City Street B&W
December 4, 2009
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Enchanted Rock Sunset
December 2, 2009
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Slava’s Snowshow
November 26, 2009When this wintry clown extravaganza floated to the UK, the praise piled up like a snowdrift. Now, after wowing audiences the world over for the last seven years (there’s no business like snow business), it’s here in Paris. Focused around the show’s creator, Russian clown Slava Polunin -Time Out award-winner in 1994 – the part-jocular, part-melancholy escapades involve five other actors, a healthy shovelful of poetic imagery and a huge quantity of fake snow.
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Mamma Mia
November 15, 2009You don’t have to be a devotee of the songs of ABBA to enjoy this musical, but it certainly won’t hurt. The campy hit from London features some 27 chart-topping tunes by the Swedish supergroup, constructed around an incidental plot about a former wild child of the 1970s and her daughter’s impending wedding. The production is admittedly about little else than the music of ABBA and is a hit because it does not endeavor to be anything more than what it is – mindless fun. This is its US première.
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Initiare
November 9, 2009This exhibition forms part of the embryonic collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art that has been taking shape since 1997. The aim is to bring together a body of work that is representative of the main trends of recent years in Portugal and abroad. There is a strong Portuguese slant, but there are also many works by foreign artists, among them Jimmie Durham, Markus Ambach, Douglas Gordon, Sam Taylor-Wood and Mariko Mori.
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Antiques & Trends Fair
October 20, 2009An emptied gas storage container will be playing host to dozens of stands displaying and selling paintings, jewellery, antiques, fashion and art. You can even bring in your own objects to have appraised by professionals. Readings, demonstrations, dining and wine-tasting round out the programme. Saturday is ‘Lady’s Day’ which entails getting a cheaper entrance price and potentially a large prize if your hat is considered the most original.
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Open air cinema
October 10, 2009For years, one of the main features of summer in the city has been the open-air cinemas. Starting around mid-June and running through until mid-September, two films can be seen each evening at each of seven screens; the first showing is usually a new release and the second often something a little more ‘arty’. These places are also good hangouts generally with bars and even restaurants in some cases. Lots of fresh air is guaranteed.
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Duende Fiesta Flamenca
October 7, 2009‘Duende’ translates as something like fate or passionate. The raw passion on display during this new flamenco spectacle choreographed by Samy Pelta will have you under its charm from beginning to end. Gypsy dancers, guitarists and wailers enact both the sweetness and the darkness of the chaos that is a true Spanish street party where remarkably tight dancing often gives away to stunning improvisations.
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Ben Harper
September 20, 2009A little bit of Hendrix, Marley, Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield – it’s as if Ben Harper is a synthesis of much of the best of black music over the past half-century, creating soulful, funky sounds with an uncompromising commitment to social justice. His concerts offer everything from folky blues to funk to slide-guitar rock. In a musical landscape dominated by Eminem and Britney Spears, Ben Harper looks rather messianic.
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The Buffalo Soldiers
September 6, 2009As members of the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 24th and 25th Infantry regiments, the celebrated Buffalo soldiers were the first African Americans to serve in any peacetime army. This touching exhibition pays tribute to those known as ‘The Buffalo Soldiers’ in an intimate show consisting of 71 framed pictures, five etchings by Frederick Remington and five mannequins dressed in authentic period uniforms. The exhibition is circulated by Smith Kramer Fine Arts Services, Kansas City.
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