{Original Image} Let all the kingdom rejoice, for spring break is upon us! And we all know what that means. Staying cooped up in your house on the internet for a whole week! Actually, that doesn’t sound too different from my life when I’m not on spring break… Whether or not you have a life,…
Many of the Disney princess movies were based on tales from the Grimm brothers’ popular folk tales, such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Rapunzel,” and “Cinderella.” The brothers (Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm) were born in the late 1700s to a large family undergoing difficult times (as lots of families were). Adding to the…
Youth flocked to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and took over this performance. Why? Because it was Tchaikovsky on the program!
Today, I just wanted to feature Flickr member rosiehardy’s Flickr Stream called “Behind the Scenes – Fairytales (What REALLY went on with those characters behind closed doors!)”. She has found an amazing way photograph her own recreation of scenes from popular fairy-tales and link each picture to an important statistic or fact about a real crisis in our world. For…
Does the title sound familiar to you? It should! Previously I wrote a Top 10 list regarding about what we learned from the Disney Princesses. Here is an accompanying picture that should be on its own post. Enjoy!
I love Disney! Even if they don’t really emulate real life situations, they make for really nice references about love and romance. And it’s nice to take a break from watching action movies, and just watch a good (even cheesy) romantic film. Oh, and if awesome cinematography and animation is included, then all the better…
One of the most beloved composers and masters in Russia is Peter Tchaikovsky, or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He has composed beautiful masterpieces in many areas during the Romantic era, including ballet, symphonies, operas and chamber music. He has also written some of most familiar and popular concert music, among them the ballets Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and…
With the ending of summer, lot of exciting arts and performances events are happening around Calgary in the upcoming weeks. A lot of them, like Artwalk, are free and open to public. Since they’re all located in places easy to get to by bus or train, go check them out and have some fun! 1) ARTWALK Sept.…