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"My name is Anna Berggren, I'm 25 years old and graduated from the BIDS programme in 2015. I have been in and out of Sweden the past years but am now currently living in Stockholm. I have always had a passion for traveling and exploring new cultures and ideas, and I believed that BIDS could help me exploring the world and its dynamics even further."
Alumni Spotlight #24 Natasha Wrang
Natasha from Sweden and Taiwan, who describes herself as a "menstrual health enthusiast", is right now working on her Master's thesis while trying to plan her next adventure. Natasha finished her bachelor in 2012, making her a part of the very first BIDS-class to graduate. She agreed on sharing some of her experiences with the programme, which might inspire other students to be adventurous; "You can do so much by just contacting interesting organisations".
Alumni Spotlight #23 Klara Lindvall
Read about Klara Lindvall, who did an interesting Minor Field Study in Turkey, studying local Turkish migration management in relation to the EU external border and migration regime. Klara recommends everyone who considers it to dare go on an MFS as it challenged her and she gained a lot from it. Moreover, she expresses how important it is to try different things and not settle straight away.
Spotlight Special II: Karin and Andreas report from the University of Ghana
This week Andreas and Karin from the BIDS class of 2017 talk about their exchange semester at the University of Ghana in Accra. They write about the application process as free movers and how they connect the reality of Ghanaian development they witness every day to their class room teachings. So far, Karin and Andreas can "nothing but warmly recommend future students to go".
Alumni Spotlight #20 Milja Norberg
Read about Milja Norberg who graduated in 2014 with a major in Economic History. The flexibility of the Economic History Department allowed her to spend a year in Lebanon in the middle of the early refugee crises. Among other interesting points, Milja writes that in the field of development, "it is easy to be critical, but not as easy to come up with better alternatives".
Alumni Spotlight #18 Astrid Fabrin
Astrid Fabrin tells that after her graduation from BIDS in 2015, she was very confused about the endless options she could potentially pursue. She decided to travel for a while, and is now about to finish another bachelor degree in Social Anthropology. During BIDS, she majored in Human Geography and conducted minor field studies in Kenya. Astrid encourages future graduates to "find some work that actually helps people!"
Alumni Spotlight #15 Joanna Ericson
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Read about Joanna, who graduated in 2015 with a major in Political Science and her exchange in France, which she is really happy to have experienced. Moreover, she shares her BIDS experiences, gains and thoughts that led her to her current Master Studies in International Humanitarian Action.
Alumni Spotlight #13 Anders Magnusson
Graduating in 2015, Anders Magnusson was looking back on an iridescent BIDS career. He majored in Human Geography and pursued MFS in Kenya, to now continue his studies at London School of Economics. Grown up in Stockholm, Anders always felt a "passion for travelling and exploring new places and cultures" and has connections to several countries outside Scandinavia. During BIDS he was engaged as both class and student representative and initiated various extra-academic activities. Anders encourages BIDSters to "[get] active, meet as many people as you can, try to develop your ideas into something real and don't give up just because someone tells you that it's not doable."
Alumni Spotlight #12 Laura Heiberg
Laura Heiberg, class of 2015, was one of the founders of the BIDS Alumni online network. She tells us about what she's currently doing just few months after her graduation. During BIDS, Laura majored in Human Geography, conducted MFS in Kenya, and received the Hydén Award for the best bachelor's thesis on socio-economic and political issues in low- and middle-income countries.
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Alumni Spotlight #9 Sophia Djane
Sophia Djane is a BIDS Graduate of 2012 with a Political Science major. Sophia was born and raised in Lund, though she has also spent longer periods in Accra and London. Currently she works for IM (Individuell Människohjälp) in Lund, and is involved in a local movement called Tillsammans för Lund (Together for Lund). If currents BIDSters have questions regarding exchange studies (in Africa), Sophia encourages them to contact her. 🙂
Alumni Spotlight #8 Denise Beniwa Johnson
Denise Beniwa, majored in Sociology, during her third year in the program she did an internship at Swedwatch where she was given tasks such as risk analysis on different industries and labour rights. Early on, she became interested in understanding what it is that upholds structures of inequality and understanding international relations, this is what lead her to chose the BIDS program.


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|Acute myocardial infarction caused by spontaneous coronary intramural hematoma.
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|A 49-year-old male presented to our emergency department with sudden anterior chest pain. His electrocardiogram revealed ST-segment elevations in leads II, III and aVF. An inferior acute myocardial infarction was suspected. Emergent coronary angiography (CAG) showed there was a long lesion in the right coronary artery (RCA), which continued from the proximal to the distal part of RCA with 50% stenosis and narrowed further to 99% stenosis at the distal end. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) examination demonstrated a diffuse intramural hematoma raging from the proximal to the distal part of the RCA. No visualization of the intimal flap was identified by IVUS, indicating coronary artery dissection as a pathogenesis of this hematoma formation. After intracoronary injection of isosorbide dinitrate, the 99% stenosis regressed to 50% spontaneously. Neither balloon angioplasty nor stenting was performed. He was discharged home free from symptoms 9 days after the procedure. Thirty-day follow-up CAG revealed an almost normal finding of the RCA and IVUS delineated a complete restoration of the intramural hematoma.
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Dr. Yinuo Tang is an Assistant Professor in Strategy and International Business in the School of Business, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his B.S. from Tsinghua University in China, M.P.A. from Cornell University, and Ph.D. from Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining HKU in 2015, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 2013 to 2015.
His research aims to understand how firms advance their capability and performance in heterogeneous institutional environments via corporate strategies such as M&A. In particular, he explores the relationship between Emerging Market Firms' institutional strategies and their competitive advantages in the integrated global market.
His work has been published in Journal of Corporate Finance and Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He is also an active concert pianist who has performed at the Forbidden City Hall at Beijing and Lincoln Center at New York City. He is the recipient of the Finalist Award in 2001 Lennox International Young Pianist Competition at Dallas and the Gold Medal in the amateur category of the 2015 Sixth Seattle International Piano Competition.
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Saturday's semifinals
» Saint Louis vs. Waianae, 4 p.m., Aloha Stadium
» Leilehua vs. Baldwin, 7 p.m., Aloha Stadium
He never imagined being a quarterback at all.
Mamiya, 21-0 as a starter, wanted to play slotback or cornerback, but was talked into calling the signals. Now he wouldn't have it any other way.
OR Saint Louis quarterback Micah Mamiya, humility is just as important as legacy.
The senior, now in the waning moments of his high school football career, has garnered numerous accolades on the field, leading to increased attention off of it. The humble, shy Mamiya has become a leader for the 10-0 Crusaders, who have gone 21-0 with him at the helm.
The duty Mamiya feels to his team, his coach, and the alumni is what makes him such a unique breed of football player.
"The roots here at Saint Louis School go really deep," said head coach Delbert Tengan. "When you look at a lot of our players, their fathers, their uncles, their grandfathers went to school here and played here.
"So there is that sense of carrying on the tradition, and I'm sure Micah feels that."
Especially Micah. He is the grandson of Richard Mamiya, who captained the football, basketball and baseball teams at Saint Louis in the 1940s and went on to become a well-known heart surgeon.
Micah Mamiya leads the Interscholastic League of Honolulu champion Crusaders against Waianae in the state Division I semifinals at 4 p.m. on Saturday at Aloha Stadium. Saint Louis is going for its third championship since the formation of the state tournament in 1999.
While he fills the quarterback position well and has helped to continue the pride of Crusaders football, Mamiya, who has been playing football for almost 10 years now, never envisioned himself in the role that he's in today.
"I liked baseball, so I never wanted to play football, but my dad made me try out and after the first year I got addicted," Mamiya said.
"I like playing quarterback, but I do it for the team. I wanted to play slotback or defensive back, but I got forced to play quarterback. At slotback or defensive back, it's more fun because you don't have to think as much as a quarterback does."
Despite being a baseball player and a football cornerback at heart, Mamiya claims -- and the coaches will agree -- that he was chosen to play quarterback because of his mentality.
"He's a shy person, but he has a way of talking, Tengan said. "He has what it takes to be a quarterback. Sometimes he has that little chip on his shoulder that you need."
As an upperclassman, Mamiya feels responsible for not only his actions but also his teammates'.
"The seniors, this is their team just as much as it is my team, or our team at Saint Louis," Tengan said. "They need to take ownership of this team, make sure that all of our players are doing the right things on the field, in the classroom, off campus. And everything that they do -- and that we as a team do -- is reflected on the school, the program and their families.
"Micah feels a sense of responsibility in making sure that the right things happen."
In addition to his role as a senior, Mamiya has an increased sense of duty as a QB.
"Because I'm a senior and because I'm the quarterback, I feel I have more responsibility," Mamiya said. "If we lose, it's the quarterback's fault. If we win, I get all the glory."
Mamiya welcomes the demands football has on him and acknowledges that it has helped him to grow, both as an individual and as an athlete.
After suffering a season-ending injury in the state semifinals last year, Mamiya developed an intensified work ethic and sense of determination, spending longer hours in the weight room and watching film.
"His goal was to get back to a championship game and play this year," Tengan said. "We're one step away from getting there, so hopefully he'll have that opportunity.
"A lot of people say, 'Hey I want to work harder next year and get to that point,' but they don't have that opportunity. Micah has that opportunity to get there."
While playing in the state championship game would be an accomplishment for Mamiya, perhaps the most important thing he has gained from the experience of being a member of the Saint Louis team is his ability to lead. The non-vocal senior leads by example, voicing his concerns only when necessary.
"If I ever see one of my teammates acting dumb in school I tell them, 'Hey, wise up because we need you on the field,' " Mamiya said. "I try to let things go, but sometimes you just have to tell them no and make sure they don't get in trouble."
The combination of talent and leadership has proved successful for Mamiya. He does not bask in the glory, however, choosing instead to credit those around him.
"He doesn't walk around like he's the big man on campus," Tengan said. "That has impressed a lot of the faculty and staff. Here's a kid that could easily go the other way and walk around like he's the man, but he is a guy that's going to defer all the credit and all the accolades that he has to the rest of his teammates and just do his part in making the team successful."
Mamiya's approach to football is similar to that in his everyday actions. A member of Pacifica, Mamiya travels to local schools performing in events like those on May Day. Instead of participating in the dances, he prefers to stand in the background and blow the conch shell so as not to receive too much attention.
Whether or not he likes it, attention seems to follow, and with it another set of lessons to learn and challenges to overcome.
"Playing at Saint Louis, the expectation of the school, of the winning tradition puts another added burden on the quarterback position," Tengan said. "But I think Micah's handled it very well. He's humble and I think he's grown to accept his role."


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Kangaroo Makeover
Reviewed Dec. 19, 2012 by Armin
Industry / Destinations
Tourism Australia is a Government-owned agency that is responsible for "attracting international visitors to Australia and encouraging Australians to travel domestically, both for leisure and business events." In 2003, the agency received a big boost — as in $AU350 million over four years — to promote the country's brand and in 2004 they introduced a logo designed by Futurebrand — see PDF case study — that introduced the image of the hopping kangaroo with the sun behind it. After eight years, this image appears to still hold value and has been redesigned by Interbrand Australia.
We knew that there were elements that were working in the old logo, the representation of a kangaroo, the sense of movement, energy and vitality, but its slightly childlike feel together with technical difficulties in reproduction often diluted its impact. What's more, research had highlighted the fact that people saw Australia as a wonderfully colourful experience — blues and greens, as well as reds and oranges — but only some of these experiences were represented in the logo.
Extensive design exploration to reconsider and redraw the shape, poise and movement of the kangaroo — and its correlation with the sun — preceded further work on the use of colour and typography to complete the picture.
— Interbrand project description
I remember the old logo coming out originally and it being part of the then-nascent trend of highly detailed and textural logos — Futurebrand, at the time, a leader in this trend (see UPS) — and thinking that it wasn't all that bad. The rugged, outback-y look to the type and the sun were interesting and the sunset/sunrise haze effect gave it a nice texture. But I can't imagine having to reproduce that in print in a consistent manner. What a pain. The new logo keeps the same elements but gives them a fresh execution that doesn't rely on gradients and lens flares to work. The new kangaroo is a very interesting solution. And a difficult one to pull off. The overlays work really well to help define the body parts of the kangaroo — tail, hip, torso, neck, head… they are all nicely delineated — and using the white gaps to denote elements in the back pane — left leg and ear, sun — help keep it clean and readable. The typography is perfectly decent and playing its supporting role. I love these kind of exercises, where it's about finding a new way to visually solve the same premise.
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Rembrandt and Degas were both in their early twenties when they began to produce self-portraits, and the Dutch artist continued the practice throughout his life. Indeed, before the mid-nineteenth century, no other artist had depicted himself as often, making Rembrandt a logical role model when Degas began to explore his own self-image. Rembrandt tended to use dramatic lighting and innovative painting and etching techniques, and often presented himself with varied expressions in a wide range of roles. Degas's portrayals use the same sorts of techniques to suggest a more focused exploration of his own introspective personality.
This is probably one of Rembrandt's earlier self-representations. Dark shadows fall over half of his stern-looking face, while the other half is brightly lit. Rembrandt used similar strong contrasts to heighten the drama in many of his etchings, as well as in his paintings.
The relatively precise handling of this early self-portrait suggests Degas's interest in the work of the academic artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, although the strongly shaded face is somewhat unconventional. Inspired by Rembrandt's very different style, Degas pursued his exploration of unusual lighting and loosely handled paint, as in the Clark's self-portrait.


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As we reported earlier, Singapore Airlines has already received their second Airbus A380 super-jumbo, and is planning to take the third one by mid March. While the second one currently serves training purposes and completes a few scheduled flights to Hong Kong, in reality she is only waiting for her sister to arrive so they can start to serve the first European route of the A380: London Heathrow directly from Singapore Changi airport.
The first flight with flight number SQ 308 will take off from Singapore at 9:00 am on 18MAR2008 and will arrive in London at 15:05 the same day. Then late afternoon at 18:55 it will head back to the home of Singapore Airlines (SIA) as flight SQ 319 and will arrive to its Asian destination at 15:35 on 19MAR2008. These two flights mark the official launch of the second route served by SIA after Sydney since October 2007 with the first super-jumbo. This will also be the first commercial flight of the A380 involving a European airport.
Following the special first day flights, the schedule will be similar to other flights on similar routes, please see the table below as provided by Singapore Airlines. The first one is about the interim time between 18MAR and 30MAR (the last day of the Winter schedule for the airline industry) the second table shows the schedule for the Summer season.
|Scheduled A380 services (Northern Winter 2007/2008)
|Scheduled A380 services (Northern Summer 2008)
According to the airline, those passengers who already have tickets for these flighs, will be able to fly on those flights, even though they originally purchased their flights not knowing that it would be served by the A380. Those, who already have a booking but not yet received a ticket for it, "may need to check if there have been changes to their fares as a result of the aircraft change." In other words, their fares have probably been increased at least due to higher demand on these flights. If you manage to get on board the inaugural London flights (SQ308/319) on 18 March, you will receive personalised certificates recognising your participation in the milestone event, as well as limited edition Singapore Airlines A380 souvenirs and exclusive premium giveaways.
The introduction of this route flown by the A380 also marks the first case when a passenger will be able to connect from a flight on the A380 to another flight, also flown by the A380 if they travel between London and Sydney with a transfer in Singapore. In this case they will actually have to spend almost 13 hours in Singapore, but it may very well be worth it!
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DAY # 5 – TIP # 5 – Round-up Your Pens and Pencils!
I bet you have at least one drawer, box or pen/pencil container that is filled to the brim.
Gather all these pens and pencils together. Test them, and if they don't work, throw them out. Toss all pencil stubs. Sharpen all pencils. If there are pens that still write that you don't use, give them away. Keep pencils in one container and pens in another. Label each container so you don't mix them up.


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Fall 2013 / Vol. 13, No. 4
Competition with Charters Motivates Districts
New political circumstances, growing popularity
Digital Roundup
States legislatures scramble to boost, or in some cases block, online learning
The Promise of Personalized Learning
Blending the human touch with technological firepower
The School Administrator Payoff from Teacher Pensions
The "stewards" of the system benefit the most
Despite Common Core, States Still Lack Common Standards
Students proficient on state tests but not national
Limits on Collective Bargaining
Wisconsin succeeds in cutting costs
Graduations on the Rise
The 2000s saw boost in U.S. students completing high school
Expanding College Opportunities
Intervention yields strong returns for low-income high-achievers
Strengthen State Oversight of Teacher Preparation
Forum: The Quest for Better Educators
Training Must Focus on Content and Pedagogy
Forum: The Quest for Better Educators
Cultural Exchange
"The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope" by Claudia Kolker, as reviewed by Nathan Glazer
The Quest for Rationalization
"The Allure of Order" by Jal Mehta, as reviewed by David Steiner
The Courage to Act
"Radical: Fighting to Put Students First," by Michelle Rhee, as reviewed by Mark Bauerlein
Equity Trumps Excellence
Among news media, competition less important than achievement gap
While K–12 Schools Resist, Digital Learning Disrupts Higher Education
Although digital learning is making definite advances, it has yet to disrupt secondary education.
Lessons in Cyberspace
Teachers adapt what they find to what their students need
More School Dollars!
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The waitress in the hotel breakfast room very politely offered me two options; a 'full breakfast' or a 'continental breakfast'. Not feeling particularly hungry I opted for the continental. However, to my surprise, it included scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and whole range of meats, cheeses, breads and pastries. In fact, apart from a couple of small items, there didn't seem to be any difference between the 'continental' and the 'full' breakfast. I got to wondering what does the word 'continental' actually mean in this context?
When I was a young man travelling between hotels across the UK, a 'continental' breakfast meant very little, i.e. a couple of slices of bread, some ham, a pot of jam and some coffee, oh and a croissant, if one was really lucky. Continental meant minimalist chic.
Today hotel breakfast tables (no matter where they are) are becoming one of the same, so I wonder for which country or countries does the word 'continental' apply? (And therefore to which countries does it not apply)?
In our offices, especially in mainland Europe, we see a kind of hotel breakfast table blending of cultures too. For example, many of my clients, if not all, have employees from all around the world working within any one location. They are no longer predominantly single culture organisations. It is clear that 'on the continent' our single culture barriers are beginning to come down and I find it a very welcome change indeed. The more diversity in the workplace the better. We just need to make sure that our politicians do not loose site of this fact. After all, I can imagine that they do not live this kind of multi-culturalism within their own organisations?
But still, breakfast time for me is one time of the day when it is nice to feel safely within my comfort zone: cereal, toast, a little marmalade and perhaps (if I am very hungry) some fried eggs and bacon. However, it feels strangely good to know that what was once considered a 'British' breakfast is now 'continental'. Just a shame that too many Brits do not themselves feel the same. J
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Paul Holmes 15 Apr 2001 // 11:00PM GMT
Several years ago, the casual apparel industry faced a challenge: to sell more jeans. It's a highly competitive business and everyone had a strategy. The Lee Company had maybe the best strategy of all: to change the perception of jeans in the workplace. If more companies relaxed their dress codes and allowed employees to wear jeans to work, more people would have to buy jeans. At the same time, the Lee Company felt strongly about giving something back to its most important consumer – women. Lee is the #1 brand of jeans for women.
Barkley Evergreen & Partners consulted with the Lee Company and recommended that Lee align itself with a cause that women could embrace. Lee had identified breast cancer as a worthy cause, and after extensive research BE&P recommended that Lee enter into a partnership with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. At the same time, BE&P recommended that Lee launch a campaign to convince corporate CEOs and managers that it's okay to let employees "go casual" every once in awhile – that it might actually build morale and improve worker productivity.
To satisfy these objectives, BE&P developed Lee National Denim Day, a nationwide "casual day" to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. On a designated Friday in October (National Breast Cancer Awareness Month) employees of participating companies would be allowed to wear denim to work for a $5 donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. We made the trial easy for corporate America. Give us one day a year and let your employees wear denim on that day and make their donation. Employees would have a good time and feel like they're making a difference. By letting their employees celebrate Lee National Denim Day, companies could feel good and wouldn't feel compelled to write a huge check to the Foundation.
Our decisions were guided by research on brands and cause-related marketing. When price and quality are equal, 76% of consumers would likely switch to a brand associated with a good cause. In fact, consumers have come to expect it. Six in 10 consumers think cause-related marketing should be a standard business practice.*
So where does it all start? Each year before the campaign kicks off, BE&P secures the services of a celebrity spokesperson who will serve as the cornerstone of the campaign. Actor Rob Lowe was chosen in 2000 because of his visibility and compelling story. Lowe lost his grandmother and great-grandmother to breast cancer and was able to share his story and deliver the Lee Company's key messages to a national audience through television and radio interviews and a print ad campaign. We broke tradition and selected a male spokesperson because we felt Rob would deliver a new message to a new audience – men.
In order to execute Lee National Denim Day, BE&P and Lee use a multi-disciplined marketing communications approach. It's a strategic initiative that's launched months in advance. Lee executes a print ad campaign and a direct mail campaign to encourage companies to register for Lee National Denim Day, and BE&P raises further awareness through an aggressive media relations campaign which includes targeted media pitching, video news releases, a satellite media tour and a national radio tour.
A toll-free hotline (1-800-521-5533) and web site (www.denimday.com) are maintained for people to access information and register to participate.
Key audiences for Lee National Denim Day include large companies, small businesses, schools - any employer and its employees. Additionally, Lee hopes to reach its core consumer – women – with a message that it cares about a major health concern to women.
The results have been nothing short of extraordinary. Highlights of this year's campaign included full-page articles with photos in InStyle and Glamour, appearances by Rob Lowe on The Today Show, Larry King Live, Live with Regis and Entertainment Tonight, plus a national radio tour and more than 100 airings on local TV stations across the country. Here is a summary of verified broadcast impressions to date:
National Broadcast Coverage – Interviews with Rob Lowe reached 24,449,806 people.
Local Television Coverage – TV stories in local markets reached 10,773,025 people.
Print Coverage – Print stories in local and national publications reached 33,130,470 people.
Radio Tour – A radio interview tour in Top 20 markets reached 12,836,553 people.
The public relations initiatives of this program were planned and executed within the budget of $526,025. ($300,000 is for spokesperson's fee, leaving $226,025 for all other hard costs and agency's fee.)
Money is still rolling in and Lee National Denim Day 2000 has already raised more than $7.3 million for the Komen Foundation. That would bring the five-year total for the program to $23.8 million, making it the nation's largest single-day fundraiser for breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment. The Lee Company is a member of the Komen Foundation's Million Dollar Council, and the Lee name has become synonymous with fighting breast cancer.
By creating, launching and managing the Lee National Denim Day program, Barkley Evergreen & Partners has helped position the Lee brand for the future and helped solidify Lee's reputation - as a company that cares and as a brand that strongly identifies with its core consumer. Additionally, jeans have become more accepted in the workplace, and we feel that Lee National Denim Day is at least partly responsible for that.
*Source: Cone/Roper Cause-Related Marketing Trends Report


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Museo Policial
A mark in the hands of men (6pm-12am)
Free entry, tour, entertainment, recreational activity.
This activity is meant to teach the visiting public about the origins of the Argentine fingerprint system, created by the Police Superintendant Juan Vucetich, and its significance in human identification. This activity is usually presented to school communities. For this occasion, it will be available for all audiences participating in the Night of Museums.
Contact: Patricia Garachico (Cultural Development Area manager)
Telephone: 54-0221-154770453
Fax: 54-0221-4231876
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: 54 N° 393, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Museo Histórico Municipal Alfred Enrique Mulgura
One museum, a thousand stories (8am-10pm)
Educational programme, entertainment. Free entry.
The Museum will be open all day long on 18 May, 2011, providing an educational programme to schools in two shifts (morning and afternoon), games, guided tours, connection to heritage and workshops with local historians. Musical entertainment by local artists.
Contact: Clara María Rodriguez (Museóloga)
Telephone: 54-2243-409999
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Larrea nº 454 – 7223 General Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"
Storytelling (2pm and 4pm)
Free admission, oral narrative.
"Musecuentos" (The objects tell my story)
Storytelling (Oral Narration) for children 6 to 12 years.
Two storytellers will share literary stories and to do that, in every story an object that lives in the museum will be highlighted.
This activity will serve as an illustration or a support to what is expressed primarily through the spoken word, gesture and body language. In some cases tell stories with objects will trigger the stories to be shared with the public.
Bearing in mind that when tales are primarily aimed at the younger ones, they usually are accompanied by adults, the opportunity will then become a space for everyone.
The activity will aim to raise awareness of the important role for museums in society, being a meeting point of culture, celebrating the meeting of the objects, stories and words.
Storytellers: Claudio Cuevas and Raul Ledesma.
Contact: Vanessa Iglesias (BA in Museum Studies)
Phone: 4982-8370 ext. 181
Fax: 4982-6670 ext. 172
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Avenida Angel Gallardo 470 - C1405DJR Caba, Argentina
Website: www.macn.gov.ar
Museo de las Campanas
Children come and hear stories in museums (from 10am to 7pm)
Free admission, visit, educational programme.
Coordinated program for elementary school students to take a tour in the museum and have time for questions, photographs, notes that will be completed by the school program with a written description of the lived experience in the museum.
Contact: Edgardo Jose (director - owner)
Phone: 54 - 3544-471736
Email: email@example.com
Address: Urquiza 962 - 5889 Mina Clavero - Cordoba, Argentina
Museo Municipal de Arte
El Museo y la Gente (10am – 1pmy 5pm - 8pm)
Free entry, inauguration, visit, show, playing activity, educational programme.
Our programme was born from the idea that visitors are part of the museum's heritage during these celebrations. Our activities will take place during the whole month of May inside and outside the Museo Municipal de Arte's installations.
We are able to organize this activity thanks to the participation of the museum's team and of artists working in the fields of audiovisual, music or theatre.
We will show the audiovisual register of activities organized by the museum inside and outside the institution over the last few years.
Contact: Gloria Rábalo (Director)
Phone: 54 02965 15604688
Email: email@example.com
Address: Av. Roca 444 – 9120 Puerto Madryn, Argentina
Web site: www.musedeartemuseo.ar
Museo Instrumentos Musicales Dr. Azzarini
El Museo va a la Escuela (9am – 5pm)
Free entry, educational program.
The event will take place in the rural school of Gorina Partido de La Plata, Argentina.
In the framework of the "Museum is going to school" project, the educational community will have access to the museum – these schools usually don't know museums or their signification because of economics reasons or distance.
Thanks to the presentation of many musical instruments belonging to the Museo Dr. Emilio Azzarini and of power points, a workshop will be realized in which pupils, teachers and the community will get to know the museums' functions and goals.
Contact: Susana Bautista Hualde (teacher of History of art)
Phone: 0054 221 4724336
Email: email@example.com
Address: 45 Nº 582 – 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Website: www.museoazzarini.blog.com
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Conservation conference (2 & 3 May, 2011)
Free entry, openings, conference, workshop, educational programme.
The Barbados Museum will be launching and focusing on a number of activities during the month of May, starting with an exhibition in the form of a visual and audio documentary of Barbadian Second World War veterans. A Conservation Conference with conservators from the UK and Puerto Rico will follow. This Conference will be open to ICOM members and a few others and is in collaboration with the University of The West Indies in Barbados.
The staff at the Barbados Museum will also be attending a conservation workshop specifically aimed at integrated pest management for one day at the Museum.
If possible, the Barbados Museum will launch a temporary exhibition of Barbadian objects reflecting forgotten domestic memory at The Barbados Museum and at an offsite location. This section will be shared with other ICOM members and institutions who can host a temporary exhibition of this nature. Texts will highlight the use of the objects accompanied by images.
In addition, a large book or canvas will be installed for visitors and locals to document in their chosen form any type of memory. The African Gallery at the Barbados Museum will also host two small cases containing miniature African figurines and objects as part of our contribution to highlight Africa's cultural contribution to the world.
Contact: Mrs. Allison Callender
Telephone: 1-246-4270201
Fax: 1-246-4295946
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: St. Anns, Garrison, St. Michael, BB14038 Bridgetown, Barbados
The Member Museum
Bus Tour to Museums (Wednesday, 18 May, 2011)
Free entry.
It is proposed that there will be an all day bus tour to several museums on International Museum Day. Starting at the Barbados Museum, the tour will travel to George Washington House, the Museum of Parliament and National Heroes Gallery, the Nidhe Isreal Museum, the Folkstone Museum and the Olympic Museum, and then return to the Barbados Museum.
Entrance to these museums will be free and individuals will only be asked to make a contribution to transportation.
This was a successful venture in the past and is worthy of being revisited. Marketing will be done to ascertain whether Wednesday is preferable to Saturday.
Contact: Mrs. Allison Callender
Phone: 427-0201
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: St. Anns, Garrison, St. Michael, Barbados
Exhibition of Contemporary Art (opens May 2nd - 30th, daily from 9 am- 6pm)
Free-entry, openings.
Black Jacobins Exhibition of Contemporary Caribbean Art. A joint venture with the Diaspora Vibe Cultural exchange.
Following will be the Black Jacobins Exhibitions of New Commissioned works entitled Three Moments in Caribbean Art at the Morning side Gallery, At The Barbados Community College
Contact person is Allison Thompson: email@example.com
Contact: Mrs. Nerys Rudder
Phone: 266-8892
Email: email@example.com
Address: at Queens Park Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Website: http://www.nagc.bb/
The I'Akobi Youth Resource Center
Exhibition (weekly)
Free-entry, openings, visit, educational programme.
A temporary exhibiton related to "Museum and Memory", as well as an exhibition highlighting African Awareness. There will be local and as well as African cuisine available for sale during the week.
Contact: Ms. Oneka Small
Phone: 8223694
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: St. Michael, Bridgetown, Barbados
Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore
Museum and children (5pm – 10pm)
Free entry, inauguration, visit, performance, workshop, play activity, educational programme and educational videos.
Multicultural dance workshop, folk group presentation, museum rooms visit, video projections.
Contact: Luz Castillo (Anthropologist)
Phone: (591-2) 2408640 int. 114
Fax: (591-2) 2406642
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: Calle Ingavi N|916 – 5817 La Paz, Bolivia
Website: www.musef.org.bo
Museo de Textiles Andinos Bolivianos
Textiles: el sentir y el vivir en los Andes (9.30am – 12pm et 3pm – 6pm)
Free entry, visit.
The museum will be open during the schedule mentionned above. Entry will be free of charge.
A free guided tour will be offered at 11am which will allow visitors to understand better the capacity of textiles to transfer peoples from Bolivian Andes' feelings and way of living.
Aymara traditional dress of mama thalla. Aroma region, La Paz, Bolivia.
Contact: Waldo Jordán (Graduated in Anthropology)
Phone: (591)-2-2243601
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Plaza Benito Juárez # 488, Miraflores - La Paz, Bolivia
Web site: http://www.museodetextiles.org
Museo del Poncho
El poncho: símbolo de autoridad y servicio (9.30am - 12pm and 3pm – 6pm)
Free entry, visit.
The museum's installations will be accessible on the schedule indicated above and entry will be free of charge.
The visit will allow visitors to recognize that poncho, with its wide range of colours and designs, has a great value. After more than 500 years still it symbolise authority and loyalty to the community.
Poncho from the central region of the country. Region of Potosí, Bolivie.
Contact: Prof. María Elena Santa Cruz
Phone: 591-71971173
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Calle Tito Yupanqui # 42. Copacabana, Bolivia
Web site: http://www.museodelponcho.org
Museu de Arte Sacra Jesuino do Monte Carmelo
Places of Memory (17 May, 2011 at 19:30)
Openings, Workshop
This exhibition deals with the relationship between memory and art, especially the religious art seen in architectural monuments in the city of Itu, São Paulo.
Contact: Prof. Jonas Soares de Souza
Phone: 55+11+40225287
Fax: 55+11+40232209
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Rua Paula Souza 664 - Centro 13310-200 Itu SP, Brazil
Website: http://www.itu.sp.gov.br
Museum of History of Medicine of Rio Grande do Sul – MUHM
Sarau Lírico (Every first Thursday)
Free-entry, openings, conference, visit, performance, workshop, educational programme, musical programme.
With the help of all its riches of documents, rare objects and testimonies, MUHM recover and narrate not only the medical activity in Rio Grande do Sul, state in the South of Brazil, but the history of our society as well.
We are here to occupy the lacking space in our State, for the preservation and spreading of the historical-cultural patrimony of medicine, whether regarding the profession or its professionals. In the museum's modern conception, besides the indispensable need to preserve, it must inform, instigate and promote knowledge.
Contact: Letícia Castro (Journalist)
Phone: 555130292900
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Independência, 270 - 90035-070 Porto Alegre, Brasil
Website: http://www.muhm.org.br
Museu de Ciências da Terra Alexis Dorofeef
9th Week National Museum (16 to May 20)
Free-entry, Conference, Visit, Workshop, Educational programme
Chat with Science - Thursday (05/19), at 4pm.
Theme: "Communication, Memory and Heritage"
Guest: Fernanda Alvarenga Fernandes Pires - Journalist, Ms. Literary Theory / UFJF
Meeting between neighbors - Monday to Thursday (16/05 to 19/05), 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm
Visits to the exhibits of the Museu de Ciências da Terra Alexis Dorofeef and the Museu de Zoologia João Moojen.
Vila Giannetti, 31 houses and 32, Federal University of Viçosa campus
Inauguration of Conviverde - Friday (20/05), 2pm.
Inauguration of the Green Room of the Museu de Ciências da Terra Alexis Dorofeef with play and educational activities.
Contact: Mrs. Cristine Muggler
Phone: 55 31 3899 2662
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Vila Giannetti, 31 Viçosa Federal University Campus, Viçosa, Brazil
Uptime consultants Ribeirão Preto
Conversation class (several hours a week)
Game, educational programme
During the classes, we will talk about going to museums, students´preferences in art, have a matching game about famous painters and their paintings. We will also visit a local museum.
Contact: Miss Simone Camillo
Phone: 16 36368075
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Avenida 9 de julho, 54 – 14090190 Ribeirão Preto – SP Brazil
Website: www.uptime.com.br
Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva
Guided tours (10am - 6pm)
Visit. Free entry. Temporary exhibition: Guayasamín in Chile, 1969.
Free guided tour of the house of the former President of Chile, Eduardo Frei Montalva. The House Museum invites you to visit this well-preserved house, which contains original furnishings. Built in the 1960, it is representative of that period of Chilean history. We also have a temporary exhibition of twelve engravings by Guayasamín donated to Eduardo Frei Montalva during his visit to Chile in 1969.
Contact: María-José Lira (deputy director)
Phone: 56-2-7234105
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Hindenburg 683 – 7501279 Santiago, Chile
Website: www.casamuseoeduardofrei.cl
Museo Interactivo Mirador (MIM)
Conferencia de Prensa (9:30 am)
Conference, workshop.
We have invited media professionals from printed media, TV channels, broadcast stations for a breakfast. During the event we shall explain the importance of museums in general and ours in particular; launch our new Web page and a new interactive exhibit with a robot; and engage them in 3 short workshops about the magic of science.
Contact: Consuelo Valdes (Executive Director)
Phone: (56-2) 828 8000
Fax: (56-2) 828 8005
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Punta Arenas 6711 - La Granja, Santiago, Chile
Website: www.mim.cl
Museos del Banco Central
Las rutas de la esclavitud, una visión global (9.30am – 8.30pm)
Free entry, visit and video-forum.
In honour of International Museum Day and of the theme of International Year of the Afro-descendant, we will show the video "Las rutas de la esclavitud: una visión global", directed by UNESCO, with the participation of Doctor Rina Cáceres, expert in this field.
We will also participate, as many museums of the country, to the Night of Museums.
Contact: Felicia Camacho (Cultural Action Custodian)Phone: (506) 22434207Fax: (506) 22434220Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Address: Bajos de la Plaza de la Cultura, San José, Costa RicaWebsite: www.museosdelbancocentral.org
Museo Arqueológico Regional Altos de Chavon
Objects and traditions from San Rafael de Yuma (05/18/2011)
Free-entry, Performance
The Altos de Chavon Regional Museum of Archaeology has invited the public schools in the eastern town of San Rafael de Yuma to tell the history and traditions of the town through objects, in a theatrical presentation to an open air audience.
Contact: Arlene Alvarez (Director)
Phone: 18095238554
Email: email@example.com
Address: Altos de Chavon, La Romana – 22000 La Romana, Dominican Republic
Musée Edgar Clerc
Amerindian art and its heritage in the Creole World (Saturday, 21 May, 2011, 14:00 - 22:00)
Free entry, conference, visit, performance, workshop
The animation will begin in the afternoon with scientific activities for the general public (conferences about archeological excavations, presentation of excavation material by archeologists, film screenings…).
Meanwhile, families will discover workshops of Amerindian artistic practices (corporeal paintings, drawings on calabash, music…).
Finally, during the evening, contemporary artists will present their pieces of Amerindian inspiration and the public will be entertained with a concert of lambis conch and storytellers' performances in the park.
Contact: Katarina Enggist (Head of the cultural entertainment department)
Phone: 05 90 23 57 57
Fax: 05 90 23 89 67
Email: email@example.com
Address: Route de la Rosette, 97160 Le Moule, Guadeloupe
Casa MIMA
AQUAFLORA-Landscapes and Orchids of Guatemala (Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm)
Free admission, inauguration.
Opening of the exhibition, sale of watercolors and orchids and landscapes of Guatemala by the artist Susan Tabush on May 3, accompanied by an exhibition of orchids from the Guatemalan Association of orchidologists.
On 18 May, there will be free admission to museums.
Contact: Beatriz Quevedo (Executive Director)
Phone: (502) 2253-6657
Fax: (502) 2232-6902
Email: email@example.com
Address: 8a Avenida 14-12 Zone 1 to 1001 Guatemala, Guatemala
Website: www.portalmuseosguatemala.net
Museo Carlos F. Novella
Celebration of International Museum Day (9am -3pm)
Free entrance, visit, show, story competition awarde.
Sunday 15 May, the Museo Carlos F. Novella will open its doors to visitors from 9am to 3pm. Guides will explain the 110 years' history of the firm Cementos Progreso, which is located in the industrial room of the museum. There will also be guides in the archeological room: "Preserve the Past and build the Future of the Cuenca Mirador".
Assistants may attend the concert from children and teenagers of the municipal music school of Núcleo de La Pedrera. The Choir of children as well as the ensemble of strings and guitars will be included in the programme.
On the same day the "Objects tell us stories, what's yours?" competition awards, in which the employees of the firm participated with a story about an object, a photograp or a printed document related to the Progreso firm.
Contact: María Elena de Arce (Coordinator)
Phone : (502) 2286 4100
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: 15 Avenida 18-01 Zona 6, Interior Finca La Pedrera - 1006 Guatemala, Guatemala
Website : www.museosdeguatemala.org
Museo Casa del Tejido Antiguo
"Manos Mágicas" (9am - 5pm)
Visit and demonstration of Mayan ancestral techniques.
Permanent demonstration of handicraft and ancestral techniques as well as the cultural event "Manos Mágicas", a weaving competition between several weavers of many rural regions of Guatemala. The Museo Casa del Tejido Antiguo offers to its visitors the opportunity to admire the huge variety, the originality and the beauty of Guatemalan handicraft, thanks to the permanent exhibition of traditional Mayan costumes of our country.
Ms Alida Pérez Santos, foundator of the museum and the craftmen, perfectly realized an exhibition of the art to weave. Visitors will know everything about this art thanks to different types of looms such as the foot powered loom for example, and to available information about them.
The Museo Casa del Tejido Antiguo, was inaugurated on 23 March, 1998 and has a gallery specially reserved to the exhibition of length from different regions of Guatemala. Our goal is to give the opportunity to visitors to discover the quality and cultural diversity of the Mayan culture thanks to the fabrics elaborated with the telar de cintura (special loom in which the weaver tighten threads - tied to his waist - thanks to his weight).
Contact: Alida Perez (Director y Fundator)
Phone: (502) 7832-3169
Fax: (502) 7832-3169
Email: email@example.com
Address: 1ra. Calle Poniente No. 51 – 3001 La Antigua, Guatemala
Website: www.casadeltejido.org
Fundación Casa del poeta Ramón Lopez Velarde
Cultural Programme of the House of the Poet (Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm, Saturday from 10am to 3pm)
Free entry.
Visitors are welcomed with an introductory discussion on the history of the House and a visit of the Museum and Library.
Contact: Alejandra Galvan Alamilla (Educational Services Manager)
Phone: 55335456 and 52079336
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: Alvaro Obregon 73, Col. Roma – 6700 Mexico D.F., Mexico
Website: www.casapoetalopezvelarder.blogspot.com
Zona arqueologica de Comalcalco, Tabasco
INAH museums in the State of Tabasco (10-12 pm)
Lectures on the history of museums open to public visits in the custody of INAH in the State of Tabasco.
Contact: Benito Venegas Duran Jésus (archaeologist)
Phone: 19333370274
Fax: 19333370274
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Carretera Comalcalco-Paraiso - 86630, Comalco, Tabasco, Mexico
Museo Zoológico César Domínguez Flores
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Museum celebration (from 10am to 8pm)
Free entry, inauguration, workshop, exhibition.
10 museums in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez will participate in the museums fair with the program include exhibitions, workshops, music, dance. The aim is to increase public awareness.
Contact: Marilú Guillén Jiménez (Curator)
Phone: 961 61 4 47 01
Fax: 961 61 4 47 01
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: Calzada Cerro Hueco S/N El Zapotal – 29096 Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Explorperu (library)
International Museum Day in Peru
Visits, commemorative activities' organization
Commemorative activities organised on the occasion of International Museum Day in Peru and in the rest of the world. Visit our website www.explorperu.com, which promotes the activities organized for the event.
Contact: Sonia Bermúdez Lozano (journalist et webmaster)
Phone: 511-997288262
E-mail: email@example.com
Address: Av. Bolívar 1409 – 21, Lima, Peru
Website: www.explorperu.com
Museo de Sitio Pachacamac
Memory and tradition in the museum of Pachacamac (Thursdays and Saturdays of May)
Free admission, tour, show, workshop, educational program.
Free admission to the Museum on 18 May.
Storytelling show and oral narrative: "Arguedas" presented to pupils, with Cucha del Aguila and Lucho Ramirez.
Traditional ceramics: workshop with Elisa Sarmiento.
Ecologic visit of the Sanctuary of Pachacamac with Dr. Enrique Angulo.
Guided tour of ther monumental archaeologic area of Pachacamac with the archaeologist Rommel Angeles.
Contact: Denise Pozzi-Escot (Director)
Phone: 511 4302115
Fax: 511 4300168
Email: email@example.com
Address: Old Highway South Panamaericana Km 31.5 - Lima 16, Peru
Centro Cultural Péruano Británico
"Yo Museo, tu museas?" (Tuesdays of May)
As part of the Museums Month, the Británico organized this lecture series, along which and thanks to workshops, we will intent to analyze museums, their work and how they get transformed over time to reach new museum new pedagogical proposals and. The lectures will be given by the archaeologist and museums specialist Ulla Holmsquit.
Contact: Mary Herrera (Director)
Phone: 6153636
Email: email@example.com
Address: Bellavista 531 - Lima 18, Peru
Website: www.britanico.edu.pe
Museo de Sitio Arturo Jiménez Borja - Puruchuco
Cultural heritage through artistic activity (18 May, 10am)
Free entrance; Performance.
This event was organised in order to involve each educational institution of the Ate Vitarte academy in the celebration of International Museum Day. It is an artistic activity that evokes cultural heritage through different disciplines: dance, theatre and singing.
Dance: typical of the country's different regions, such as the "Huaylas", which comes from the Central Sierra and particularly from the Junin region, and is a representation of potatoes harvesting.
Theatre: Through this art, learning more about the functions and everyday life of the curaca of Puruchuco, as well as the production and development of community celebrations.
Singing: interpretation of Andean music with pre-Hispanic instruments.
Contact: Clide María Valladolid Huamán (Director)
Tel: 00 01 4942641
Fax: 00 01 4942641
Email: email@example.com
Direction: Carretera Central Km 4.5 Ate Vitarte - 3 Lima, Perú
Web site: www.mcultura.gob.pe
Museo de la Nación
Museum and memory at Museo de la Nación (Tuesday - Sunday, from 9am to 5pm)
Free entrance. Opening, visit and performance.
Temporary exhibition "The bridge of Q'eswachaka: Andean engineering and tradition"
Photography exhibition of the renovation of the bridge, including the preparation of the ropes, called q'eswas, and the three days of construction. This type of work is still carried out today and dates from the Inca period. The plaiting is done by the Huinchiri, Chaupibanda, Choccayhua et Ccollana Quehue farming communities of the Canas province in Cusco.
Inauguration: Friday, 6 May, 12:30am
Room: Mochica-Chimu
Exhibition: On the trail of Engraving in the collections of the museums of the Ministry of Culture.
Inauguration: Tuesday, 17 May at 7pm
Room: Caral, fourth floor.
Engraving by the teachers of the Art Faculty of Pontificia Universidad Católica in Peru, specialised in this field.
Date and room: Wednesday, 18 May, 10:30am, Caral room, fourth floor.
Contact: Margarita Ginocchio Lainez-Lozada (Architect)
Tel: (+51) 4769878
Email: email@example.com
Address: Av. Javier Prado Este 2465, San Borja - Lima 41 Peru
Museo Nacional Sicán
Museum and Memory in Sican (10am - 5pm)
Free entrance. Conference, visit, performance.
-Monday, 16 May
10 – 12pm: II School drawing competition, for the Educational institutions of the Ferreñafe province.
-Tuesday 17 May
4 – 7pm: Conferences cycle Museum and Memory, aimed at teachers, students and the general audience.
-Wednesday, 18 May
9am – 5pm: Free access to the Museo Nacional Sicán's installations. Free guided tour in groups of 30 people.
10 – 12pm: Cultural - Artistic Festival, to promote ways and customs, music and dance of the Lambayeque region.
3 – 5pm: Specialised guided tour of the rooms of the Museo Nacional Sicán, with the archaeologist in charge of collections.
Museum and memory in Sican
Contact: Carlos Elera (Director)
Tel: (+51)74286469
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Av. Batán Grande Cdra. 9, s/n. Carretera a Pítipo – Ferreñafe Lambayeque, Peru
Dirección Regional de Cultura Junín – Ministry of Culture
Painting and drawing competition. Quechua singing. Storytelling (9am)
Free entrance, inauguration, visit, playing activity, educational programme.
Painting and drawing competition "Customs and traditions of my people".
Quechua singing competition.
"Storytelling" competition. These events are aimed at students from educational institutions, with a view to highlighting their intangible cultural heritage.
Contact: Javier Rojas León (Anthropologist)
Tel: 064-216201
Fax: 064-216201
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Jr. San Fernando – 181 San Carlos – Huancayo, Peru
Museo de Arte de Ponce
Memorias que atesoras del Museo: Proyecto de historia oral (from 2pm)
Free entry.
Come to share with us the memories of the museum, in honour of this day dedicated to the theme "Museum and Memory". A project of broadcast interviews that will initiate archives of oral history of the Archivo Histórico Luis A. Ferré of the museum.
In the rooms and gardens of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Sonia Fritz (2010)
Projection of a documentary that tells the story of the museum with the voices of artists and relatives of the institution.
In the drawing room of the Fundación Plaza del Caribe
Free entry.
Contact: Crystal Bell (Coordinador, Dept. of Educación)
Phone: 787.840.1510
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: # 2325 Ave. Las Américas – 717 Ponce, Porto Rico


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By KAITLYN NAPLES
The ducks coming out of the Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce have been on parade and hatched, and are ready to be found by explorers. Last year, the chamber announced an initiative meant to boost tourism and market local businesses in Bristol, and member towns, by ordering fiberglass ducks. There are two sizes, and businesses and residents purchased the ducks, which were then painted by local artists, and then put on display.
Now, the "Duck Hunt" has commenced, and it allows families, groups, or just individuals to search for all of the ducks in order to win a prize. Anyone interested can visit the chamber, 200 Main St., Bristol, to pick up a map of where the ducks are. President and CEO of the chamber, Michael Nicastro, said there are 32 ducks dispersed in Bristol, Plainville, Plymouth and Farmington, and participants will search for as many as they can, record the names of the duck and where it was found, and return the form to the chamber for prizes.
"It has been such a fun activity for families to do, and the businesses have gotten the collateral affect of the people traveling to those businesses," Nicastro said, adding that he has seen many groups of people walking up and down Main Street in Bristol in search of some of the ducks. "The whole goal of this was tourism, and to get people through different places in the city," as well as in Plainville, Farmington and Plymouth.
Nicastro added that he has heard back from several businesses who have said they have enjoyed more foot traffic into the establishment, even if it is because of the duck.
"The hunt is a way to remind people that the businesses are there," he said, adding that he couldn't be happier with they way the entire project has turned out. He said there has been a demand for more ducks by businesses or individuals who didn't get a chance to purchase one the first time around, so Nicastro said the chamber will end up conducting another round of Ducks on Parade.
In Plainville, "Foster," which was painted by Clinton Deckert of Southington, stands outside the Connecticut Clearinghouse facility on Farmington Avenue. Connecticut Clearinghouse is a public library and resource center, affiliated with Wheeler Clinic, for information on substance use and mental health disorders, prevention and health promotion, treatment and recovery, wellness and other related topics.
Wendy DeAngelo, chief business development officer for Wheeler Clinic, said the organization thought "the chamber's idea of bringing public art into the community, to foster the sense of community, was a great thing."
DeAngelo said the name "Foster" comes from Wheeler's motto "Fostering positive change," and he represents "community, recovery and growth, which is what Wheeler is all about."
Foster gets visitors on a daily basis, DeAngelo said, and he made a "celebrity appearance" at Bristol's Pop Up Piazza a few weeks ago. She added that having Foster at the clearinghouse is a great way for Connecticut residents to discover Connecticut Clearinghouse, and what it has to offer. Connecticut Clearinghouse is located at 334 Farmington Ave., Plainville.
In Bristol, at the new Thomaston Savings Bank on Middle Street, sits "Time Flies," who was painted by Eva from E.K. Weymouth Designs. Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, James R. Nichol, said in a statement that the bank "prides itself on its commitment to the communities we serve and we feel that the Ducks on Parade project aligns well with our mission of being a responsible corporate neighbor. We're happy to be part of an art project that helps to build a sense of community, promotes tourism, and beautifies the towns and communities where the ducks will be on display."
Nichol added the bank has heard positive feedback from visitors traveling around the city to find the ducks, and felt it was an enjoyable project to be able to involve our staff and a local artist at two of our branches – Bristol and Terryville."
Also in Bristol, downtown developers Renaissance Downtowns also adopted "Downtown Ducky Brown," who was painted by Brian Troccolo. Mark Walerysiak, community liaison to Renaissance Downtowns, said getting involved in the Duck Hunt is a great way to combine local artists and businesses in the area, to "do something that is really interesting and something of this scale that gives people something to look at, and also beautifies the area."
The unique project, Walerysiak said, allows the public to look forward to art and talent on a local level, as well as incorporating that into the future of the downtown area.
"Hamilton" the duck also sits at the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol and was painted by Kyle Haines.
Executive Director at the museum, Jennifer Carroll, said the duck was sponsored by the Barnes Group in memory of Carlyle Fuller "Hap" Barnes, who passed away earlier this year.
"We are so gracious to be able to be sponsored and participate," Carroll said, adding that the duck has generated a lot of foot traffic into the Clock & Watch Museum.
"We are part of a lot of community events downtown, and by being sponsored and participating, we get to be involved in one more community event," she said. "It has been getting people through our door, and we've gotten a lot of positive feedback."
The Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce is located at 200 Main St., Bristol, and for more information call (860) 584-4718.
Be very, very, very quiet, this area is hunting ducks
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From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via The Los Alamos Daily Post:
Coordinated releases from a series of Upper Colorado River Basin reservoirs began Saturday, June 3, and are anticipated to continue through this week as part of the Coordinated Reservoirs Operations Program.
The US Bureau of Reclamation, the Colorado River District, Denver Water and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District as owners and operators of upper Colorado River reservoirs have mutually agreed to modify their operations to benefit the endangered fish of the Upper Colorado River Basin.
The Coordinated Reservoir Operations (CROS) program was established in 1995 as part of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program. The purpose of the Coordinated Operations is to enhance spring peak flows in a section of the Colorado River upstream of Grand Junction, Colo. Determined to be critical to the survival of four endangered fish species: the Humpback Chub, Razorback Sucker, Bonytail and the Colorado Pikeminnow. The higher peak flows remove more fine sediment from cobble bars that serve as spawning habitat for the endangered fish. In years with sufficient snowpack, surplus inflows to the reservoirs can be passed downstream to benefit these fish without impacting reservoir yields or future beneficial water uses.
Coordinated Reservoir Operations were most recently conducted in 2016, 2015 and 2010. In 2011 and 2014, wet conditions caused streamflows in certain areas of the basin to approach or exceed levels associated with minor flooding, so CROS was not performed. In 2012 and 2013, reservoirs did not have surplus inflow to contribute due to extremely dry conditions.
Managers of the reservoirs completed a conference call June 2, agreeing to voluntarily run the program this year. Planned reservoir operations as of June 2 are described below. Release and flow amounts are approximate. Most reservoirs will step up releases over the next several days, hold at a constant rate for 3-7 days, and then wind down releases.
Green Mountain Reservoir, operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, will increase releases from 418 cubic feet per second (cfs) to powerplant capacity of around 1400 cfs. Releases from Green Mountain include inflows bypassed by Dillon Reservoir, operated by Denver Water, that will be increased by approximately 100 cfs during CROS.
Denver Water also operates Williams Fork Reservoir, which is releasing 200 cfs. Releases will likely increase to approximately 600 cfs over the coming week to bypass increasing inflows.
Willow Creek Reservoir, operated by the Bureau of Reclamation and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, is releasing 90 cfs. Releases will increase this week to roughly 600 cfs by curtailing pumping operations to Granby Reservoir and bypassing those inflows instead.
Wolford Mountain Reservoir, operated by the Colorado River District, is passing inflows of 350 cfs. Outflows will be increased to around 600 cfs for approximately five days.
Ruedi Reservoir, operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, is releasing 182 cfs and will increase releases to approximately 600 cfs over the next few days.
The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) will incorporate these planned reservoir operations into their streamflow forecasts. Based on weather forecasts and planned reservoir operations, flows in the Colorado River near Cameo (upriver of Palisade, Colo.) are anticipated to be approximately 14,000 – 17,500 cfs, June 7 through June 12, with the highest flows Thursday or Friday June 8 or 9. Flows in the forecasted range are still below defined "bankfull" and flood stages for the area.
More detailed information about forecasted streamflows in the Colorado River basin are available from the CBRFC website at http://www.cbrfc.noaa.gov. A map-based interface allows viewing of hydrographs detailing recent, current and anticipated flows.
For more information, contact Don Anderson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, at 303.236.9883, email@example.com, Michelle Garrison, Colorado Water Conservation Board, at 303.866.3441, ext. 3213, email@example.com or James Bishop, Bureau of Reclamation, at 970.962.4326, firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program is a cooperative partnership of local, state and federal agencies, water developers, power customers and environmental groups established in 1988 to recover the endangered fishes while water development proceeds in accordance with federal and state laws and interstate compacts.
From The Summit Daily News (Kevin Fixler):
Through both natural and man-made activities, the area's waterbodies will ramp back up to seasonal heights this week. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration anticipates the Colorado River and its primary Summit County tributaries will reach their highest 2017 levels this Wednesday, June 7.
The volume-based flow rates, measured as cubic feet per second, on North Tenmile Creek, for example, will rise from about 600 to 900 cfs and the Blue River north of Dillon should grow in the next two days by another couple hundred cfs from its present 600. To offset forthcoming supply, Denver Water, which owns and oversees Dillon Reservoir, stated that it plans to up flows from Dillon Dam into the Lower Blue River from its Monday total of 380 cfs to 600 no later than Tuesday morning, and between 1,400 and 1,800 cfs by the end of the week.
"The snowpack up on the mountain, it's now warmed up and is starting to come off," said Jim Pokrandt, spokesman for the Colorado River District, a public policy agency that closely monitors the region's major waterway. "It's fast water, but shouldn't flood anybody out. All streams will be quicker-paced than people are used to, but the flooding is not the danger."
North of Silverthorne, additional releases at Green Mountain Reservoir also allow the Bureau of Reclamation to increase power plant capacity and generate more electricity. Those levels could reach approaching 1,400 cfs from the current 418.
Estimating that 40 percent of the winter's snowpack still remains above Dillon, Denver Water is comfortable increasing the flows from Dillon Reservoir into the Lower Blue River that ultimately head to northern Arizona's Lake Powell. That result is threefold, preventing wasteful overflow of the reservoir, maintaining ideal recreational heights on the lake, as well as fulfilling the demands of Lower Basin states based on senior water rights.
"Our experts are monitoring conditions carefully with the goal of ending runoff season with a full reservoir," Matt Wittern, Denver Water Summit County liaison, wrote by email. "That way, we're able to meet our customers' needs while providing locals and tourists alike with valued summer recreation activities that have a positive impact on the local economy."
From The Mountain Town News (Allen Best):
Where spring runoff has been something like average—and where it hasn't
Spring runoff of the Yampa River likely peaked on May 14 this year as it flowed through northwestern Colorado. That makes it an anomaly in the precipitation-dripping mountains of the West.
In most other locations, the peak runoff—the time when the largest volume of water in rivers occurs as winter's snow melts—more normally occurs in early June after temperatures finally warmed. This year looks to be more or less normal, despite a trend to earlier runoff in many locations during the last several decades.
"The Yampa did have an early runoff, and that was the result of the warm temperatures and below-average snowpack," said Ashley Nielson, senior hydrologist with the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center in Salt Lake City, when interviewed last week by Mountain Town News. The Yampa, she noted, will probably rise again in the next week or so, if not to the same high mark.
But elsewhere, the show is now, not a month ago. Peak runoff of the Green River was expected this week or next. It originates in the Wind River Range of west-central Wyoming. Unlike the Yampa, that basin still has a significant snowpack. That was also reported to be the case in Jackson Hole, at the headwaters of the Snake River. The snowpack there was 181 percent of average in late May, not a record but "up there," in the words of one water official cited by the Jackson Hole News&Guide.
Peak runoff in the upper Colorado River at its headwaters along the Continental Divide in Colorado was also expected to occur in early June.
Winter had wild swings: barren until late fall, then torrents of snow in December and January. Temperatures were unseasonably warm in February and almost hot in March. It looked like an early runoff everywhere. Then May turned cold and snowy.
What explains the Yampa's aberrant behavior? Karl Wetlaufer, a hydrologist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Denver, said the peak snowpack in northwestern Colorado arrived about a month earlier than usual. That snowpack around Steamboat Springs occurred on March 12, compared a more typical April 10.
Instead of mid-May for the Yampa, he says that rafters floating through Dinosaur National Monument more often experience the highest water flows of the year in early June.
Flows in the Animas River through Silverton and Durango have had some "pretty wild swings," Wetlaufer says. The Arkansas River has been slow to get started with runoff.
The Snake River of Wyoming and Idaho has a very different story than the Yampa, with around 200 percent of snowpack this year. The Snake originates in Jackson Hole and picks up water from the Big Wood River, which originates in the Sawtooth Mountains above Ketchum and Sun Valley, before joining the Columbia at the Idaho-Washington border.
"My takeaway is that this year is pretty normal" in terms of timing, says Bruce Anderson, the senior hydrologist at the Northwest River Forecast Center, in Portland, Ore. It was cooler and wetter in spring, but the big story was the amount of precipitation that fell during winter. "We are hugely above normal for precipitation."
In the Tahoe-Truckee area of California's Sierra Nevada, the snowpack was among the deeper ones on record after three bad drought years and then a so-so winter in 2015-16. Snowfall this winter was not a record, but it was a record for total precipitation. Being somewhat lower and closer to the coast than Colorado, the Sierra Nevada gets more rain during winter. This year it got a lot of rain.
Colorado, too, had rain on snow, which is not unprecedented. But it happened frequently this winter. The result was telling for travelers on I-70 who crossing Vail Pass.
"In general, there was less snow than you would expect," says Klaus Wolter, a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder.
Were those rain on snow storms of this past winter a result of accumulating greenhouse gas emissions? Wolter told Mountain Town News that thinks this is "probably partially climate change."
Wolter, whose focus is empirical climate research, using statistical methods to solve climate problems, is reluctant to pin climate change on much of what we have seen this year. True, he says, one storm during May left 42 inches of fresh snow in the foothills above Boulder, a storm unprecedented since the 1920s. As extreme as that storm was, proving causality is difficult, he says.
A scientist in Oregon also shared the difficulty of proving causality. John Stevenson of Oregon State University told the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum that it's "really difficult to judge any one year" to be a result of rising global temperatures.
"That's one of the challenges we run into in the science world where people say, 'Oh, it's climate change.' We're not at the point where we can take any one random event and say it's climate change."
That said, his 2015 study concluded that the point each spring when half of the water year's streamflow had run off was occurring an average 1.9 days earlier per decade.
But more extreme events are happening with greater frequency, said Mark Davidson, director of conservation initiatives with The Nature Conservancy. He pointed out that the Big Wood River has had two 100-year floods in the last 15 years.
Warm temperatures in the Ketchum and Sun Valley area were 6 to 13 degrees warmer than normal for early May, producing a flood in the Big Wood River that peaked on May 8. It was regarded as the largest in 101 years of recorded history, reports the Idaho Mountain Express.
But more warm weather was producing another surge in early June that threatened to surpass that peak of a month before, the newspaper reported last week.


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In 1997, the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl received federal protection under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). This spurred over 40 conservation and neighborhood groups to come together to form the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection in February of 1998, with the main goal of bringing sound science and planning into the equation as Pima County adopted and began its implementation of the ground-breaking Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan (SDCP). The Coalition has since become a regional leader in virtually every conservation issue in Pima County, including development of Pima County's Multi-Species Conservation Plan and other jurisdictional Habitat Conservation Plans; the preservation of Sonoran Desert wildlife linkages; water resource planning and policy; riparian habitat protection, restoration, and mitigation; and smart planning for renewable energy development.
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Columbus CEO – Guest Blog: When Refusing a Sale Might Help Your Bottom LineMarch 23, 2016
Dr. Donaldson's guest blog was featured on Columbus CEO. The following is an excerpt – Click here to read full blog.
By Jeffrey Donaldson, MD
Posted by Julie France on March 16, 2016
Any industry that is built upon reputation and personalized results must refuse certain sales opportunities in order to preserve its standards. The cosmetic surgery industry's intersection between healthcare and retail is unique: It requires being a doctor first, a surgeon second and a businessman last to optimize patient outcomes. In the field, patient needs trump profits absolutely every time, but the emphasis on quality and consumer experience is broadly relatable among other fields. Overall, the key is having a process to follow when determining whether or not to say "no."
Below are a few tips that can help determine when and how to turn away business professionally in the cosmetic surgery industry—with broad applications in any field:
Screen prospective clients and customers:
An ideal cosmetic surgery patient is a happy, healthy, well-balanced individual who is looking to feel like their best self. This person has good self-esteem, realistic expectations and understands that a customized procedure will address an anatomic concern. He or she has the sophistication to research options, the wherewithal to take action and the perspective to enjoy the result. Medical risk, emotional health and maturity are important factors that come into play when assessing a prospective patient. A competent surgeon and staff also look for cues to determine motives and expectations. Are they realistic? Is anyone else involved in the decision? How long have they been weighing their options? Outside of the healthcare sector, reputation and ethical standards are also important to business, and so each customer might be screened by similar methods.
Have a thoughtful approach:
Plastic surgery is an industry built on trust. Patients need to feel comfortable in order to have a rewarding experience. A patient's safety should always come first. In this industry, there are non-negotiable patient criteria that ensure safety thresholds and ethical norms. These should be clear to all employees. For instance, the body-mass index should be low, smoking is prohibited and the patient must treat each staff member with respect. Owners of other businesses may want to think about establishing checklists or basic guidelines for employees to interpret and react to certain situations……Read Full Blog


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I suck because last night on my way to Karen's house from Times Square -- where i was going to pre-party -- my phone died. So i had to haul ass to my house on the LES, charge my phone, and by the time I got up to Irving, Kill Hannah were already off stage. I've flown to Chicago before to see them play and the fact that I was unable to get to 14th street just makes me so mad. Granted, I've seen them like, 6 times in the past 4 months, but their live show is just that good. Have you ever seen 5 cuter boys in your life on stage? I would guess the answer is no.
Anyway, the Darkness were so fucking good. It was retarded. Totally fucking retarded fun. I felt like a retard cuase I was so happy... and experienced joy in ways that only a retard could. Maybe I was just drunk, but I love tards.
Justin is so great and can sing so well and he's so not attractive. It's like proof that I actually enjoyed a show when i'm smiling the whole time and don't want to fuck the singer for at least the 50 minutes that he's on stage. The command that Justin had over the crowd was just heads above the Bowery show where you could sort of see that they were really nervous. There was no nervousness last night.
Hal, the jewish rock photographer trapped in Mick Jagger's body, provided for some fun times during the encore while he was perched on Adam Mandel's shoulders. Justin seemed to enjoy it at first, quite a bit, but then i think he got nervous when the spotlight was off him. I definitely enjoyed watching Hal. And I definitely enjoyed Justin's preying mantis pretending to be a bunny dance move.
Afterwards Guilia and I headed over to Sin-e for the Viscious party. All the usual scenesters were there. It makes my sudden appetite for hermitage so much easier if it means I can see all my friends in one fell swoop by walking two blocks for 30 minutes. I learned, on this excursion, that Dennis Realistics is playing an acoustic show on monday and will be playing many cover songs. "Faith" by George Micheal might be one of them. When I saw Audrey she asked me if I was drunk. I said no. She looked at me funny and then i said "Yeah, ok. I am drunk." I will go sober again. But like, when I'm pregnant or something. Who am i kidding?!


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Choreography by: Peter Martins
Music by: Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius' ardent melodies inspire a poignant portrait loss in this mournful pas de deux.
Valse Triste, a pas de deux choreographed by Peter Martins in 1985, uses two pieces by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, "Valse Triste" and "Scene with Cranes." Both are reworkings of music originally written in 1903 for the play Kuolema (Death), written by Sibelius's brother-in-law, Arvid Järnefelt. Sibelius had a keen interest in the theater and was delighted to supply music for the play, composing six "scenes" scored for strings and percussion. The first of these was revised by Sibelius the following year and published as "Valse Triste," a work that has since enjoyed immense popularity. Despite its brevity, this miniature tone-poem manages to encompass an entire world of melancholy, nostalgia, and resignation. In 1906, Sibelius combined the play's third and fourth musical scenes into one piece, "Scene with Cranes," significantly rewriting the material and changing the orchestration. This music contains motifs that reflect the composer's fascination with birdlife, an interest that would exert a larger influence on his later works.


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Jane Beljo
I was born in Germany Dusseldorf...my family moved to Canada when I was 9 months old. I have always, and I mean ALWAYS been creative. After high school I came to Zagreb, Croatia on my own (my parents are Croatian) and studied at the University of Philosophy. Before that I did a year (as a guest student) at the University of Fine Arts and met my husband (who also came from Canada to Croatia) I'm married with 3 kids (8, 5.5 and 3). My last job (before I started having my babies ;) I was teaching English from Kindergarten and grades 1 through 6. I have been told by many that I'm a natural born teacher. I prefer playing with paper and doodling!
I illustrate for Squigglefly, Claudia & Co., Unity Stamps and myself; Jane's Doodles. I think I have an eclectic style. If I were to describe myself, I would say that I'm very friendly, generous, loyal, a perfectionist... and panicky!
You can see more of Jane's work at her blog by clicking HERE.