Barcelona, 2013
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Neil Young - Crazy.
Saturday, 28 June 2014
Sophia Hub update
Ros Southern writes:
"Thanking you for your interest and support - here are some updates for this week.
The Timebank is recruiting fast and we hope trading will start on Tuesday 1st July. Please do sign up and ask me if you have any queries. Info about the Timebank is here.
We are looking for venues and events to hold Timebank community get togethers and skills shares. We can trade with cafes, restaurants, community centres, schools - you give us some free space (and hopefully teas & coffees) and we will will find people to pay back the hours in some other way! Read about this proposal and our last community meeting here. Thanks to Flirt cafe for their support.
We have the training on the various legal structures for a social enterprise on Monday at St Johns 10.30 - 12.00. Places are available but please let me know so we have enough chairs, cake and handouts! We have a real expert in David Alcock. More about Monday's legal structures training here.
The next Sophia course is coming up in July and this time is only for residents living in Valentines ward - with special funding from Redbridge Councils Community First fund. There will be two more courses before Christmas open to all Redbridge residents. In the meantime here is information about the course and please take note if you live in Valentines ward!! This is a special course that gives time to reflect on the area, discover its strengths and generate entrepreneurial responses and ideas that we can then support.
Thanks to our guest speaker at the enterprise club on Tuesday - Sadiq Kothia of Taqwa Carpets in Seven Kings. Really appreciate your thoughtful advice to our start-ups. More info here.
Please note - there is no enterprise club this Tuesday due to the training on Monday."
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Paul Weller - Here's The Good News.
Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Europe - Highlights
Before beginning to post about the sites I visited as part of European stage of my sabbatical art pilgrimage, here are some images from the sites which were highlights for me.
Chapelle Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte-Face
Metz Cathedral
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Sacré Cœur d'Audincourt
Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu
Notre Dame du Bon-Secours
Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce du Plateau d'Assy
Notre-Dame des Alpes
Convent of La Tourette
Sint Martinuskerk
Eglise de Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Chapel of Light, Eglise de Saint-Jean-Baptiste
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Delaney and Bonnie - When The Battle Is Over.
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Europe - Day 11 continued
The current exhibition based on the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Calais helped identify Henri Lhotellier and Jean Roulland as two additional artists who have received church commissions. Roulland had work at the very first church - Hem - I visited on the European stage of my Sabbatical art pilgrimage (see http://jean.roulland.free.fr/jost_de_geest_fr.htm), while I have previously seen glass by Lhotellier in Boulogne (see http://lesamisdupatrimoinesaint-martinois.over-blog.com/article-27879532.html). He also has glass here in Calais, at l'Eglise Saint Pierre. See http://www.calais.fr/The-museum-of-fine-arts. I also found contemporary glass - this time by Gerard Lardeur at Notre-Dame de Calais. See http://www.vitrail-syndicat.com/evenem/inmem-gl.php.
Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Europe - Day 11
Today is the final day on the European stage of my Sabbatical art pilgrimage and I will be at Saint Jean de Baptiste Bourbourg (see http://www.bourbourg.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=131&Itemid=167) to see Anthony Caro's Chapel of Light. The Chapel of Light is situated in the choir of the Church of St Jean Baptiste. During World War II, a damaged English aircraft crash-landed on the roof of the church in order to avoid the houses in the town, and set it on fire. The church itself was restored, but the choir was separated by a wall from the body of the church and left in ruins until ten years ago. Caro was commissioned by the French Ministry for Culture and Communication to make a sculptural installation that would bring new life to the redundant choir. See http://www.anthonycaro.org/news-chapel.htm.
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Europe - Day 10
Today I've visited Sint-Martens-Latem in Belgium, home to an artist's colony from 1900 - 1930. The Gaevert Minne Municipal Museum shows work by the key artists from the two groups that settled here (including Albert Servaes), with a particular focus on the work of George Minne and Edgar Gevaert. Work by artists from the colony can also be found at Sint Martinuskerk as well as older and more contemporary works. Most movingly, the church has an image of Christ by Servaes. A set of Stations of the Cross by Servaes provoked uproar when placed in a chapel at Luythagen in 1919 and was subsequently removed following a decree from the Holy Office, the first modern condemnation of art in the name of canon law (a decree which was later repeated on the same grounds in regard to the crucifix created by Germaine Richier for the Church at Assy). Given this experience for Servaes (his own taste of the rejection inherent in the crucifixion), it was moving to find his work affirmed and shown in the church at Latem. The neighbouring church of Sint Aldegondiskerk also had a similar range of work, including contemporary glass by
Ingrid Meyvaert.
Ingrid Meyvaert.
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
Sabbatical art pilgrimage: Europe - Day 9
At the instigation of Pere Courturier the Dominicans of Lyon charged Le Corbusier with the task of bringing into being at Eveux-sur-Arbresle near Lyon, the Convent of La Tourette, in the midst of nature, located in a small vale that opens out onto the forest. The buildings contain a hundred sleeping rooms originally for teachers and students, study halls, a hall for work and one for recreation, a library, a refectory, an oratory, chapel and crypt. The circulation of the building connects all the parts. Despite faving significant opposition the French Dominicans were visionary, took risks and got much right during the twentieth century - worker priests, arte sacre, and this marvellous building. See http://www.couventdelatourette.fr/.
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