The News Review:
- TriBeCa Film festival’s delicate balancing act
- Festival encourages residents to start living green
- Jazz festival will spread out across Toronto
- Ulster Film Festival premieres Palm winner
- 12th Kodava hockey festival gets off to a colourful start
TriBeCa Film festival’s delicate balancing act
Newsday – Apr 21, 2008
If this sounds at all peculiar consider the title character of “Man on Wire”: French aerialist Philippe Petit who electrified New York in August 1974 by wire-walking between the towers of the World Trade Center. 11 2001 attacks the area that lay in the shadow of those now-vanished buildings. So there are apt to be a few moist eyes in the house when Petit’s story rolls across the screen. After all the man did for the Trade Center what King Kong did for the.
Festival encourages residents to start living green
Jakarta Post – Apr 21, 2008
php”); }); Be a member & get the benefits! Register or login. The message was clear: Earth is heating up and we’d better do something about it. For many visitors the three-day festival held in the eastern parking lot of Senayan Sports Complex South Jakarta from Friday to Sunday taught them that helping the planet begins in daily life and can be done without much effort. "I didn’t know most of the clean water we use every day is wasted in the bathroom. Now I know the less time we spend taking our baths the more water we save" said Fajar Aryoga 26 who came to the festival Saturday.
Jazz festival will spread out across Toronto
Globe and Mail – Apr 21, 2008
That’s not a comment on the music – although with a lineup ranging from Ahmad Jamal to Al Green it certainly covers a lot of ground – so much as a recognition that the festival has moved well beyond its traditional base in the city’s Nathan Phillips Square. com: Jazz festival will spread out across Toronto.
Ulster Film Festival premieres Palm winner
RTE.ie – Apr 21, 2008
The biopic tells the life story of Nobel Prize nominee activist Bouthaina Shaaban who will be present at the premiere along with the film’s director Ziad H Hamzeh. Another festival premiere is the documentary ‘She Should Have Gone to The Moon’ which tells the story of Jerri Truhill one of NASA’s and the world’s first female astronauts in the 1960s. Advertisement The Mid Ulster Film Festival pening Gala screening of the scar-winning film ‘La Vie En Rose’ will be hosted by comedian Kevin McAleer. The biopic tells the life story of French singer Edith Piaf played by scar winner Marion Cotillard.
12th Kodava hockey festival gets off to a colourful start
Hindu – Apr 21, 2008
Madikeri: “Alamengada Cup – 2008” the 12th edition of Kodava hockey festival got off to a colourful start at Ponnampet in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu on Sunday. Members of the Alamengada family offered puja at a temple in Ponnampet town in the morning and came in a procession to the venue Ponnampet Junior College grounds accompanied by the traditional Kodava “volaga” and fanfare. Women attired in Kodava costumes carried “taleyatakki bolakk” (burning lamps in bronze salvers) while men sporting traditional “kupya” marched in tandem to the venue. President of the Alamengada family Thammaiah hoisted the Alamengada flag while founder of the Kodava hockey festival and chief of the Kodava Hockey Academy Pandanda Kuttani unfurled the academy flag.