Reggae Nights # 110

Reggae Nights # 110 on January 14, 2012 was held at “Römer” once more. We had a great time with Roots Ashanti and Calabash. Here are the photos to prove it! Come again on February 11 to do it all over again!

Reggae Nights # 109

Reggae Nights on December 10, 2011 was another scorcher for a winter night. “Römer” was packed again and Roots Ashanti and Calabash created a wonderful vibe as usual. Big ups to Sandra who celebrated her birthday that night and her friends who were all lovely.

Another big up goes to Ramzy who is a very good dancer and danced with me again all night. See you all on January 14, same place, same time, same vibe!

Reminder of Summer

Today I heard a song I like a lot called "You Give Me Butterflies" by Gyptian and was thinking of a butterfly I took some time ago at our botanical gardens in a special exhibition while it was fluttering and feeding on this pink flower, that I have also seen in white. I don't know the name of it, so if you do please let me know. The butterfly is called Papilio demoleus or Lemon butterfly (Limetten-Schwalben-schwanz in German) and is at home in Southern Asia and Australia.

Here is the song I mentioned:

Reggae Nights # 108 on November 12. 2011

Oh, I cannot believe it's been October since I last posted! We had another Reggae Night last night but I have not even posted previous month's photos, so here they are!

The little place "Römer" was full on November 12 because the Reggae Nights promoters decided to make this evening "free entry for everyone". Lots of people stopped by and stayed because the vibes was right. Sounds of the evening were Roots Ashanti and Calabash. They kept us all on our feet dancing all night and were even palancing on the stage with us. What a great evening!

Reggae Nights # 107

Reggae Nights #107 took place at Weserstadion, Ostkurvensaal on a very cold October night, on the 8th to be exact. Perhaps this is why the venue never filled up to its capacity. Those attending were all in great spirits and full of appreciation of the set of one of the biggest sounds in Germany: SUPERSONIC SOUND.

Jr Blender did his thing as usual, a good mix and blend of all genres sprinked with one or ten wicked dubplates and the charismatic MC Spider had us smiling all the way. It was a wonderful night and I had a chance to reminsce with the previous promoters and to dance quite a bit.

The format of my slide show has changed for technical reasons. I do hope you like it anyway. So leave me a comment please! :-)

See you all next time!

Yumiko Tanabe Exhibiting in Bremen

Yumiko Tanabe

The lovely Yumiko Tanabe from Kobe, Japan exhibited at Galerie Herold here in Bremen last month. I was made aware of this by my MySpace and facebook friend and visual artist Fuke San who has been an inspiration to me for many years. I went to meet her on an open day of the whole Güterbahnhof artist community near the main station in Bremen (www.ga-art.de).

Building housing Galerie Herold amongst other galeries and individual artists

Communicating in English ...

... what the symbols mean

Fishbones are boiled several times then dried thoroughly and sprayed with white paint

The connection of nature and the arrangements

Beautiful bones

Backbones

Phalenopsis

Today I am just posting one of my favourite flowers, an orchid. This is a very common type called phalenopsis.

 

I am working on a few projects and my website at the moment an had a few private events too, photos of which I won't publish but are still taking time to process. Soon the photos of events I have attended will be ready for publication here.

Watch this space! :-)