Fairfield University’s new Bellarmine Museum of Art will open its first temporary exhibition, “Gifts From Athens: New Plaster Casts from the Acropolis Museum and Photographs by Socratis Mavrommatis” on Tuesday, Nov. 2. The exhibition will continue through Dec. 17.
Culture Worthy of Your Calendar: The Mushroom Artist, The Heart Artist, and the ‘Official’ Beginning of the Holiday Season
By Josh Garrick
A pair of bloomers with lace ruffles catches the eye of Monika Knutsson as she strolls by a busy stall at a Brocante in Paris. Liam Hughes waits in the rain for the tide to roll out in County Waterford, Ireland in hopes of discovering another shard from a 19th Century plate.
Imagine the serenity of Jayavarman, layered with gorgeous papers, colors, textiles, stamps, wood, stone, and even a coin - all with a modern twist. Does this sound like something you'd like to see? Me, too.
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“To everything, there is a season, turn, turn, turn”
Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Shakespeare Alive! Program Expands in Osceola County Public Schools
I stood outside the door, eavesdropping on the conversation flowing through my classroom. Though class was still five minutes from officially starting, I was disappointed. I’d been hoping, had even expected, that my students would be conversing in English. At the intermediate level, they had the abilities. But instead, everyone stayed in their comfort zones, using Russian, their native language, to articulate themselves.
Though disappointed, I also understood. Communicating in a foreign language is difficult.