Over this festive holiday period in Australia it is summer time, a time to go to the beach, a time to celebrate life with a little wine and sweet words, to be thankful to your host, to resolve to give joy to others and, to praise and enjoy life.
At The Culture Concept Circle we will all be taking some time out from Christmas Eve to Epiphany (January 6) to spend time with family and friends for rest, recreation and refreshment.
This is the key to good health and well being in the year ahead.
Our team, Carolyn, Jo, Helen, Janet, Ross and Paul send our very best wishes to all our readers.
We have all appreciated your support and interaction and look forward to renewing our acquaintance in 2014.
As we reach another New Year we all have yet another chance for us to get it right and to make things happen.
Words are how the world works so as we welcome the arrival of 2014 let’s offer some sweet words to those we perhaps forgot to say thank you to, those we forgot to offer kindness to, and to those we love and cherish.
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Twenty Popular Posts 2013

Melbourne Now Team
Melbourne Now – A Democratic Pursuit of Art by Tony Ellwood
Brian Cox – Rock Star Physicist Explains the Wonders of Life
Impressionism & Modernism – Fashionable Life, Paris 1860-80
Stephen Bowers – Australian Bravura Original Ceramic Artist
Sculpture – Art at the Pinnacle of What is Possible
William Kent and the English Idyll – The Quest for Nature
Leon Battista Alberti – On Beauty and Progressing the Arts
The Silver Pharaoh Psusennes I Facing the Afterlife in Style
Creating Love Jewellery – Cupid to Cartier
What Is Art Deco – Does it Celebrate Life as Art?
Rivals: Arias for Farinelli & Co – David Hansen About Beauty
Andre Riéu – Celebrating & Honouring Classic Music Style
Sing – Gary Barlow On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 2012
Superstar Montanari, Master of the Baroque – Sounds Sublime
Music – Apollo to Palladio and Mozart to Jenkins, Allelulia
David Bowie Is – A Musical Innovator & British Cultural Icon
The Marais Project – Jennifer Erickson’s Dream Come True
Lyndon Terracini – Keeping Opera in Australia Active & Alive
X Factor 2013 – Dami, Taylor and Jai Crossing the Finishing Line
Simone Kermes & the Australian Brandenburg – The Wow Factor
Looking Forward 2014
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra 2014 – 25 Anniversary Style
Pinchgut Opera – Powerful Performances, July & December 2014
Hobart Baroque 2014 – Music for a Creative Life Giving World
World Ballet 2014 – Bold Stories of Opulence, Design and Artistry
ACO Season 2014 – Adventures in Music of the Memorable Kind Winter
Masterpieces Show at NGV- From Spain with Love 2014
Theatre Australia – Talent Text & Treading The Boards 2014
Enjoy the Holidays!
Posting will resume from Epiphany – Monday January 6, 2014
Carolyn McDowall, Writer, Publisher – The Culture Concept Circle, 2013-2014