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Lon Chaney and William Humphrey in The Unholy Three (1925)

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Joan Blondell and Bette Davis for Three On A Match 1932 💋

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Audrey dancing in Sabrina, My Fair Lady, Roman Holiday, War and Peace, Funny Face and Secret People. She's adorable!

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So I found out that Bir Istanbul Masali is an adaptation of Sabrina 1954 AND Sabrina 1995???

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The big sleep, 1946

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THE COAT

Sir William Humphreys Coat of Arms

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who are all of your hamilton muses cos i love your writing and i wanna sens you a starter

under the cut because there’s a ton lmao

Alexander HamiltonAngelica HamiltonAngelica SchuylerBenjamin WalkerDavid HumpreysDeborah SampsonFriedrich von SteubenGeorge WashingtonHarriot WasingtonJames MadisonJames ReynoldsJohn AdamsJohn ChurchJohn Church HamiltonJohn Parke CustisLawrence WashingtonLouis XVILouis-JosephMaria ReynoldsMarie AntoinetteMartha WashingtonMary Ball WashingtonMeriwether LewisNathan HalePeggy SchuylerPhilip HamiltonPhilip SchuylerPrincess ElizabethRichard Henry LeeRochambeauSally FairfaxSamuel Seabury ITanaghrissonTheodosia Bartow BurrThomas JeffersonWilliam North

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Top 10 Inspirational Movies for Men

First, for everyone’s sanity, let’s get this out of the way…

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!

Having posted the above warning, the said list is below should you not want to continue reading and add a modicum of enlightened bliss in your life. In no particular order.

1. Casablanca

2. 30 Days of Night

3. The Road

4. Gladiator

5. Braveheart

6. Gran Torino

7. Eastern Promises

8. Logan

9. Last of the Mohicans

10. Man for All Seasons

Some timeless questions need answering: what does it take to be a man? What are the qualities men aspire to gain for the world to grant him a hat tip of utter respect? What is a “man’s man” anyway? Why do we have another blog post about this topic when there are a dozen ones like it online already!?

Whether hero or anti-hero, there is a full spectrum of characters we could delve into as being “manly”. If we talk about universal archetypes, there is the warrior (Sylvester Stallone in the “Rambo” series), the king (Gary Oldman in “Darkest Hour”), the magician (Pierce Brosnan in “The Thomas Crown Affair”) and the lover (John Cusack in “Serendipity” and a lot more back in the 80’s!).

As for the more specific movie character tropes, we have the rebel (Morgan Freeman in “Lean On Me”), the rogue loner (Harrison Ford in “Blade Runner” and Vin Diesel in “Pitch Black”), the eccentric (Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society”), the grizzled, beaten veteran (Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”), the man on a mission type (Denzel Washington in “The Book of Eli”) or even the coming-of-age adolescent (a whole bunch in “Stand by Me”). Villains, though not in the spotlight, create something equally impactful as well (standouts are Michael Wincott in “The Crow” and Benicio del Torro in “The Hunted” and “Sicario”).  

Sure enough, there are plenty of those kinds of films as well as reviews highlighting them. So how is this post different? It centers on the theme of redemption is attained by stoicism and an ultimate act of self-sacrifice. Yep. Movie heroes always come out on top and the fight is won, right?

NOT ON THIS LIST!

This time the hero isn’t necessarily victorious in the usual sense of attaining the desired outcome. The hero dies. He “dies”, either literally or figuratively, while amid the struggle or along the journey. This then affords him the victory of transcending his old self and becoming a better or renewed version of himself. The ending of such films are usually bittersweet but also makes the world stand up, take notice and say: “He’s the man!”

1) Casablanca - Let’s begin with the classic story of estranged lovers with a passionate history. Fate brings the pair together again, but under difficult circumstances and the threat of Nazi oppression. Humprey Bogart plays a “cynical” nightclub owner trying to escape to a remote corner of the world but only to find love and war are not so easy to elude.

“Whoa” Scene: Realizing the far greater importance of the resistance movement, he had to say goodbye to his lady love and a chance for personal happiness.

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William Humpreys Art Gallery is nestled in the Oppenheimer Gardens in Kimberley, South Africa. The art displayed dates back to the 17th century. In 2019, the gallery appointed its first ever black African manager, Ernestine White.

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MEDIA RELEASE 11 JUNE 2017

Strongest Visual Arts Festival Programme in South Africa for 2017

The visual arts programme of the 2017 Vrystaat Arts Festival is one of the most technically sophisticated and internationally engaged offerings on the South African festival calendar this year. From First Nations’ prints and interactive media art sculptures, to ecology focussed, robotic installations, through to retrospective shows of well-known South African artists and exhibitions of emerging and mid-career practitioners, this year’s festival has it all.

Ons kom vanaf ons stories/We Come from our Stories (18 July - 22 July 2017, Pluimbal Hall)

In 2017, the Vrystaat Arts Festival presents Ons kom vanaf ons stories (We Come from Our Stories). Ons kom vanaf ons stories is a print portfolio that visually retells traditional stories from the !Xun and Khwe First Nations peoples. The project was realised through a partnership between Free State Arts & Health, the National Association of Childcare Workers (NACCW) in Kimberley, Isibindi Youth Centre in Platfontein and the William Humprey Art Gallery (WHAG) in Kimberley. The prints were made by young artists from Platfontein as part of an intergenerational cohesion project that facilitates the transfer of cultural narratives from the older generation to the younger. In this way the programme is making a huge contribution to the conservation of First Nations languages, culture and heritage and creates a new generation of story tellers and/or artists, which is one of the main aims of the festival.

Giidanyba (Sky Beings) Tyrone Sheather (16  July - 30 July 2017 Oliewenhuis Art Gallery)

Giidanyba (Sky Beings) consists of seven figure-like sculptures, depicting nocturnal spirits that impart knowledge and guidance to the First Nation, Gumbaynggirr people of Australia. The Giidanyba transforms from unlit statues in the daytime to bright, shimmering beings in the evening. Emanating from within these spirit-like forms, are sounds and lights that are responsive to the movement of audiences. Tyrone Sheather, an Australian artist belonging to the Gumbaynggirr people from the mid-north coast of New South Wales, aims to explore identity and to reveal, through a combination of traditional and contemporary media, knowledge and stories that have been passed down over centuries within the Gumbaynggirr Dreamtime. Sheather explains: “In the Dreaming (Yuludarla), the Hero-Ancestors made and transformed the landscape with their special powers of creation and destruction. Simulating a Gumbaynggirr rite of passage, Giidanyba symbolises these Spiritual Ancestors, as they descend from the Muurrbay Bundani (tree of life) in the sky, to support people throughout their cultural journey and to guide them into the next stage of their lives.” Giidanyba is presented by Situate Art in Festivals, Tasmania as part of a First Nations project of the Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD), and initiative of the festival and the University of the Free State and supported by Oliewenhuis Art Gallery.

The Mesh  Keith Armstrong (17 July - 11 Aug 2017, Stegmann Gallery)

The Mesh is an interactive, experiential solo exhibition by Dr Keith Armstrong. The five artworks on exhibition each investigate how a ‘mesh’ of environmental, social and cultural ecologies form our worlds, asking how we might re-imagine our place and actions within those networks through the lens of ‘re-futuring’ (i.e. concerted actions that help increase time left in the future). Retrospective works are shown together with international premieres. These include a sculptural text-based work O Tswellang, arising from collaborations with ‘change agents’ in the informal townships around Bloemfontein as part of the Seven Stage Futures project, presented during festival time in local informal settlements. Another of the five works, the international premiere of Eremocene (Age of Loneliness), reveals a mysterious, internally glowing creature, witnessed from several different vantage points and views. Traveling ethereally through a darkened tank this form is entwined with a dynamically evolving soundscape, suggesting a naturalised/artificially intelligent form, ambiguously isolated at the edges of fluid consciousness. The exhibition also sees the re-development of innovative video installations such as Shifting Dusts, originally commissioned for the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) London in 2006, and Seasonal. Supported by Queensland University of Technology, Creative Lab Research Centre.

?Boek / Book? curated by Dead Bunny Society (17 July - 28 July, Centenary Arts Gallery, Centenary Complex, UFS)

In this exhibition the Dead Bunny Society explores a wide variety of manifestations of the book as an artwork. The genre is generally misunderstood as either a book that an artist works in or a visual diary. With this in mind the Dead Bunnies aim to explore the genre of book arts through the more accepted format of the artist book in a traditionally bound format as well as more alternative ways in which the book can take shape. The premise of the exhibition is to open up an understanding of the genre through exploring different methodologies in the binding and display process and will include the more traditional codex binding as well as the more alternative ways which would include the long stitch, secret Belgium binding, exposed spine bindings and single sheet binding to name but a few. The exhibition will also explore different ways in which an exhibition of this nature can be presented to the viewer, where the natural need to engage with a book through touching and turning the page will be encouraged as this forms one of the most important aspects of engaging with the book format.

[my] SELF curated by Angela de Jesus (17 July-22 July  kykNET-Scaena Foyer)

In the exhibition [my] SELF artists explore the complexities of identity and belonging over the backdrop of our social, political and cultural climate. Using their own body as subject or point of departure, artists investigate issues of SELF in relation to language, race, religion and/or gender. The exhibition showcases works by local artists such as Sandy Little, Toni Pretorius, Gerrit Hattingh and Bonging Njalo alongside national artists like Angus Taylor. [my] SELF is the third addition of three exhibitions following the exhibition [my] PLACE in 2015 and [my] OBJECT in 2016. In the exhibitions artists have been invited to create works that explore land ownership, personalised inanimate objects and identity.

’n Terugblik  Ben Botma (18 July - 27 Aug, Oliewenhuis Art Gallery)

Ben Botma quotes Chuck Palahniuk: “The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” Art, architecture, music, poetry - these are the manifestations of human dreams, fears, spirituality, thoughts. In these works local artist Botma is searching for an underlying subconscious line between some of these cultural manifestations. Included in this exhibition will be a selection of works from his student days until today, in a variety of media.

Carceral Spaces: Anticpating the sublime... Marieke Kruger (18 July - 20 Aug, Oliewenhuis Arts Gallery)

“An exploration of the sublime through the power of suggestive drawing trace towards the transformation of the self and the other.” In her body of drawings the artist specifically explores the transformative power of suggestion as a means of containing a certain presence which could lead to an experience of the sublime – specifically the awesome in drawing. Kruger focuses on large scale portrait drawings of the self and the other (in this case, prison inmates with whom she interacts) and its particular relationship to space thereby creating a means through which the psychological and spiritual effect of the sublime in drawing is explored, as well as the drawing’s subsequent transformative effect on the self and the other. Marieke Kruger is currently reading and researching towards a proposed PhD study on the sublime and its transformative effects on the self and the other through the power of large scale suggestive drawing trace.

Propitas  Miné Kleynhans (18 July - 20 Aug, Oliewenhuis Arts Gallery)

The artworks in this exhibition flirt with contemporary marketing and poke fun at ideas about property and consumer products. The commercial offer made by these works target prevalent attitudes, expectations and desires in the average middle class household in a satirical yet solitary way. The works play imaginatively with elements from the insurance, security, marketing and spiritual industry by ways of the design of semi-commercial products with fictional pseudo-transcendental aspirations. The works speak thematically to, and about, human desires regarding cherishing, surety, significance and enchantment in commercial as well as domestic spheres. Min. Kleynhans is a local artist and final year Master of Fine Arts student at the University of the Free State.

The Elements of Incarnation I-IV Janna Kruger (18 July - 20 Aug, Oliewenhuis Arts Gallery)

The Elements of Incarnation I-IV is an exhibition of reinforced concrete sculptures accompanying the exhibition by Marieke Kruger in the Reservoir. Janna Kruger employs the process of sculpting to distil and elucidate spiritual notions and influences affecting his life. He then consolidates these abstract findings into tangible monuments as ‘beacons’ of reminiscence, deliberation and/or instruction. He was the winner of the Sculpture category of the 2015/2016 PPC Imaginarium Awards.

Air Cabinet Peter Burke (Hoffman Square 18 - 20 Jul 09:30 – 16:00. Part of Public Art Projects - PAP)

Air Cabinet is a ‘community service’ intended to generate discussion around the value of air. It features a public stall, a ‘doctor’ and a cabinet of small glass test tubes containing individual samples of the human breath. Visitors to PAP will be invited to donate, sell or swap their breath in a discursive installation. The ‘doctor’ (Peter Burke) broadcasts questions about air over a megaphone and draws the public into a lively and off-the-cuff debate about the value of air. ‘Donors’ from the general public will be invited take part in an intimate ‘test’ that involves filling a test tube with a single breath. Their unique sample will be permanently sealed, labelled and dated for display in a museum-style cabinet. They may give their air a descriptive title such as ‘the breath of love’, ‘the air of enthusiasm’ or ‘hot air’. Over the span of the festival an estimated 300 samples will be collected. They will form an ongoing installation that aims to provoke conversations about the significance of the human breath. The project expands explorations of air by Marcel Duchamp in his glass vial containing Air de Paris (50 cc of Paris Air) (1919).

Are we the one? Keith Armstong (UV-kampus / UFS Campus. Part of Public Art Projects - PAP)

A collaborative, performative and relational experience for two people, woven together by a custom digital phone app. Two walkers, who have never met, simultaneously use a phone app to record a personalised walk around their locality, crafting a series of special moments and surprises for each other. The app then allows participants to continue their two walks, but now directed by what the other person has just created for them. Finally, at the end of the experience they can then choose whether they would actually like to meet in person. Take part: papvrystaat@gmail.com Commissioned by Arts House through the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Digital Theatre Initiative. Arts House is a program of the City of Melbourne.

Live Art

South African artists work, all participants of the biannual OPENLab interdisciplinary laboratory of the PIAD, include In These Streets by Wezile Mgibe, a live art and dance performance which speaks about his personal journey of self-discovery;  PIE: Planning Impossible Errors by Ella Ziegler, Karin Tan, Skye Quadling and friends around the phenomenon of unexpected errors; and 29°06ʹS 26°13ʹE by Lhola Amira and Vasiki Creative Citizens, a performance work that explores significant past and present narratives in South Africa including The Cattle Killing of 1857, Ukuzika kuka Mendi of 1917 and the Shimla Park Brawl at the University of the Free State in 2016. Other projects part of the PIAD in 2017 include international work such as OnesieWorld by Adele Varcoe, which sees 1,000 onesies designed and made by fashion students and manufacturers in Bloemfontein given away to festival goers; and Dr Keith Armstrong’s Seven Stage Futures, a series of events created by local ‘change-agents’ part of Qala Phelang Tala (Start Living Green), set in informal settlements in and around Bloemfontein/Mangaung designed as community-led Meraka or gathering spaces.  

Connected  Vian Roos and Anneli Groenewald (Scaena Restaurant and Pluimbal Hall, 17 July - 22 July)

Connected is a visual arts vrynge exhibition. A photographic series by Vian Roos, the exhibition explores the different ways in which couples have relationships, whether a traditional heterosexual relationship, a homosexual relationship, a cross-cultural relationship or a relationship between individuals with large age gaps, among others. The portraits work in tandem with text by Anneli Groenewald, that documents and contextualises the realities of the relationships behind each image. The collaboration works to undermine prejudices that often underlie dislike and resentment towards so-called ‘nontraditional’ relationships.

For further inquiries contact:

Roxanne Konco                                                     Angela de Jesus

Marketing Manager                                                Director Stegmann Gallery

Tel: +27 (0)51 404 7947 roxanne.konco@volksblad.com      

 Tel: +27 (0)51 401 2706 DeJesusAV@ufs.ac.za

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MEDIA RELEASE 30 JUNE 2017 WE COME FROM OUR STORIES: FREE STATE ARTS & HEALTH

Free State Arts & Health is a pioneering South African arts and health initiative that supports the involvement of the arts in the wellbeing of communities. The programme is a bi-lateral partnership of the Vrystaat Arts Festival and DADAA in Western Australia, supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD), an initiative of the festival and the University of the Free State (UFS).

Professor Francis Petersen, Vice-Chancellor of the UFS says: ‘Health and ability go hand in hand – and enabling our communities to participate in  shaping and maintaining their well-being should be a priority for any institution. Especially for those institutions whose activity draws on the vitality and diversity of the communities that hosts them. This finds expression in the University of the Free State’s Human Project, on and off-campus. Our partnership with Free State Arts & Health is a valuable extension of the University’s mission to positively impact on society. The platforms and methods made available through this program is an asset to UFS and the province.’  

HE Mr Adam McCarthy – Australian High Commissioner in Pretoria, South Africa comments: ‘We are very proud that Australian artists and arts organisations are partnernering with South African arts institutions to facilitate both cultural exchange and long-term, mutually beneficial arts and health programs. We share an interest in a peaceful and prosperous region and are committed to working with the countries of Southern Africa as a friend and partner.’

Rosemary Mangope, CEO of the National Arts Council of South Africa and Board Member of the International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies (IFACAA), states: ‘Free State Arts & Health is an incredibly important pilot project for South Africa. It has the potential to upscale and impact significantly on both the arts and health communities of our country. We need to utilise the arts as a leading framework for a thriving future and health is primary to sustainability. The programme mobilises communities to raise the bar on their collective health and stimulates the growth of new cultural expression in Africa.’

Tony Grybowski, CEO of the Australia Council for the Arts says: ‘The Australia Council's Strategic Plan - A Culturally Ambitions Nation identifies reciprocity as a way to develop the arts globally and is proud to support international artist exchanges such as these to help practitioners share practices, develop new programs and build the profile of artists with disability at high profile international events. DADAA in Western Australia is a leading arts and disability organisation and through programs such as Free State Arts & Health they strengthen the South African and Australian arts industries by injecting new ideas and ways of thinking’

David Doyle, Executive Director of DADAA states: ‘Sometimes in my role I get to work on some extraordinary partnerships and this project is one. Its the partners shared passion for cultural inclusion and health impacts that is now gaining traction across the Free State due to the dedicated work of the Program Manager Mc Roodt and the project artists.  Together we are forging a unique practice in Arts and Health across the Free State , that is uniquely South African. Working with the partners and project team has been an absolute pleasure.’

Annalize Dedekind, Chair of the Vrystaat Arts Festival says: ‘Significant progress has been made since the start of the Free State Arts &Health programme. Under the leadership of MC Roodt, the arts are being used as a medium to bring a certain message to communities regarding their health, be it physical, psychological or social. A good example is the programme in Platfontein, where the !Xun and Khwe people’s heritage is at a crossroads because of the influence of contemporary culture on the youth. Through this programme, the younger generation has had the opportunity to sit at the elders’ feet and hear stories of their people, which were on the way to never being told again if those elders died. The young ones now get the opportunity to depict those stories in their own art works, which will be exhibited at the Vrystaat Arts Festival and other venues in the country.’

In 2017, Free State Arts & Health will present two projects during the Vrystaat Arts Festival, namely, Ons kom vanaf ons stories (We Come from Our Stories) and Parallel to Pandemic.

Ons kom vanaf ons stories is a print portfolio that visually retells traditional stories from the !Xun and Khwe First Nations peoples. The project was realised through a partnership between Free State Arts & Health, the National Association of Childcare Workers (NACCW) in Kimberley, Isibindi Youth Centre in Platfontein, and the William Humprey Art Gallery (WHAG) in Kimberely. The prints were made by young artists from Platfontein as part of an intergenerational cohesion project that facilitates the transfer of cultural narratives from the older generation to the younger.

In this way the programme is making a huge contribution to the conservation of First Nations languages, culture and heritage and creates a new generation of story tellers and/or artists, which is one of the main aims of the festival.

Parallel to Pandemic, is an artist-led condom distribution and targeted messaging campaign that is co-produced by Free State Arts & Health and the PIAD. The project is a response by Free State Arts & Health to the health agenda of the Free State and a platform for young and emerging visual artists to speak to the health community of the festival.

A triannual Arts & Health Industry Newsletter will be also be distributed to the growing sector, to collate work currently dealing with arts an health and act as a discussion point for issues facing the industry. The first newsletter can be downloaded here: http://bit.ly/FSAHNewsletter

Roodt’s election as Chair of the first Arts & Health Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) goes to show that he has already made his mark in arts in health and that Free State Arts & Health is now a national leader in this field.

For further inquiries contact: MC Roodt, Free State Arts & Health Manager. Tel: +27 (0)51 404 7947 MC.Roodt@volksblad.com