This non-profit organization was created in 1992 to showcase the favorite art of Lisa Rifkind, noted art historian and creator of the pastel. It's websites displaying the life and works of various artists by century are immensly popular. From time to time the society arranges galleries in New York City, where Rifkind lives with her husband and cat.
Adoptive Music (Streator, Illinois) is an independent record label founded in 2006 by Chuck Giacinto and Lynette Giacinto (members of the Christian pop/rock band Final quest). The label specializes in adoption-themed music. The label's debut release LULLABIES - For China's Daughters & Their Adoptive Families (2006) features original material written by Chuck & Lynette Giacinto during the process of adopting their daughter from China. The project also features a cover of the Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher penned hit song "You Are So Beautiful." Less than 1 year later came the release of the compilation "The Spirit of Adoption," which features a variety of Contemporary Christian artists with adoption-related songs including Steven Curtis Chapman, Sandi Patty, Geoff Moore, Rita Springer, Todd Agnew, Chuck and Lynette Giacinto, Sandi Padilla, threefour:one, Becky Wright and Tommy Brandt, and Mary Rice Hopkins. Adoptive Music has also made it's original material from the LULLABIES project available for royalty-free use in non-commercial, personal family adoption videos. Customized clips for this use have been created and made available for download through an adoption blog created by Tapestry Books.
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Discography
LULLABIES - For China's Daughters & Their Adoptive Families (2006)
The Spirit of Adoption (2006)
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Discography
LULLABIES - For China's Daughters & Their Adoptive Families (2006)
The Spirit of Adoption (2006)
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Allanah Scully from Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath in Ireland was born on 01/11/1994 and has been singing, dancing, modeling and acting since the age of three. She has been a star pupil in the Billy Barry Stage School, AKTS - Adele King Theatre School (Adele is better known as Twink, one of Ireland's top female entertainers) and more recently with Ann Kavanagh Theatre School and Spotlight Stage School.
In 2006, after strenuous audtions in London, she was chosen to play the lead role of Bel Barter in CITV's Bel's Boys. This was Ulster's 'first ever' children's drama' and was filmed entirely in Belfast. During one of the breaks between series when Allanah was attending her local school in Dunshaughlin she had the top of one of her fingers sliced off on a door. Despite the painful, but thankfully successful, surgery and daily post op hospital visits Allanah continued to film the remaining episodes - the act of a 'real trooper'. There were 26 episodes of the show produced, which had its first airing in October of 2006. So popular was the show that it was still enjoying re-runs in December 2007.
In December of 2006 Allanah, by kind permission of Endemol and CITV, played Bel in a specially written part in 'Cinders' with Queen of panto June Rogers in the 98 fm and No.1 Christmas Panto in the Olympia, Dublin. Music mogul Louis Walsh compiled a video to Bel that was aired during the show.
In December 2007 and January 2008 Allanah performed with pop group The Koolpops in 'Jack And The Beanstalk', which was yet another sell-out panto with June Rogers.
Currently Endemol are in discussions with RTÉ, BCI and UTV for a third series. Watch this space!
In 2006, after strenuous audtions in London, she was chosen to play the lead role of Bel Barter in CITV's Bel's Boys. This was Ulster's 'first ever' children's drama' and was filmed entirely in Belfast. During one of the breaks between series when Allanah was attending her local school in Dunshaughlin she had the top of one of her fingers sliced off on a door. Despite the painful, but thankfully successful, surgery and daily post op hospital visits Allanah continued to film the remaining episodes - the act of a 'real trooper'. There were 26 episodes of the show produced, which had its first airing in October of 2006. So popular was the show that it was still enjoying re-runs in December 2007.
In December of 2006 Allanah, by kind permission of Endemol and CITV, played Bel in a specially written part in 'Cinders' with Queen of panto June Rogers in the 98 fm and No.1 Christmas Panto in the Olympia, Dublin. Music mogul Louis Walsh compiled a video to Bel that was aired during the show.
In December 2007 and January 2008 Allanah performed with pop group The Koolpops in 'Jack And The Beanstalk', which was yet another sell-out panto with June Rogers.
Currently Endemol are in discussions with RTÉ, BCI and UTV for a third series. Watch this space!
Trottoirism is an art movement founded in the early 21st century. Its primary goal is to give every person the possibility of being an artist and to express their feelings. Trottoirists wish to bring back art to the street by using chalk as the ultimate form of expression. Although feelings of hatred are to be avoided, it is allowed for people to express their troubled feelings in the so called "Frustration Zone" where their art, being violent in nature, is to be erased every three days.