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Lisbon (Portugal), Jun 6 (EFE) .- (Camera: Irene Barahona) Aurélia de Sousa observes from her self-portrait the visitor of "Tudo o que eu quero" (All I want), an exhibition in Lisbon that brings together 120 years of art in which the woman has not been a muse, but an author.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE CALOUSTE MUSEUM IN LISBONSOUNDBITES FROM BRUNO MARCHAND, CURATORTRANSLATIONI would say that within the first half of the 20th century it is practically impossible to go through it without talking about Aurélia de Sousa, who is the first artist in the exhibition and who makes an important temporal marking, because the frontal self-portrait from 1900 is piece zero. of this exhibition. The entire exhibition is built from that piece. Because we identify that very direct visual confrontation with the viewer as a change in the habitual transit of the gaze in modern art. And when I say modern I mean from the Renaissance to the present day. The woman was extraordinarily present in art but as a muse. Therefore, the representation of the woman's body was highly visible but was the object of the male artist's gaze. And in a way it was a demanding look. The body was the object of a gaze but did not own that power of the gaze. What she does with that portrait is to remove everything from the portrayed scene that was not the gaze of the artist herself. Her body, which she says is present, and which is not the object of a man's gaze but is in the power of that gaze. And she confronts us as spectators in the capacity of the author.There is a moment of investment and conquest of that power to look, to say and to create that for us is a founding moment in the history that we want to tell with this exhibition, which is a story of self-determination of women artists. Our great challenge was how to make an exhibition that was fair to the works and that started from their natures for an intergenerational dialogue with artists who work in very different media and that in the end could turn out to be a good exhibition and not just a small presentation of cores of parts
Mosul, Apr 8 (EFE / EPA) .- Iraqi Mohamed Mahmoud, conductor of the Watar (Strings in Arabic) Orchestra played the violin Thursday during his first performance at the Rabei 'Spring' Theater in Mosul.The Watar orchestra, which was formed only five months ago, performed for around 1,000 people, in what was the first show at the theater in 18 years. The theater was built in 1969, Arab and international artists performed in it for years until the airstrikes by Allied forces in 2003.The theater was built in 1969 and Arab and international artists performed there until the 2003 allied forces airstrikes of the Iraq War. In 2014, when the Islamic State took over the city of Mosul, it used the theater as one of its headquarters. The Mosul artists Union said that the militant group had also stolen most of its furniture, air conditioners, sound system, and other apparatus which they saw useful to them. The Rabei fell victim to airstrikes, then ransacking by looters and more looting by the IS. Some parts of the theater are charred burned and a hole in its roof bears witness to its damages but it did not prevent its first show to go on (Camera: OMAR ALHAYALI)SHOT LIST: THE RABEI 'SPRING' THEATER IN MOSUL, IRAQ.
Mosul, Mar 27 (EFE/EPA).-The Al Rabie theater, also known as the Spring theater, in the Iraqi city of Mosul is being rehabilitated by a group of volunteers who work with the hope of seeing it flourish again after 18 years in silence. Built by a Japanese company in 1969, the Al Rabie ("spring" in Arabic) stage hosted for decades Arab and international artists from theater, music, dance and other arts who performed there until the fall of Baghdad in 2003, when the curtain had to be lowered. (Camera: OMAR ALHAYALI).SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS HELP REHABILITATE AL RABIE THEATER IN MOSUL, IRAQ.SOUND BITES: OMAR MOHAMED, A VOLUNTEER AND MOHAMED AL-MAHDI, A DIRECTOR OF THEATER AND TELEVISION (IN ARABIC).TRANSLATIONS:1. OMAR MOHAMED, A VOLUNTEER.- I am Omar Mohamed, I am one of the volunteers who take part in the cleaning and rehabilitation of the Mosul Spring theater. We all know that theater is no less important than other educational and cultural places, especially in Ninawa province. - One of the spots is the Spring theater. We miss the place and hope to see this room full of all Iraqis coming to watch shows and performances again after the most difficult battles in Mosul and in Ninawa province in general. 2. MOHAMED AL-MAHDI, A DIRECTOR OF THEATER AND TELEVISION.- (I am) Mohamed al-Mahdi, theater and television director. I have a very old and strong link to the Spring theater.- For more than 25 years I have acted and worked on the stage of the Spring theater. I started when I was 10, I was the youngest actor to perform on this stage.- The Spring theater has an echo and a huge public for people of Mosul. It was the only breath of fresh air in this city.- Many stars from the Arab and international art scene have danced, acted and performed here, foreign theater companies came with their shows and presented them on this stage.- The theater was built in 1966 by a Japanese company. It was a first class theater, where people sitting at the front could hear and see the same as those sitting at the back.- It stopped in 2003 after the fall of Baghdad or Iraq as we say, that is when it was subject to destruction and ransack by looters.
Prague, Jul 21 (EFE) .- St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague is home to a dying tradition, being one of only four sites in the world where the bells are rung manually by volunteers every Sunday. (Camera: MARTIN DIVISEK. Editor: EMMA LOZANO)
Prague, Jul 21 (EFE), (Camera: Martin Divisek).- St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague is home to a dying tradition, being one of only four sites in the world where the bells are rung manually by volunteers every Sunday. Some of the bells at the cathedral in the Czech capital are over 100 years old. However, with the coming of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown enforced in the central European nation, the bells only rang out four times in several weeks."It was strange for the bells to stop ringing then, we could not imagine it since, in the past, the bells chimed even in times of war," said the chief bell ringer, Tomas Starecky.Starecky has been ringing bells since 1979, a task he performs "with love, joy and voluntarily."He is in charge of a team of twenty-one people who operate the bells an average of 130 times a year. FOOTAGE OF ST VITUS BELLS.SOUNDBITES OF:-MILOS SIMON, BELL RINGER:"I've been ringing the bells for six years. Why do I do it? Because I enjoy it. How did I get here? The chief bell ringer is a runner, and so am I. About eight years ago we talked, he said he was a bell ringer and I asked him if I could come and see. I came several times and after two years I asked him if I could make them sound too. Then I was coming for several months to train. I have done it since then and I love it. "-TOMAS STARECKY, CHIEF BELL RINGER:"I've been here since 1979, for an incredible 40 years. Under my leadership, over 150 bell ringers have rung with me. If you ask me why this is important. This is important precisely because we are one of the allegedly four cathedrals in the world, of course in Europe, that have their own live bell ringers. And it's enthusiasm, hard life, sacrificing everything possible, but it's worth it.""New candidates to be bell ringers will appear in our environment. There is no point in convincing someone. That person will know for himself if he wants to help us and eventually, he will become one of us. This is how the bell ringers are recruited, around one or two a year. And that maintains continuity. "
Bangkok, May 19 (EFE/EPA).- The 10th anniversary of the clashes between Thailand's military and "red shirt" protesters, which bloodied the streets of Bangkok and left scores dead, was marked Tuesday amid impunity, the trauma of many and the silence of a large part of Thai society.Red shirt supporters marked the occasion with a morning ceremony at Wat (temple) Nuan Chan in northern Bangkok where they remembered those who were killed in the protests. (Camera: RUNGROJ YONGRIT)FOOTAGE SHOWS A MERIT MAKING CEREMONY MARKING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MILITARY CRACKDOWN ON RED SHIRT PROTESTERS AT A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.SOUNDBITES: JATUPORN PROMPAN, LEADER OF RED SHIRT PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTERS (IN THAI).TRANSLATIONS: 1.) (00:50-01:01) The court has investigated and indicated clearly that those deaths were caused by the operation carried out by the authorities, who claimed to receive an order from CRES (Centre for Resolution of Emergency Situation).2.) (01:07-01:49) Two people were charged over this; one is a former prime minister, another is a deputy prime minister. Both defended that this case did not fall under the jurisdiction of the criminal court, yet the director of the court of first instance argued that the murder charge and attempted murder charge, which could be concluded from the autopsy reports, was, in fact, under a criminal jurisdiction.3.) (01:58-02:28) It does not matter who you are, let’s set a date to talk about what happened. Because the truth is, this event has caused the most deaths ever recorded in the fight for democracy in Thailand. The event on Oct 14 recorded around 70 deaths. The event on Oct 6 recorded around 40 deaths. The Black May recorded around 80 deaths and disappearances. But there's almost a hundred of deaths during this event of April - May 2010.
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