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Covachita: Workshop in Mexico

designboom | Posted 12.29.2012 | Arts
Read More: Design, Architecture, Infrastructure, Workshop, Prefab, Covachita Architecture, Covachita, Nuevo Leon, San Pedro Gaza Garcia, Mexico Architecture, Workshop Covachita, Arts News
designboom

2012-10-29-imagepull.jpg In the town of San Pedro Garza Garcia in the Nuevo Leon Region of Mexico, local firm Covachita has completed their "workshop" amongst the indigenous mountainous terrain overlooking a valley.

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Embroidery, Tech, and Hurricanes: Artist Shelley Spector and Philadelphia's NextFab Studio (PHOTOS)

Joan K. Smith | Posted 08.16.2012 | Arts
Read More: Dreck Groove, University City Science Center, Workshop, Science Center, High-Tech Tools, Spector, Artist Residency, Artist, Embroidery, Technology, Esther Klein Gallery, Shelley Spector, Breadboard, Philadelphia, Nextfab, Slidepollajax, Video, Arts News
Joan K. Smith

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Business Peer Groups, Coaching and Mentoring Can Help Small Businesses Prosper and Create Jobs

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Financial Projections, Business Concepts, Venture Capital, Peer Groups, Entrepreneur, Atlanta, Sarasota, Workshop, Job Creation, Loneliness, Business Roundtable, Small Business Owners, Score, Simple Steps, Business News, U.S. Small Business Administration, Funding Alternatives, Volunteering, Sba, Commercial Real Estate, Marketing Plan, Business Failure, The Alternative Board, Small Business, Start-Up Basics, Vistage, Business News
Jerry Chautin

Peer groups, coaching and mentoring are playing important roles in growing small business and creating jobs.

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ARTS OUTREACH: Louis Vuitton's Inaugural Young Arts Project "Academy"

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Portraiture, Gilbert and George, Workshop, Young Arts Project, Royal Academy Schools, Jessica Voorsanger, Dress Up, Louis Vuitton, London, Slideshow, Arts News

LONDON-- This week heralds Louis Vuitton's Young Arts Project's inaugural "academy" -- a five-day intensive workshop that is a part of the larger prog...

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Levi's Print Workshop In The Mission

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Mission District, Jeans, Paypal, Retail, Mission, Posure, Workshop, Go Forth, Plaza Adelante, Edible Schoolyard, Denim, Alice Waters, Levi's, Design, Southern E, Katz, Valencia Street, Psfk, San Francisco, Print Workshop, Marketing, Fashion, The Women's Building, Craig Newmark, Levi Strauss, Business News
Piers Fawkes

As part of their workwear promotion, jeans maker Levi's have started a series of workshop programs to engage the local communities. It's part of the c...

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"Leaving on a Jet Plane"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Passengers, Philadelphia, Stamford Advocate, Florida, Iceland, New Canaan, Workshop, Humor, Wright Brothers, Dayton, Erma Bombeck, Conference, New York, Wife, LaGuardia Airport, Islip, Flight, Wilmington NC, Kiosk, Stamford, Flight Attendants, Kindergarten, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

My bag was packed. I was ready to go. For the first time I was flying solo. I was leaving on a jet plane, and though I knew when I'd be back again, oh, baby, I hated to go.

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Cultural Reorientation in Africa: Nigeria's "Project Runway"

Linda Constant | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Promoting Nigerian Dress Culture, Clothing, Cultural Diplomacy, Africa, Workshop, Fashion Designers, Cultural Balance, Goodluck Jonathan, Unesco, 2020, Globalization, Diplomacy, Western, Traditional Dress, Cultural Reorientation, Nigerian Fashion Week, Style, Nollywood, Umaru Yar?Adua, National Institute for Cultural Orientation, Fashion, Barclays Ayakoroma, Nigeria, World Decade for Cultural Development, Nico, World News
Linda Constant

Nigeria's image in Western media is a complex combination of exoticism, intrigue and danger. While most people are well acquainted with Nollywood (now...

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"There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in"

Melanie Drane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Mending, Re-Purpose, Re-Use, Critique, Restore, Workshop, Writing, Robert Johnson, Jane Hirshfield, Prompts, Repair, Poems, Breaking, Environment, Revision, Stories, Anu Tuominen, Revise, Jung, Books News
Melanie Drane

Mending is always accompanied by an element of risk. Something may function again, but differently, so that every successful re-use is accompanied by a sense of luck and relief.

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Many Doors into Travel Writing

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: San Francisco, Travel Writing, Writing Conference, Corte Madera, Workshop, Book Passage, Writer's Workshop, Rolf Potts, Joel Grey, Pauline Frommer, Media News
Terry Gardner

If you really do have the ambition to write, a reputable writing conference can be a great place to get your feet wet or hone your skills.

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First Time Novelist Breaks All Rules with a Winner

Cynthia Kling | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: How Far Is the Ocean From Here, Virginia Woolf, Writer Interview, Workshop, Book Deal, Amy Shearn, Writing, Fiction, How to Write, Authors, Writing Class, Surrogate Mother, James Joyce, Random House, Writer Interviews, Literary Agent, Susannah Prue, Yuppies, Proust, Book, Contemporary Fiction, PJ Mark, Surrogate, Media News
Cynthia Kling

"How Far is the Ocean from Here," by Amy Shearn has to be the weirdest, funniest saddest road novel I've ever read. A single 20-something agrees to surrogate for a pair of cozy yuppies.

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Greening Hollywood: Green Books & Recycling Art for Kids and Tots

Paige Donner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Truffula Trees, Green Books for Kids, Paintbox Kids, Re-Purpose, Re-Use, Workshop, Recycled Art, Trees of Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Random House, Dr. Seuss, Planting the Trees of Kenya, Farrar Straus Giroux, Wangari, Lorax, Parenting, Parenting Advice, Green News
Paige Donner

Dr. Seuss spoke through the Lorax to warn us against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. And this was long before saving the earth became a global concern.

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