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CTV News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Ukrainian refugee celebrates new dance studio in Centretown
Anastasiia Kulikova came to Ottawa three years ago with her son and $100 in her pocket, she now runs a successful dance studio. CTV's Natalie Van Rooy reports.
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Hidden gems and secret corners: a rare glimpse inside Melbourne's most captivating buildings
Beneath an unassuming Collingwood apartment block, two Melbourne-based artists are preparing to open their studio to the public. Artists Rone (left) and Callum Preston are opening their studio to the public as part of 2025 Open House Melbourne. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian Artist and designer Callum Preston has shared a studio with street artist Tyrone Wright, better known as Rone, for the past five years. This weekend the duo will allow members of the public inside their working space as part of Melbourne's annual Open House program. Preston jokes that even some local residents, unaware of who their neighbours are, may wander over. 'I don't think a lot of people upstairs even know that there's artist studios down here. It just looks like it could be an office or something,' he says. 'A visual overload': stacked shelves inside Rone and Callum Preston's studio. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian The studio is the kind of hidden gem Open House specialises in. Since 2008, the event has given the public a peek inside secret corners and oft-unseen spaces around Melbourne. While the program tends to focus heavily on architecture, the frisson of excitement for the public is in seeing doors that are usually closed to them open, and the feeling of uncovering treasures concealed in plain sight. Across the three days, Wright and Preston will introduce their studio to visitors and roam alongside them. In-progress artworks and the pair's personal art archives dating back 20 years will be on display. The studio will also feature props used in Rone's installations, including 8,000 books nestled inside each other like babushka dolls, alongside works in progress and TVs playing video works. Wright describes the place as 'a chaotic space' and 'a visual overload', but Preston notes 'there's a method to all the madness'. 'Everything's sort of labelled in its own way. I don't think the National Gallery archivist would love the way we do it, but we have it all here,' he says. Items from past installations in Rone and Callum Preston's studio. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian Wright grew up surrounded mainly by tradespeople and says he never met artists when he was young. Opening studios to visitors, and giving them a look at the process behind the works, can offer younger people a window into a creative life and make it more accessible, he explains. 'Talking to younger people, I've always just kept in mind [that] this might be important for them – this moment to meet someone who's doing something that they might aspire to, or they didn't even consider that could have been real,' he says. 'Seeing an artist do something just seems more doable [to you], because you see that they are just real people.' Past headliners of Open House have included the Myer Mural Hall and a limited lottery for rare access to the dilapidated century-old ballroom at the top of Flinders Street station (years before arts festival Rising secured use of the space). The 2025 program includes nearly 200 buildings, spaces and activities, from the new veloway in the West Gate Tunnel Project to a First Nations kayak tour down the Yarra River. Here are some other highlights. Cairo Flats Two apartments in Cairo Flats in Fitzroy will be open to the public. Photograph: Tom Ross/XYZ Fitzroy's most distinctive 1930s apartment block – 36 'bachelor'-style flats arranged in a U-shape around a central garden, with a communal dining room, lockable garages and famous cantilevered concrete stairs – was key to the growth of apartment living in Melbourne. It was described by the magazine Australian Home Beautiful in 1937 as 'a new solution of the problem of combining what are so often incompatibles – space-economy, comfort, absolute modernity, and minimum rentals'. Tours of the building, grounds and two apartments will be led by Cairo Flats owners. Younghusband Woolstore Younghusband Woolstore has been restored and redeveloped for 'adaptive reuse'. Photograph: Open House Melbourne Catching a passing glimpse from the train of the ghost signs that linger on the 122-year-old redbrick may be the only interaction many Melburnians have had with this industrial building. Broker Younghusband and Co bought the 1901 Kensington storehouse from wool seller R Goldsbrough Row and Co and operated the facility until 1970, after which it was used for artistic studios and costume storage for the Australian Ballet. The building has recently been restored and redeveloped for 'adaptive reuse', leaning into its heritage elements. The first stage of that redevelopment was completed last year. A guided tour of the revived site will be hosted by the architects Woods Bagot and contractor Built on Friday, while visitors can roam around it in their own time on Saturday. Visitors can roam around the building in their own time on Saturday. Photograph: Open House Melbourne Ziebell's farmhouse Built in the 1850s, this bluestone farmhouse in Thomastown – once known as Westgarthtown, or Germantown – has been home to five generations of dairy-farming families. The house was built by German migrants Sophia and Christian Ziebell in a European style, with 61cm-thick rubble bluestone walls, pitched roofs, adjoining rooms and a large inhabitable attic. It is situated in a rambling garden, alongside the original stone barn, washhouse and bathhouse, and Heritage Council Victoria says it is likely the earliest surviving dwelling of the migrant settlement. Ziebell's farmhouse in Thomastown dates from the 1850s. Photograph: David Johns The site has been restored by Whittlesea city council, and as part of Open House, descendants of Germantown families will provide tours, insights, reflections and readings about farm life in the area. Henry Ziebell in the home's attic. Photograph: Jason Cheetham Tay Creggan Tay Creggan in South Yarra is now a girls' school. Photograph: Strathcona girls' grammar This heritage-listed mansion in South Yarra, known as 'the house on the rocks', has had many lives: it has been a family home for the wealthy, a hostel for young women and, since 1969, a school campus. It was built to be a family home for architect Robert Guyon Purchas in the early 1880s, but he ran into financial trouble before it was finished and sold it to 'Hawthorn gentleman' Michael Spencer, while continuing to work on it. Spencer's widow sold it to the Catholic church in 1937, who themselves sold it to the Baptist Union of Victoria in 1969 for use by Strathcona girls' grammar school. Heritage Council Victoria describes Tay Creggan as 'one of most picturesque houses built in Victoria in the late 19th century' and 'one of the finest examples in Victoria of the Victorian Queen Anne Revival style, incorporating many Elizabethan-period features'. Tours of Tay Creggan will run on Saturday as part of Open House. Windows inside the heritage-listed mansion. Photograph: Strathcona girls' grammar Open House Melbourne runs from Friday 25 July to Sunday 27 July 2025
CTV News
5 days ago
- Health
- CTV News
Pilates for pain relief
Atlantic Watch Crystal Garrett visits a studio to find out how clinical Pilates can help those living with arthritis pain.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
South Shields' former Wilko store to be turned into art studios
A former Wilko store is to be turned into an art gallery and studio in an attempt to give artists an affordable space to vacant retail unit in Market Place, South Shields, has been taken over by Laura Robertson and Theodore Godfrey-Cass, who plan to turn it into a collaborative pair have named the building The Market Gallery and said they hoped it would add to South Tyneside Council's planned regeneration of the town centre, which will see the college relocated Robertson said she wanted the gallery to be part of the new "lease of life that is coming to South Shields". The Market Gallery will include an area to display work as well as studio booths and a larger space, which could be used for dance and musical Godfrey-Cass, who is originally from Los Angeles in the US, said if the centre was a success, they may install more equipment. "My dream is to eventually get screen-printing presses, heat presses, sublimation printers and, hopefully in the long-run, an embroidery machine, so we can teach people skills like how to make their own T-shirts and clothing," he also intends to use the old storefront's large windows as a canvas for seasonal communal paintings to help brighten up the area. The artistic duo were asked to run the gallery by Easy Streets Arts, a charity which works to match artists with empty Robertson said the charity would pay the business rates for the site, allowing The Market Gallery to offer "extremely competitive rates" for its studios. "There's still that barrier for young artists, even old artists, who feel they haven't got the portfolio behind them, haven't got the exhibitions behind them, and feel they have those limitations," she said."We just want to offer those people an opportunity to show South Tyneside what they're made of." Follow BBC North East on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Vogue
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
A Fragrance That Smells as Rich and Complex as a Max Richter Composition Sounds
Yulia Mahr: Sitting outside this process as Max was working on this perfume, I found it very beautiful that he included so many elements that were a really important part of, not only of his day-to-day life like the pencil smells, but also his whole profession and his childhood. What I love about the scent is that you can smell all that when you come to it. You can really pick up the notes of all these bits of his life coming together. Max, were you kind of sensorially aware of them even before the fragrance came along—like when you would open up a piano? MR: I think, yes, they're all sort of important parts of my world in a way. You open up a piano and you get that kind of cedar. You're in a room with an orchestra, you can smell the rosin [for treating bows]. It's a very sort of 360-degree experience. And I guess the other thing that goes into it is our location. Our studio is in the woods, so there are a lot of earthy things like vetiver in there. It's an attempt to try and make a composite object, which kind of expresses where I am at now and where we are together in our studio. And why do this now? MR: I think the stars aligned. It's an idea that I've been carrying around for a long time. I know Adrian and they'd used some of my music previously on another of their projects, and there was a feeling that it would be good to connect. We had lunch together and we talked about everything but the fragrance, and we got on really well. It really was a beautiful series of moments. Of all the possible fragrance collaborators, you ended up with Comme des Garçons, which is known as being more conceptual. MR: Both Yulia and I have loved their stuff forever. I wear Black Pepper, Amazing Green, and Comme des Garçons 2. It was a no brainer, really. They're such a sort of creative, visionary outfit. They have this sort of independent spirited, very artistically ambitious output. And then working with Christian and Guillaume, what was the dialogue back and forth? MR: It was very simple. I just gave him a load of suggestions to start from, and he made a range of options. And then we just sort of focused in and took away things which weren't quite there, which kept the iterative processes pretty quick. It was three or four iterations, I think.
