By Leila Kaas
Artistic Expression Lives Forever…
Hello, BridgeThinkers. I recently returned from Sweden and now I am back to the US. I had a precious year of experience and studies in Europe. I learned a lot being close to so many different cultures and I am really happy to have embarked on this challenging journey. But [...]
by Lee Minh Sloca
Hi, my name is Lee, and I’m a poetry junkie. I want to talk to you about my poetic addiction
Whether I was speed-reading, rapping, slamming, or free versing, those rhymes pounded straight to the right side of my brain. Those pulses and beats altered my senses of consciousness, giving me an out-of-body [...]
By Leila Kaas
With the change from Winter to Spring in the Nordic region, I’m looking at what I gleaned during the cold season. As a scavenger, I collected pictures of unseen details and lost objects on the streets.
Finding meaning in the details…
Walking on [...]
By Leila Kaas
“Life is the art of meeting,” as one of my favorite Brazilian composers and poets, Vinicius de Moraes, once said. While visiting my Brazilian friends Fernanda and Hilario in Paris, that city and its lively atmosphere made me reflect about connections.
This was my first time in the [...]
Photos above courtesy of "ReThink: Contemporary Art and Climate Change" public relations
by Leila Kaas
Below are photos I took of selected work from the “RETHINK – Contemporary Art and Climate Change” exhibition and “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas [...]
by Leila Kaas
Happy New Year, BridgeThinkers! I wish you all a 2010 full of passion and openness to see things differently. Since we’re exploring the connections between art and technology this month, Neighborhood Earth brings you to a series of art exhibitions presented during the Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this [...]
Leila Kaas and Tommy Whalen (columnists for “Neighborhood Earth” and “Outside the Box” respectively) would like to wish everyone a happy 2010!
Both their columns will return next month with Leila’s report on thought piquing art exhibitions displayed at last month’s Copenhagen Climate Summit and Tommy reporting on more ways to think outside the [...]
Pastries from Belém, Portugal
By Leila Kaas
Since many of our readers are Brazilian, Portuguese or Americans with Portuguese, Brazilian or Cape Verdean heritage, this month’s column will bring a little of Portugal’s culture and what is happening in their arts scene.
In Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, one of the many essential activities to do is to eat [...]
by Leila Kaas
(Translated from Pastéis de Belém official website: http://www.pasteisdebelem.pt/)
The Taste of Tradition
At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, in Belém, next to the Mosteiro dos Jerônimos (the Heironymite Monastery) there was a sugar cane refinery linked to a small general store. As a result of the liberal revolution of 1820, all convents and [...]
By Leila Kaas
Bricks, historic buildings, cobblestones, salty air… While walking in Helsingborg, a coast city in the south of Sweden, I had a déjà vu as if I was in New Bedford, a city in the south coast of Massachusetts, USA that I’ve visited. As a Brazilian and Portuguese citizen who resides in the [...]
