![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THE Maple Leaf International School recently launched its Little Free Library, utilising a repurposed bmobile phone booth which was transformed into a drop-off and pick-up point for books.Ī release from bmobile on Tuesday, said the phone booth which once connected people across distances is now connecting a community through stories. News Maple Leaf school, bmobile turn derelict phone booth into Little Free Libraryģ Days Ago Maple Leaf International School teacher Cathy Sanders, from left, Cindy Allman of Book of Cinz, bmobile’s Anjanie Ramesar-Soom and another teacher of the school, Christal Fakoory, at the repurposed bmobile telephone booth which is now a Little Free Library located outside the school in Petit Valley. ![]()
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A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. ![]() A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great American Read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The work still hinges on art history and maintains his characteristic surrealist-symbolist look, but now Brown’s marks are bigger and bolder and his colors more fantastical, making every rendering intensely graphic and charged with accelerated motion. ![]() ![]() After his last New York exhibition in 2014, Brown spent time concentrating exclusively on drawing, describing it as “the skeleton that holds the composition of any painting together.” In this exhibition, the technique becomes his starting point each painting is based on an appropriated drawing. ![]() The artist’s exacting mark making, which produces intricate loops and swirls of paint that appear to glide and float across the canvases’ surfaces, infuses these works with an ethereal vitality. Glenn Brown’s new paintings that are on view in his solo exhibition “We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent”, include double portraits, twisted figures, and a large-scale still life with ripened quinces. His grotesque yet fascinating figures appear to be painted with thick impasto, but are actually executed through the application of thin, swirling brushstrokes which create the illusion of almost photographically flat surfaces. Starting with reproductions from other artist’s works, Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its color, position and size. Glenn Brown is known for the use of art historical references in his paintings. ![]() ![]() She is a unique creative talent that will flourish at Welbeck. Further, I am delighted that we can bring Laura to Welbeck. Alex has quickly established an excellent rapport with our small but creative team and is a proven creative leader. 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