amongst the drug dealers, prostitutes and backpackers of the area.(bio)

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Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings can be found in public collections across the country.

He shuns the use of artificial light and uses long exposure times instead, waiting as long as it takes for the natural illumination of the room to expose his film properly.

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LiveStream NOW! @ Lugar a Dudas on FIX University Campus

LiveStream NOW! @ Lugar a Dudas on FIX University Campus

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Lecturas de trabajos del artista Wallace Masuko* y otros artistas brasileros

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*Wallace V. Masuko
São Paulo, 1979. Artista plástico. Vive y trabaja en São Paulo. Cursa la Maestría en Poéticas Visuales con orientación de Carlos Fajardo en la Universidade de São Paulo (USP), su investigación se basa en el estudio de las notas escritas, recopiladas y reproducidas por Marcel Duchamp en 1914, en 1934 (Boîte Vert), y 1967 (Boîte Blanche), y, en su reinterpretación gráfico-linguística para el português. Es editor de la revista PARA - www.revistapara.net . Trabaja en la coordinación de las residencias_en_red [iberoamérica] - plataforma de intercambio entre residencias artísticas iberoamericanas www.residenciasenred.blogspot.com. Hace diseño gráfico con el 3 ao cubo - construções visuais. En 2010 presentó las exposiciones E (Teatro de Arena de São Paulo) y MEU/CADAFALSO (Centro Maria Antônia - São Paulo)

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Cheongdo bullfighting "I prefer a normal Bullfight" @ Cañaveralejo

Cheongdo bullfighting

A centuries old bullfighting tradition held every March draws large crowds and teaches valuable lessons

A five day centuries old bullfighting festival in Cheongdo ended Sunday that drew 480,000 spectators during the weeklong event, according to Yonhap.

However, in contrast to Spanish bullfighting, there is no matador. Bulls fight each other, usually without bloodshed or death. Organizers say serious injuries are rare.

"The bulls fight each other," Cheongdo county mayor Lee Joong-Geun told AFP. "Whereas the bullfighter is always the winner in the Spanish version, our winner is undisclosed until the end... It is a fair and clean sport. Bullfighting is part of Koreans' life, as it was mine when I was young and owned a bull."

In the annual tradition just before farming season begins, proud bull owners gather for the competition at Cheongdo, 265 km southeast of Seoul in March.

This year, 132 bulls across six different weight classes took part in the events that had made it to the quarter-finals in other competitions. About 10,000 spectators gathered for opening day, Wednesday.

According to AFP, "The contest begins when two owners dressed in traditional red and blue lead their bulls into the centre of the ring.

"When the referee blows his whistle, owners use a rope attached to a nose ring to get their beasts -- weighing around three-quarters of a tonne -- to clash head to head. They lock horns and attempt to push each other backwards.

"There is no time limit for each bout."

Choi Kyoung-Hee, 40, a festival volunteer said that "The focus is not on the bulls getting hurt. It is fun if you focus on the tactics, the energy and the speed."

"When one bull is exhausted, it backs off and pulls its horns away," AFP said. "The winner roams the arena, seemingly savouring the victory, while the loser slowly walks out."

The winning bull collects six million won (US $5,217); the runner-up, 5 million won.

The bulls are also ordinary breeds but unique to Korea. The Korean cows, called "hanwoo", are picked for their fighting prowess, usually those with short front legs, thick legs and small eyes. Bulls normally reach their pugnacious peak at around six or seven years of age.

Bulls too old to fight return to the farm or are put down if damaged as a result of fighting, but never killed for their beef.

"Korean cows, or hanwoo, are a unique species in the world that lives only in Korea," explained Nam Ho-kyung, president of the country's largest domestic cattle association, Chosun Ilbo reported. "Raising them and holding fights between them are both part of our history. The Hanwoo species is recognized as having great physical power and stamina."

Some are trying to make bullfighting a legal gambling sport, "but there are problems due to conflicts within the organisation," festival organiser Park Chung-Bae told AFP.

Still, whether the bullfighting has a monetary payoff or not for spectators, there's a lesson to be had, the mayor believes.

"Once the bull surrenders, no owner will push it to the limit and will accept the result," he said. "Such a spirit is definitely something for us to learn."

Indeed, competition as well as life is not simply about winning at any cost, but learning to accept defeat graciously as well.

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En el Hotel Radisson fue homenajeada por su cumpleaños Daniela Echeverry. La reunión, que fue organizada por sus padres, se cumplió el 2 de agosto y contó con gran asistencia de sus amigos y familiares.

XIV Festival de Música del Pacífico ‘Petronio Álvarez’

XIV Festival de Música del Pacífico ‘Petronio Álvarez’, bajo un calor típico de la costa.

Y en este contexto, la Plaza de Toros de Cañaveralejo, recibirá a partir de este miércoles 11 de agosto los primeros grupos participantes del concurso, a partir de las 6:00 de la tarde en las modalidades de: violines caucanos, marimba, chirimía y libre.

Cada grupo tendrá un tiempo de 12 minutos para conquistar al público y al jurado con sus acordes musicales. Las puertas de las graderías para el ingreso del público se abrirán a las 5:00 de tarde.

Top Colombian salsa band eyes Bollywood

Top Colombian salsa band eyes Bollywood

The Colombian salsa melody, an energetic version of traditional Cuban, Puerto Rican, Caribbean and American dance music with African influences, may soon find its way into Bollywood if popular Colombian Salsa band 'La 33' has its way.

"You may see some surprises later this year in Bollywood. We invited music producers from Mumbai to our concert in the capital Friday. We are hoping to enter into a collaboration with them. I will divulge the details once the partnership sees the light of day. Salsa shares many similarities with contemporary Bollywood music that makes the scope of fusion feasible," David Fernandes, percussionist of 'LA 33', told IANS.

'LA 33', one of the top five Salsa bands in Colombia, performed a combination of foot-tapping Salsa Dura of New York, the Caribbean Salsa, jazz and traditional Colombian folk at the Mavalankar Stadium here Friday evening.

The concert was presented by the Embassy of Colombia and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to mark 200 years of Colombian Independence.

"India is exciting. We are here for the first time," vocalist Guillaermo Leon said.

The band formed in 2000 shot to fame with its Salsa Dura hit single 'La Pantera Mambo' from their debut album 'La-33' in 2004 that was the theme song of movie The Pink Panther.

Last year, the band released its third album 'Ten Cuidado' that features a track, 'Roxanne', arranged with The Police.

The 12-member 'La-33' plays the 1970s style jazz-oriented salsa with base instruments like timbale drums, bongo ceros, congas, trombone, cowbells, cymbals, saxophone and guitar.

"Salsa music is very popular around the world as well as in many cities of India. It is easy to identify with the music because salsa has several influences like the jazz and island folk. What started as immigrant music in New York by the Cuban and Puerto Rican migrants and later jazz came back to Colombia in the eighties to assimilate from local folk and lean on jazz," Fernandes said.