December 1, 2024
Artists

New book lays out how  an artist can hit a target

Okay, let’s paint a scenario. You visit the British Council in Kampala to attend a Masterclass for performing artists and you take your seat. Surreptitiously, you look around to see if you recognise anyone in the class. Nope. Nobody looks familiar. While you are thinking about how you are going to introduce yourself to a

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Money raised for Alzheimers at Louth artist’s first solo show

Four-day solo exhibition was great success. Leonora with her proud family. Leonora with renowned fellow artist Henry McGrane. The artist with Joan Brady and Fiona Maguire. The beautiful framed print for the raffle. Leonora with Irene McKeown, Manager of Drogheda Chamber. Leonora with Fiona McKenna, fellow artist. © Drogheda Independent Today at 11:00 Louth artist

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Out Of Africa: Continental A-List Recording Artists Scheduled To Perform At Closing Ceremony Of African Games

Ghana’s Wiyaala and Stonebwoy, Cameroon’s Stanley Enow, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Innoss’B, and Gabon’s Emma’a have been announced as performers for the closing ceremony of this year’s African Games in Accra. The event is slated for Sunday March 24th at the University of Ghana Sports Stadium, where earlier this month, Ghanaian highlife vets Ebo

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How Tanzanian artists are leading the musical renaissance in Africa · Global Voices

Diamond Platnumz, Ali Kiba and Rayvanny have popularized ‘bongo flava,’ a distinct Tanzanian offering Screenshot from YouTube video, ‘Innoss’B Ft Diamond Platnumz – Yope Remix (Official Music Video)‘ by Diamond Platnumz. Fair use. In 2021, Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz became the first Sub-Saharan African singer to receive 1 billion views on his YouTube channel. That same year,

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Ilkley fountain: Artists donate work to fountain auction

1 hour ago Image source, Improving Ilkley Image caption, The design will use gravity to feed water which running down from from Ilkley Moor through the fountain Organisers of an auction to raise funds for the Ilkley fountain project have praised the “incredible response” of the artist community. Twenty-seven artists donated moorland-inspired work to be

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Arts in Action welcomes guest teaching artists to free drop-in Sunday Studios

ROCKLAND — Arts in Action welcomes guest teaching artists from Wild Rosie Maine to Sunday Studio youth and family workshops. Sunday Studio is a drop-in workshop offered FREE and open to all ages, youth 11 and younger attend with a guardian. This spring session is being led by guest teaching artists Nina Devenney and Patrick

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