Press Releases by Category Arts & Culture
Transformers Transformed at Asylum Gallery
A fascination with electrical transformers and old factories is the source material for “Power: Lines & Shapes”, new digital fine art by Ann Tracy from January 12th to February 24th at Asylum Gallery, located inside HQ, 1713 25th St. (behind the gray fence at 25th & R Sts) in Midtown Sacramento. There are Second Saturday receptions scheduled for January 12th and February 9th from 6 to 9…
Long Beach Talent Makes Splash in San Pedro
Lucas Pakes began his arts career as a dancer, training that has come in handy in directing the rapidly paced multimedia stage production, Acts of Desperation. Pakes received his BA from CSU in 2005 and in addition to performing as an actor and dancer throughout Nevada and California, he interned abroad for Mark Goucher Ltd. on London’s West End. No stranger to educational theatre and youth arts, Pakes…
Fried Roots Artists Lost Thought & Shifty J Deliver Time Album On iTunes and Nap …
Los Angeles, CA - January 4, 2008 - Fried Roots hip hop artists Lost Thought and Shifty J’s latest album Time is now available through Apple iTunes and Napster music services. Made available in December of 2007 on Apple iTunes and Napster, Time brings a new sound to the genre of Hip Hop for 2008.
The new Lost Thought & Shifty J landing page within the Fried Roots website will…
2008 Voicey Award Nominations Now Open
The 2008 Voicey Awards are now open to receive voice actor nominations! Hosted by Voices.com, the 2nd Annual Voicey Awards Show is the only of its kind to exclusively honor voice-over professionals. The inaugural Voicey Awards show in 2007 identified 5 categories of significance and prestige, including Best Male Voice, Best Female Voice, Best New Voice, Best Personal Branding, and a Lifetime Achievement Award.
This year, there are several new categories…
Multiculturalism in Rock - American Musician Puts Lyrics In Italian
San Francisco, Calif. — December 24, 2008 - Dirk Hamilton is back from a month-long tour of Italy. This makes a total of three months there this year. He's been touring in Italy every year since a fan/promoter encouraged him to come over and 'do some shows' more than fifteen years ago – and today his brand of roots-based alternative rock has a sizable italian following there.
The Ghost of Van…
More than 750 episodes on Vernissage TV. Current Focus: Miami's private collecti …
January 3, 2008 - The current programming on Vernissage TV focuses on Miami: the Art Basel Miami Beach week and the private collections. Vernissage TV has covered the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach and the major exhibitions in Miami and talked with the curators of the Margulies and the Cisneros Fontanals Collections. At Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage TV also produced and published its 750th episode.
Current and upcoming episodes…
Love to Dance, Inc. Opens January 07, 2008
Carmel Valley, San Diego, CA –January 02, 2008–After months of anticipation, Love to Dance, Inc. will open its doors on January 07, 2008. The Premier Studio of Dance offers an extensive dance program for students of all ages, from 18 months to adults.
Construction on the dance studio began in late October 2007 and owner, Mindy Love Watkins is thrilled to bring a new dance program to the community and…
Photography-Log: An In-Depth Knowledge About Photography
Nishith announces the launch of his new website Photography-log.com where he shares his ideas and experience in the field of photography.
Bangalore, India, January 2, 2008--- Nishith has been an Internet Marketer for several years. He has personally tried many easy tips on photography and has provided the same to his readers in the website Photography-Log.
Nishith likes to help photographers who are finding difficulty in choosing a right subject for taking…
Industry Expert Pat Fraley Confirms The Growing Audiobook Market
Pat Fraley, teacher, voice actor and author, was featured over the Christmas holidays as the expert on the hit podcast Voice Over Experts (podcasts.voices.com) , the most downloaded and subscribed to voice over podcast for beginner and professional voice actors. Fraley, in addition to teaching, also produces audiobooks and has a strong connection with prominent audiobook publishing company Blackstone Audio and its president, Craig Black.
In Pat Fraley’s lecture entitled, "Audio…
WCPE Preview! to Offer Best of 2007 Recap January 6
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 31, 2007)—WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, Preview! hosts Deana Vassar and Paul Jordan announce the station’s January 6 broadcast will offer a recap of the best of 2007’s classical recordings. The program will air at 6 p.m. ET.
Over a dozen of the year’s recordings will be featured, ranging in style from “High, Bright, Light and Clear: The Glory of Baroque Brass” to “Masters and Commanders: Music From Seafaring Film…
Get On the New "Map4Peace" in 2008
Kauai, HI, USA...31 December 2007...In Business4Good Enterprises, a NY/SF/HI based development company, announced today, that a new initiative, called Getting on the Map4Peace, has been added to their ongoing Artists4Peace campaign. The Map4Peace, is based on the GoogleMaps(tm) technology, and includes art galleries which are showcasing Artists4Peace; Ministries of Peace;Peace Museums; and an assortment of other venues where Peace is the main message. This Map4Peace will be officially launched on…
Mrs. Pakistan World 2008 Crowned
TORONTO, Jan. 2nd /TDPR/ – In light of the tragic assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, liberated Pakistani women grabbed a victory for progression this past month, when Saman Hasnain was crowned Mrs. Pakistan World 2008. In the second annual pageant, Hasnain’s crowning marks a time when modern and independent Pakistani women are doing all they can to gain a voice on the international stage.
Hasnain,…
The Hamburg Players present Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer
Eccentric Lettice Duffet (Amy Lee) simply cannot settle for the ordinary. Even working as a tour guide at Fustian House, one of Britain’s more boring stately homes, cannot stop her creativity. Her experiences as the daughter of an actress who toured France with an all-girl troupe performing Shakespeare’s history plays, along with her enthusiasm for Elizabethan food and mediaeval weaponry, help her to inventively inform her tourists and liven up…
Wally Findlay Galleries is proud to present the Premiere Exhibition of artist Mi …
MICHAEL VOLLBRACHT: Ladies and Gentle Beasts Premiere Palm Beach Exhibition to benefit Hospice of Palm Beach County Opening Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Palm Beach, FL- Wally Findlay Galleries is proud to present the Premiere Exhibition of artist Michael Vollbracht to Palm Beach. An accomplished artist, with paintings in many notable public and private collections, a distinguished fashion designer (Geoffrey Beene, Donald Brooks, Henri Bendel, Bill Blass), published author…
WCPE Offers Special Programming for New Year’s Eve
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 26, 2007)—William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces the station’s New Year’s Eve offerings for December 31.
WCPE will celebrate the joy of classical dance with a collection of Viennese waltzes and dance music written by the Strauss family, Emile Waldteufel, Joseph Lanner and others. Opening the evening of gaiety and dance is the Cleveland Orchestra presenting “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss.
Music &…
Registration Open for MemphisRap.com's Showcase & Industry Networking Event
MemphisRap.com announces open registration for its Showcase & Industry Networking Event which is set to be held on January 23, 2008 at the New Daisy Theater in Downtown Memphis, TN on infamous Beale St. The Showcase & Industry Networking Event is an exciting new avenue initiated by MemphisRap.com to provide a means for those in the Music and Entertainment to showcase their talent as well as network with those established…
Earthy Oils by T.R. Ranga Ramanujam
Agora Gallery is proud to present T.R. Ranga Ramanujam in Manifestations of Reality.
Exhibition Dates: January 8, 2008 through January 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 2008, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
T. R. Ranga\'s work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/T.R._Ranga_Ramanujam.aspx
About T.R. Ranga
For Indian painter T.R. Ranga Ramanujam, art has always been a way of life. His…
Pakistani Landscapes by Naveed Wazir Ali
Agora Gallery is proud to present Naveed Wazir Ali in Manifestations of Reality.
Exhibition Dates: January 8, 2008 through January 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 2008, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Naveed’s work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/naveed_wazir_ali.aspx
About Naveed
The realist paintings of Pakistani artist Naveed Wazir Ali are overflowing with the bustle of a world on the cusp…
Vivid Abstracts by Lila Fernan
Agora Gallery is proud to present Lila Fernan in Congruent Allusions.
Exhibition Dates: January 8, 2008 through January 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10, 2008, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Lila\'s work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/lila_fernan.aspx
About Lila
Lila Fernan\'s vivid abstract expressionism reveals a deep concern with both somber weightiness and an irrepressible urge toward flight.…
The Snow King. Chris von Steiner at Strychnin Gallery London
Strychnin Gallery proudly presents: The Snow King. A solo show featuring Chris von Steiner. Opening February 15th, 7 p.m., at Strychnin Gallery London.
There\'s a door, somewhere. A door that opens on a white and silent world, where every secret is kept frozen under snow and ice. There\'s a kingdom, somewhere. A kingdom wherein there lives a sad little boy, waiting for some brave stranger to deliver him from his icy…
WCPE Reviews Recent Works by Quatuor Mosaiques and Leif Ove Andsnes
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 19, 2007)—WCPE announces that its winter program guide, Quarter Notes, features CD reviews by Preview! announcers Deana Vassar and Paul Jordan. The recent releases by Quatuor Mosaiques’ and Leif Ove Andsnes’ are critiqued.
In Quarter Notes,Vassar reviews Andsnes’ “Ballad For Edvard Grieg” and Jordan reviews Mosaiques’ “Beethoven”. Both offer praise. Mosaiques is applauded for the use of historic period instruments in the string quartet’s performance…
Ellie Devers Dares Voice Actors to Speak the Truth in Secondary Worlds
Ellie Devers, professional voice actress and voice over coach, is this week’s guest lecturer on the popular Voice Over Experts Podcast, the most listened to educational podcast for beginner and professional voice actors. Ellie Devers teaches at Audio Paint Voices in New York with business partner, Frank Piazza.
In Ellie Devers’ lecture \"Truth and Dare”, voice actors learn how to create a secondary world, communicating truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Using the…
Announcing Directors Lounge Berlin 2008
The fourth Directors Lounge Berlin will take place from 7. - 17. february, at the time of the 58th Berlin International Festival, in the very heart of Berlin, the famous traditional shopping street Friedrichstrasse.
The Venue, centrally located in first floor of Nr 112A opened its doors exactly 100 years ago as one of Berlin´s first cinemas. A popular attraction for more than 50 years. Except for a seven year…
International Artists4Peace Join Campaign to Support Gandhi Institute Project wi …
18 December 2007.. Hanapepe, Kauai, HI, USA...In Business4Good Enterprises, a NY/SF/HI based development company, is pleased to announce an 88 day online auction event, commencing 8 April 2008 through 8 July 2008, and featuring 88 talented Artists4Peace from a global community representing 12 regions. Each Artist4Peace has pledged that a substantial amount of the proceeds from this innovative art appreciation campaign, beginning at 25% of profits from the proceeds, will…
The Chicago Show
Foursided Gallery presents a group show starring the City of Chicago.
In a celebration of our Windy City, 12 artists will exhibit a variety of Chicago-themed work, including painting, drawing, collage, and photography.
Featuring art by: Erin Anderson, Sarah K. Bierman, David Engle, Brian Graves, Adrienne Janci, Anna Kipervaser, Allison Leonard, Todd Mack, Kevin Moore, Ricardo Phillips, Kelly Reynolds, and Jake Watling.
Foursided Custom Framing Gallery presents:
THE CHICAGO SHOW
January 4th through January…
Passion for Life at the Florence Biennale
During the VI edition of the Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art which took place from 1-9 December 2007, Antoine Gaber presented the latest developments in the Passion for Life programme.
Antoine Gaber, Canadian artist and researcher, is involved in the fight against cancer and is the founder of the Passion for Life programme which amongst other things organises exhibitions all over the world. International artists exhibit their works in…
Voice Over Times Industry News and Trade Publication Now Online
Information on the highly entertaining, lucrative and often mysterious world of voice acting is now available online at Voice Over Times, the online news website providing feature stories, product reviews, tutorials and opinion articles specific to the voice over industry propelling the public relations of the voice over world. Covering voice over in all aspects, this online news magazine will help its readers find the news and stories that they…
Accident Blackspot – group show of 13 artists at Markus Winter in Berlin
Ivin Ballen, Rob Erickson, Keltie Ferris, Chris Hanson & Hendrika Sonnenberg, Joseph Hart, Himi Jen Dricks, Fawn Krieger, Ree Morton, Ian Pedigo, Daniel Seiple, Ali Smith, Wendy White, Tamara Zahaykevich
The American artists Jim Lee and Rob Nadeau curate Accident Blackspot. Besides Ree Morton or Hanson/Sonnenberg, emerging artists like Ivin Ballen or Ian Pedigo are presented from January 18 till March 15, 2008.
Opening: Friday, January 18, 7 pm
Sculpture, painting and…
Voice Coaches President, David Bourgeois, Publishes New Podcast
Toronto, Canada - December 14 – David Bourgeois, voice over instructor, musician and businessman, is this week’s guest lecturer on the popular Voice Over Experts Podcast, the most listened to educational podcast for beginner and professional voice actors. David Bourgeois is the President and Creative Director of Voice Coaches in New York, an institution that instructs aspiring voice actors and shows them the ropes of the voice acting business.
In David…
Iconographic Familial Figures by Angela Policastro
Angela Policastro\'s exhibition is scheduled to be featured at Agora Gallery with the opening of The Odyssey Within: An Exhibition of Fine Art From Italy and Greece
Scheduled to run from December 14, 2007 through January 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Angela Policastro\'s work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Angela_Policastro.aspx …
Timelessness by Giannis Stratis
Giannis Stratis\' exhibition is scheduled to be featured at Agora Gallery with the opening of The Odyssey Within: An Exhibition of Fine Art From Italy and Greece
Scheduled to run from December 14, 2007 through January 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Giannis Stratis\' work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/giannis_stratis.aspx
About Giannis Stratis:
Greek…
LogoBee creates logo design for Vienna Art Gallery
The FPKK Przeczek & Seredynski KG art gallery in Vienna has just recently received a logo design created by LogoBee. When one thinks about Vienna images of a rich cultural heritage, classical music and beautiful art usually come to mind. That is why Tomasz Seredynski decided to take his passion for art there and establish an art gallery. The gallery deals mostly in modern and contemporary art.…
WCPE Offers Birthday Tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethovenfest to Air December 14 through 16 on TheClassicalStation.org
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 10, 2007)—William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces today that in recognition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Birthday, WCPE is offering Beethovenfest the weekend of December 14.
The weekend radio festival will capture the full range of Beethoven’s compositions, beginning at 7 a.m. ET on December 14 with “Leonore Overture No 3.” The weekend offerings will…
New comic book company gives Opportunity to break into the industry with their i …
A new comic book company that devotes its development through the means of an online community has begun to start an online viral marketing campaign through the means of YouTube videos and word of mouth advertising. This new comic book company is called “Planet X Fiction.”
The goal of Planet X Fiction is to help new talent that is interested in pursuing a career within the comic book industry the…
Chapel Hill Community Chorus to be featured on WCPE Preview
Interview to air Sunday, December 9 at 7 p.m. ET
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 7, 2007) – TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program Preview! will feature an interview with the Chapel Hill Community Chorus’ (CHCC) Conductor Dr. Sue. T. Klausmeyer. The interview will air Sunday, December 9 at 7 p.m. ET.
Highlighting the discussion will be the CHCC’s upcoming holiday performance “A Festival of Carols” featuring a performance of…
The Art of Miniature Painting
As an artist, Rebecca Latham as well as her mother, Karen, and sister, Bonnie, strive for detail in their painting. Studying with a Flemish master, they have developed their styles for painting extreme realism. Their works, both large and small, are painted “in miniature”.
Early Beginnings
Miniature painting is a traditional style of art that is very detailed, often referred to as painting or working “in miniature”. Because…
Winner Communications Launches A New Direct Response Math Made Easy And Tutorial …
Brooklyn, N.Y. , December 3, 2007. Winner Communications announced that it has begun testing a new Math Made Easy and Tutorialchannnel.com ad on national cable TV. During the month of November, the Math Made Easy one minute ad was aired on the MSN cable channel, while the Tutorialchannel.com ad was aired on The Learning Channel.
According to Mr. Martin Feinberg, President of Winner Communications, “The TV ad Campaign for both…
Kansas Based Artist Has First Book Published
Mike Sexton, owner of Birdman's Designs- birdmansart.com -a digital artist & graphic designer as well as website designer based in Junction City, Kansas, has had his 1st art book published! This past May Mr. Sexton won a people's choice art contest held by Kennedy Publishing and first prize was a publication deal for his artwork. Mr. Sexton has been a professional artist for approximately 3 and half years now…
SUBJECTIVE REALITY-A journey into the Neo-Psychedelic Art Movement featuring Sko …
What: Exhibition Opening and Happenings at Harold Golen Gallery
When: 3 openings during the Art Basel Fair, on Dec. 6th, 7th and 8th, 2007.
7-11 p.m. each day.
SUBJECTIVE REALITY will run through to January 5th.
Where: 2921 NW 6th Ave, Wynwood Art District, Miami FL 33127 (4 blocks west of the Rubell Collection)…
The German violinist Ingolf Turban plays unpublished works by Paganini
Saturday December 15, at the Auditorium of the Casa Paganini in Genoa, will be a special occasion.
The German violinist Ingolf Turban and the guitarist Adriano Sebastiani will be giving a concert (commencing at 8.30 pm) in which they will present the world premieres of six pieces by Niccolò Paganini recently rediscovered in the Sivori Archive. The set of \"Sei Cantabili e Valtz\" are pieces Paganini wrote for guitar and violin…
Olympic Spirit in art: ARTIADE opens its gates for the fourth time
ARTIADE - Olympics of Art to take place in conjunction with Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and Los Angeles // A global unique Art Event next to the Olympic Games // Artists will once again represent their nations as Cultural Ambassadors // ARTIADE under the aegis of the Hellenic Republic (Greece) // International jury expects a great number of interesting applications Los Angeles and Beijing, October 11th 2007: Registration for…
Works of art to give away, the ARTFRAGMENTPUZZLEPROJECT in five continents
The artist Wolfgang Sandt is going to start the
ARTFRAGMENTPUZZLEPROJECT
a worldwide art project for virtual and reallife communication, using art in a playful way.
Wolfgang Sandt will give away five works of art (pieces of art literally) for free, one in every continent.
Everybody can apply for a piece of art .
More information will be given shortly on the artist´s homepage
www.atelier-wolfgangsandt.de
P.S. One thing can be already revealed. Stone will play an…
An Event-Filled Biennale
The sixth edition of the Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from 1st - 9th December, 2007. 840 artists coming from 76 countries will be exhibiting more than 2,500 artworks and there will be an extraordinary meeting of cultures, languages and diverse artistic styles. The actress Anne Archer, Ambassador of the association Artists for Human Rights is coming to Florence to award…
"Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out" Great Holiday Gift For Music Lovers
As a friend and cohort of some of rock music\'s biggest legends – the Who, Rod Stewart and the Faces, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Joe Walsh and the James Gang, and many others- photographer Tom Wright was given unparalleled access to almost every aspect of the musicians\' lives, on- and offstage.
Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out, with a foreword by the Who\'s Pete Townshend, is a compilation of…
A Bucket of Ashes, a romantic novel by Jill Lanchbery is publised by Libros Inte …
At the heart of A Bucket of Ashes by Jill Lanchbery is an old fashioned love story. Joanna Townsend has it all. She has her own home in a beautiful Sussex village, a successful career as a freelance fashion illustrator, a fourteen year old son who she adores and a gorgeous boyfriend, Tom who wants to marry her.
Sally Akinola, mother of four teenage daughters, thinks she has it all too…
XXX-mas Party at Strychnin London
Featuring work by German photographer Annie Bertram and Christmas Ornaments by Elmer Presslee, Bijou, Angie Mason, Christina Graf, Laurie Lipton, Lucien Shapiro, Ver Mar, Jason Jacenko, Eduardo Benedetto, Till Krautkraemer, Chet Zar, Kristen Ferrell, Tim Roosen, Lisa Mei Ling Fong, Mimi S., Ansgar Noeth, Alexander Sterzel, Travis Lindquist, Danielle de Picciotto, Miraschi, Raf Veulemans, David Hochbaum, Marc Janssens, Virginie Ropars, Daniel Van Nes.
Music by Alexander Wolfe.
More than twenty of…
Online Tutoring Service Brings Assistance to Math Students
If the nation’s top math students are on a train headed east at 80MPH, and all the students who are flunking math are on a train headed west at 75MPH, and both trains leave at the same time from stations 267 miles apart. . . why can’t Timmy figure out that 6 X 8 = 48?
A crisis exists in math education today. American students are falling behind in record numbers…
Barnes & Noble CEO On Roadwork: "Probably The Best Book On Rock & Roll Ever Publ …
New York, NY – In an extraordinary endorsement, Barnes & Noble Booksellers CEO Steve Riggio has called Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out by photographer Tom Wright \"probably the best book on rock & roll ever published.\"
Riggio joins others in his praise of Wright\'s photo-laden memoir of life inside rock\'s inner circle. Don Carleton, director of the Center for American History, hails Roadwork as \"a major contribution to…
Why Nigerian-born author says Don't Africa Me
Lashes out at CNN, Angelina Jolie, Black immigrants, Feed The Children, others for hurting Africa
Coralville Iowa --- Though Nigeria is tainted by advance fee fraud and China by lead-laden toys, a Nigerian in America is still called an African (by his continental identity) while a Chinese is called a Chinese (by his national identity). Many “African” immigrants still threaten to send their disobedient kids “back to Africa,” portraying Africa as…
GrandVista Music Brings New Vision To Old Standards
Nashville, Tenn. - What is old is made new again - that\'s the philosophy behind GrandVista Music and their new 3-cd box set How Sweet The Sound. Chris Walters and Paul Binkley have united to produce a new sound in hymns. Fusing smooth jazz and old-fashioned melody through orchestral arrangements reveals yet another facet of these timeless songs. The Christmas Hymns bonus CD is especially interesting because a children\'s choir…
