Thursday, 30 April 2015
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
An invitation to Sylwia's concert in London
This is a post with a difference. I'd like to tell you about an evening that I am trying to organise. It would be great if you could come. Here are the details:
‘Tuning forks appeared in my life when I was ready for them. To play the instruments, which have healing capabilities, requires the player to have a pure heart and a full openness to the recipient. For many years, I have been an active vocalist and lecturer, but only tuning forks have given me a sense of fulfilment on my path. I would be delighted to demonstrate to you their wonderful impact. Please let me invite you to a short presentation about the healing features of tuning forks along with a live concert which I will be pleased to perform for you.’
An evening with Sylwia Nadgrodkiewicz, Ph.D. & Healing Tuning Forks
When: at 7 pm on Monday, 4th May 2015
Where: Iraqi Cultural Centre,Threshold House, 65 Shepherd’s
Bush Green, London W12 8TX
What you need: a blanket or rug to lie on and relax during
the concert
In Sylwia’s own words:
‘Tuning forks appeared in my life when I was ready for them. To play the instruments, which have healing capabilities, requires the player to have a pure heart and a full openness to the recipient. For many years, I have been an active vocalist and lecturer, but only tuning forks have given me a sense of fulfilment on my path. I would be delighted to demonstrate to you their wonderful impact. Please let me invite you to a short presentation about the healing features of tuning forks along with a live concert which I will be pleased to perform for you.’
Please bring a blanket or rug to lie down on and relax to Sylwia's music and singing!
If you would like to meet Sylwia, a vocalist, lecturer, voice coach and music therapist, make your way to Shepherd's Bush next Monday!
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Where to see Rob Hurtt's 'Mr and Mrs Love'?
I've seen this tall and lean man in a peaked cap a few times.
He pops in to the Ealing Octavia shop to look for CDs and DVDs and to look at other stuff. Yesterday we had a brief chat as I was wrapping a red dress for a very old lady who is going to Poland today. She will sport the garment at a seaside spa by the Baltic Sea! Good for her!
But back to the other customer. He turned out to be a film director Rob Hurtt.
Here is a synopsis of one of his productions:
'Mr and Mrs Love (2011)
A dark retelling of evacuation in World War Two, Mr and Mrs Love is in essence a fairytale about what happens when two children are sent to live with a couple who belch, bully and behave badly. Alison Garland is a fearsome and domineering Mrs Love; Paul Kelleher a mocking and flatulent Mr Love. Their on-screen presence makes this an incredibly engaging film.'
That's the one I'd like to see first as I know a person who come to England in a 'Kindertransport' train from Vienna after Austria was taken over by Nazi Germany. Old and troubled, the woman has long had flashbacks of those days when as a child in a foreign country and withouth knowing English, she had to survive along with her little brother. Of what I know they were more lucky with their placements (they stayed in different places: foster families and kind of orphanages), but it was truly traumatic...
There is a monument to the Kindertransport children outside Liverpool Street Station.
The one I photographed at St Pancras Station last Sunday refers to the heartbreaking farewells:
My encounter with Rob, the talented man, was short but inspiring. Now I need to find the time to watch his films. Just as well they are short and most of them are available online.;-) You can check out Rob Hurtt's channel on YouTube and let me know what you think. In his own words:
'Ealing writer and film director Rob Hurtt seeks collaborators and partners in crime to work and socialise in the area.'
I must finish now, but would like to get back to this post when possible.
He pops in to the Ealing Octavia shop to look for CDs and DVDs and to look at other stuff. Yesterday we had a brief chat as I was wrapping a red dress for a very old lady who is going to Poland today. She will sport the garment at a seaside spa by the Baltic Sea! Good for her!
But back to the other customer. He turned out to be a film director Rob Hurtt.
Here is a synopsis of one of his productions:
'Mr and Mrs Love (2011)
A dark retelling of evacuation in World War Two, Mr and Mrs Love is in essence a fairytale about what happens when two children are sent to live with a couple who belch, bully and behave badly. Alison Garland is a fearsome and domineering Mrs Love; Paul Kelleher a mocking and flatulent Mr Love. Their on-screen presence makes this an incredibly engaging film.'
That's the one I'd like to see first as I know a person who come to England in a 'Kindertransport' train from Vienna after Austria was taken over by Nazi Germany. Old and troubled, the woman has long had flashbacks of those days when as a child in a foreign country and withouth knowing English, she had to survive along with her little brother. Of what I know they were more lucky with their placements (they stayed in different places: foster families and kind of orphanages), but it was truly traumatic...
There is a monument to the Kindertransport children outside Liverpool Street Station.
The one I photographed at St Pancras Station last Sunday refers to the heartbreaking farewells:
My encounter with Rob, the talented man, was short but inspiring. Now I need to find the time to watch his films. Just as well they are short and most of them are available online.;-) You can check out Rob Hurtt's channel on YouTube and let me know what you think. In his own words:
'Ealing writer and film director Rob Hurtt seeks collaborators and partners in crime to work and socialise in the area.'
I must finish now, but would like to get back to this post when possible.
Monday, 27 April 2015
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Sunday, 26 April 2015
More on Marrakesh
Back home and tired. It's only half an hour left till Monday starts in London. Waiting for the train at King's Cross I went for a walk and 'documented' a new development there including a tiny viewing point giving you the idea of what's behind all the walls around.
The next pictures show an African jewellery museum and shop, and a cafe housed in a modern building where we came to rest over a refreshing fresh mint tea. Needless to say, I ended up visiting the exhibitions, and thoroughly enjoying the experience.
As it is too late to download today's snaps, I may add a few from my recent Morocco trip instead.
The first batch is of a collection amassed by Bert Flint, a Dutch anthropologist and collector of North African art, displayed in his 20th century house:
And here is an interesting Morocco link!
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