Maybe you too want a full dose of this land’s truly incredible history, culture, and geography using rural roads that wind through tiny villages and past seemingly endless rice fields. You can explore a side of China you never knew existed, on this eye-opening multi-activity Chinese adventure. http://www.cnto.org/ You can navigate the streets of Beijing (but relax, secure in the …
Read More »SHADES OF CHINESE MUSIC
Through movement everything manifests. Life starts with sound, and sound creates movement. Inner Musical Landscapes is our musical proposal, that invites you to travel into your moods. Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com an inspiration to relax into your inner presence, through heedful listening of the musicians and lands, also when you’re traveling in China. Guzheng / Breathing by Chang Jing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFflVnt4OS4 …
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THREE NOVELS TO READ ABOUT INDIA
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, your mind is responsible for creating that …
Read More »ADDING LIGHT AND SHADOW – Bijay Biswaal: the Indian painter able to create the depth into his paintings scene
BIJAY BISWAAL 1/3 – Yes, the train ticket inspector it’s an amazing painter. Travelling in India, you can meeting a train ticket inspector who captures everyday scenes, beautifully, on canvas. http://www.biswaal.com/ His watercolours, have a photograph-like quality about them, with light and shadow adding depth to the scene. Two his paintings (about a village in Odisha), offer a heartbreaking mix …
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CONTEMPORARY IDIANS POETS
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
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TO BE AN ITALIAN AUTODIDACT PAINTER – Alex Bertaina: by the incomprehensible scribbles, to the delicate landscaped watercolors
ALEX BERTAINA 1/3 – Maybe his sky and sea are united (as our existence), between transport towards nature and departure from it, and they shall treat these wounds. At the beginning he met Marco Lattes, who helped him to correct his watercolourist’s gaps. In 2001, he met Jean Louis Droit, a French art dealer, whom opened for him the European …
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TO BE A RAPHAEL MASTERPIECE – Painting Valued At $26 Turns Out Worth $26 Million
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …
Read More »THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PRINCESS HAYFA BINT ABDULLAH – “The Starting Point”
She is Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah (daughter of late King Abdullah). Combining passion for art depths with imagination, she made her debut solo exhibition “The Starting Point” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with art pieces she created in the past 16 years. Her paintings depict the vivid world of her imagination. Born in 1981 and based in Jeddah, she graduated from …
Read More »MAINTAINING AN PICTORIAL BALANCE – Brent Lynch: between living in the present and paying homage to the past
BRENT LYNCH 1/3 – He spends the coldest month of winter painting in Todos Santos (a small town on the Baja Pacific side). His body of work ranged from large scale murals, books, magazines, event posters and record cover artwork. The energy and poetry of both his figurative and landscapes, are a result of the artist’s passion for direct study …
Read More »BRENT LYNCH, CANADIAN PAINTER – Pursuing the abstract quality of light, color and composition
THREE DAY ROAD – Novel by Joseph Boyden
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
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