Chinese New Year

Welcome! 2013 Year of Snake

2013 celebrates the Year of the Snake. Established in 2008 the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival (DCNYF) showcases the best of Sino Irish Culture in Ireland and 2013 marks the sixth year of this internationally recognized festival. As Dublin continues to build on its twinning with Beijing, the festival is delighted to deliver our high profile cultural programme including the Third Chinese Film Festival at the Lighthouse Cinema, a special Spring Festival partnership with the Council of Europe Intercultural Cities Conference - an official part of Ireland hosting of the European Presidency, the main DCNYF Carnival on Chinese New Year’s Day, Traditional Dragon and Lion dances, a Sion-Irish Business Seminar, the DCNYF Lecture series, a Children’s Programme, an Arts and Music Programme, Martial Arts, Sports and much more for all ages.

Sixth in the Twelve Year Cycle, people born in the Year of the Snake are acute, aware, charming, cunning, elegant, mysterious, passionate, proud, serene and vain. They are attractive people who handle crises with ease and do not easily become flustered. They are graceful people, exciting and dark at the same time. They are fascinated with all beautiful things in life. Poor in communication, Snakes are contemplative and private and are not outwardly emotional. Appearing cunning and reticent, they usually act according to their own judgment and do not follow the views of others. Conscientious and diligent at work, they are organized and precise, cautious and alert when doing business. Snake people are passionate lovers and show a strong desire for control when associating with others. They will never forgive anyone who breaks a promise. They show their resentment with ice-cold hostility instead of bitter words. Some of the people born in the Year of the Snake may strike their enemies with a deadly blow.

Famous Snake People: Queen Elizabeth I, Virginia Woolf, Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Dean Martin, Grace Kelly, Pierce Brosnan, Art Garfunkel, Liz Hurley, Colm Meaney, Brad Pitt, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Dionne Warwick, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Fassbender and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

The Snake is best matched with those born in the year of the Ox, Dragon and Rooster but not with those born in the year of the Pig, Monkey or Tiger.

The years of the Snake are 1905, 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013.

Also there is film festival for Chinese new year. My most favorite film is the "Yu Ming is Ainm Dom: Special 10th year Anniversary Focus" at Light House Cinema.

Chinese New Year festival 2013 in Temple Bar

http://www.demotix.com/news/1785668/chinese-new-year-festival-2013-temple-bar#media-1785659 

 Happy New Year Everyone！

 

Pop Art

Theme of exhibition – Cyber Bullying, The our exhibition will presented in a Pop Art style.
Also think about the slogan and story boarding. The Art Center appears to be the popular choice.

Pop Art is a style of art which explores the everyday imagery that is so much a part of contemporary consumer culture. Common sources of imagery include advertisements, consumer product packaging, celebrity photographs, and comic strips.

Leading Pop artists include Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein.

When we talk about pop art have to bring Andy Warhol into it. His most famous works depicted Camp bell's soup cans. Enlarged, hand-painted or silk screened, framed, and hung in an art gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into ironic "art".

Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture, paint, and silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his invention of himself as an international celebrity and pop culture icon.

Andy Warhol screen printing- Andy Warhol screen printing a Marlon Brando canvas at the Factory.

 

The idea is we try to use pop art style to printing any object about Cyber Bullying on the T-shirt. This is introduction of Pop Art Screen Pattern Technique.

Screen Printing

    "Screen printing uses a fine mesh material that ink is passed through to place ink on a material such as paper or a fabric. Inks can be printed onto the paper or fabric in slightly different colors to produce tonal differences. The meshed screen and paper are secured in a frame to ensure they do not move during the printing process. Ink is inserted into the frame at the lower edge and applied to the screen using a squeegee to force the ink through each open hole in the mesh."

Sealing

    "The artistic screen printing techniques for creating a pattern include the sealing of areas that are not to be colored with ink. Each time a colored ink is applied to a screen a new meshed screen must be used. Inks are mixed to create different colors, with six inks capable of producing around 63 colors Arte lino reports. Areas of the screen that are not to colored with a certain ink can be sealed manually or by a chemical process. A manual process of sealing a screen is to attach stencils of paper or foil to the screen to block off areas from the ink."


Read more: Pop Art Screen Pattern Technique | eHow.com
(http://www.ehow.com/info_12032589_pop-art-screen-pattern-technique.html#ixzz2KyGa9tSw)

 

Cyberbullying Exhibition Project

First, introduce a movie about Cyber bullying. It is called Cyberbully (TV 2011) About Teen girl Taylor Hill ridge gets a a laptop for her birthday and signs up on a social networking site. She starts to feel alone as her friends ostracize her and she falls victim to cyber bullying. Written by Paramorezombiea, skribb.

The theme of the exhibition it is about Cyber bullying  It is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. As it has become more common in society, particularly among young people, legislation and awareness campaigns have arisen to combat it. Example of Poster:
http://westmdesigns.blogspot.ie/2011/03/cyberbullying-poster-project.html


Example of Bullying exhibition: Artists Linda Regula and Paul Richmond launched an inspiring site called the “You Will Rise Project.” This site has over 200 posts dedicated to giving all of the victims of bullying a chance to reach out through art. This site has no deadlines concerning the artwork; this site will be accepting ongoing submissions.

This inspiring site invites all people of all ages and backgrounds to submit their work whenever they are ready. Paul and Linda were victims of bullying when they were young, so they can empathize with passion concerning the artwork.

Bullying is a huge issue in our country, even worldwide and the Richmond’s has opened their heart to reach those who are being bullied. Art is a beautiful way to vent, and to show how bullying is wrong. This is a great site for people to connect and help one another concerning this issue.

The artwork in this site is very passionate and when you take a look at the artwork you will see their pain, concern, purpose, and faith to make changes. So many people especially students battle day after day with this issue, and the solution is us. We have to come together to find a way to stop bullying, most parents probably don’t know their child is being bullied or being the bully.

Paul and Linda open the door for people to post their artwork so it may shine like the sun unto our nation. Feel free to visit this unique site and help find a way to stop bullying so another man; woman, boy, and girl won’t have to suffer anymore. In Norfolk VA, a school Psychologist Jaclyn Lemp researched bullying and spoke up to the school board concerning this matter. Because she spoke up schools had to submit an anti bullying curriculum. Visit this site to read more about this topic.

                   

http://technorati.com/lifestyle/diy/article/anti-bullying-art-exhibition-online/