doongalik studios december 2012 newsletter

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YINNA 4 BOOK LAUNCH PHOTOS

JLBIII CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE

EVENINGS & BAHAMIANS ON THE MOVE

JACKSON BURNSIDE, NATIVE SON

DOCUMENTARY FILM PREMIERE

UPCOMING EVENTS 2013 & NEW ITEMS

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DOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTERDOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTERDOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTERDOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTERDecember 2012December 2012December 2012December 2012 Volume 6 Issue 12Volume 6 Issue 12Volume 6 Issue 12Volume 6 Issue 12 ---- Happy Holidays !!

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PROMOTING THE VISION: By the Year 2020more visitors will be attracted to The Bahamas by Bahamian Art,Culture and Heritage than by sun, sand and sea.

YINNA 4 BOOK LAUNCH-The official Launch afternoon was a huge success with an eager crowd, fabu-lous readings, delicious food and brisk sales! Congratulations to BACUS for another stellar publication and ourthanks for dedicating the book to Jackson be sure to get your copies in the New Year!!

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We would like to make special mention of twoyoung Bahamian entrepreneurs who spokeabout being inspired to follow their dreams:

Jaime Lewis of ISLANDZ (left) who has used

Jacksons Blues & Rainbows artwork to design aline of Bahamian inspired products for the 21stcenturysee him and his amazing items at ourFarmers Market on Saturdays, and for our visi-

tors - at his kiosk in the Departure area of the airport.....and Sonia Farmer of POINCIANA PAPER PRESSwho has started a paper printing enterprise and produced these beautiful Christmas Cards for the holidays...she isalso teaching printing skills and making one of a kind hand bound publications! We wish them every success!!

JACKSON L. BURNSIDE III CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE 2012

This years event was inspired by the YINNA 4 publication and consists of an Exhibi-tion of Jacksons artwork along with his cultural words of wisdom. Patrons came outfor 2 evenings to listen to and dialogue with speakers Charles Carter, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, Sonia Farmer, Jaime Lewis and Christian Campbell. The Exhibition willremain on display until Thursday, January 10.


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At the Galleria

At the Sheraton screening

JACKSON BURNSIDE III, NATIVE SON DOCUMENTARY FILM PREMIERE PHOTOSThank you to everyone who came out to support the BIFF screenings, and kudos to the talentedfilm makers, Tom and Karen Neuwirth and their team for another superb effort in capturing andpreserving Jacksons life and legacy on film! The dvds are now available for sale at the Gallery.


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LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITYThis seminalcoffee table book delineating the awesome art col-

lection of Bahamian Collector, Dawn Davies along

with essays by editor Dr Erica James and graphic

design by Dionne Benjamin-Smith, is a must havefor everyones library. Its 548 pages of full colour

photographs and artists bios are a treasure trove

of information. We are so proud to have played

some small part in its production.

HOW TO BE A TRUE-

TRUE BAHAMIAN 2finally reach! An hilarious

sequel and another addition

to Pa t r i c ia G l in ton -

Meicholas amazing writing

repertoire, this publication

will keep you in stitches

straight through!

D. GAIL SAUNDERSTwo of Dr Saunders his-

torical renderings on Ba-

hamian society are now in

stock.

We already have a busy scheduleplanned for the New Year and look for-ward to seeing you at the Gallery to helpus celebrate!

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NATURES BLESSINGS

Doongalik is proud to presentthis collection of floral paint-ings produced by the late DrJosephine Sherman, a Baha-mian OB/GYN specialist whopracticed in the US for manyyears. Joey unfortunately died

from breast cancer in 2004,her sister, Effie having prom-

ised to arrange an exhibition of her artwork athome.

We also have three upcoming Book Launchesscheduled for January-February by authors, DrK. Jonathan Rodgers, Nettica Symonette andRosie Hanna - how exciting!!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Doongalik Studios is thrilled to be hosting theOpening of an Exhibition of Fine Art Photo-graphs by Master Bahamian Photographer,Margaret Guillaume who has not exhibited inmany years. Please watch this space as we willhave much more information in our Januarynewsletter!

SATURDAY & SUNDAY,

MARCH 15-16This is the weekend for thehighly anticipated Transform-ing Spaces Art Tour whichwill have a fresh approachfor the new year..we

have already started making plans for an otherexciting event at our Doongalik venue!!

UPCOMING EVENTS FOR 2013 & NEW PRODUCTS (books, books and more books!)

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