MONTREAL, Feb. 1, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – The Cabinet of the Government of QuÃbec, on a recommendation from the Board of Directors of the SociÃtà de la Place des Arts de MontrÃal, today appointed Mr. Marc Blondeau as the SociÃtÃs President and Chief Executive Officer. The appointment takes effect on March 2. Mr. Blondeau replaces the outgoing [...]

Anyone up against six-time nominee Adele in tonights Grammy Awards might be considered a long shot. But an unlikely trio of Litchfield County locals will be at the festivities in California today, hoping against hope that their artistic creation can mute the runaway success of the favored bluesy balladeer from Britain. Adding further to the [...]

The national team is composed of Roger Aponte, Carlos Huarcaya, Hector Urrunaga and Rusbelt Montoya, who will travel to the European country on January 27. Each participating country appoints a team of 3 bakers each of them specialized in Bread, Pastry (Viennoiserie) and Artistic Creation. Other countries that will also take part in the competition [...]

IBNA: The first issue of Naghdnameh Honar deals with iconology of arts. In this collection you can read various articles on iconological theory and iconology of Iranian arts, including: The Significance of Iconography and Iconology in Religious Studies: The iconology of Jonah and the Fish by Dr Bahar Mokhtarian, Iconological Criticism and its Application in [...]

HAVANA TIMES, Jan 23 — The jury for the Casa de las Americas Literary Award today resumed their activities in Havana after having concluded — in the city of Cienfuegos — all of the readings of the competing works, reports the Prensa Latina news agency. Also at the Casa de las Americas Center, a panel [...]

Sandy Brown is the creator, playwright, performer, artistic director, costume designer, graphic artist, film montage editor, sound effects designer, Wig Stylist, and Poster Designer for her one woman show Oh, Yes She Did! a play of one woman monologues demonstrating the legacy of over a dozen key African American women who were pioneers in their [...]

An effective cultural policy involves continual reinvention. In the 1930s, in the midst of the Depression, America invented the New Deal: as the crisis and unemployment raged, far from sacrificing the arts budget of his country, President Roosevelt proposed to raise the nations morale and boost employment with a new cultural package. Through an ambitious [...]

Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher, wrote that there were two ways to immortality: procreation and artistic creation. Nations are fondly remembered because of their culture their arts, in the broadest sense not because of their plumbers and carpenters. Thats not to knock those professions they are vital to our survival down here. But its the [...]

Hollande Relaunches French Debate On Anti-Piracy Tax by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels 23 January 2012 During a recent visit to Nantes, Socialist candidate for the French presidency, François Hollande (PS), put forward the idea of abolishing the independent authority currently responsible for the protection of rights on the Internet in France (Hadopi), and replacing the [...]

Loulé?s municipal park reopens in February 21/1/2012 Loulé Town Hall announced this week that the municipal park, which has undergone extensive refurbishment, will be reopened on 1 February. The work, which cost around ?3.4 million, included the construction of new equipment such as an 800m maintenance circuit, refurbishment of Casa do Pombal into a cultural [...]