Performance Art
WHAT IS: A Mirror, more than Glass?
The mirror, more than just glass, has occupied a unique place in his imagination as a site of the divine or demonic, of lucidity or madness. It is the ‘matrix of the symbolic’ and accompanies the human quest to know and understand our identity.
Queensland Musical Talent in Spring
From Brisbane comes the results of the Q Song Music Awards 2010 in a vast variety of musical categories that are proof that musical talent is alive and well, especially in Queensland in Spring.
From Keith Urban to Powderfinger, from Jeffrey Black to Lisa Gasteen, Andre Rieu’s favourite, the lovely Mirusia, and up and comers like [...]
FREE – Six Online Videos – Evolution Art, Design & Style
We’re delighted to announce that for a limited time only, we’re offering the first six parts of our acclaimed course of study, the EVOLUTION OF ART, DESIGN & STYLE to you and your friends absolutely free. We invite your participation and welcome your comment. You can watch them on your computer and enjoy the sumptuous imagery and beautiful music.
Pinchgut Opera – Orpheus & Eurydice – Don’t Look Back!
Joseph Haydn’s Orpheus is an opera in Italian in four acts, the last he ever wrote. The libretto, by Carlo Francesco Badini, is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
The story of Orpheus has fascinated composers and librettists over the centuries. Pinchgut Opera presented Monteverdi’s wonderful version of the [...]
Call to Action – Slay the Dragon but, Not for Profit
American Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. In her short and powerful new book called Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities she makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. She challenges us all to strive be truly human – ‘to remain childlike, to keep an open mind, to refine an ability to remain humble, to eschew pride and arrogance and to be reverent towards other people and towards the natural world’.
Online Video Course
Adapted for Online Video Presentation, the groundbreaking course the Evolution of Art, Design & Style is illustrated by sumptuous imagery and backed by marvelous music. This unique course of study looks at how western culture its attitudes and philosophies, its fashions and passions developed for over two in relationship to historical events, intellectual and spiritual ideas, other cultural influences and societal change.
Art & Soul – Is No Risk Too Great?
The Next Wave Festival of Melbourne presents an open invitation to take a leap into the unknown and answer the question ‘How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in both art and in life’?. Is no risk too great?
Music Divine: Rhapsody in Blue at Montville in May
Rhapsody in Blue has had an extraordinary history as a piece of music featuring in the most diverse and exciting range of arenas from classical to cult including the 1984 Olympics, when dozens of keyboard players played it during the opening event. More recently it featured in an episode of the pop cult classic Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhatten ! And, since it was written it has inspired countless artists and musicians to extend their vision.
Art, Design & Style
Online Video Course for Members
Backed by sumptuous imagery and beautiful music the Evolution of Art, Design & Style On Line Video Course surveys, from antiquity to the contemporary age, the evolution of western architecture, gardens, interiors, including paintings and sculpture, furniture and furnishings, costume, jewellery, textiles, ceramics and beautiful objet d’art in chronological order of their development and in their relationship to other cultures – intellectually, philosophically and spiritually.
Art, Design & Style – A Window to the World
Starting on April 21 at the Culture Concept Circle we will be releasing Defining Civilization, the first two part session of our acclaimed arts appreciation course of study the Evolution of Art, Design & Style. Presented with sumptuous imagery and beautiful music, in an exciting new On Line Video format, we aim to open a window on a whole new world.
