The amateur as auteur outdoor

Using a case study Zhangjiajie , this article discusses the status accorded to outdoor theatrical shows in the remarkable mountainous landscapes of China. This type of performance has become very widespread in the country since In the form of a sound-and-light musical drama, it adopts a mythified and very formalized approach that uses and embraces the marvellous landscape and attempts to link spectacular technical effects to a stereotypical artistic approach. It provides viewers with sensations arising from the spectacular effects obtained in situ by laser projectors and amplifiers, and attempts to leave them with a palpable and rewarding experience. The first outdoor show in China was created in in Guilin. A tourist town for about 40 years now, Guilin is the main city in the Guangxi autonomous region, in southern China.

You finally get home after a few well-deserved days off and rush to check how your plants are doing. Have any of them dried out? Has the home watering system not worked as you expected? Wait, before you throw them away, Ester Casanovas, gardening expert at ManoMano , has compiled some top tips on how to revive your plants that might have suffered during your holidays. Before we get down to work, check what went wrong: did you use a home method to keep your plants moist or did the person who was supposed to water them not do it properly? Make a mental note so that you can solve these problems on your next trip. Remember that you can always automate the watering of your pots with a drip irrigation system or solutions for less prolonged absences.

In other words: seize the day. Permanently distracted, often napping in a fug of cigarette smoke, these friends are as unmotivated by their Beckettian show as they are in the rest of their lives. Proper jobs are always looming on the horizon as they spend their days drinking, discussing politics, playing Subbuteo and deciding which movie to see next. The earnest director, Fabio, decides they need to leave their Rome apartments for a bonding exercise, camping in the great outdoors. Moretti was 23 when he directed his own script for this debut feature, shot on Super 8 film.

A group of community organisations came together this week to deliver an event to address the issue of food insecurity and provide some festive fun for young people from across the city. To mark the first three days of the Christmas holidays, the free event, at Everton Pump Track, invited children from across the city to try BMX biking on a custom-made outdoor track, have fun and make new friends, before enjoying a free hot meal and some festive treats. Food For Thought, a unique not-for-profit school meals company owned and managed by its partner schools, provided freshly made hot meals each day.