ARTISTS of all ages could win prizes of up to £1,000 in a competition aimed at showcasing the county’s talent. The Dorset Art Prize, sponsored by Dorset Community Foundation and Poole Museum, is run by the art and design department of Bournemouth and Poole College and aims to encourage artists across the community to get creative. Entries, which are open to any Dorset resident, can be in any medium including paintings, sculpture, film, animation or textiles. This year’s theme in the free competition is narrative, said the college. College principal Diane Grannell said: “At the college we remain committed to the arts and it is important to us that we continue to engage with artistic community.
ARTISTS of all ages could win prizes of up to £1,000 in a competition aimed at showcasing the county’s talent. The Dorset Art Prize, sponsored by Dorset Community Foundation and Poole Museum, is run by the art and design department of Bournemouth and Poole College and aims to encourage artists across the community to get creative. Entries, which are open to any Dorset resident, can be in any medium including paintings, sculpture, film, animation or textiles. This year’s theme in the free competition is narrative, said the college. College principal Diane Grannell said: “At the college we remain committed to the arts and it is important to us that we continue to engage with artistic community.
(MENAFN - Emirates News Agency (WAM)) ABU DHABI, 14th February, 2021 (WAM) The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, held the first event of its 2021 cultural programme, a collaboration with New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) titled ‘Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of One Thousand and One Nights .
Hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), the virtual seminar focussed on why this collection of Middle Eastern folktales has been such an inspiration to storytellers around the world since the 18th century.
The special seminar featured two previous SZBA laureates in the Arabic Culture in Other Languages category: Richard van Leeuwen, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, who won in 2020; and Philip Kennedy, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature at NYUAD, winner of the award in 2019. The seminar was moderated by Maya Kesrouany, Assistan
Caltech Graduate Students Present Their Research And Discuss Their Career Paths in SCIENCE JOURNEYS
A new free lecture series aimed at middle and high school students.by BWW News Desk
Follow your curiosity with Science Journeys, a new on-demand video lecture series produced by Caltech s Public Programming department. In each Science Journey, a current graduate student discusses their personal path to Caltech, presents the key scientific concepts that underlie their research, and puts their work in the context of global issues.
Science Journeys can be watched live on the date and time they premiere and are archived for future viewing on the Caltech YouTube channel. For more information, please visit events.caltech.edu/series/science-journeys.