#Lisa Baldacchino

[alison321singer]

Mistletoe And Wine 1b

I am singing and Lisa Baldacchino is playing the piano for the song called "Mistletoe And Wine by Cliff Richard" recorded through my microphone.

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." All rights go to their respective owners. No Copyright Infringements of rights intended. I make no money from my videos, which means none of my videos are monetize.

Yes, I have permission to use this music as backing a track. From Lisa Baldacchino, "Hi Alison, you're more than welcome to use them".

Piano arrangement by Peaceful Piano Moments / Lisa Baldacchino Link to original video: https://youtu.be/s9wKmLNT82Q Song: Mistletoe And Wine Artist: Cliff Richard Genres: Rock, Seasonal

[theawkwardterrier]

greatestheights replied to your post: 2018 book roundup

holy shit. that is incredible tbh what were your faves out of the adult and picture books? i’m sure it’s pretty hard to narrow down, so no worries if that’s too tall an ask!

Not at all! For adult books:

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green 

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

Educated by Tara Westover

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 

Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I’m also including Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson in this category - for different reasons, they each have an adult bent even though they are marketed as YA.

The picture book list is quite a bit longer so it’s going under the cut, but it includes both books that appealed to me aesthetically and those which had narratives or phrasing that I loved:

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again by Dan Santat

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis

The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater, and Eric and Terry Fan

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach

Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper

Blue by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken

The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie

Crankenstein by Samantha Berger and Dan Santat

The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen

Dear Substitute by Audrey Vernick, Liz Garton Scanlon, and Chris Raschka

A Different Pond by Bao Phi and Thi Bui

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle and Rafael López

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown and John Parra

Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome

Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim and Grace Zong

A Greyhound, A Groundhog by Emily Jenkins and Chris Appelhans

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers

How to Be an Elephant by Katherine Roy

I Really Want to See You, Grandma by Taro Gomi

I Wish You More by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld

Ida, Always by Caron Levis and Charles Santoso

Imani's Moon by Janay Brown-Wood and Hazel Mitchell

The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and Patrice Barton

Life Without Nico by Andrea Maturana and Francisco Javier Olea

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

Love by Matt de la Pena and Loren Long

Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza and Alyssa Bermudez 

Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai and Kerascoët

Marilyn's Monster by Michelle Knudsen and Matt Phelan

The Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. Campbell

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant

Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters by Michael James Mahin and Evan Turk

My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) by Peter Brown

Nanette's Baguette by Mo Willems

Night Animals by Gianna Marino

Noodle Magic by Roseanne Thong and Meilo So

Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima

Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw and Matt Carr

Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli

One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree by Daniel Bernstrom and Brendan Wenzel

A Perfect Day by Lane Smith

The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems

La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya and Juana Martinez-Neal

The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton

The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine by Mark Twain, and Philip C. and Erin E. Stead

Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall

School's First Day of School by Adam Rex and Christian Robinson

Snappsy the Alligator by Julie Falatko and Tim Miller

Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev and Taeeun Yoo

This Book Just Ate My Dog! by Richard Byrne

This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt LaMothe

This Is Sadie by Sara O'Leary and Julie Morstad

Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts and Noah Z. Jones

To the Sea by Cale Atkinson

Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great by Bob Shea

We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

We Found A Hat by Jon Klassen

The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman and Zachariah OHora

[apexart-journal]

Lisa Vagnoni in Rome - Day 4

I woke up at a reasonable hour today after downing a half liter bottle of Prosecco in my hotel room and stashing my sheep cheese and cappicola on the balcony because my fridge broke. I took a cab to the Vatican. The Vatican is hard to get to by transit! 

What struck me the most in St. Peter’s square is how aggressively the police pursue the people selling lanyards and light-up trinkets, who granted, are not supposed to be there. But I witnessed the police smart cars accelerating wildly and nearly ramming into them several times. The sellers would run out of the reach of the cars into the wings of the square, wait for them to leave, and then come back about 10 minutes later. There was a group of American tourists near me who found this hilarious, and said they were like pigeons. I gave them the dad face. The way the police cars pursued them seemed very aggressive and unfair, even un-Italian, though this may have been my only firsthand sighting of Italy’s legendary racism. Though equally unfair, this didn’t feel like the NYPD arresting churro sellers in the subway. This was barbaric, the Vatican is certainly not lacking the resources to post more police around the perimeter of the square to patrol and eject people. They choose instead to run them down with their little cars.

Still feeling righteous and judgmental, I finally went into St. Peter’s Basilica, which is overwhelming. Just massive. If I was going to get a touch of Stendhal Syndrome anywhere in Rome it would be here. Phone cameras are quite wide, but not wide enough to give a sense of scale. The Catholic school kid in me was electrified. I got some tiny glass bottles on a side street and filled them with water from the baptismal fonts for Nonna and my Catholic roommate. The crepuscular rays that sometimes flow in over Bernini’s baldacchino were absent because it was overcast that day, but the baldacchino was overwhelming on its own. 

You can’t get that close to the Pietà as it is now housed behind bullet proof glass, but there it was off to the right, very beautiful and human-sized.

This was the first day I really started to feel my feet. I vainly refused to bring sneakers to Rome and had just hit 40,000 steps. I lived with it and thought about Catholicism and suffering while I gawked at the body of John XXIII under the altar of St. Jerome. My muscle memory took over when I left St. Pete’s and I did the sign of the cross at the baptismal font without even thinking about it. I laughed at myself a little down the stairs because that was the first Catholic church I’d been in in over a decade. 

P.S. I also had a porchetta sandwich from a hole-in-the-wall in Vatican city that was to die for. Just bread and porchetta and a thin spread I didn’t recognize. 

[photos-tell-stories]

Exhibition News - Ritty Tacsum 'Valletta - Another Landscape'

Exhibition News – Ritty Tacsum ‘Valletta – Another Landscape’

  Exhibition News

Exhibition news – Ritty Tacsum ‘Valletta – Another Landscape’ is the name of a touring exhibition that is being held by experimental photographer Ritty Tacsum as part of the MaltaEU 2017 Reunion cultural events calendar. The exhibition is curated by Lisa Gwen Baldacchino. Read more: Times of Malta

Exhibition news – Ritty Tacsum ‘Valletta – Another Landscape’ #7

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[miriamborgapapsblog]

The  Maltese Female Artist

In a day and age when one would think that there should be no distinction between men and women one still finds the need to ask the question: Why are there no famous Maltese Female Artists? Why have there been so many books and articles written about male artists in Malta but hardly anything at all about female artists?

Throughout history, and especially in Malta, women artists have been mostly overlooked.

The lack of recognition of Maltese female artists is evident from the list of theses submitted in the History of Art Department at the University of Malta, from 1995-2012. Only one of these looked at local female artists. Baldacchino Lisa in 2004 wrote about The Role of Women Artists in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. This is hardly enough for one to be able to study the work of female artists in Malta.

The 2008 MATSEC syllabi for Advanced and Intermediate Art examinations in Malta excluded female artists which goes to confirm Nochlin’s thesis that the “fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces but in our institutions and our education” (Nochlin, 1998, p. 316).

If one visits the Museum of Fine Arts in Malta one can see for themselves the lack of female representation. It is about time that this changes and female artists should be given the recognition they deserve.

Bibliography:

Malta Review of Educational Research, 2008.  Why Are There No Great Women Artists (in the new Advanced Art syllabus)? [online] Available at: <http://www.mreronline.org/journal-article/why-are-there-no-great-women-artists-in-the-new-advanced-art-syllabus/> [Accessed 12 May 2017].

Caruana, C., 2016. Maltese women ‘ruthlessly’ oppressed through history. Times of Malta. [online] Available at: <https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160725/local/maltese-women-ruthlessly-oppressed-through-history.619742> [Accessed 14 May 2017].

Cochrane, K., 2013. Women in art: why are all the ‘great’ artists men? The Guardian. [online] 24 May. Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-womens-blog-with-jane-martinson/2013/may/24/women-art-great-artists-men> [Accessed 14 May 2017].

Spalding, F., 2014. The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History – review. The Guardian. [online] 27 Mar. Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/27/self-portrait-culture-history-james-hall-review-profoundly-human> [Accessed 14 May 2017].

widewalls, 2017. 10 Women in Contemporary Art. [online] WideWalls. Available at: <http://www.widewalls.ch/10-women-in-contemporary-art/> [Accessed 12 May 2017].

[alison321singer]

Mistletoe And Wine 1a

I am singing and Lisa Baldacchino is playing the piano for the song called "Mistletoe And Wine by Cliff Richard" recorded through my camcorder.

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." All rights go to their respective owners. No Copyright Infringements of rights intended. I make no money from my videos, which means none of my videos are monetize.

Yes, I have permission to use this music as backing a track. From Lisa Baldacchino, "Hi Alison, you're more than welcome to use them".

Piano arrangement by Peaceful Piano Moments / Lisa Baldacchino Link to original video: https://youtu.be/s9wKmLNT82Q Song: Mistletoe And Wine Artist: Cliff Richard Genres: Rock, Seasonal