Florida’s Dali Museum celebrating artist’s 109th birth anniversaryMay 11, 2013 - 15:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - One by one, on a small stage in a room overlooking an elaborate garden and the bay beyond it, 80 people are taking turns reading excerpts from “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali,” the artist’s autobiography, in 15-minute increments, The Tampa Tribune said. The event started at 11a.m. Friday, May 10 and is scheduled to run for 24 hours straight to mark what would have been the renowned Spanish surrealist’s 109th birthday. Museum staff members had long wanted to stage a reading of the book and saw his May 11th birthday as a way to do it. “[It’s] supposedly a confessional,” said Peter Tush, the museum’s curator of education. “He took advantage of factual stories of his life and modified them and distorted them and created these hyperbolic stories that are deliberately falsified.” The event’s roster of readers speaks to the Dali Museum’s role as both a key tourism driver and a draw for creative people in the Tampa Bay region. It includes City Council members Leslie Curran and Karl Nurse, members of local media and faculty from Eckerd College and the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Ameriabank's Trade Finance portfolio enriched with four prestigious awards from EBRD and IFC Ameriabank received the awards from international financial institutions in recognition of its trade finance operations. Armenian Economy Minister to make trip to UAE May 20-22 A delegation led by Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan will travel to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi on May 20-22 Armenia Security Council chief traveling to Qatar Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan will travel on a working visit to Qatar. Pillars installed in Armenian border village of Kirants In the Armenian village of Kirants, three border markers have been installed, and border guards stand next to them. |