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Recognition of occasions such as Easter, Christmas, New Year, Hanukkah and other festivals and special "weeks' such as Naidoc, Bird Week

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Artistic window displays

Following the recent post on Myer Christmas windows, readers have written in to tell us about their favourite display windows. Image: Best European Destinations

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New Year's Eve 2021

Today as we prepare to usher in the New Year of 2022, we look at some of the spectacular firework displays from around the world in previous years. Image: The NY Times

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Celebrating the Life and Remarkable Achievements of Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 Oct 1931-26 Dec 2021)

Celebrating the life of the remarkable Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died on 26 Dec 2021.

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Happy Christmas 2021

From all of the AnArt4Life blog team to all of our wonderful subscribers and social media followers - a very Happy Christmas with family and friends.

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The feast of Sinterklaas 2021

The feast of Sinterklaas celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas on 6 December. Gifts are given on St. Nicholas' Eve (5 December) in the Netherlands and on the morning of 6 December, Saint Nicholas Day, in Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France.

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Hanukkah 2021

Hanukkah 2021 will begin in the evening of Sunday, 28 November and ends in the evening of Monday, 6 December. Our feature artist today is Marie Vorobieff Marevna

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Thanksgiving 2021

Thanksgiving 2021 falls on the 25 November and we wish all our American subscribers and followers a Very Happy Day. We celebrate with the paintings by Jennie Augusta Brownscome ( 1850 -1936).

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Happy Fourth Birthday to the AnArt4Life Blog

Celebrating 4 wonderful years of daily posts from the AnArt4Life blog made possible by the dedicated following we have from our subscribers and social media supporters. The blog team thanks you all for being part of our journey where the art that is all around us is shared far and wide.

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Celebrating Diwali

Join the AnArt4Life blog team in wishing all our Indian friends a "Very Happy Diwali" and "May your Diwali be free from darkness and abundant with light."

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Chaposos Huamanguinos: Excursion Homeland Peru

Rebeca Dorich is a Peruvian artist with a great passion to preserve Peruvian identity and culture through a participatory project called "Chaposos Huamanguinos". Meet the Chaposos who are setting out to promote what it means to be Peruvian.

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Halloween 2021

It's Halloween again and all the children in Melbourne are so excited because it coincides with us all coming out of the longest lockdown in the world. It will be a wonderful sight to see our children playing together.

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Rosh Hashanah

Monday 6 September sees in Rosh Hashanah (New Year) for the Jewish people. We wish you all a "Good and Sweet New Year". We celebrate today with works by Nachum Gutman.

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Celebrating Fathers Day

In celebrating "Father's Day" and acknowledging all the great dads we bring you works by Mary Cassatt, Carl Larsson, Paul Cezanne, Jean-François Millet, Van Gogh. And be introduced to the works of Israeli artist Shai Yossef.

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Celebrating the Paralympians

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics commence today 24 August and will go until Sunday, 5 September. The paralympians are a special breed of sports people who have had to endure and overcome unbelievable mental and physical "barriers" to reach the top of their sport. Today we salute you. (L

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Tokyo 2020 Games – Making the Medals

Every athlete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games strives to achieve a Gold medal. This golden moment involves very little actual gold. All of the approximate 5,000 medals to be distributed throughout the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Japan are made entirely of recycled materials.

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August 2021 Mailbag No 2

In our August Mailbag No 2 we journey from Europe (wall art) to Bendigo (Brett Whiteley drawings) to India (Video by Soumya celebrating Rath Yatra) , Africa - a round the world trip provided by our wonderful subscribers and followers. Thank you for your wonderful correspondence.

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Tokyo 2020 Games Mascot

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Mascot is Miraitowa while Paralympic Games mascot is Someity. Both designed by Ryo Taniguchi.

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Olympics Tokyo 2020 - Victory Bouquet

The flowers used for the Olympic victory bouquet in Tokyo will include eustomas and Solomon’s seals from Fukushima, sunflowers from Miyagi, gentians from Iwate, and aspidistras from Tokyo.

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Celebrating Naidoc Week with Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu

Naidoc Week (4 -11 July) celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander peoples. Today, on the AnArt4Life blog we celebrate through the work of Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu , Winner of the 2021 Wynne Prize.

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John Winter Pickup OAM Investiture 12 May 2021

Australian artist and "Brushmen of the Bush" John Pickup received an OAM in the 2020 Australia Day Honours. Today he brings you his account of the investiture at Government House, Brisbane, Qld on 12 May 2021. Image credit: scottrileyphotography.com

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Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunts, Sisters, Godmothers, Friends: Thank you

Gustav Klimt's "Mother and Child" from "The Three Ages of Women" painted in 1905 leads us in reflecting on the importance of different women in our lives - our grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, godmothers, friends. Image credit: "Mother and Child" by Klimt (gustavklimt.net)

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Celebrating Easter in Africa

As the sun rises in Africa on Easter Sunday about 70 million Christians in Africa will start a big celebration including decorating the churches with butterflies and singing Christian hymns to the beating of African drums. Image credit: Andy Brunner/Unsplash

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Norman Rockwell’s April Fools Covers

A little fun for April 1 to spot the errors in the famous April Fools Covers created by Norman Rockwell for the Saturday Evening Post in the 1940s. Image credit: saturdayeveningpost.com

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Celebrate Passover with Irma Stern

I thought Passover could be celebrated on the AnArt4Life blog this year by showcasing a few paintings done by the remarkable African artist Irma Stern, born in 1894 in the Transvaal to German-Jewish parents. Image credit: artnet.com

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Happy St Patricks Day!

Today is St. Patrick's Day. This is well known day of celebration for Irish people around the world. Today we bring you a number of traditions associated with the day that you may not know the origins of! Image: The Guardian