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jacnaylor · 5 years ago

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romance book recs!!

romance is my feel good genre, and it’s also usually somewhat easier to read during stressful times, so here’s a list of some books that are either romance or have a romance element i feel like mentioning.

(EDIT: I STAYED UP TILL 2 AM DOING THIS HELP. this is why some of the comments. don’t make any fucking sense.)

romance books and authors:

CONTEMPORARY:

1. The Bromance bookclub series by Lyssa Kay Adams (A group of men form a bookclub dedicated to romance books in order to understand women, improve their relationships and become better men. It’s funny, cute, and all about dismantling toxic masculinity one romance book at a time)

2. Mariana Zapata books (The queen of slowburn romance. The only book I’ve read by her is ‘Under Locke’, but ‘From Lukov with love’ and ‘Kulti’ have rave reviews. There is so much build up and SO much sexual tension with a great pay off)

3. Milly Johnson books (A uk author whose books are primarily set in the north, these are total feel good books. Not so much graphic and more romantic, but her characters are great and her plot lines really hook you in.)

4. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (Super cute, quick enemies-to-lovers story about a bridesmaid who has to go on a honeymoon with the best man when the bride and groom get food poisoning. Obviously this means the holy of holies: fake relationship!)

5. Well met by Jen De Luca (Oh my gosh! Super fun, the characters are just wonderful especially our heroine. A hate-to-love romance set at a renaissance fair! All about overcoming the limits you set on yourself and rethinking your first impressions.)

6. Katherine Center books (My personal favourites are ‘How to walk away’ about a woman who falls for her PT after a near fatal plane crash. And ‘Happiness for beginners’ about a woman taking part in a wilderness trail with her brothers annoying best friend. She writes such great plots and you really feel all the emotions!)

7. Mhairi Mcfarlane books (my personal favourites are ‘Here’s looking at you’ about a woman who comes face to face with her high school bully years later - only he doesn’t recognize her. And he’s not awful? Don’t worry. I know how that synopsis sounds. He’s not excused his actions, but you also understand how he’s grown and changed. It definitely gets you in the feels though. As does ‘You had me at hello’ Which is about a couple from university meeting again years later. God this woman can write angst and yearning!!)

8. A part of me by Anouska Knight (On the same day she and her husband have been accepted into the adoption process, their marriage implodes. This has such a cute romance which follows hate-to friends- to love and it’s v funny)

9. Southern Eclectic series by Molly harper (Just as it sounds. Southern small town romance with a great, quirky cast of characters)

10. Maggie’s man by Lisa Gardner (writing as Alicia Scott) (An escaped convict kidnaps a woman from the courthouse to act as his hostage whilst he tries to prove his innocence. Surprisingly funny and warm. Maggie as a heroine is an absolute joy. They’re sort of chaotic together and it’s a wild ride.)

11. The Mister by E.L James (LISTEN OK - SIT BACK DOWN - It’s not winning awards but it’s actually decent! I was skeptical, but I will admit I was won over. I mean parts are cheesy but it’s so addictive. Basically a rich man falls for his cleaning lady - but it’s also about the yearning. It’s also quite action packed as there’s danger, drama and a chase across europe to get the girl.)

12. RECENT Colleen Hoover (Now, you may enjoy older CH books. Personally I find them very problematic. Now I’ve really enjoyed her recent books though. Especially ‘Without Merit’ and ‘It ends with us’ and ‘Regretting you’. High angst, high drama, dark topics for all of her books. But you can tell she’s matured with her writing. She isn’t for everyone but they’re addictive, fast paced reads.

13. The Austenland duology by Shannon Hale (You might have seen the Austenland movie - The cutest, cheesiest, sweetest, campiest movie ever. Well there’s a book! It’s about women who go on a holiday and live their own Jane Austen story with actors. The first book leans towards Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield park. The second book is more Northanger abbey and Emma.

14. Brigid Kemmerer contemporaries (She is an auto-buy author for me, especially her contemporaries. She writes the best teenage characters, the best teenage boys I’ve ever read about. Her characters are real, she writes about kids trying their best, struggling, and being good, and kind, and the world not being kind to them. Usually the books have a pov from both the female and male love interest. I would rec any of them tbh. ‘Letters to the lost’ comes before it’s companion novel ‘More than we can tell’. I loved ‘Call it what you want’ with has modern Robin Hood elements!!!! seriously she is my favourite YA contemporary author.

15. Sophie Kinsella books (If you haven’t picked up her stand alone novels then what are you doing???? she is the queen!!!! Personal favourites are ‘Can you keep a secret’ and ‘I’ve got your number)

16. A quiet kind of thunder by Sara Barnard (I love her ok. Her books are short and sweet but she packs a punch. TBH these aren’t primarily romance, they’re more just about teenage girls but this one has a good romance element so I’m putting it on here. It’s about Steffi, a selective mute who sometimes communicates with basic sign language who is assigned to look after the new boy at school Rhys, who is deaf.)

17. Meet me at the museum by Anne Youngson (GORGEOUS! moving, tender. A lonely housewifes strikes up a correspondence with a widowed museum curator in Denmark. Oh gosh. I just love this one. It’s about friendship, love, grief, second chances, the choices we make. Seriously love this one and it’s not that long.)

FANTASY:

1. Sorcery of thorns by Margaret Rogerson (Elisabeth has grown up in the great library, protecting grimoires with powers and fearing sorcerers. When a dangerous grimoire is released, she’s forced to team up with an enigmatic sorcerer and his demonic servant in order to save the world.)

2. Sky in the deep duology by Adrienne Young (A viking inspired story about a warrior who is captured by the tribe she is at war with. Such good tension and it’s also got a lot of action. Battle couple romance! Mutual respect! Hate to love!)

3. The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (I’ve reread this book once but will end up reading it again. It’s a time travel romance about a woman staying in cornwall dealing with the death of her sister who is transported back and forth to the 17th century. It’s a favourite. The romance is wonderful but the stakes are really high too. I also love ‘Belleweather’ by the same author)

4. An ember in the ashes series by Sabaa Tahir (Oh god, the romance. THE ROMANCE! it’s so much. The angst, the pining, the longing. The first book follows Laia, part of a slave class in a roman inspired world. She begins spying in the top military academy and meets Elias, a reluctant soldier. This is a proper fantasy series with only the first three books out, but it’s so great.)

5. Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen (Let me just copy the blurb ok: “Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in a pointless war that never ends. But everything changes when Stella Parrish, a forbidden grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland in defiance of Pan's rules.” I MEAN COME ON. a gorgeous adult fairytale with love and redemption at the center.

6. The Mediator series by Meg Cabot (Obviously Meg Cabot is the most iconic and we stan. But this series is my absolute favourite by her. About Suze Simon, a kickass, no nonsense mediator - Someone who helps ghosts move on to the other side. Sometimes by force. She has to move house and ends up sharing her room with a 100 year old hot ghost named Jesse. The tension. The angst. THE BANTER!!!!)

7. House of Earth and Blood by Sara J Maas (a half fae half mortal girl tries to solve a murder with the help of a fallen angel. It’s a LONG book, but for me personally it flew by. It’s a big new fantasy world but the romance has a great build. Overcoming grief! Being normal together! Being in danger together! THE UST! the characters are so good. I ahven’t been this impressed by a new series for a while)

8. Cursebreakers series by Brigid Kemmerer (yep, she gets another mention. This one is a beauty and the best retelling about a man forced to relive the same season over and over, becoming a literal beat, until a girl from our world can break the curse. The second book, following secondary characters, is my fave so far. But both feature kickass ladies and those small romantic moments BK is so good at)

9. A court of thorns and roses series by Sara J Maas (a fae inspired beauty and the beast retelling. The only time you support a ship switch. Also the secondary ships are getting their own books and oh my god. I’m so excited.)

HISTORICAL/CLASSICS/MILLS AND BOON

1. Jane Austen (The original rom com queen, obviously. Pride and prejudice and Emma are faves. Also I have a major soft spot for the alwayc chaotic and underrated Northanger Abbey)

2. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Actually might be my favourite classic ever. Often described at an industrial p&p. Margaret, from the south, comes face to face with the harsh reality of the world when she moves up north and comes face to face with a brooding millowner. There’s obviously a lot more nuance than that but. THE PINING!!!!!! THE MISCOMMUNICATION! THE DRAMA!)

3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (You might have seen the film. Please also read the book. Told entirely in letters. The sharp witted author Juliet Ashton falls in love with Guernsey and it’s characters whilst researching what happened there during the war. Funny, moving and romantic.)

4. The Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn (A butterfly hunter foils her own kidnap and is paired together with a reclusive natural historian. They solve mysteries together. They can’t admit they wanna sleep together. The tension.......unbearable. See also the Julia Grey mysteries by the same author)

5. The warrior knight and the widow by Ella Matthews (So last year I discovered Mills and Boon and I have no shame about it whatsoever. This is a medieval beauty and the beast retelling about a woman being escorted to her fathers estate by an enigmatic and scarred knight. She’s hoping to convince her father to let her steward her own lands, and of course trying not to fall for her escort.)

6. The bareknuckle bastards series by Sarah Maclean (A badass, brooding trio of siblings who rule the underbelly of Covent Garden fall for smart, beautiful women. Opposites attract, Good girl/bad boy, strong women, banter. Super fun historical romance)

7. Redeeming the reclusive earl by Virginia Heath (I just read this and it was seriously cute!!!! And book where the hero blushes even once is a good book in my opinion. Basically aspiring antiquarian named Effie barrels into the life of a new earl - who really just wants to be left alone to be grumpy and sad and disfigured. ALONE. But Effie wants to dig on his land. And she won’t take no for an answer. She also talks A LOT.

8. A family for the widowed governess by Ann Lethbridge (Technically this is part of a series but you don’t need to read them in order and this is the best one. A widow who is being blackmailed accepts a governess post. She can’t tell her employer about the blackmail especially when she starts falling for him.)

9. The bedlam stacks by Natasha Pulley (I read watchmaker and didn’t like it but you might like it. This one also FEAUTRES A M/M ROMANCE. I know this list was super straight im sorry. Anyway this is about a botanist falling in love with a priest in the jungle.

10. The wilderness series by Sara Donati (Think outlander without the time travel and also not set in scotland. Basically Last of the Mohicans fanfiction about Hawkeye’s grown up son. An english woman moves to america when her father promises she can be a school teacher there. Little does she know he actually has plans to marry her off. Things get more complicated when she falls for Nathaniel Bonner, a white man raised native american and who’s daughter and extended family is Native American. Like outlander there’s romance, adventure, history. But unlike the outlander books the love interest is a decent guy (i say as if i don’t love the tv show)

STUFF THAT REALLY ISN’T ROMANCE AT ALL. BUT I SHIP A SHIP.

1. The Lacey Flint series by Sharon Bolton (Lacey Flint is a police officer who becomes involved in the hunt to catch a Jack the ripper copycat. There actually is a strong romantic element with the other lead police officer.)

2. The last hours duology by Minette Walters. A novel about the black death and a closed estate lead by a woman who’s trying to protect her people. There’s also a kind of murder mystery. But she also has a close relationship to one of the surfs that I got super invested in.

3. The Strike series by J.k Rowling (I know we don’t stan anymore but. This series about PI and his assistant slowly growing closer? Becoming best friends and partners? Not acknowledging any feelings for each other?

#books #book recs #literature #romance #romance books #romance reads #penvenens #romance recs #romance reader #historical romance #probably forgot loads

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blackkudos · 5 years ago

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Nella Larsen

Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen, born Nellie Walker (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries.

A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late 20th century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies, and she is now widely lauded as "not only the premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, but also an important figure in American modernism."

Early life

Nella Larsen was born Nellie Walker in a poor district of south Chicago known as the Levee, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Peter Walker, believed to be a mulatto Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies, and Marie Walker, née Hansen, a Danish immigrant. Her mother was a seamstress and domestic worker. Her father was likely a mixed-race descendant on his paternal side of Henry or George Walker, white men from Albany, New York, who were known to have settled in the Danish West Indies about 1840. In that Danish colonial society, racial lines were more fluid than in the former slave states of the United States. Walker may never have identified as "Negro." He soon disappeared from the lives of Nella and her mother; she said he had died when she was very young. At this time, Chicago was filled with immigrants, but the Great Migration of blacks from the South had not begun. Near the end of Walker's childhood, the black population of the city was 1.3% in 1890 and 2% in 1910.

Marie married again, to Peter Larsen, a fellow Danish immigrant. They had a daughter Anna together. Nellie took her stepfather's surname, sometimes using versions spelled Nellye Larson and Nellie Larsen, before settling finally on Nella Larsen. The mixed family moved west to a mostly white neighborhood of German and Scandinavian immigrants, but encountered discrimination because of Nella. When Nella was eight, they moved a few blocks back east.

The American author and critic Darryl Pinckney wrote of her anomalous situation:

as a member of a white immigrant family, she [Larsen] had no entrée into the world of the blues or of the black church. If she could never be white like her mother and sister, neither could she ever be black in quite the same way that Langston Hughes and his characters were black. Hers was a netherworld, unrecognizable historically and too painful to dredge up.

Most American blacks were from the South, and Larsen had no connection with them or their histories.

As a child, Larsen lived for a few years with relatives in Denmark, possibly in Jutland. While she was unusual in that place because of being of mixed race, she had some good memories of that time. After returning to Chicago, she attended a large public school. At the same time that the migration of Southern blacks increased to the city, so had European immigration. Racial segregation and tensions had increased in the immigrant neighborhoods, where both groups competed for jobs and housing.

Her mother believed that education could give Larsen an opportunity and supported her in attending Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee. A student there in 1907-08, for the first time Larsen was living within an African-American community, but she was still separated by her own background and life experiences from most of the students, who were primarily from the South, with most descended from former slaves. Biographer George B. Hutchinson found that Larsen was expelled for some violation of Fisk's strict dress or conduct codes for women. Larsen went to Denmark, where she lived for four years. After returning to the US, she continued to struggle to find a place where she could belong.

Nursing career

In 1914, Larsen enrolled in the nursing school at New York City's Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home. The institution was founded in the 19th century in Manhattan as a nursing home to serve black people, but the hospital elements had grown in importance. The total operation had been relocated to a newly constructed campus in the South Bronx. At the time, the hospital patients were primarily white; the nursing home patients were primarily black; the doctors were white males; and the nurses and nursing students were black females. As Pinckney writes: "No matter what situation Larsen found herself in, racial irony of one kind or another invariably wrapped itself around her."

Upon graduating in 1915, Larsen went South to work at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, where she soon became head nurse at its hospital and training school. While at Tuskegee, she was introduced to Booker T. Washington's model of education and became disillusioned with it. As it was combined with poor working conditions for nurses at Tuskegee, Larsen decided to leave after a year or so.

She returned to New York in 1916, where she worked for two years as a nurse at Lincoln Hospital. After earning the second-highest score on a civil service exam, Larsen was hired by the city Bureau of Public Health as a nurse. She worked for them in the Bronx through the 1918 flu pandemic, in "mostly white neighborhoods" and with white colleagues. Afterwards she continued with the city as a nurse.

Marriage and family

In 1919, Larsen married Elmer Imes, a prominent physicist; he was the second African American to earn a PhD in physics. After her marriage, she sometimes used the name Nella Larsen Imes in her writing. A year after her marriage, she published her first short stories.

The couple moved to Harlem in the 1920s, where their marriage and life together had contradictions of class. As Pinckney writes:

By virtue of her marriage, she was a member of Harlem's black professional class, many of them people of color with partially European ancestry. She and her husband knew the NAACP leadership: W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, James Weldon Johnson. However, because of her low birth and mixed parentage, and because she did not have a college degree, Larsen was alienated from the black middle class, whose members emphasized college and family ties, and black fraternities and sororities.

Her mixed racial ancestry was not itself unusual in the black middle class. But many of these individuals, such as Langston Hughes, had more distant European ancestors. He and others formed an elite of mixed race or people of color, some of whom had ancestors who had been free people of color well before the American Civil War. This had given many families an advantage in establishing themselves and gaining educations in the North. In the 1920s, most African Americans in Harlem were exploring and emphasizing their black heritage.

Imes's scientific studies and achievement placed him in a different class than Larsen. The Imes couple had difficulties by the late 1920s, when he had an affair. They divorced in 1933.

Larsen was given a generous alimony in the divorce, which gave her the financial security she needed until Imes's death in 1941. But when the alimony ran out after that, Larsen needed to return to nursing. She took a break from writing literature at the time.

Many literary scholars have viewed her decision to take time off as "An act of self-burial, or a "retreat" motivated by a lack of courage and dedication.". Critics have speculated and made interpretations as to why Larsen decided to return to nursing. What they overlooked is that during that time period, it was difficult for a woman of color to find a stable job that would also provide financial stability. For Larsen, nursing was a "labor market that welcomed an African American as a domestic servant". Nursing was something that came naturally to Larsen as it was "one respectable option for support during the process of learning about the work". During her work as a nurse, Larsen was noticed by Adah Thoms, an African-American nurse who co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Thoms saw potential in Larsen's nursing career and helped strengthen Larsen's skills. Once Larsen graduated in 1915, Adah Thoms made arrangements for Larsen to work at Tuskegee Institute's John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital.

Larsen draws from her medical background in Passing, to create the character of Brian, a doctor and husband of the main character. Larsen describes Brian as being ambivalent about his work in the medical field. Brian's character may also be partially modeled on Larsen's husband Elmer Imes, a physicist. After Imes divorced Larsen, he remarried, to a white woman.

Librarian and literary career

In 1921 Larsen worked nights and weekends as a volunteer with librarian Ernestine Rose, to help prepare for the first exhibit of "Negro art" at the New York Public Library (NYPL). Encouraged by Rose, she became the first black woman to graduate from the NYPL Library School. It was run by Columbia University and opened the way for integration of library staff.

Larsen passed her certification exam in 1923. She worked her first year as a librarian at the Seward Park Branch on the Lower East Side, which was predominantly Jewish. There she had strong support from her white supervisor Alice Keats O'Connor, as she had from Rose. They, and another branch supervisor where she worked, supported Larsen and helped integrate the staff of the branches. Larsen transferred to the Harlem branch, as she was interested in the cultural excitement in the African-American neighborhood, a destination for migrants from across the country.

In October 1925, Larsen took a sabbatical from her job for health reasons and began to write her first novel. In 1926, having made friends with important figures in the Negro Awakening (which became known as the Harlem Renaissance), Larsen gave up her work as a librarian.

She became a writer active in Harlem's interracial literary and arts community, where she became friends with Carl Van Vechten, a white photographer and writer. In 1928, Larsen published Quicksand, a largely autobiographical novel. It received significant critical acclaim, if not great financial success.

In 1929, she published Passing her second novel, which was also critically successful. It dealt with issues of two mixed-race African-American women who were childhood friends and had taken different paths of racial identification and marriage. One identified as black and married a black doctor; the other passed as white and married a white man, without revealing her African ancestry. The book explored their experiences of coming together again as adults.

In 1930, Larsen published "Sanctuary", a short story for which she was accused of plagiarism. "Sanctuary" was said to resemble the British writer Sheila Kaye-Smith's short story, "Mrs. Adis", first published in the United Kingdom in 1919. Kaye-Smith wrote on rural themes, and was very popular in the US. Some critics thought the basic plot of "Sanctuary," and some of the descriptions and dialogue, were virtually identical to Kaye-Smith's work.

The scholar H. Pearce has disputed this assessment, writing that, compared to Kaye-Smith's tale, "Sanctuary" is ' ... longer, better written and more explicitly political, specifically around issues of race - rather than class as in "Mrs Adis"." Pearce thinks that Larsen reworked and updated the tale into a modern American black context. Pearce also notes that in Kaye-Smith's 1956 book, All the Books of My Life, the author said she had based "Mrs Adis" on a 17th-century story by St Francis de Sales, Catholic bishop of Geneva. It is unknown whether she knew of the Larsen controversy in the United States.

No plagiarism charges were proved. Larsen received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the aftermath of the controversy, worth roughly $2,500 at the time, and was the first African-American woman to do so. She used it to travel to Europe for several years, spending time in Mallorca and Paris, where she worked on a novel about a love triangle in which all the protagonists were white. She never published the book or any other works.

Later life

Larsen returned to New York in 1933, when her divorce had been completed. She lived on alimony until her ex-husband's death in 1941. Struggling with depression, Larsen stopped writing. After her ex-husband's death, Larsen returned to nursing and became an administrator. She disappeared from literary circles. She lived on the Lower East Side and did not venture to Harlem.

Many of her old acquaintances speculated that she, like some of the characters in her fiction, had crossed the color line to "pass" into the white community. Biographer George Hutchinson has demonstrated in his 2006 work that she remained in New York, working as a nurse.

Larsen died in her Brooklyn apartment in 1964, at the age of 72.

Legacy

In 2018 the New York Times published a belated obituary for her.

Nella Larsen was an acclaimed novelist, who wrote stories in the midst on the Harlem Renaissance. Larsen is most known for her two novels, “Passing” and “Quicksand”, these two pieces of work got a lot of recognition with positive reviews. Many believed that Larsen was intended to be the new up and coming star African American novelist, until she soon after left Harlem, her fame, and writing behind.

Larsen is often compared to other authors who also wrote about cultural and racial conflict such as Claude Mckay and Jean Toomer.

Nella Larsen’s works are viewed as strong pieces that well represent mixed raced individuals, and the struggles with identity that some inevitably face.

There have been some arguments that Larsen’s work did not well represent the “New Negro” movement because of the main characters in her novels being confused and struggling with their race. However, others argue that her work was a raw and important representation of how life was life for many people, especially females, during the Harlem Renaissance.

Larsen’s novel Passing is being made into a film.

Works

1928: Quicksand

Helga Crane is a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's experiences in her early life. Crane is the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish white mother and a West Indian black father. Her father died soon after she was born. Unable to feel comfortable with her maternal European-American relatives, Crane lives in various places in the United States and visits Denmark, searching for people among whom she feels at home.

Nella Larsen's early life is similar to Helga in that she; was distant from the African-American community as well as, her African-American family members. Larsen and Helga, did not have a father figure. Both of their mother's decided to marry a white man, in hopes of having a higher social status. Larsen wanted to learn more about her background so she continued to go to school during the Harlem Renaissance. Even though Larsen's early life parallels Helga's, the end the life choices they decide to make end up being very different. Nella Larsen pursued a career in nursing while Helga married a preacher and stayed in a very unhappy marriage.

In her travels she encounters many of the communities which Larsen knew. For example, Crane teaches at Naxos, a Southern Negro boarding school (based on Tuskegee University), where she becomes dissatisfied with its philosophy. She criticizes a sermon by a white preacher, who advocates the segregation of blacks into separate schools and says their striving for social equality would lead blacks to become avaricious. Crane quits teaching and moves to Chicago. Her white maternal uncle, now married to a bigoted woman, shuns her. Crane moves to Harlem, New York, where she finds a refined but often hypocritical black middle class obsessed with the "race problem."

Taking her uncle's legacy, Crane visits her maternal aunt in Copenhagen. There she is treated as an attractive racial exotic. Missing black people, she returns to New York City. Close to a mental breakdown, Crane happens onto a store-front revival and has a charismatic religious experience. After marrying the preacher who converted her, she moves with him to the rural Deep South. There she is disillusioned by the people's adherence to religion. In each of her moves, Crane fails to find fulfillment. She is looking for more than how to integrate her mixed ancestry. She expresses complex feelings about what she and her friends consider genetic differences between races.

The novel develops Crane's search for a marriage partner. As it opens, she has become engaged to marry a prominent Southern Negro man, whom she does not really love, but with whom she can gain social benefits. In Denmark she turns down the proposal of a famous white Danish artist for similar reasons, for lack of feeling. By the final chapters, Crane has married a black Southern preacher. The novel's close is deeply pessimistic. Crane had hoped to find sexual fulfilment in marriage and some success in helping the poor southern blacks she lives among, but instead she has frequent pregnancies and suffering. Disillusioned with religion, her husband, and her life, Crane fantasizes about leaving her husband, but never does.

The critics were impressed with the novel. They appreciated her more indirect take on important topics such as race, class, sexuality, and other issues important to the African-American community rather than the explicit or obvious take of other Harlem Renaissance writers.

1929: Passing

Larsen's novel Passing begins with Irene receiving a mysterious letter from her childhood friend Clare, following their encounter at the Drayton Hotel, after twelve years with no communication. Irene and Clare lost contact with each other after the death of Clare's father Bob Kendry, when Clare was sent to live with her white aunts. Both Irene and Clare are of mixed African-European ancestry, with features that enable them to pass racially as "white" if they choose. Clare chose to pass into white society and married John Bellew, a white man described as a racist. Unlike Clare, Irene passes as white only on occasion, for her convenience in negotiating some segregated spaces. Irene identifies as a black woman, and married an African-American doctor named Brian; together they have two sons. After Irene and Clare reconnect, they become fascinated with the differences in their lives. One day Irene meets with Clare and Gertrude, another of their childhood African-American friends; during that meeting Mr. Bellew meets Irene and Gertrude. Bellew greets his wife with a racial comment as if he did not know she was half black.

Irene becomes furious that Clare did not tell her husband about her full ancestry. Irene believes Clare has put herself in a dangerous situation by lying to a person who hates blacks. After meeting Clare's husband, Irene does not want anything more to do with Clare but still keeps in touch with her. Clare begins to join Irene and Brian for their events in Harlem, New York while her husband is traveling out of town. Because Irene has some jealousy of Clare, she begins to suspect her friend is having an affair with her husband Brian. The novel ends with John Bellew learning that Clare is mixed race. At a party in Harlem, she falls out of a window from a high floor of a multi-story building, to her death, under ambiguous circumstances. Larsen ends the novel without revealing if Clare committed suicide, if Irene pushed her, or if it was an accident.

Some critics described this novel as an example of the genre of the tragic mulatto, a common figure in early African-American literature after the American Civil War. In such works, it is usually a woman of mixed race who is portrayed as tragic, as she has difficulty marrying and finding a place to fit into society. Others suggest that this novel complicates that plot by playing with the duality of the figures of Irene and Clare, who are of similar mixed-race background but have taken different paths in life. The novel also suggests attraction between them and erotic undertones in the two women's relationship. Irene's husband is also portrayed as potentially bisexual, as if the characters are passing in their sexual as well as social identities. Some read the novel as one of repression. Others argue that through its attention to the way "passing" unhinges ideas of race, class, and gender, the novel opens spaces for the creation of new, self-generated identities.

Since the late 20th century, Passing has received renewed attention from scholars because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities and liminal spaces. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities.

Bibliography

Books

Quicksand (1928)

Passing (1929)

Short stories

"Freedom" (1926)

"The Wrong Man" (1926)

"Playtime: Three Scandinavian Games," The Brownies' Book, 1 (June 1920): 191–192.

"Playtime: Danish Fun," The Brownies' Book, 1 (July 1920): 219.

"Correspondence," Opportunity, 4 (September 1926): 295.

"Review of Black Spade," Opportunity, 7 (January 1929): 24.

"Sanctuary," Forum, 83 (January 1930): 15–18.

"The Author's Explanation", Forum, Supplement 4, 83 (April 1930): 41–42.

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tcm · 5 years ago

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“His sole objective was to serve his fellow man”: The generosity of Jean Hersholt By Jessica Pickens

If you watch the Academy Awards, then you’re likely familiar with his name, but you may not know who he is. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is presented periodically to an “individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.” Recipients include Elizabeth Taylor in 1993 for her work with AIDs and, most recently, Geena Davis in 2019 for founding the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

The award was named for actor Jean Hersholt, whose film career began in 1915 after he emigrated from Denmark to the United States. His career spanned five decades with more than 140 film projects to his name. Hersholt’s characters varied from an abusive father in SUSAN LENOX: HER FALL AND RISE (’31) to the gruff grandfather of Shirley Temple in HEIDI (’37). But his roles of generosity off screen were even more compelling and the effects of Hersholt’s benevolence are still felt today in Los Angeles.

In 1921, top Hollywood stars including Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin helped create the Motion Picture Relief Fund — now known as the Motion Picture and Television Fund. The fund is a charitable organization that financially helps those in the motion picture or television business who have limited resources. It was created in response to film stars who were destitute when they died, such as Marie Prevost or Karl Dane.

As president of the fund for 18 years, Hersholt founded the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, CA, a retirement community for those who worked in the film industry. The fund purchased 41 acres of land, which Hersholt found in 1940. Mary Pickford and Hersholt ceremoniously broke ground on the property, and famed architect William Pereira, who designed the Los Angeles International Airport in 1958, designed the home. The completed building opened on Sept. 27, 1942, with 3,000 members of the film community in attendance, according to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

In Louella Parsons’ Old Time Players Happy in New Home article, former silent film comedian Kate Price, who was ill and lived in the home after it opened, said that Hersholt would visit the home’s residents every day.

The home still operates today, housing more than 200 residents who worked in all facets of the entertainment business including actors, cinematographers or set designers. Norma Shearer and Hattie McDaniel both received care at the home and, most recently, film editor Anne V. Coates and actress Mary Carlisle lived at the home; both passed away in 2018.

“He insisted that we must have a place of our own that our people in need could go to,” Paramount studio head Y. Frank Freeman said in his eulogy for Hersholt. “The Country Home stands as a memorial to this man. He did more from human good in this industry than any other man.”

During World War II, Hersholt helped direct the Danish-American War Relief Fund and was knighted by the king of Denmark in 1948 for war efforts. Hersholt was also an avid collector of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales and writings. He worked to have the stories translated into English, according to the University of Southern Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Centre. These stories include Thumbelina and The Emperor’s New Clothes. In 1951, Hersholt and his wife, Via, donated their Andersen collection of 963 items to the U.S. Library of Congress, which is considered the most comprehensive collection in America of first editions, manuscripts, letters and pictures.

After a battle with cancer, Hersholt died on June 2, 1956. When the next Academy Awards ceremony was held in March 1957, the Academy paid tribute to Hersholt and his work with the first Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The first honor was awarded to Y. Frank Freeman. Hersholt was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1945 to 1949. He received two Academy Awards — both acknowledging his distinguished service to the motion picture industry.

“I have never known a less selfish man than Jean Hersholt,” Freeman said at Hersholt’s funeral. “His sole objective was to serve his fellow man.”

#Jean Hersholt #Academy Awards #Humanitarian #TCM #Turner Classic Movies #Motion picture #hans christian andersen #Jessica Pickens

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kosmosian-quills · 5 years ago

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The Island Nation of Kosmos

Decided to draw a terrible, terrible map showing what I think the country my WIP is set in is like geographically. It is very much a rough draft, but the important thing is the various towns and villages across the country, many of which Anjelika will visit on her journey.

Under the cut are more details!

History:

The island nation of Kosmos is a small country in the Baltic Sea. It was originally Polish territory, but is home to many Scandanavian settlers as well. The country officially became independent in the 18th century, maintaining the royal lineage all the way through to Anjelika, the crown having gone unconquered since it’s inception.

The country is famous for its array of flowers, and the Kosmosian Independence Day festivities celebrates the variety that springtime brings. The “Flower Festival”, held on May 4th every year, is the independence day celebrations, and there are a lot of traditions associated with it. Many flowers are grown in huge pastures, others are found in forests, and many are home grown and given as gifts. Some flowers are used to create food items to be eaten on the day, and others are simple decorations.

Places and a little bit about them:

The Capital:

Stolica Jadwigi - the most densely populated area in the mainland of the country, the capital city is a popular tourist attraction thanks to the medieval streets, the famous 12th century library that to this day remains one of the three oldest buildings in the country to remain standing and in use, and the home to the Royal Family of Kosmos. The city is also the host of one of the two universities on Kosmos, specialising in the sciences and sports.

Zamontować świętą Jadwigę - The citadel that is the home to the Royal Family and those who work there. The citadel and castle are within the same walls though distinctly separate, and the entire estate is just off the mainland, connected by a tidal road, and was built as such for the defence of the Royal Family during the civil war when they fought for their independence.

Towns:

Nadmorzem - a fishing town in the North-Western area of the country, with many popular shipping destinations to Sweden and Denmark from the ports here. It’s also host to the second of two universities in Kosmos, specialising in the arts and literature.

Nazachodzie - just south of Nadmorzem, it’s home to a train museum celebrating the history of transportation across the country (trains are the most effective and popular mode of transport across the country)

Pozalas - a town famous for its fertile farmlands, but mainly used for the growing of food crops.

Wśródpól - this particular farming community specialises in the growth of th many flowers native and foreign to Kosmos, many in preparation for the Flower Festival, but it remains a popular tousist spot year-round for this reason.

Obokplaży - the smallest of the “towns” of Kosmos, walking and cycling is much more effective in traversing this seaside town. This is popular for sunbathers in summer, combined with the quaint aesthetic of wind and solar powered buildings.

Villages:

Nadrzeka - north of the mountanous region, this town is settled on a river just before a large lake which later connects to the sea. The river is clear freshwater all the way from the mountains. It’s beautiful to see the waterfalls year-round from this little village.

Wgórach - a community who made their home in the mountains. It’s treacherous to reach most of the year thanks to the adverse weather but the community thrives, an almost medieveal aesthetic with wooden huts and gas lamps. It’s more accesible now thanks to the construction of an above-ground tunnel train that leads to Podgórą. This village holds a war memorial too. Whilst Kosmos was officially neutral during both World Wars, they did take on Jewish refugees, and many settled in Wgórach because of the treacherous journey there making it easier to hide.

Podgórą - a mining town that farms for minerals and ore within the mountains, using the southern sides as their entry points.

Międzypolami - another farming village that specialises in agriculture.

Zpiaskiem - a small seaside village that is referred to as the “hidden gem of summertime”. Rather like Obokplaży, it’s small and quaint but incredibly beautiful.

Przezlas - a village in the middle of a large forest that is rumoured to be home to many mythalogical creatures, such as pixies and gnomes. There’s a yearly treasure hunt for the children, where the “pixies and gnomes stole the sweets!”

Zkwiatami - another village known for the growth of wildflowers, if not as popular. The village does hold a special place in the Crown Princess’ heart as the home of her grandparents.

Nawschodzie - this village doesn’t have much to it’s name, except many bright sparks for the sciences have hailed from this village, using it as a way to pitch environmentally friendly and sustainable ideas into the mainstream of the rest of the country.

A lot of this is probably subjected to change and as you can see... there’s a lot. I’m so sorry. Thanks for reading!

#WIP: Angel #wip info #I am so so sorry to anyone who speaks polish because of the very on the nose place names I have invented #map #map of Kosmos #this is all prep for NaNo really #helping me get my geography straight

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Utzon Center Aalborg, Denmark Building Photos

Utzon Center Denmark, Jutland Building, Danish Architecture Images, Project Design, News

Utzon Center, Aalborg

New Architecture in Jutland, Denmark design by Kim Utzon Arkitekter

post updated 10 October 2021

Utzon Center in Aalborg, Denmark

New photos taken today of this contemporary Danish building:

photos © Adrian Welch

internal colonnade:

building sculpted roof example:

Sydney Opera House building tiles test sample and text:

27 Nov 2008

Utzon Center Aalborg

Date: 2008

Design: Kim Utzon Architects

Photographs: Torben Eskerod Denmark

The Site

The Centre is situated at the harbourfront with seaview, in the parksequence, characteristic for the new harbour front area in Aalborg.

The platform creates a basis for the buildings around the courtyard, and emphasizes it as a special place, where the sun creates a southern like micro climate that invites you to stay.

The organisation with the secluded volumes around the courtyard, offers a transparency through the access slits between the volumes. They invite you to stroll informally through the building or just to look at the varied views they offer.

The Building

The building complex is a concept of individual buildings, creating a special place around a courtyard on a platform, with the surrounding sculptural and varied roofscape.

The auditorium, the boathall and the library are designed with dramatic and very tall sculptural roofs.

These roofs are emphasized by the buildings in between, the exhibition- and workshopspaces, where the roofs are lower, and yet characteristic.

The auditorium, the “head” of the building complex, is placed right at the harbourfront.

The boathall is placed further along the harborfront and the mainentrance is situated between the two buildings. The library is the tail of the building complex, and turns against the park and also the centre of Aalborg city.

In that way the building complex responds to the varied nature of the site, from the windy and vast harbour front to the more intimate and blooming park next to the city centre of Aalborg.

Auditorium Photo : Rasmus Baaner, Denmark

Kim Utzon Arkitekter

Location: Aalborg, northern Jutland, western Denmark, Northern Europe

Architects Exhibition at Utzon Center in Aalborg – 2018-19 by RRA

Architecture in Denmark

Danish Architecture Designs – chronological list

Danish Architect Offices

Jørn Utzon

Denmark Architecture – Selection:

New office building for Nordea Bank – Shortlisted at World Architecture Festival 2018 Awards Design: Henning Larsen Architects + Signal Architects + SLA Landscape Architects image © Henning Larsen Architects Nordea Bank Ørestad North Office on World Architecture Festival Awards 2018 Shortlist Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Signal Architects and SLA Landscape Architects have won the competition for Nordea Bank’s new office building of 40,000 m2 in Ørestad North, Copenhagen, next to the premises of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and the Concert Hall – Koncerthuset. The building will comprise Scandinavia’s largest trading floor of 5,500 m2 with a view of the green area of Amager Fælled.

Natural Science Center Design: NORD Architects

Danfoss Universe, Als, southern Jutland Design: J. MAYER H.

Aarhus Concert Hall, Aarhus, eastern Jutland Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller

Århus Harbour Buildings

Bagsværd Church Building

Comments / photos for the Utzon Center Architecture page welcome

Website: Denmark

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heavyarethecrowns · 7 years ago

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People that have married in to Royal Families since 1800 Spam

Spain

Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark

Sofía of Greece and Denmark is a member of the Spanish royal family who served as Queen of Spain during the reign of her husband, King Juan Carlos I, from 1975 to 2014.

Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born on 2 November 1938, in Psychiko, Athens, Greece, the eldest child of King Paul and his wife, Queen Frederica. Sofia is a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty. Her brother is the deposed King Constantine II and her sister is Princess Irene. Princess Sophia spent some of her childhood in Egypt where she took her early education in El Nasr Girls' College (EGC) in Alexandria. She lived in South Africa during her family's exile from Greece during World War II. They returned to Greece in 1946. She finished her education at the prestigious Schloss Salem boarding school in Southern Germany, and then studied childcare, music and archeology in Athens. She also studied at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, now, though not then, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. She represented Greece, alongside her brother Constantine, as a reserve member of the Gold Medal-winning sailing team in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Sofía met her paternal third cousin the then Infante Juan Carlos of Spain on a cruise in the Greek Islands in 1954; they met again at the wedding of the Duke of Kent, her paternal second cousin, at York Minster in June 1961.The couple married on 14 May 1962, at the Catholic Cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens. Sofia converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism to become more palatable to Catholic Spain, and thus relinquished her rights to the Greek throne. Along with this, the usual Latinisation of her Greek name (Σοφία) was changed from Sophia to the Spanish variant, Sofía.

In 1969, Infante Juan Carlos, who was never Prince of Asturias (the traditional title of the Spanish heir apparent), was given the official title of "Prince of Spain" by the Spanish state; Sofía herself had suggested the title. Juan Carlos acceded to the throne in 1975, upon the death of Francisco Franco. The couple have three children: Elena (born 20 December 1963); Cristina (born 13 June 1965); and Felipe (born 30 January 1968).

In addition to Spanish and her native Greek, Queen Sofía also speaks Italian, French, German, Portuguese and English.

She is executive president of the Queen Sofía Foundation, which in 1993, sent funds for relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is honorary president of the Royal Board on Education and Care of Handicapped Persons of Spain, as well as the Spanish Foundation for Aid for Drug Addicts. She takes special interest in programs against drug addiction, travelling to conferences in both Spain and abroad.

The Queen is an Honorary Member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of the Spanish Royal Academy of History. Queen Sofía has been honorary president of the Spanish Unicef Committee since 1971. She has been working closely with Dr. Muhammed Yunus on his Grameen Bank (or "Village Bank"), which offers microcredits to women across the world. Queen Sofía has travelled to Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico to support the activities of the organization led by Yunus. Queen Sofía has also been a strong supporter of Somaly Mam's efforts and of the NGO she founded—Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Précaire (AFESIP)—in combatting child prostitution and slavery in Cambodia. In 1998, Mam was awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in her presence. In July 2012, the Queen visited the Philippines for a fourth time. She inspected several development projects around the former Spanish colony that her country's government is funding via the Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarollo (AECID). She visited the National Library, National Museum and the University of Santo Tomas. She also met with Spanish nationals residing in the Philippines, and attended a reception at the Spanish Embassy. She also attended a state dinner in her honour at Malacañan Palace hosted by President Benigno Aquino III

The the Princess Sofía was in Greece on a private visit to her brother, King Constantine II, when the 1967 Greek military coup took place. Since then, he has been stripped of his title, citizenship and property in Greece. Except for a brief stay for the funeral of her mother in 1981, Queen Sofía did not visit republican Greece until 1998. She and her husband paid an official visit after 17 years as guests of the then President Constantinos Stephanopoulos.

She has expressed opinions on policy including her criticism of the military intervention in Afghanistan, where Spanish troops were taking part at the time, her defence of religious education in schools, and her conviction that gender violence publicity will encourage new cases to occur.

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, she made a number of conservative ideological statements on issues then being debated in Spanish society. These statements were published by the Opus Dei journalist Pilar Urbano, and included Queen Sofía's rejection of same-sex marriage, rejection of gay pride celebration, anti-abortion position and defence of religious education in schools. Her opinions produced great unrest among progressive sectors of Spanish society, and prompted criticism of her for getting involved in partisan opinions against her constitutional mandate

Her opinions were subjected to lively criticism by LGBT associations and Spanish intellectuals.Also responding were Spanish republican political parties like IU and ERC. The governing PSOE decided to keep silent, while the conservative opposition PP also did so, after initial criticism of the Queen from one of its representatives. A biography published in May 2012 claims that the Queen is a vegetarian who dislikes bullfighting.

#infanta elena #king felipe vi #queen sofia #1800 #spain

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tlatollotl · 7 years ago

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The Riverside Art Museum’s “Uncovering Ancient Mexico” exhibition will feature Mesoamerican artifacts like this fragment of a double-faced Tlatilco figurine.

For decades, a collection of nondescript boxes languished in a storage room at the now-shuttered Riverside Metropolitan Museum (RMM).

Brought to Southern California from Mexico by the museum’s former anthropology curator Christopher L. Moser in the 1950s and ’60s, the boxes remained mostly undisturbed until 2015. That was the year Catharina Santasilia peered inside — and discovered an unlikely portal to a 3,000-year-old Mesoamerican village.

Santasilia, an anthropology Ph.D. student specializing in archaeology at the University of California, Riverside, had stumbled upon a significant collection of ceramic figurines and vessels produced by the Tlatilco people, an ancient community whose members lived on land that’s now buried beneath Mexico City’s urban freeways and factories.

Dating from 1200 to 900 B.C.E., the ceramic figurines she uncovered will be given new life during the Feb. 3 opening of the first-ever RMM-partnered exhibition to land at the Riverside Art Museum (RAM): a showcase of 34 of the Tlatilco figurines found in RMM’s archives, plus 20 supplementary pieces borrowed from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

The artifacts on view in “Uncovering Ancient Mexico: The Mystery of Tlatilco” share some aesthetic similarities with the baby-faced pieces made by the Olmec people, a neighboring civilization that was located a few hundred kilometers from Tlatilco. But unlike the Olmec, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, little is known about the Tlatilco people — a disparity Santasilia partially attributes to their lack of written materials and monumental architecture.

The exhibition’s curator, UC Riverside Ph.D. student Catharina Santasilia

“Since the people of Tlatilco had no pyramids or other major monuments, it was easier for Mexico City to expand over their site,” Santasilia said. “They might not have had huge stone monuments or temples, but they did have structures — probably huts made from organic materials, which have all decomposed by now. Theirs was a stratified society with an elite class and commoners; they also had specialized craftsmen, as shown by these ceramic pieces.”

Santasilia, the exhibition’s first-time curator, spent a year and a half crisscrossing North America to compile archival research for her dissertation and source loaned pieces from museums with Tlatilco collections.

Funded by the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, the native of Copenhagen, Denmark, visited more than 15 top-tier museums, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and the Princeton University Art Museum.

Her research yielded a portrait of a long-underappreciated culture.

Beginning in the 1930s, the first of roughly 600 Tlatilco burial sites was uncovered by brick workers. At the time, the region was known for its high-quality clay soil, but the discovery quickly attracted seekers of a different kind of resource.

“Artists like Miguel Covarrubias, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera were all part of a group of people who collected this type of art,” Santasilia said. “Covarrubias, in particular, would go to the market and purchase Tlatilco pieces from the brick workers. The brick workers eventually realized that selling such artifacts was a more lucrative job than making bricks, and the prices skyrocketed.”

In 1942, Covarrubias initiated the first of a handful of controlled archaeological excavations of the Tlatilco site. But by the late 1960s, the site had been fully developed over to accommodate Mexico City’s rapid growth and now rests below a sprawling metropolis, according to Santasilia.

A Tlatilco stirrup-spout vessel from the collection of the Riverside Metropolitan Museum

“People know about the Maya and the Aztecs, maybe the Olmec,” she said. “But what about all the others? There are so many other cultures. Riverside has such a large Chicano population, so this exhibition is a rare and wonderful opportunity for many people in our city to learn about a less widely known part of their heritage.”

Attendees of the exhibition, which runs through Dec. 30, 2018, will encounter drawings, previously unpublished historical photographs, three-dimensional replicas, and a video collaboration with the Los Angeles-based company Night Fire Films in which 218 still images of Tlatilco figurines morph into one another, bringing them to life through animation.

Coinciding with the exhibition’s opening on Feb. 3, the Riverside Public Library’s downtown Main Branch at 3581 Mission Inn Ave. will host a free symposium sponsored by UCR’s Center for Ideas & Society.

The single-day conference, titled “The Rise of Civilization in Mesoamerica,” is open to the public and will include presentations from 12 anthropological researchers and scholars working in various corners of North America, including keynote speaker Karl Taube, a UCR anthropology professor and Santasilia’s advisor.

“Cat’s project is an intrinsically interesting one,” said Georgia Warnke, director of the Center for Ideas & Society. “Partnering with her on this conference is a creative way for us to bring our university directly into the Riverside community as a resource.”

The Riverside Art Museum is located at 3425 Mission Inn Ave. General admission is $5 ($3 for students and seniors with ID, and free for children under 12). Metered street and lot parking is available along Mission Inn Avenue. Parking is free on weekdays after 5 p.m., and on weekends and holidays.

#archaeology #arqueologia #mesoamerica #mexico #tlatilco #riverside #uc riverside #art #arte #history #historia #mexico city

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galacticnewsnetwork · 7 years ago

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Databurst From the 501st

Latest Databurst From the 501st covering 501st Legion event news from November 29 to December 5th. As always, be sure to mark your calendars and support your local garrisons. November 30

Badlands Garrison will be in Grande Prairie, AB for Take Back the Night at Muskoseepi Park.

Southern California Garrison will be in Grand Terrace, CA for the Light Up Grand Terrace Toy Drive at the Azure Hills Church Parking Lot from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.

Star Garrison will be in Cypress, TX for Fight Like a Wookiee.

December 1

70th Explorers Garrison will be in Independence, MO for Star Wars Night with the Missouri Mavericks at the Independence Event Center from 5:30 to 8:45 PM.

Alpine Garrison will be in Salt Lake City, UT for Star Wars Night with the Utah Jazz at the Vivint Smart Home Arena from 4:30 to 9:00 PM.

Central California Garrison will be in Modesto, CA for Science Night at the Museum from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at the Great Valley Museum Science Community Center.

Desert Scorpion Garrison will be in Perth, Western Australia for Carols by Candlelight & Christmas Parade at Memorial Park from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Garrison Carida will be in Nazareth, PA for Holiday Night at the Shafer Elementary School from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, and in West Chester, PA for the Christmas Parade from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.

Garrison Excelsior will be in Syracuse, NY for Star Wars Night with the Syracuse Crunch at the War Memorial Arena.

Japanese Garrison will be at the Tokyo Comic Convention 2017 from December 1 to 3rd.

Northern Darkness Garrison will be in Albion, IN for the Albion Christmas in the Village Light Parade at the Asbury United Methodist Church from 5:30 to 7:00 PM.

Southern California Garrison will be at the Seal Beach Christmas Parade, in Riverside, CA for the CHiP’s for Kids Toy Drive at Metro Auto Group from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, in Norco, CA for the Highland PTA Winter Wonderland at Highland Elementary School, in Cerritos, CA for the ABC7 Spark of Love Toy Drive at the Los Cerritos Center from 4:30 AM to 6:30 PM, and in Canoga Park, CA for the ABC7 Spark of Love Toy Drive from 4:30 AM to 6:30 PM.

Southern Dewback Garrison will be in Tanunda for the Barossa Christmas Parade.

Star Garrison will be in Houston, TX for Star Wars Art and More Expo from December 1 to 2nd.

Wisconsin Garrison will be in Neenah, WI for A Very Neenah Christmas.

December 2

70th Explorers Garrison will be at Whiteman Air Force Base, MO for the 442nd Fighter Wing Christmas Party.

Badlands Garrison will be in Calgary, AB for Star Wars at the Public Library (3 locations), and in Calgary, AB for the Toy Delivery to Benefit ACH at Castle Toys.

Bast Alpha Garrison will be at the Natchitoches Christmas Festival Parade.

Belgian Garrison will be in Heusden-Zolder for LEGO Weekend at Kuipershof from December 2 to 3rd.

Carolina Garrison will be in Raleigh, NC for Star Wars Night with the Carolina Hurricanes at the PNC Arena from 6:00 to 9:30 PM.

Central Garrison will be in Council Bluffs, IA for the Salvation Army bell ringing at Walmart, in Crookston, MN for the Star Wars Countdown to The Last Jedi at Crookston Public Library, and in Ashland, NE for Santa goes to Space at the Strategic Air and Space Museum.

Central California Garrison will be in Modesto, CA for the Celebration of Lights Parade at 5:30 PM, and in Clovis, CA for the Children’s Electric Christmas Parade at 6:30 PM.

Cloud City Garrison will be in Albany, OR for Christmas Storybook Land at the Linn County Fairgrounds from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and in Beaverton, OR for the Beaverton Tree Lighting at the Beaverton City Library from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.

Connecticut Garrison will be in Bridgeport, CT for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers game at Webster Bank Arena from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Danish Garrison will be in Aarhus, Denmark for Promotion dag Nordisk film at Nordisk Film Biografer Aarhus C from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Desert Scorpion Garrison will be in Pert, Western Australia for the RAC Christmas Pageant from 7:30 to 8:30 PM.

Garrison Carida will be in Milton, PA for Magical Memories Christmas Extraganza at the Christ Wesleyan Church from 1:00 to 5:00 PM.

Great Lakes Garrison will be in New Haven, MI for the Lenox Township Library Star Wars Party, and in Clawson, MI for Star Wars Saturday at the Blair Memorial Library.

New England Garrison will be in Wellesley, MA for the MS Holiday Party.

Northern Darkness Garrison will be in La Porte, IN for Monroe’s Collectibles and Comics Toys for Tots Drive from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM.

Old Line Garrison will be in Hanover, MD for the NSA CWF Holiday Party, in Alexandria, VA for the Scottish Christmas Walk Parade from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, in Damascus, MD for Thanks for Giving at PetValu from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, in Fort Meade, MD for the ESC Children’s Holiday Party at Pershing Hill Elementary School from 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM, and in Rosedale, MD for the VFW Children’s Christmas.

Puerto Rico Garrison will be at the Universidad Central de Bayamon for Star Wars Reads 2017 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Southern California Garrison will be in Camarillo, CA for for Shop with a Cop from 8:00 to 11:00 AM, in Loma Linda, CA for 2017 Winter Wonderland, in Lompoc, CA for Operation Kids Christmas from 10:00 AM to noon, in Palm Springs, CA for the 25th Annual Festival of Lights Christmas Parade from 5:45 to 7:30 PM, in Moreno Valley, CA for the 452 MXS Squadron Christmas Party, in Pasadena, CA for the Hillsides Children’s Home Christmas visit, in San Dimas, CA for the Foster Care Holiday Party, and in Valencia, CA for Breakfast with Santa at Salt Creek Grille from 7:00 to 11:00 AM.

Spanish Garrison will be in Tarragona for the Starraco Wars Convention 2017 from December 2 to 3rd, in Saragossa for Mercadillo Ayudemos a Paula a Caminar, in Bilbo for Aprendetea Mercado de la Ribera, in Malaga for Gran Recogida Carrefour Alameda, in Malaga for Gran Recogida Carrefour los Patios, in Lucena for Gran Recogida Carrefour Lucena, in Lucena for Gran recogida Costco, in Oviedo for Mercadillo Solidario a Sociacion de Parkin son de Asturias, in Cordoba for Gran Recodgida Carrefour Sierra, and in Sevilla for Gran recogida Carrefour San Pablo.

Star Garrison will be in Dallas, TX for the Dallas Holiday Parade, in Fort Worth, TX for the Jingle Bell Run, and in Dallas, TX for Star Wars Night with the Dallas Mavericks.

Starkiller Garrison will be in Erie, PA for Star Wars Night with the Erie Bayhawks at Erie Insurance Arena from 6:00 to 10:00 PM, in Clearfield, PA for the Clearfield Christmas Parade from noon to 1:00 PM, in Erie, PA for the Toys for Tots Star Wars Donation from noon to 4:00 PM, and in Cranberry Township, PA for Holiday Lights Mini Golf at Fun Fore All Family Fun Park from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.

UK Garrison will be in Manchester for For the Love of Sci-Fi 2017 at the Bowler Exhibition Centre from December 2 to 3rd, in Wrexham for Wales Comic Con at Glyndwr University from December 2 to 3rd, in Edinburgh for Erskine Hospital Christmas Fete 2017, in Derby for Hicky’s Highway to Hell Christmas Party 2017, in Heywood for Hopwood Winter Market at Hopwood Park from 2:00 to 7:00 PM, in Leeds for the Morley Christmas Lights Switch On at the Church of the Nazarene from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, in London for Rag & Bone Star Wars retail event from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, in Saltash for the Saltash Christmas Festival at the Saltash Social Club from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, in Tiverton for Santas on the Run at The Market Centre from 4:45 to 6:30 PM, in Wokingham for St. Sebastians School Fete from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, and in Bristol for Staple Hill Christmas On the Hill from noon to 4:00 PM.

Wisconsin Garrison will be in Mayville, WI for It’s A Wonderful Life on Main.

December 3

Badlands Garrison will be in Edmonton, AB for the Kids with Cancer Family Christmas Party.

Carolina Garrison will be in Greer, SC for the Greer Christmas Parade from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.

Cloud City Garrison will be in Wood Village, OR for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Toy Drive at Walmart from 11:00 AM to noon.

Danish Garrison will be in Denmark for Surprise fødselsdag from 2:30 to 3:30 PM.

Old Line Garrison will be in Baltimore, MD for the Mayor’s Christmas Parade from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Southern California Garrison will be in Temecula, CA for the Joe Show & Toy Convention at Embassy Suites from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and in Santa Barbara, CA at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Spanish Garrison will be in Torrejon de Ardoz for Mercadillo Solidario Asoc. Ada Byron, in Bilbao for Fiesta Fekdoor en El Arenal, and in Marbella for PlanetAvoi.

Star Garrison will be in Houston, TX for the Autism Speaks Walk, in Dallas, TX for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Greater Dallas Holiday Party, and in Plano, TX for the Adopt Angels from Salvation Angel Tree.

December 4

Spanish Garrison will be in Malaga for Campana de Donacion de Sangre Granja Suarez.

December 5

Badlands Garrison will be in Calgary, AB for the Toy Delivery to Alberta Children’s Hospital.

Central California Garrison will be in Modesto, CA for the Modesto Junior College Community Orchestra Concert Verdi to Vader: Works from Italy & the Galactic Empire at the Performing and Media Arts Center at 7:00 PM.

Northern Darkness Garrison will be in La Porte, IN for the Deserving Children’s Shopping Tour at La Porte County Fairgrounds from 4:00 to 8:00 PM.

Southern California Garrison will be in Corona, CA for the CIW/US Marine Corps Toys for Tots.

Spanish Garrison will be in Zaragoza for Rastrillo Benefico de Juguetes.

Next Databurst…December 6th.

*If you didn’t see the events listed for your garrison, send us an email at [email protected] and let us know. We’re glad to add any we missed. For more info on the 501st Legion, be sure to check out their official website.

Source: Roqoo Depot

#star wars #501st #where to find

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blackkudos · 5 years ago

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Nella Larsen

Early life

The American author and critic Darryl Pinckney wrote of her anomalous situation:

Most American blacks were from the South, and Larsen had no connection with them or their histories.

Nursing career

Marriage and family

The couple moved to Harlem in the 1920s, where their marriage and life together had contradictions of class. As Pinckney writes:

Imes's scientific studies and achievement placed him in a different class than Larsen. The Imes couple had difficulties by the late 1920s, when he had an affair. They divorced in 1933.

Librarian and literary career

Later life

Larsen died in her Brooklyn apartment in 1964, at the age of 72.

Legacy

In 2018 the New York Times published a belated obituary for her.

Larsen is often compared to other authors who also wrote about cultural and racial conflict such as Claude Mckay and Jean Toomer.

Nella Larsen’s works are viewed as strong pieces that well represent mixed raced individuals, and the struggles with identity that some inevitably face.

Larsen’s novel Passing is being made into a film.

Works

1928: Quicksand

1929: Passing

#04/13 #03/30

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vieuxnoyesrp · 7 years ago

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Isa. Elijah Mikaelson is an incredibly difficult character to nail; as the ethical backbone of his family, he is often charged with not only acting as his siblings’ moral compass, but also with damage control for the chaos they leave in their wake. On top of that are Elijah’s own emotional complexities and vulnerabilities, which are often at odds with the aloof and austere exterior he likes to exude. We were wowed by you attention to detail in this application, and the way you managed to tiptoe the line Elijah walks between disapproval and condescension, careful not to tip too far in the direction of superciliousness and superiority. It was clear to us that you had done an incredible amount of research in preparation for this application and we couldn’t be more honored or pleased to welcome you to Vieux Noyés RP.

Isa, thank you very much for applying. As for Elijah…

⚜ ~ WELCOME TO VIEUX NOYÉS!!! ~ ⚜

Wondering what to do next? Click here and let the good times roll!

⤜ Name/alias: Isa.

⤜ Pronouns: She/her.

⤜ Age: 21.

⤜ Timezone: AEST/UTC +10.

⤜ Activity: I’m on uni break from now until February, so I’d say around 7 with work.

⤜ Best form of contact: Tumblr.

⤜ Any triggers? Nope, but thank you.

⤜ How did you find Vieux Noyés? From memory, I think it was a supernatural related RPG tag.

⤜ What drew you to the RP? I adore the shows and books this roleplay is inspired by and I have a huge respect for design… Vieux Noyés stood out immediately because it was so beautifully put together, then I read the plot and was hooked! The Appreciation Blog was also really encouraging to browse through! It seems like a wonderful group of people collaborate here.

⤜ What is one subplot/element from the Plot page that you are particularly looking forward to seeing in this roleplay? I’m watching (binging?) The Originals for the first time and the tension between supernatural species has me on the edge of my seat—it’s clear this is just as prevalent in the roleplay. I especially love that the VN plot incorporates the Salem witch cult to the mix. To see just how much pressure the NOLA coven can withstand, and how many shifts in magical balance their home can endure is exciting. A power struggle between the Originals and Marcel won’t matter if the city crumbles! How the wares, psychics, hunters and humans contribute to that war will also be undoubtedly epic (so basically all the elements, I’m terrible).

⤜ Desired character? The one and only Elijah Mikaelson.

⤜ Why do you want this character? I’ve always gravitated toward influential types who are strong willed and intrinsic to other’s development (I love to plot!). I’ve written as sadistic business moguls, security heads in dystopian angelic societies and warlock gang lords from the 1920s… I’m fascinated by prominent figures in history and the effect power has over an individual’s actions and sentiments, so I like characters that are dealt immense responsibility. I’m equally intrigued by their inherent weaknesses and the blurry line that separates honour and evil. The noble stag, the ripper of hearts, the eldest living Original vampire epitomises both extremes. Elijah’s Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator states that as an Architect, he presents as a paradox to most observers, and that he lives by glaring contradictions that nonetheless make perfect sense from a rational perspective. His sense of morality is unparalleled among vampires, but simultaneously he is one of the most dangerous and unpredictable of them all—I can’t wait to explore that synergy.

⤜ What are your future plans for this character? The Mikaelson siblings haven’t had a lot of fortune in the ol’ love department. Elijah particularly struggles to avert his attention from Klaus long enough to establish deep connections outside his family. It doesn’t help that on the extraordinarily rare occasion his focus has been elsewhere, tragedy has struck: first Tatia, then Celeste. There’s a quote from TO when Elijah says to his brother, “I have forsaken every single one of my desires in the name of your ridiculous redemption. No more. If I want something, I’ll take it. And nothing, nothing will stand in my way.” In the RP, I want Elijah to be pushed to this degree if he develops a romantic interest, triggering irrevocable consequences for his relationships and those inhabiting New Orleans.

⤜ Put yourself in your character’s shoes. Give us a few lines to describe a day in the life of your character… where do they live? Where and how do they spend their time? As Klaus expertly manipulates those in the French Quarter like pawns in a wicked game of chess, Elijah is close by to collect the pieces, regardless of how damaged they may be. While his dedication to his family is relentless, he finds peace in the Tulane University library or at Rousseau’s on nights featuring live entertainment. Further spare moments are spent playing the piano or writing in his journals which are kept in his offices at the Plantation House: a sanctuary for his business in the quarter and a beloved, albeit temporary home.

⤜ Give us three headcanons regarding your character of choice:

For a millennia, Elijah’s driving priority has been to protect his brothers and sister from their father, overconfident rivals, and each other. Elijah places family above all, even at the expense of his own happiness, but when they aren’t faced with imminent threats he utilises rare moments of peace to explore lands abroad; his favourite destination being Denmark where he lived with Klaus and Rebekah in the 1500s. Not sharing his sibling’s contempt for humans, Elijah has made many illustrious friends in his travels such as Caravaggio, Hemingway, and Ellington. Back in NOLA, Elijah continues to orchestrate alliances, believing unity is a necessary requirement for success.

After fleeing Mikael in the 11th century, Elijah settled with his family in Southern France. To assimilate into noble society, and for their true nature to remain undetected as they discovered the extent of their affliction, it was necessary to adopt local customs. This meant learning aristocratic manners and studying the arts. As his brothers found solace in paint or the blood of the townspeople, Elijah read every piece of literature he could get his hands on—discovering that strength came, not only from family, but from knowledge. This early exposure to formal education piqued a relentless curiosity that developed into something more sinister over the centuries. Elijah’s intellect is now his greatest asset, supernatural abilities aside. His penchant for establishing contingencies has proven invaluable and in battle, his strategic and calm demeanour only heightens his physical prowess making him near unbeatable (note: it’s always wise to carry a pocket handkerchief, just in case there’s a mess).

Elijah exudes elegance and is renowned for possessing an unfaltering gentlemanly demeanour. He values virtue over narcissism, but over a thousand years of life, an unparalleled encyclopaedic understanding of the world, and the inability to be killed has made the vampire supremely confident. He has no qualms reminding those that have forgotten that his niceties are a curtesy, not a given. Sassy Elijah is inevitable.

⤜ What are some plots you’d like to explore with your character?

As it mentions in the Plot Teasers section of Elijah’s biography, his future is entwined with his brother’s role in creating more hybrids, which will test loyalty. Furthermore, how will this impact his relationship with the Crescent Wolves and Hayley?

I’d love to do some flashbacks exploring the Originals’ historical ties to the city. There’s a great book I picked up after starting this application called “Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans” and the recounts from the early twentieth century in particular are magnificent.

I want to see Elijah’s investment in Gia Talwar’s training and plot how he will respond to her tenacious spirit. I imagine he’ll be a bit overprotective too.

Will Elijah intercede between Elena Gilbert and Klaus if they meet again? Can Elijah ignore the doppelgänger’s intoxicating familiarity?

I’m sure the unknown whereabouts of Finn has Elijah on edge, tracking him down may become something of a priority.

⤜ Para sample: Inspired by events and quotes: x

RFP

⤜ Would you like to be considered for another character if not accepted as your primary choice? Ooh probably Rebekah Mikaelson. Keep it in the family ;)

⤜ Have you read the rules? Thoroughly.

⤜ Anything else? Thank you for taking the time to read this application. Elijah is a considerably complex fellow and a beloved canon character, so I hope I’ve done him justice!

#elijah mikaelson rp #literate rpg #the originals roleplay #to rp #crossover rp #accepted

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techsciencebookclub · 5 years ago

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Speculative Now(s): Engaging with Sci-Fi to understand and develop the future of tech

https://techfestival.co/event/sci-fi-developed-the-world/

Our next book club session is part of Techfestival: a 3-day festival in Copenhagen with 200+ events on humans and technology:

https://techfestival.co/event/sci-fi-developed-the-world/

With this event we wish to explore how we can use literature to develop the future of tech

Science fiction has had a tremendous impact on what was invented in the 20th century. The way Jules Verne described Nautilus was used to develop the first submarines and generally, everything from AI and the internet to augmented reality was envisioned in literature. We believe that many revolutionary technologies were first envisioned through fiction and then later translated into actual applications. However, these technologies were envisioned through the sociological lens of that historic time, sometimes reinforcing existing cultural and political structures, and sometimes questioning them.

We want to investigate how literature can be used to make tech development even more visionary. Which narratives and predictions dominate current tech-developments? Which societal view do their future visions reflect? What is left out? And which urgent questions need to be asked, about the way we use autonomous technology to preserve and work with the social fabric that is currently shaping our society?

We want to engage you in different ways:

We would like to co-develop a joint reading list of both current and historic science fiction for people working with technology.

We want to investigate how we can include literature in tech development whether it be through: – The development of new design methodologies based on literary visions. – Book clubs in companies. – Iterative development processes between writers, engineers and designers.

We want to explore potential futures in the overlap between social movements and emerging autonomous technology through new playful, imaginative perspectives and fact-based storytelling.

This event is a collaboration between three organisations; Catch, Block Zero, Tech Book Club and Danish Design Center. Together we are exploring the potential in science fiction and the results from this meet-up will be part of a continued collaboration.

Hosts

Nynne Just Christoffersen (DK)

Together with Tina, Nynne is the initiator of Tech & Science Book Club, where they host discussions and explore the relationship between science, technology and the individual. Nynne is a Copenhagen-based software developer with a background in art and design history. She is active in a number of inclusive tech communities, including Hack Your Future, Rails Girls Copenhagen, Google’s Women Techmakers program and regularly contribute to the tech collective Cybernauterne.

Tina Ryoon Andersen (DK)

Together with Nynne, Tina is the initiator of Tech & Science Book Club, where they host discussions and explore the relationship between science, technology and the individual. Tina is working as project developer and programmer at The Danish Society of Engineers, IDA. With a background in Media Studies and Modern Culture. She is interested in digital culture and thrives in the cross-section of art, tech and change.

Christian Villum (DK)

Christian is Director of Digital & Future Thinking at the Danish Design Center and long-time sci-fi nerd. Driven by a keen interest in exploring new boundaries for strategic design, Christian Villum’s work at Danish Design Centre examines new ideas in the intersection between technology and design thinking – and has, over the past few months, included the exploration of “science fiction thinking”; a method that uses sci-fi as a way to navigate the future. Right now he is working on launching a Copenhagen-based community around this concept.

Sonja Rattay (DE)

Sonja is a UX designer and strategist and co-founded the tech and design studio Block Zero, where she is currently leading the Design & UX efforts of the team. Together with her clients, she works towards creating experiences which bring humans and technology closer. Her projects range from creating immersive fashion technology exploring the perceptual senses of the human body to UX for embodied interaction and creating machines with personality. When she is not working, Sonja is learning about the human brain, travels the world and tinkers with new technologies such as implants, VR and robots.

Majken Overgaard (DK)

Majken is the programme manager at Catch. Catch is exploring and developing new ideas at the intersection of art, technology, and design. Throughout her career, she has focused on synergies between art & technology through positions at the Technical University of Denmark & University of Southern Denmark and her independent curatorial practice focusing on feminist activism within art and tech.

Simon Brørup (DK)

Simon is a librarian at Elsinore Libraries and has a focus on digital literature. Simon and Majken are collaborating about activities within science fiction, digital literature and tech.

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architectnews · 4 years ago

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Zaha Hadid Architects: Architecture

Zaha Hadid Architect, London, UK, Photo, Designer, Practice, Office, Picture

Zaha Hadid Architecture : Buildings List

Buildings – Projects – Images – Exhibitions – Books: Architectural Practice London, England

3 Dec 2020

Zaha Hadid Architects Declare News

ZHA leave Architects Declare

On 3 December 2020, ZHA announced it had chosen to leave Architects Declare.

Below is the firm’s full statement on their withdrawal:

Climate change is a defining challenge of our generation and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is committed to developing solutions.

We embed sustainability into the design, procurement, construction and operations of the projects we are delivering, and we work hard to build integrated client/contractor/design team relationships that can maximise opportunities to improve systems which prioritize environmental issues and ensure cost-effective sustainability.

This collaborative relationship between the client, operator, design team and contractor, together with the development of an overall understanding of the sustainability agenda across the entire project team, is critical to delivering the most sustainable construction and operations of a building throughout its lifetime.

Recent ZHA projects have achieved exemplary accreditation. The KAPSARC research centre in Riyadh and the Generali Tower in Milan were awarded LEED Platinum. The Nürnberg Messe Convention Hall received its Platinum rating from the German Society for Sustainable Building (DGNB) and Leeza SOHO in Beijing obtained LEED Gold.

ZHA is now delivering architecture around the world targeting the highest sustainability certification, including projects in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas planning carbon neutral operations.

We continue this progress; marrying advances in sustainable design and operational systems with innovations in ecologically sound materials and construction practices. We do not look only at the disparate parts, but work to understand them as a whole to deliver effective solutions.

Regrettably we are withdrawing from Architects Declare. As a founding signatory, we agreed to continue and accelerate our work towards progressive change in our built environment. However today we need to recognise that we have a significant difference of opinion with the Architects Declare steering group on how positive change can be delivered.

For us how change is delivered requires discussion, cooperation and collaboration, and this must be debated without condemnation.

Architects Declare’s steering group has unilaterally decided on its own precise and absolute interpretation of the coalition’s commitments. By doing so, we believe they are setting the profession up for failure. Redefining these commitments without engagement undermines the coalition and trust.

We saw Architects Declare as a broad church to raise consciousness on the issues; enabling architectural practices of all sizes to build a coalition for change and help each other find solutions. We need to be progressive, but we see no advantage in positioning the profession to fail. In fact, it would be a historic mistake.

We have 9 key pages online re Architect Zaha Hadid:

Zaha Hadid : main page – Current Work

Links from 2016:

Dame Zaha Hadid Architecture

Dame Zaha Hadid Architect

Dame Zaha Hadid Dies – 1950-2016

Typological Links:

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Older Work from 2008-10

Zaha Hadid Buildings – Older Work up to 2007

Zaha Hadid Exhibitions

Zaha Hadid Books

Zaha Hadid Events

Zaha Hadid Architects – All Projects + Practice Information (this page)

Key Works by Zaha Hadid

Projects listed alphabetically (we exclude links to buildings featured on the main page to avoid duplication):

Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre, UAE 2007- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Abu Dhabi building

Antwerp Port Authority headquarters, Belgium 2009- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Antwerp Port House

Aquatics Centre, 2012 London Olympics, UK 2006-12 image from Zaha Hadid Architects London Olympics Aquatics Centre

Architecture Foundation, London, UK abandoned Feb 2008 image from Architecture Foundation Architecture Foundation

Barvikha Villa, Moscow, Russia – image from Zaha Hadid Architects

Beko Masterplan, Belgrade, Serbia 2013- Beko Masterplan

Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria 2002 photo : Hélène Binet Bergisel Ski Jump

BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany 2005 Stirling Prize 2006 nominee BMW Central Building

Burnham Pavilion, Chicago, USA photo courtesy of ZHA © Michelle Litvin Burnham Pavilion building photos : see also Millennium Park Pavilion

Cairo Expo City Competition, Egypt 2009- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Cairo Expo City Competition

Chartres Expo Building, France images : ZHA The City of Chartres has awarded ZHA the contract to build its new Expo facility on the outskirts of the city. The project is part of the larger master plan of the ‘plateau du Nord-Est’ and will provide approximately 12,500m2 of internal exhibition space and approximately 4,700m2 of external exhibition area. The building design is a compact and functional solution within a strong and clear overall composition. Internally the building provides a flexible arrangement that enables up to 3 separate events to be hosted simultaneously and a roof-top cafeteria with views across to the cathedral. The estimated budget is €29.5m with construction due to start in 2013.

Torre Hadid – CityLife Milano Residential Complex, Milan, Italy photograph : Simon Garcia | arqfoto.com CityLife Milano Residential Complex – added 3 Apr 2016

Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia 2007-

Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Korea 2009- image from ZHA Dongdaemun Design Plaza

Dorobanti Tower, Bucharest, Romania 2009-13 image from Zaha Hadid Architects Dorobanti Tower

Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA 2008-12 picture from Zaha Hadid Broad Art Museum Building

Elk Grove Civic Centre, Sacramento, CA, USA 2011- render Courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects Elk Grove Civic Centre

Euskotren HQ, Durango, nr Bilbao, Spain –

Evelyn Grace Academy, Brixton, London, UK 2010 photograph © Adrian Welch Evelyn Grace Academy – Zaha Hadid Architects’ first completed building in England

Expocentre Complex, Moscow International Business Centre, Russia 2007-

Glasgow Transport Museum, Scotland, UK 2007-11 picture from Zaha Hadid Riverside Museum Glasgow

Guangzhou Opera House, China 2007-11 photo : Virgile Simon Bertrand Guangzhou Opera House

Guggenheim Museum, Taichung, Taiwan –

High Speed Train Station Napoli-Afragola, Naples, Italy –

Herault Culture Sport, Montpellier, France –

Heydar Aliyev cultural centre, Baku project, Azerbaijan 2008- Heydar Aliyev Centre Building

Hoenheim Nord Terminus Strasbourg, France – picture from Zaha Hadid Hoenheim Nord Terminus

Hotel Puerta America, Madrid, Spain – picture from Hotel Puerta America website Zaha Hadid interior – Spanish designer hotel interior

Hoxton Square, east London, England 2006- image courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects Hoxton Square

Innovation Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong 2007-14 picture from Zaha Hadid Innovation Tower Hong Kong

Istanbul masterplan, Turkey 2006-

Jesolo Magica complex, Venice, Italy 2010- picture from Zaha Hadid Jesolo Magica Buildings

JS Bach Chamber Music Hall, Manchester, England 2009 image courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects JS Bach Chamber Music Hall

King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art Building, Jordan 2010- building image from Zaha Hadid House of Culture & Art Jordan

LFone Landesgartenschau, Weil am Rhein, Germany –

Lilium Tower, Warsaw, Poland 2008- picture from Zaha Hadid Architects Polish tower

Madrid Civil Court of Justice, Madrid, Spain 2008-10 picture from Zaha Hadid Madrid Court

Maxxi : National Centre of Contemporary Arts, Rome, Italy 2008 photo : Roland Halbe MAXXI Rome

Middle East Centre, Oxford, England 2007- image from Zaha Hadid Architects English Project

Millennium Park Pavilion Building, Chicago, USA 2009- picture from Zaha Hadid Millennium Park Pavilion Design – see also Burnham Pavilion building

Mobile Art Chanel Pavilion, Hong Kong 2008 photo : Virgile Simon Bertrand Chanel Pavilion

Museum in Cagliari, Italy 2006- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Cagliari museum

Nassim Villas, Singapore picture from architects Nassim Villas

Nile Tower, Cairo, Egypt picture from architects Nile Tower Cairo – added 19 Apr 2012 A gracious volume set alongside the Nile, this elegant 70-storey structure seems to rotate, to lean across the water on its west side this sense of movement further enhanced by strong diagonals and the continuous glass plaza at its foot.

Nordpark Cable Railway Station, Innsbruck, Austria 2007 photo : Helene Binet Nordpark Station

The Opus, Dubai, UAE 2007- image from Zaha Hadid Architects The Opus Dubai

Pierres Vives building, Montpellier, France 2006- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Pierres Vives building

Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany 2006 image © Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre : Stirling Prize nominee

Price Tower Arts Centre, Batlesville, Oklahoma, USA –

Rabat Grand Theatre, Morocco render from architects Rabat Grand Theatre

Regium Waterfront, southern Italy 2009- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Regium Waterfront, Italy

Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany –

Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2003 photo : Roland Halbe Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art

Riverside Museum Glasgow, Scotland photograph : Hufton + Crow Museum of Transport Glasgow : major British building – see ‘Glasgow Transport Museum’

Serpentine Pavilion, London 2007 photo : Luke Hayes Serpentine Pavilion

Seville University Library, Spain 2009 image from ZHA Seville University Library

Sheikh Zayad Bridge, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2008- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Abu Dhabi Bridge

Signature Towers, Business Bay, UAE 2008- image from Zaha Hadid Architects UAE Towers

Stone Towers Cairo, Egypt 2009- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Stone Towers Cairo

University of Economics & Business, Vienna, Austria 2008- image from Zaha Hadid Architects Vienna University Library : design competition win

Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany –

Zaragoza Expo Bridge, Spain Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects Zaragoza Bridge

Zorrozaurre Master Plan, Bilbao, Spain –

More projects by Zaha Hadid online soon

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Background

Zaha Hadid is an architect whose work ranges from masterplans to interiors and furniture. She is best known for her Vitra Fire Station and recently the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 1972 and was awarded the AA Diploma Prize in 1977. Zaha became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

Zaha Hadid – Teaching Positions

Taught at London’s AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas + Elia Zenghelis Ran studio at the Architectural Association until 1987 Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA Sullivan Chair at the University of Chicago School of Architecture, USA Guest Professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany Guest Professor, Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio, USA Guest Professor, Masters Studio, Columbia University, New York, USA

Zaha Hadid was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2002 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Zaha was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. Zaha Hadid is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Architecture Competitions

Zaha Hadid has entered, and won, a huge number of competitions, including The Peak, Hong Kong (1983), Kurfürstendamm, Berlin (1986), Düsseldorf Art and Media Centre (1992/93), Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales (1994), Royal Academy Habitable Bridge Competition, London (1996), the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (1998), University of North London Holloway Road Bridge (1998), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rome (1999), Bergisel Ski-jump, Innsbruck, Austria (1999), Placa de les Artes, Barcelona (2001), Masterplan for Singapore’s Science Hub (2001), Ordrupgaard Museum Extension, Copenhagen (2001) and the temporary Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo (2002).

Other competition entries include large scale urban studies for Hamburg, Madrid, Bordeaux and Cologne; Museum Buildings in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria, Madrid (Prado, Reina Sofia, Royal Palace), the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Boilerhouse Gallery, London and a Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar; concert halls for Copenhagen and Luxembourg; a theatre for the Hackney Empire, London and large scale multi-functional buildings for 42nd street, New York as well as for the IIT Campus in Chicago, and third prize for an event and delivery center for BMW in Munich.

Despite competition entries in the UK for the V&A Museum’s Boilerhouse Gallery, Habitable Bridge Competition, Theatre for the Hackney Empire, all London, and of course the Cardiff Bay Opera House, the first real buildings by Zaha Hadid are to be in Scotland.

Zaha Hadid project – first UK building, photos

Zaha Hadid – Buildings

Vitra Fire Station, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany – Bitar, London, UK 1985 Monsoon Restaurant, Sapporo, Japan 1990 Folly, Osaka, Japan 1990 Music Video Pavilion, Groningen, Netherlands 1990 Housing project for IBA-Block 2, Berlin, Germany 1993 LFone pavilion, Weil am Rhein, Germany 1993/1999 Pavilion for Blueprint Magazine, Interbuild, Birmingham, UK 1995 Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London, UK 1999 Tram Station & Car Park, Strasbourg, France 2001 Contemporary Arts Centre Cincinnati, USA 2004 Vineyard buildings, Haro, Rioja, Spain 2006 Spittelau Viaduct housing, Vienna, Austria 2006 Edifici University Campus – proposal, Barcelona 2006-08 Contemporary Arts Centre Rome, Italy – Ski-jump Innsbruck, Austria – Masterplan, Science Hub, Singapore – Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany – Ferry Terminal, Salerno, Italy – Public Square & Cinema Complex, Barcelona, Spain – Central Plant Building for BMW, Leipzig, Germany – CMA CGM Headquarters – project, Marseilles, France (2005) Bridge structure, Abu Dhabi, UAE – Tramway landscaping, Strasbourg, France –

Z-Scape furniture: manufactured by Sawaya and Moroni 2001

Zaha Hadid Unbuilt Projects

Cardiff Opera House, Cardiff, Wales, UK The Peak, Kowloon, Hong Kong KMR, Art and Media Centre, Dusseldorf, Germany Malevich’s Tektonik, London, UK

Zaha Hadid Product Designs

LACOSTE footwear picture from ZHA

Genesy lamp for Artemide render by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Exhibitions / Stagesets

Zaha Hadid Fluidity & Design Exhibition, Bahrain : 2009

Sonnabend Gallery, New York : 2008

Milan Furniture Fair, Italy : 2008

Dune Formations, Venice Art Biennale : 2007

Art Basel, Switzerland : 2007

Famously architect Zaha Hadid did one of her earliest building designs for The Peak architecture competition – see Hong Kong Buildings for The Peak building.

Zaha Hadid Architects: London +44 (0)20 7253 5147

Dame Zaha Hadid architect

Dame Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Hadid Architecture

Location: London, England, UK

Zaha Hadid Architects – First UK Building

Zaha Hadid Architects Studio 9, 10 Bowling Green Lane London EC1R 0BQ

Pritzker Prize architects Winner 2004

Maggie’s Fife, Kirkcaldy : Scottish Design Awards 2007 – Public Building Shortlist

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