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Belize - art + culture
www.imagefactorybelize.com
www.stonetreerecords.com
www.nichbelize.org
www.belizeartcentre.com
Web articles:
Channel 5 NEWS Belize
Yasser Musa and twenty years of art
The name Yasser Musa is synonymous with art, in many forms. This Friday on his birthday, Yasser will put on display twenty years of his accomplishments – a repertoire of his works as an art activist, poet, publisher, teacher and promoter of the arts. The multitalented artist takes a look back at his journey in [...]
Written on July 16, 2009
‘Coming into Focus’ exhibit launched at Image Factory
Coming into Focus – that’s the theme of the latest display of digital photography at the Image Factory. It features the work of twenty-eight new photographers, all students of the well known local artist, Yasser Musa. Over the course of their digital imagery course at the Professional Studies at Saint Johns College, Musa says he [...]
Written on May 29, 2009
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=1578
Art students create a sculpture garden at S.J.C.
Following months of planning, the faculty and students of the Arts Program at the Saint John’s College Junior College inaugurated its newest project, a sculpture garden located on the campus. The garden was created by lecturers: Yasser Musa, Damian Perdomo and Kirkland Smith with help from students of the three-dimensional designer class. It is not [...]
Written on May 8, 2009
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=1752
Landings 9 released; artist says 8 was the best
And on the cultural scene, the Landings Project is an expressive, but complex repertoire of art work that defines the identity of fifteen countries from the Caribbean, Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula. There have been eight previous Landings going back to 2004, and today, the long awaited ninth edition of the ten series collection [...]
Written on January 14, 2009
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=2774
Andy P’s birthday celebrated with book release
Andy Palacio passed away earlier this year on January twenty-fourth at the peak of his musical career. He continues to be missed nationally and globally for his impact on world music and the cultural journey on which he took the Garifuna and rest of the jewel. He would have turned fort y-eight today and so [...]
Written on December 2, 2008
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=3167
Artists from the region in Belize for Landings 9
For the past week, twenty artists from eleven countries gathered at the Image Factory in Belize City to hear lectures and participate in debates and discussions on contemporary art. The event is called Landings Nine but it started with Landings One in Mexico in 2004 and since then has travelled around this hemisphere, made its [...]
Written on August 29, 2008
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=4034
Local children’s book sets new publishing standards
There may be a crisis of governance in Belize right now but the Musa you’re most likely to see on television is not Said; it’s his son Yasser. And the reason has nothing to do with politics. While his dad comes under increasing fire, Yasser seems to build on success. Whether as president of NICH [...]
Written on May 15, 2007
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=7099
Belize and Taiwan sign cultural agreement
Belize and Taiwan have forged closer relations thanks to a new agreement between cultural counterparts. According to officials of the National Institute of Culture and History, on April fifteenth the Mayor of Kaohsiung City Chu-Lan Yeh officially opened a Belizean exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. According to NICH President Yasser Musa, “We are [...]
Written on April 24, 2006
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=9461
Image Factory/Stonetree Records turn 10
Two well known organisations are today celebrating ten years of promoting the arts in Belize. This morning News Five spoke with the founders of the Image Factory and Stonetree Records to find out what they have accomplished and what are their plans for the future.
Yasser Musa, Director, Image Factory
“We have surpassed what we set out [...]
Written on September 2, 2005
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=10830
New Garifuna museum opens in Dangriga
Under threatening skies they gathered this afternoon to mark an important milestone in the cultural life of a people…and nation. I cannot imagine a better way to bring in Garifuna Settlement Day.
Janelle Chanona, Reporting
It has been a museum in the making for the past four years. But sharing the story of the heritage of [...]
Written on November 18, 2004
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=12472
Yasser Musa will head new cultural body
No one can determine with certainty the precise factors that caused a majority of Belizeans to vote for the People’s United Party on March fifth, but it is widely believed that a highly creative media campaign based on music, dance and culture played a major role in the victory. Today we are informed that the [...]
Written on March 13, 2003
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=15503
New museum opens to rave reviews
A hundred years from now when historians of the future evaluate the performance of the government led by Prime Minister Said Musa, chances are they will not dwell on the ten thousand houses, fifteen thousand jobs, rise in crime or fall of foreign exchange. Instead they will focus on an achievement, though seemingly minor at [...]
Written on February 6, 2002
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=17731
Belizean art show opens in Havana
In the world of international politics the nation of Belize learned long ago the necessity of maintaining an active profile within the global community. And it seems that attitude is gaining strength in the once laid back world of Belizean art. An exhibition called “Zero: new Belizean art”, which first appeared in Merida in March [...]
Written on July 10, 2001
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=18847
New art centre opens at SJC
After the donation of computers at Belize Rural High, Lord Ashcroft moved on to Saint John’s College for the launching of the Belize Centre for Art Education and Culture. The new facility was made possible through the generosity of the Belize government, the government of Taiwan and the Michael Ashcroft Foundation.
Yasser Musa, Art Teacher, SJC
Written on May 18, 2001
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=19112
Musa, Swasey, Gordon exhibit at Image Factory
It started back in 1992 with a millennium anticipating exhibition entitled “Minus Eight”. Eight years later, having now reached “Zero”, the hyper active minds at the Image Factory are not only older, wiser and wealthier, their art is actually coming together. News Five’s Arreini Palacio dropped by to see what was new.
Yasser Musa, Artist
“I started [...]
Written on July 19, 2000
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=20662
Belizean artists exhibit in Merida
Three Belizean artists, Gilvano Swasey, Yasser Musa and Michael Gordon are exhibiting their work in Merida in the Yucatan. The show at the Olimpio Hall also includes photos of an art park in Benque Viejo Del Carmen and was opened this weekend by Prime Minister Said Musa. Artist Joan Duran, who spent a number of [...]
Written on March 14, 2000
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=21341
Seventy-eight in “art for the people”
When Yasser Musa opened the Image Factory, one of his goals was to document visual art in Belize. On Friday night, that goal transformed itself into the largest collection of artworks to be displayed so far. The show is called “Art for People.” Musa says one main aim of the display will be to inspire [...]
Written on January 31, 2000
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=21588
Two Belizean artists hold show at Belize/Mexico Institute
Two Belizean artists are being featured in an exhibition at the Institute of Cooperation and Culture Mexico-Belize beginning tomorrow. Yasser Musa, director of the Image Factory Art Foundation and art teacher at S.J.C. is teaming up with Michael Gordon a self-taught artist who has produced over two thousand art works in the past three years. [...]
Written on December 9, 1998
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=23894
Belizean artists exhibit in Taiwan
The works of eleven Belizean artists are on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. The opening was held on August thirty-first and the group was represented by Yasser Musa and Gilvano Swasey who made a brief presentation to Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Jason Hu. The show, which runs until September twenty-sixth, includes the [...]
Written on September 2, 1999
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=22398
Image Factory hosts “Minus 2″ art exhibition
Since the opening of the Image Factory on North Front Street, the gallery has been host to different forms of art exhibitions. But none like the one that is currently underway. “Minus 2″ as it is called, is using the latest available technology to mirror the fast paced society in which we live with the [...]
Written on May 6, 1998
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=24965
Belize - art + culture
www.imagefactorybelize.com
www.stonetreerecords.com
www.nichbelize.org
www.belizeartcentre.com
Web articles:
Channel 5 NEWS Belize
Yasser Musa and twenty years of art
The name Yasser Musa is synonymous with art, in many forms. This Friday on his birthday, Yasser will put on display twenty years of his accomplishments – a repertoire of his works as an art activist, poet, publisher, teacher and promoter of the arts. The multitalented artist takes a look back at his journey in [...]
Written on July 16, 2009
‘Coming into Focus’ exhibit launched at Image Factory
Coming into Focus – that’s the theme of the latest display of digital photography at the Image Factory. It features the work of twenty-eight new photographers, all students of the well known local artist, Yasser Musa. Over the course of their digital imagery course at the Professional Studies at Saint Johns College, Musa says he [...]
Written on May 29, 2009
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=1578
Art students create a sculpture garden at S.J.C.
Following months of planning, the faculty and students of the Arts Program at the Saint John’s College Junior College inaugurated its newest project, a sculpture garden located on the campus. The garden was created by lecturers: Yasser Musa, Damian Perdomo and Kirkland Smith with help from students of the three-dimensional designer class. It is not [...]
Written on May 8, 2009
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=1752
Landings 9 released; artist says 8 was the best
And on the cultural scene, the Landings Project is an expressive, but complex repertoire of art work that defines the identity of fifteen countries from the Caribbean, Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula. There have been eight previous Landings going back to 2004, and today, the long awaited ninth edition of the ten series collection [...]
Written on January 14, 2009
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=2774
Andy P’s birthday celebrated with book release
Andy Palacio passed away earlier this year on January twenty-fourth at the peak of his musical career. He continues to be missed nationally and globally for his impact on world music and the cultural journey on which he took the Garifuna and rest of the jewel. He would have turned fort y-eight today and so [...]
Written on December 2, 2008
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=3167
Artists from the region in Belize for Landings 9
For the past week, twenty artists from eleven countries gathered at the Image Factory in Belize City to hear lectures and participate in debates and discussions on contemporary art. The event is called Landings Nine but it started with Landings One in Mexico in 2004 and since then has travelled around this hemisphere, made its [...]
Written on August 29, 2008
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=4034
Local children’s book sets new publishing standards
There may be a crisis of governance in Belize right now but the Musa you’re most likely to see on television is not Said; it’s his son Yasser. And the reason has nothing to do with politics. While his dad comes under increasing fire, Yasser seems to build on success. Whether as president of NICH [...]
Written on May 15, 2007
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=7099
Belize and Taiwan sign cultural agreement
Belize and Taiwan have forged closer relations thanks to a new agreement between cultural counterparts. According to officials of the National Institute of Culture and History, on April fifteenth the Mayor of Kaohsiung City Chu-Lan Yeh officially opened a Belizean exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. According to NICH President Yasser Musa, “We are [...]
Written on April 24, 2006
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=9461
Image Factory/Stonetree Records turn 10
Two well known organisations are today celebrating ten years of promoting the arts in Belize. This morning News Five spoke with the founders of the Image Factory and Stonetree Records to find out what they have accomplished and what are their plans for the future.
Yasser Musa, Director, Image Factory
“We have surpassed what we set out [...]
Written on September 2, 2005
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=10830
New Garifuna museum opens in Dangriga
Under threatening skies they gathered this afternoon to mark an important milestone in the cultural life of a people…and nation. I cannot imagine a better way to bring in Garifuna Settlement Day.
Janelle Chanona, Reporting
It has been a museum in the making for the past four years. But sharing the story of the heritage of [...]
Written on November 18, 2004
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=12472
Yasser Musa will head new cultural body
No one can determine with certainty the precise factors that caused a majority of Belizeans to vote for the People’s United Party on March fifth, but it is widely believed that a highly creative media campaign based on music, dance and culture played a major role in the victory. Today we are informed that the [...]
Written on March 13, 2003
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=15503
New museum opens to rave reviews
A hundred years from now when historians of the future evaluate the performance of the government led by Prime Minister Said Musa, chances are they will not dwell on the ten thousand houses, fifteen thousand jobs, rise in crime or fall of foreign exchange. Instead they will focus on an achievement, though seemingly minor at [...]
Written on February 6, 2002
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=17731
Belizean art show opens in Havana
In the world of international politics the nation of Belize learned long ago the necessity of maintaining an active profile within the global community. And it seems that attitude is gaining strength in the once laid back world of Belizean art. An exhibition called “Zero: new Belizean art”, which first appeared in Merida in March [...]
Written on July 10, 2001
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=18847
New art centre opens at SJC
After the donation of computers at Belize Rural High, Lord Ashcroft moved on to Saint John’s College for the launching of the Belize Centre for Art Education and Culture. The new facility was made possible through the generosity of the Belize government, the government of Taiwan and the Michael Ashcroft Foundation.
Yasser Musa, Art Teacher, SJC
Written on May 18, 2001
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=19112
Musa, Swasey, Gordon exhibit at Image Factory
It started back in 1992 with a millennium anticipating exhibition entitled “Minus Eight”. Eight years later, having now reached “Zero”, the hyper active minds at the Image Factory are not only older, wiser and wealthier, their art is actually coming together. News Five’s Arreini Palacio dropped by to see what was new.
Yasser Musa, Artist
“I started [...]
Written on July 19, 2000
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=20662
Belizean artists exhibit in Merida
Three Belizean artists, Gilvano Swasey, Yasser Musa and Michael Gordon are exhibiting their work in Merida in the Yucatan. The show at the Olimpio Hall also includes photos of an art park in Benque Viejo Del Carmen and was opened this weekend by Prime Minister Said Musa. Artist Joan Duran, who spent a number of [...]
Written on March 14, 2000
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=21341
Seventy-eight in “art for the people”
When Yasser Musa opened the Image Factory, one of his goals was to document visual art in Belize. On Friday night, that goal transformed itself into the largest collection of artworks to be displayed so far. The show is called “Art for People.” Musa says one main aim of the display will be to inspire [...]
Written on January 31, 2000
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=21588
Two Belizean artists hold show at Belize/Mexico Institute
Two Belizean artists are being featured in an exhibition at the Institute of Cooperation and Culture Mexico-Belize beginning tomorrow. Yasser Musa, director of the Image Factory Art Foundation and art teacher at S.J.C. is teaming up with Michael Gordon a self-taught artist who has produced over two thousand art works in the past three years. [...]
Written on December 9, 1998
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=23894
Belizean artists exhibit in Taiwan
The works of eleven Belizean artists are on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. The opening was held on August thirty-first and the group was represented by Yasser Musa and Gilvano Swasey who made a brief presentation to Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Jason Hu. The show, which runs until September twenty-sixth, includes the [...]
Written on September 2, 1999
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=22398
Image Factory hosts “Minus 2″ art exhibition
Since the opening of the Image Factory on North Front Street, the gallery has been host to different forms of art exhibitions. But none like the one that is currently underway. “Minus 2″ as it is called, is using the latest available technology to mirror the fast paced society in which we live with the [...]
Written on May 6, 1998
http://edition.channel5belize.com/?p=24965
