175 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Arts & Entertainment"
A few cherished photos are all that remain of Dany Pen’s family history in Cambodia. One of them was snapped the day her mother, Yean Chham, arrived at a Thailand refugee camp in 1979.
She escaped there after fleeing from the Khmer Rouge.
The picture...
DATE: Mar 09, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Derrick Gardner got hooked on music as a child. It worked out well for him. Since 1991 he has travelled the world playing trumpet with the Count Basie Orchestra. That same year he formed his own sextet, Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets.
Tony Benn...
DATE: Feb 23, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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It’s no easy feat to turn Shakespeare’s works into rap.
Devon Glover is known as the Sonnet Man. The Brooklyn, New York, native has made a name for himself taking The Bard’s sonnets and breaking them down into spoken word and rap.
He has been able to...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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A Bermudian artist will have a place in the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
Games organisers have commissioned photos of work by textile artist Ami Zanders.
Ms Zanders’s works were selected as part of a Textile Museum of Canada project called W...
DATE: Feb 16, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Art, one woman is hoping it really can bring the community together.
Dany Pen is behind a march to raise support for art education in Bermuda later this month.
She claims it’s necessary because art classes in the public school system are so poorly fu...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Long before Venus or Serena came to dominate the tennis courts, there was Althea Gibson.
At one point she was hailed as the number one player in the world. Ms Gibson became the first African-American to play and win at Wimbledon. She also went on to...
DATE: Feb 09, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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Keith Kitson had serious learning challenges at age 14.
He was bounced from school to school here and abroad and then he met Melvina Chapman Pearman.
“He was like an empty shell,” said Mrs Pearman, who was then a paraeducator with the Department of E...
DATE: Jan 26, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Alexandra Gerenda spent six months learning about cakes.
The studies were part of a project required by her school, but the 15-year-old used what she learned to benefit charity.
“I read about the Eliza DoLittle Society in the newspaper,” said the So...
DATE: Jan 26, 2015
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Arts & Entertainment
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A new film on the wreck which led to Bermuda being claimed by the English Crown will get its official public premiere tonight.
And film maker Jean-Pierre Rouja said Downing’s Wreck: The Story of the Sea Venture will be the last word on the loss of th...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Ths story of the Berkeley Institute is to be the focus of a new documentary, organised by a group of former students who graduated around 50 years ago.
The film, which will follow the creation and evolution of the school, will be produced and co-dire...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Arts & Entertainment
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes