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On my radar: Yinka Shonibare’s cultural highlights

Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
The artist reveals the best way to see London’s architecture, his love of Pina Bausch and some in-depth reading on African culture. Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962 and at the age of three moved with his family to Lagos, where he grew up ... In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Turner prize and was awarded an MBE ... 1 . Garden. Twitter ... He has a close proximity to art and artists. 2 ... 3 ... Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mandé and Cross River....

Goal! The Indian foot in UEFA Europa League

Edit The Hindu 03 Sep 2016
Goalkeepers occupy a special place in the hearts of Mumbai football lovers. S. S. Narayan (1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome Olympics) stood tall and upright, Sanjeeva Uchil (1948 London Olympics) was wiry and agile. Bandya Kakade (1970 Bangkok Asian Games) started counter-attacks with looping goal kicks to unmarked teammates, Bhaskar Maity hustled forward with positioning ... Goalkeeper Sayouba Mandé from Ivory Coast is a close competitor ... ....

Art of work: how Conservatoire graduates are bucking Mali's unemployment trend

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016
Under the guiding hand of renowned artist Abdoulaye Konaté, the Balla Fasséké Kouyaté Conservatory is imnproving its students’ prospects. Global development is supported by. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is a tough time to be a graduate in Mali ... Perhaps surprisingly, it teaches art, theatre, dance and music ... Twitter ... Twitter ... In the courtyard, students performed traditional dances from the Mandé, Dogon, Ségou and Djenné regions ... ....

Météo-France Upgrades Weather Graphics Content Creation With ChyronHego’s Metacast (ChyronHego Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016
(Source. ChyronHego Corporation) MELVILLE, April 27, 2016. Metacast Streamlines Production and Distribution of Weather Graphics to Broadcast, Web, and Mobile Service Clients. ChyronHego today announced that Météo-France, the French national meteorological and climatological institute, has chosen ChyronHego's Metacast weather graphics solution ... Headquartered in Saint-Mandé near Paris, Météo-France is the French national weather service....

Light can make artists of us all – if we look carefully

Edit New Statesman 27 Apr 2016
Together, Ann Wroe and Bruce Watson's new books illuminate – no other word will do – the brilliance all around. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... ... his account of the development of photography has the pace of a thriller, setting the reader by the shoulder of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre as he coats his glass plates with silver iodide to seize “the fleeting light” ... Light....

This Exhibit Of Pioneering Photographer William Henry Fox Talbot Will RebootYour iPhone PhotoHabit

Edit Forbes 21 Apr 2016
By the time he succeeded, a French painter named Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre had perfected an alternate technique ... Essay by Jonathon Keats. ....

The words of Easter

Edit The Oklahoman 22 Mar 2016
In early Christianity, Easter was a much more significant holiday (“holy day”) than Christmas ... The usual explanation for its rather curious name is that “maundy” comes from the Middle English and Old French “mandé,” which, in turn, reflects the “new commandment” (Latin “mandatum novum”) that the Savior gave to his disciples when he washed their feet — that they love one another, as he had loved them (John 13.34-35) ... ....

St Patrick's Day: London Eye, Ground Zero and Niagara Falls among 190 iconic landmarks set to go green

Edit Belfast Telegraph 16 Mar 2016
Almost 200 major landmarks across the world will go green today ahead of St Patrick's Day. Some 190 iconic landmarks and sites around the world will be illuminated in green over the coming days – as part of Tourism Ireland’s 2016 Global Greening initiative to celebrate the island of Ireland and St Patrick. Share Go To ... The full list of buildings that will go green are below. Great Britain. · London Eye ... · Hôtel de Ville, Saint-Mandé *....

Minister Donohoe and Tourism Ireland unveil Global Greening line-up for St... (Department of Transport, Tourism ...

Edit Public Technologies 10 Feb 2016
... Croisette, Cannes La Mairie (town hall), Cannes Tour de la Castre au Suquet, Cannes Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon Le Palais de Justice, Lyon Le Musée des Confluences (science centre and anthropology museum), Lyon Mairie (town hall) de Villeurbanne, Lyon Astroballe (indoor sporting arena), Lyon Hôtel de Ville (City Hall), Saint-Mandé *....

Celtic Connections 2016: Director Donald Shaw picks 10 highlights

Edit BBC News 14 Jan 2016
More than 2,000 artists will perform in Glasgow over the next 18 days as part of Celtic Connections. Musicians including Robert Plant, Bernard Butler and Karine Polwart will take part in the winter music festival, which opens on Thursday ... He has picked out some of his highlights. Pilgrimer ... He added ... In a concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, he will lead an orchestrated version of his 2008 solo album The Mandé Variations ... ....

While Paris was under attack, Frenchman drew strength, inspiration from Panthers

Edit The Charlotte Observer 17 Nov 2015
In Sunday’s game at Tennessee, underneath his Carolina Panthers gear, assistant athletic trainer Jean-Baptiste Laporte wore a shirt with a large image of the French flag. He wasn’t making a statement. He wasn’t trying to get around NFL rules ... He’s a quiet guy whose English is superb, though there’s no mistaking French as his first language ... Then the attacks moved southeast and near his childhood home in Saint-Mandé ... I’m so far. I’m far....

Amadou Balaké: In Conclusion | Album Review

Edit The Irish Times 21 Aug 2015
Born Amadou Traoré in Burkina Faso in 1944 and renamed by fans in honour of his rendition of the Mandé classic Balaké, Amadou had a distinguished 50-year musical career ... His repertoire ranged from the local ‘warba’ dance rhythms to the modernised Mandé music associated with Bembeya Jazz and the Rail Band, to the emerging funk and afrobeat styles, ......

Despite Ebola fears – Côte d’Ivoire’s Renard named 26-man squad

Edit Football Sierra Leone 02 Jun 2015
Ahead of their tie against Sierra Leone in the African Cup of Nations group stage qualifier, the Côte d’Ivoire’s head coach Hervé Renard has announced a 26-man squad for Sierra Leone and Cameroon ... Football Sierra Leone understands the Abidjan authorities are working on an alternative ...   ... GOALKEEPERS. Gbohouo Sylvain (Séwé Sport/CIV), Copa Barry (Lokeren/ Belgique), Sayouba Mandé (Stabek/Norway). DEFENDERS ... MIDFIELDERS ... FORWARDS ... ....
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