Federica Belli investigates her young and uncertain world, the so-called Generation Z, a generation living in a historical period characterised by the subversion of certainties. Federica portrays herself in various situations, with her peers, all generally naked. It is not an erotic nude, but a psychological one. These young people are naked in relation to life, as if they had been denuded of their certainties, of everything
Photograph: Federica Belli/Galleria Valeria Bella
Asriel Marketing Pvt Ltd. is geared to power the highly anticipated “Culinary Art Food Expo 2023” as the events Diamond Sponsor. An annual event, the “Culinary Art Food Expo’ was inaugurated in 1988 with a mere 75 competitors. Today, the competition has grown tremendously over the years, with nearly 1000 participants competing for gold, silver, and bronze awards one platform. The Expo has resulted achieving excellence and has helped nurture the creative talents of Chefs in a team setting. This provides an opportunity for Chefs to showcase their skills, techniques, and knowledge amongst each other.
Shiran Peiris, the Chairman of Asriel Marketing Pvt Ltd, shared his thoughts on the event: “Being named as the Diamond Sponsor of such a prestigious event, is nothing short of an honour for us., especially in lieu of the fact that it gives young Chef’s to shine of a global level. We look forward to contributing to the culinary & hospitality industry even more in the future.
The Expo was held annually until 2019, after which the COVID-19 pandemic vastly impacted the competition. However, the organizers were able to overcome the challenges they faced & stage the event this year with the utmost support from the culinary industry. The demand for the competition was evident from the multitude of requests received from trade professionals who are eager to provide recognition and share their knowledge with fellow culinarians.
Adhering to the World Association of Chief’s Societies (WACS) competition guidelines, the “Culinary Art Food Expo” must focus on food and beverage personnel. The competition has served as a platform where the talent of young chefs who are selected for many international events, including the World Culinary Good Olympics in Germany, and the Culinary World Cup in Luxembourg.
As a “Total Business Solutions Provider in the Food Industry”, Asriel Marketing Pvt Ltd. is dedicated to promoting culinary excellence and supporting the culinary & hospitality industry. The company is proud to be associated with this prestigious event and looks forward to contributing to the future success and growth of the culinary & hospitality industry.
Image Caption – Shiran Peiris, Chairman of Asriel Marketing Pvt Ltd, addressing the press conference
Colorful chalk drawings lined the employee’s entrance of St. Mary’s Hospital, thanking to health care providers for their work.
Several Capital City High School students and their teacher drew different hospital-related pictures and calligraphic thank you messages at the entrance on Monday morning, helping to start off this year’s Health Care Week.
Celebrated nationally, the weeklong event ends Saturday. The theme this year is “All you do shines through.”
“So many different professions within health care have their own week, so Health Care Week is really a time for us to just celebrate anyone and everyone who works in health care,” said Janet Wear-Enloe, director of business development and marketing at SSM Health, which oversees St. Mary’s Hospital.
Abriana Brindisi, one of the students chalking, drew pill jars, a little cross and emojis with masks on. She hoped her art would “bring (a) smile to people’s day,” she said.
Wear-Enloe said CCHS students had created chalk art for the hospital last year and “everybody was blown away” by the drawings, so the hospital invited them again this year the hospital week celebration.
“They came over and uplifted the spirit of our staff, letting them know they are appreciated,” she said.
Apart from chalk art, the hospital planned a host of events throughout the week. There is going to be trivia competition today, three virtual town halls with Laura Kaiser, president of SSM Health, today and Wednesday, an afternoon and evening barbecue Wednesday, lunchtime music performances and a celebration of Florence Nightingale’s birthday on Thursday and a movie night for employees and their families on Friday.
Different sessions of the same event are being held so that employees working different shifts can participate, Wear-Enloe said.
Throughout Monday, three chaplains would go around the hospital and pray over the hands of individual employees who would like to receive Blessing of Hands, chaplain Bobby Reed said, where the chaplains would pray for the recipients’ hands and blessings in their lives.
On Friday, the chaplains will go out to all the clinics under SSM Health in Mid-Missouri to offer the same blessing to workers at those locations, he added.
The theme, “All you do shines through,” is decided by a committee made up of people from all the ministries under SSM Health, Wear-Enloe said.
“We really like the idea of using a star, because we feel like so much of what people do is their own love shining through, their commitment to patients shining through,” she said.
While this theme is used for all health care facilities under SSM Health, each hospital has a committee to organize specific activities for the week. For St. Mary’s Hospital, staff members can take selfies at a booth with stars as its backdrop, while all materials related to the week bear the theme, she added.
Across town, Capital Region Medical Center is also celebrating this week as Hospital Week, which is the name used by the American Hospital Association. Under the theme of “We are health care,” CRMC is holding events such as a T-shirt sale, bingo games, an employee lunch on Wednesday and a social hour on Friday.
Proceeds from the T-shirt sale are going to CRMC’s foundation to support the hospital’s cardiac program, spokesperson Emily Mantle said.
Juie Smith/News Tribune photo: As is part of Health Care Week tradition, Chaplain David Tolliver performed a blessing of the hands for Kathleen Ochs, left, and Keerstin Price, both of whom are registered nurses in the Progressive Care Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Julie Smith/News Tribune Remi Taniguchi refers to an illustration on her cell phone Monday that she is trying to replicate in chalk on the floor of the employee entrance at St. Mary’s Hospital. As part of Health Care Week activities, St. Mary’s invited art students from Capital City High School to make chalk drawings in the employee entrance. Taniguchi is an exchange student from Japan and thought the idea of drawing on the floor with chalk was a “really cool” idea.
Julile Smith/News Tribune photo: Capital City High School senior Abriana Brindisi does a final inspection of her work Monday morning before returning to school. She and three other art class students spent over an hour sketching out and filling in images as encouragement for St. Mary’s Hospital staff who enter through the employee entrance in the lower level. 
Juie Smith/News Tribune photo: As is part of Health Care Week tradition, Chaplain David Tolliver performed a blessing of the hands for Kathleen Ochs, left, and Keerstin Price, both of whom are registered nurses in the Progressive Care Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Jefferson City. Ochs previously worked at St. Mary’s and returned in November while Price started a month ago. This was the first blessing of hands for either of them.
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Raja Ravi Varma needs no introduction. Millions of Indian households get their daily dose of divine blessings from printed versions of his paintings of Hindu deities, framed straight off a calendar back in the day. Every Indian artist’s journey would have been marked at some unspecified point in time by an attempt or two at replicating his beautiful women on canvas. The man was great not just for his art, but for the way he made sure it seamlessly flowed into ordinary lives.
The year was 1894. Although riding on a wave of popularity, Ravi Varma was not content with merely painting for the connoisseurs. He started a lithographic press in Maharashtra to mass-produce his paintings of Hindu goddesses, thus allowing the artwork to be accessed by the working class, something unheard of until then. Though critics often dismiss this effort as calendar art, it can be argued that it was his singular idea that brought art into the everyday existence of the public.
Varma soon decided to take his printing press a step further. Partnering with a local entrepreneur, Govardhan Das, he imported printing machinery from Germany. At this time, a young photographer, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, from Godhra, Gujarat, was taken in as a trainee by Ravi Varma and gradually became Varma’s most trusted employee and companion. None could match Phalke’s perfect photo-litho transfers.
All was well until the turn of the century saw the curse of the plague epidemic befall the city of Bombay. In 1896, the dreaded Bubonic Plague broke out and people fled the city in thousands. As businesses fell like stacked-up cards, so did the printing press. By 1899, when the crisis deepened beyond repair and Ravi Varma was weighed down by heavy debts, he was left with no other option but to give it up. In 1901, the press was ultimately sold to Fritz Schleicher, the German technician who supplied the machinery and a close associate.
Before returning to his native state of Kerala, Ravi Varma did not merely bid goodbye to his favourite assistant. Aware of Phalke’s dream to make motion pictures, Varma offered him a large sum from the sale proceeds to fund his desire and to help him make it a reality. With this grand gesture, Varma left Bombay and passed away soon after in 1906.
Meanwhile, the young man Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, with stars in his eyes went on to make history by directing India’s first full-length feature film, Raja Harishchandra, in May 1913. From the film sets and the lighting to the characters, the film was undoubtedly influenced by Varma’s art. The father of Indian cinema, fondly called Dadasaheb Phalke today, remained an ardent admirer of the man who believed in him, till the very end.
Raja Ravi Varma was not just an artist. He was a visionary. He believed in a dream that did not belong to him and stood by his conviction till his last breath. On his recently concluded 175th birth anniversary, let us pay tribute to his artistic legacy and his far-sighted generosity. A big salute to the Father of Indian art!
Lens-eye view
Catch the inaugural collaboration between the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) and the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore! On display will be an Exhibition: India Tecton by German photographer Nicolaus Schmidt and an exclusive workshop on Photography: Ideas and Design Tools. The workshop begins with a guided tour of the Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, giving the participants the opportunity to ask the artist about his working methods. In the practical part of the course, participants first learn about the wide range of photographic concepts and working methods.
Where: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan (only on morning of Day 1), Museum of Art and Photography
When: May 15 to 19, 10.30 am – 5 pm
Info: goethe.de/bangalore
Food for thought
Skewed… is Fourth Wall Theatre’s maiden production directed by Mahesh SP written by Mahesh SP, Vilok V Kowsik & Arvindh S Kumar. The play is set in today’s times. Divya, the protagonist, finds her husband, Kiran mysteriously dead in their residence. The case gets escalated as Kiran was a police inspector. Upon attempting to unravel the mystery, characters of everyone around Kiran are questioned. It is a story that reflects and questions society.
Where: Ranga Shankara
When: May 12, 7:30pm
Tickets: bookmyshow.com
Yoga, your way
Yoga is a divine practice which unifies the body and mind. When combined with the beautiful practice of sound healing, it is definitely a blissful experience. You surely don’t want to miss this. Join with your friends and family for Nada Yoga, a combination of yoga and sound healing and experience a rejuvenating morning.
Where: Atta Galatta
When: May 12, 11:30 am – 1:30pm
Tickets: bookmyshow
SARPY COUNTY, Neb. (KMTV) — He calls it quiet beauty. And, in the springtime, wildlife and nature photographer Derrald Farnsworth-Livingston says we’re surrounded by it in Nebraska.
“Part of what I like to get across with my photography is not only that nature is beautiful, but also to have a deep respect for it, as well,” he explained.
During our visit at Chalco Hills Recreation Area in Sarpy County, Farnsworth-Livingston snapped shots of buds and birds, including his favorite discovery that day, a sandpiper.
He fell in love with the art of photography early on as he traveled to several national parks with his parents.
“I always thought it was cool, some of the vistas I would see. I would go into the shops and see postcards and thought, ‘That’s cool. I want to take a picture like that.'”
Farnsworth-Livingston started with 35 mm film, but with time and technology, his work has evolved.
“Usually, I’m looking for interesting landscapes, interesting colors,” he shared. “Cool sunrises, cool sunsets. When I go up to western Nebraska, they have a lot of rock formations up there: Fort Robinson and Toadstool. And I’m trying to get a different Nebraska shot. People are very familiar with the farm shot or the plain shot. I’m trying to show kind of a different view of Nebraska up there.”
“I think it’s important because Nebraska has, I would say, an underappreciated, or maybe a better word is a quiet, beauty about it. And I want to show people that the state has more to offer on the nature side than just plains and farms,” he continued.
Farnsworth-Livingston’s business is called Journey of Light. For him, understanding light requires research.
“I usually go out for a couple days and try to figure out how the light’s going to hit and what the weather’s going to be like and try to set up shots to make it look as beautiful as possible,” he divulged.
Each season provides unique opportunities.
“Spring in Nebraska is beautiful,” he remarked. “You have all the trees that are popping. You’ve got all the flowers, the wildflowers that are popping. You’ve got the birds that have come and are singing.”
Farnsworth-Livingston says a natural place to start is by photographing what you already know. In honing his craft, he’s learned to create a mood or an experience.
“I’m always very thrilled when somebody says, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that that existed in Nebraska,’ or ‘I didn’t know that was so close.’ And it gets them to motivate them to get out and to look at it and to just explore the nature of Nebraska.”
Farnsworth-Livingston’s work has been featured in about 20 publications and websites. See thousands of his images here .
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