Arts and crafts

The inhabitants of Nauru wear the usual tropical clothes: short trousers and light shirts. Fishing still follows a traditional method: the island anglers wait in small light boats for fish to arrive. The custom of fishing has been preserved by trained Fregattvoegeln. Radio Nauru has collected numerous recordings of local people's music. But even old Nauruans can rarely understand the contents of these songs. Whilst the traditional culture rapidly gives way to the contemporary, as elsewhere in Micronesia, music and dance ...

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Culture of Nauru, Culture of Nauru - Arts and crafts, Culture of Nauru - Language and education, Culture of Nauru - Sport, Culture of Nauru - Weightlifting

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Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and the rest. Some crafts have been practised for centuries, while others are modern inventions, or popularisations of crafts which were originally practiced in a very small geographic area. Additionally, this term refers to the Arts and Crafts movement which was a social revolution veiled in a design ...

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• Arts and crafts - Types of arts/crafts
• Arts and crafts - Crafts involving textiles
• Arts and crafts - Crafts involving wood metal or clay
• Arts and crafts - Crafts involving paper or canvas
• Arts and crafts - Crafts involving plants
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A craft is a skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a trade or particular art. The term is often used as part of a longer word (and also in the plural). For example, a craft-brother is a fellow worker in a particular trade and a craft-guild is, historically, a guild of workers in the same trade. See some further examples below. A craft fair is an organized event to display crafts by a number of exhibitors. Folk art follows craft tradit ...

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Sometimes children need some assistance when developing their fine motor skills. This requires one to find strategies in order to assist children with their development. Fine motor skill - Manipulative materials. Toys that require a child to manipulate it with their fingers and hands can be categorized as a manipulative. “Manipulative materials enhance fine motor development because they require controlled use of hand and finger muscles” (Essa, Young & Lehne, 1998). Manipulatives involve coordinati ...

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Fine motor skill, Fine motor skill - Self-Care Skills, Fine motor skill - Writing Skills, Fine motor skill - Children’s Drawings, Fine motor skill - Helping children with their fine motor development, Fine motor skill - Manipulative materials, Fine motor skill - Modified writing materials, Fine motor skill - Positioning, Fine motor skill - Laterality

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Burning Man is a week-long festival with international draw, held annually on the week prior to and including Labor Day weekend (in early September) in the United States. Its current location is on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, at 40°45′17″N, 119°14′11″W or 90 miles north-northeast of Reno. The temporary city (housing 36,500 residents in 2005) is put forth as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-re ...

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• Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival
• Burning Man - Black Rock City
• Burning Man - Center Camp
• Burning Man - Theme camps and villages
• Burning Man - Policing
• Burning Man - Transport around festival
• Burning Man - Burners
• Burning Man - Health and safety
• Burning Man - History
• Burning Man - Timeline
• Burning Man - Regional events
• Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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A cabochon or cabouchon is a gemstone which has been shaped and polished as opposed to facetted. The resulting form is usually a convex top with a flat back, although the term is used to mean any deliberate shape that is not facetted. Cutting "en cabochon" is usually applied to opaque gems, while facetting is usually applied to transparent stones. Hardness is also taken into account as softer gemstones with a hardness lower than 7 on the Mohs hardness scale are easily scratched, mainly by silicon dioxide in dust and grit. This would quickly make translucent gems unattractive, whereas polished as cabochons, ...

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• Cabochon - External link

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Participation. Burning Man is held to be a "spectator-free" zone—i.e., only participants are allowed. As such, all attendees are ostensibly expected to contribute to the community, but the nature of this participation is left up to each individual, and in reality a large number of spectators are present with cameras in hand. The concept of radical inclusion ("include yourself, include others") is the consensus-reality unwritten la ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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A great variety of ornamental patterns are found on pysanky. Because of the egg’s fragility, no ancient examples of pysanky have survived. However, similar ornamental patterns occur in pottery, metalwork, embroidery and other crafts, many of which have survived. The symbols which decorated pysanky underwent a process of adaptation over time. In pre-Christian times these symbols imbued an egg with magical powers to ward off evil spirits, guarantee a good harvest and bring a person good luck. After 988, when Christianity became the state religion of Ukraine, t ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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Participation. Burning Man is held to be a "spectator-free" zone—i.e., only participants are allowed. As such, all attendees are ostensibly expected to contribute to the community, but the nature of this participation is left up to each individual, and in reality a large number of spectators are present with cameras in hand. Leave No Trace, an ecological concept. Burning Man takes place in the middle of a normally uninhabited desert environment known as a playa, which is deep in the middle of a large, prehistoric dry l ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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Old legends blended folklore and Christian beliefs and firmly attached the egg to the Easter celebration. One legend concerns the Virgin Mary. It tells of the time Mary gave eggs to the soldiers at the cross. She entreated them to be less cruel and she wept. The tears of Mary fell upon the eggs, spotting them with dots of brilliant color. Another legend tells of when Mary Magdalene went to the sepulchre to anoint the body of Jesus. She had with her a basket of eggs to serve as a repast. When she arrived at the sepulchre and uncovered the eggs, the pure white shells h ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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Pysanky are typically made to be given to family members and respected outsiders. To give a pysanka is to give a symbolic gift of life, which is why the egg must remain entire. Furthermore, each of the designs and colors on the pysanka is likely to have a deep, symbolic meaning. Traditionally, pysanky designs are chosen to match the character of the person to whom the pysanka is to be given. Typically, pysanky are displayed ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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The Hutsuls––Ukrainians who live in the Carpathian Mountains of Western Ukraine––believe that the fate of the world depends upon the pysanka. As long as the egg decorating custom continues, the world will exist. If, for any reason, this custom is abandoned, evil––in the shape of a horrible serpent who is forever chained to a cliff–– will overrun the world. Each year the serpent sends out his minions to see how many pysanky have been created. If the number is low the serpent's chains are loosened and he is free to wander the e ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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Each province, each village, and almost every family in Ukraine had its own special ritual, its own symbols, meanings and secret formulas for dyeing eggs. These customs were preserved faithfully and passed down from mother to daughter through generations. The custom of decorating pysanky was observed with greatest care, and a pysanka, after receiving the Easter blessing, was held to have great powers as a talisman. Pysanka are traditionally made during the last week of Lent, Holy Week in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars. (Both fait ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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Pysanka generically means any type of decorated egg, but it specifically refers to eggs created by the written-wax batik method. Several types of decorated eggs are seen in Ukrainian tradition, and these vary throughout the regions of Ukraine. Krashanky are boiled eggs dyed a single color (with vegetable dyes), and are blessed and eaten at Easter. Pysanky (from pysaty, "to write") are raw eggs created with the wax-resist method (batik). The designs are "written" with a stylus. Wooden eggs and ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight foot tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog. The inspiration for burning these effigy figures has been shrouded in mystery by Harvey, who described it as "a spontaneous act of radical self-expression." However, sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, had held spontaneous art-party gatherings on Baker Beach on or about the ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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Burning Man participants often call themselves "burners." Although this usage may vary with region, a burner is an annual denizen of Black Rock City, and anyone who embraces Burning Man as an expression in sync with their own identity is a burner. In general, the term's use is only practical in contexts outside of the event itself. A burner is usually someone who has been to the event and aspires to return, even if only in spirit. The concept also implies the sentiments and values inspired by the event itself, including a high regard for cre ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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The popularity of Burning Man has encouraged other groups and organizations to hold festivals similar to Burning Man, such as Fuego de los Muertos in San Diego, Playa del Fuego , Burning Flipside in Texas, or the July weekend-long Phoenix Festival in Washington. And in recent years, burners wishing to experience Burning Man more frequently than once per year have banded together to create local regional events. These events are typically much smaller than Burning Man itself, often consisting of no more than a few hundred participants. Some o ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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Black Rock City, often abbreviated to BRC, is the name of the temporary urban phenomenon created by Burning Man. The city is arranged as two thirds of a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) diameter circle (resembling the layout of Poverty Point) with the Burning Man complex at the very center. Avenues extend radially from the Man to the outermost circle. In most years, these avenues are given a clock name (e.g., "3:00"), presenting the city as a clock in which the Man is the center of the clock. Occasionally, the avenues have been identified as the degrees of ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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Once participants have arrived in Black Rock City, they are expected to leave their cars or other motor vehicles parked and travel around the city under their own power. Cars should only be used in an emergency, or when leaving or entering the city. Law enforcement officials and the Black Rock Rangers will stop vehicles and law enforcement officials may give you a ticket. Bicycles are de rigueur for most BRC citizens. The alkali dust of the playa causes severe damage to bikes, so many attendees bring a bicycle of little ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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The art of the decorated egg in Ukraine, or the pysanka, dates back to ancient times. The practice originated in the prehistoric Trypillian culture. Folk tales reveal that the people who lived in the region now known as Ukraine worshipped the sun. It warmed the earth and thus, was a source of all life. Eggs decorated with nature symbols were chosen for sun worship ceremonies and became an integral part of spring ritual ...

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Pysanka, Pysanka - Types of pysanky, Pysanka - History, Pysanka - Superstitions, Pysanka - Christian legends, Pysanka - Making pysanky, Pysanka - Sharing pysanky, Pysanka - Symbolism in pysanky, Pysanka - Geometric, Pysanka - Christian symbols, Pysanka - Phytomorphic designs, Pysanka - Scevomorphic designs, Pysanka - Zoomorphic designs, Pysanka - Cosmomorphic designs, Pysanka - Color symbolism, Pysanka - Combinations of colors

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