Category Archives: Artist
Mum’s the word on Woo’s great inspiration
Honoured … John Woo bows as he accepts the Golden Lion award from filmmakers (from left) Marco Mueller, Tsui Hark and Quentin Tarantino. Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo accepted a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival, dedicating the honour to his ”dear mother”.
Laughing through adversity
Rosemary Neill From: The Australian He’s one of our top comedians but Anh Do’s early life as an impoverished refugee was no joke IT was the gig from Hell. Harder than entertaining a gang of bikies with neck-to-toe tatts and a collective sneer; harder than telling jokes to unsmiling Jesuits who looked as if they’d [...]
A young man of words and actions
”Socially aware rapper Luka Haralampou is well versed in community, arts and academia” by Laura Burgoine Hip Hop artist, poet, anthropologist, community artsworker, university lecturer…for Luka Haralampou it’s all in a day’s work. Haralampou first began in Hip Hop while studying an Arts degree and now combines his love of performing with academia and community [...]
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971 Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, [...]
Peter Carey, Christos Tsiolkas in running for Man Booker Prize for Fiction
AUSTRALIAN authors Peter Carey and Christos Tsiolkas have been nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The long-list for prize, one of the most prestigious awards in English-language literature, was announced in London, with 13 novels in contention. Carey is in the running for his third Man Booker Prize for his latest novel [...]
Morrocan Culture – Experience Centuries of Tradition
The almost medieval-like hustle and bustle of Morocco is for most travelers a world away from their own cities and towns. The culture and people are usually so completely different from what they know that they often find themselves in situations to which they have no idea how to react. The following brief explanation of [...]
European cost-cutters target culture
The Australian ARMIN Rohde is breathless. Not from his fencing lesson — preparation for a stage performance of Cyrano de Bergerac — but out of anger. “What is happening to our cultural landscape?” fumes the 55-year-old, one of Germany’s best-known character actors. “Europe was different . . . exactly because we had theatres in every [...]
Jennifer Lopez Faces Possible Hotel Suit
by Fran Golden A new luxury hotel is threatening to sue Jennifer Lopez for $40 million, saying she reneged on an agreement to perform a concert for “political” reasons. The Cratos Premium hotel and casino in northern Cyprus says the pop star can avoid the suit, however, by making good on her deal to perform [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lopez Out of Controversial Turkish-Occupied Concert
CANA Network: July 8, 2010 NEW YORK- The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) Press Officer Nikolaos Taneris after direct consultation with American celebrity news sourcce TMZ.com managed to finally get a statement from a rep of Jennifer Lopez, she repeats the concerns raised by our grass-roots campaign on human rights, the statement says: “Jennifer [...]
Ezra Pound
POETS.org Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. In the early teens of the twentieth century, he opened a seminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers, and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such [...]
Jennifer Lopez urged to cancel Cyprus concert
American singer and actress Jennifer Lopez has sparked a diplomatic row after agreeing to perform at a concert in Cyprus The celebrity had been invited to celebrate her 41st birthday on the island, in return for taking part in a one-off concert. But the arrangement has upset the Greek Cypriot community, which has launched an [...]
Words reveal their power when given voice
by Robert McCrum One paradox of literary culture is that, although speech precedes literacy, and the mother tongue the alphabet, it is usually the written, not the spoken, word that attracts the most attention. So, for at least 1,000 years, English literature lived on the lips and in the memory of Everyman, handed down in folk [...]
Plato: ancient Greek philosopher’s ‘secret music code’ cracked by British scientists
The works of Plato, the ancient classical Greek philosopher, appear to contain a hidden musical code, a British academic has claimed By Andrew Hough Researchers claimed they cracked “The Plato Code”, the long disputed secret messages hidden in some of Ancient World’s most influential and celebrated writings. Dr Jay Kennedy, an historian and philosopher of science at [...]
Iranian journalist handed 30-year writing ban
The Australian IRAN has sentenced award-winning woman journalist Jila Baniyaghoob to jail for one year and banned her from writing for 30 years over post-election unrest.
Kate Durham
About Kate Kate Durham is a Melbourne-based artist, practising in jewellery, sculpture and drawing.
