Celebration Of Lights In Oshkosh

The trailer for A Bad Moms Christmas is effective in giving an exciting preview into what to expect from the movie. In figure 1 it shows the trailer using bright colors of the Christmas trees, lights, and all of the Christmas decorations add to the excitement of the trailer as well as being able to understand the theme. Seeing these colors keep the audience interested as well as get the Christmas feel. Putting all of these bright lights was effective for the director to do because it can add to the understanding of the movie. Keeping the theme in mind is

A Jingle Jazz Christmas was a great concert for anyone and everyone to attend. It was a setting where people could hear praises sung and played to God. As I reminisced back to

There are over 30 holiday scenes and hundreds and thousands of LED lights. The park, which is loved by all during the day, transforms in a magical walk through light display at night. If you have never seen this display in person, you are missing out as this award winning assortment of lights, music and Christmas décor is well worth the trip up the mountain.

Film scenes don’t make itself come to life; this specific job is designated to the art director. The art director is Kelvin Humenny and this man help collaborate with the director and production designer to produce the overall look and feel of Elf (2003). Humenny delegated tasks to production, set, electrical and lighting designers, unifying those roles in the effort to bring directors aesthetic vision to life. Again, this is a Christmas movie and the set up is suppose to make the audience feel the Christmas spirit. This scene was a success in my eyes. The set and lighting was spot on as you look at the details of the scene, all you can notice is Christmas decorations and lights. The lighting itself wasn’t overwhelming but just right and what people expect for Christmas decorations.

A cultural event that I have attended in the past that has had a memorable affect on my life was a Native American Powwow. This event takes place every year, Thanksgiving weekend in Tucson, AZ. I arrived in the late afternoon, as the sun was going down. I remember seeing many different types of people, from tourists to the different Native American performers. The physical setting of this particular celebration was outside, and based around, one main circle. Drums were beating so loud, you could feel the pound inside your chest. Different activities were going on all around, such as dancers, vendors, and a huge variety of foods to choose from. The circular dancing arena is known as the arbor, this area is blessed before any of the events

This show is presented in December around Christmas time. All of the songs sung, and reading that were read had to do with the Christmas season and Christ. Many familiar songs were sung and played by the orchestra such as “I Saw Three Ships,” “Carol of the Drum,” “Miniature Overture” from the Nutcracker, “We Three Kings,” “Holidays at Home” and more. Rolando Villzon sung song from his culture. He sang “Cancion para la Navidad,” Il eat ne, le diving Enfant,” “O souverain, O juge, O pere, from Le Cid,” and more. He is a christen but is not a Mormon. It was neat to see the two different, but very similar cultures unite and mesh so well together. There was a huge choir made up of men and women that sung along with him. A part from the singers there were many talented musicians. There were drums, violins,

Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. His love of art showed early on as he began drawing as a child. Around the age of 10, Rivera was able to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. One of his early influences was artist José Posada who ran a print shop near Rivera's school. In 1907, Rivera traveled to Europe to further his art studies. There, he became friends with other leading artists of the day, including Pablo Picasso.

As I mentioned, event number one occurred this past summer when my church youth group traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, for a national Lutheran youth gathering. We departure on July 15th and arrived in New Orleans to meet and worship for a week with 25,000 other Lutheran youths from different states and across the world. Much had traveled from Germany, Hungary, and Canada. The lyrics ¨Every Sunday I see people filling in through those front doors, got a cross up on that steeple, yeah itś time to praise the Lord,” from The Saltwater Gospel by The Eli Young Band relates to my time in New Orleans, especially for a mass event at the Superdome, when 25,000 people came together. Each night, we would enjoy personal stories, skits, and songs about

Since the year 1996, the Edmonton Metcalfe County Chamber of Commerce has designed and sold a Metcalfe County Historical Christmas Ornament. The following have been depicted on ornaments: 1996 Courthouse, 1997 Wisdom Store, 1998 Old Edmonton High School, 1999 Beula Villa, 2000 Court House in Christmas Array, 2001 Branstetter Park, 2002 Historic Jail, 2003 Rogers Mill, 2004 People’s Bank Building, 2005 Barn Lot Theater, 2006 Janes Store and Subtle Post Office, 2007 Historic Edmonton Presbyterian Church, 2008 Leftwich House, 2009 The Light House Restaurant, 2010 Sesquicentennial logo, 2011 MCHS 1957-1994, 2012 Edmonton Elementary, Summer Shade Elementary, & North Metcalfe Elementary, 2013 The Kentucky Headhunters Band, 2014 Historical Court House, 2015 The Cut,

Experience the spectacular celebrations that Epcot brings for the holidays. See the magic as the World Showcase comes alive with an array of food from

Several activities take place in the evening, but the most antipated one by far is going trick-or treating. Both children and adults dress up in costumes and walk from door to door collecting candy from their friends and neighbors. This ritual is from Samhain, an ancient Celtic gala that marked the end of the harvest season and the start of a new year. The Celts thought that the spirits left their world to interact with the living and so wore disgues and made food offerings to try to appease them. Bobbing for apples is another modern-day Halloween custom that has Celtic roots. Apples were the fruit of death. The Celts believed that the departed had to undergo two trials before they could make it to heaven. “The water ordeal is the familiar bobbing for apples, while the fire ordeal involves trying to take a bite out of an apple attached to a hanging stick which also bears a lit candle” (Kondratiev, par. 12). Playing this game attuned the dead to the needs of the living over the course of the following

“The Spirit of America,” collection was inspired by summers in a small town, where red wagons pulled lemonade pitchers and fireworks. Flowers were picked in grandma's garden and arranged in old ball jars. Fireworks

Kwanzaa is celebrated by millions throughout the African community. It was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, he was a professor of black studies during the time of the civil right movement. The reason for this annual celebration is to honor the values of ancient African cultures. It was originally based from Kwanza, year-end festival that have been taking place in Africa for thousands of year. It is also used to inspire African Americans to make a progress in the United States. During Kwanzaa, special candles are used, there’s seven of them, and each night during Kwanzaa a candle is lit. The seven candles each have a meaning, for example; Unity, Self-determination, collective responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.

According to Marshall Berman, Modernity is a term of art used in the Humanities and Social Sciences to designate both a historical period as well as the ensemble of a particular socio cultural norms attitudes and practices that arose in post medieval Europe and have developed since in various ways and at various times around the world. (Berman 2010, 15-36)