they can sign up to this time soon boost cited by. people who put big dreams on the big screen. in movie magazines on the w. i want to welcome to another edition of your i macs i'm your host megan lee from milestone moments to happiness seminars we've got lots of ground to cover here's a look at what's coming up. two hundred fifty years and counting at london's royal academy of arts gets a birthday make over. say it with flowers of belgian a floral artist and color monument. and smooth moves of wayne

mcgregor as the leading choreographer from britain's. london's royal academy of arts is turning two hundred fifty and ahead of this special anniversary it received a facelift star architect david chipperfield was called in to redesign and expand this artistic institution bringing it up to date with modern features all at the same time preserving its traditional elements while we caught up with chipperfield in london to talk more about the project. for its upcoming two hundred fiftieth birthday london's royal academy of arts will be getting a new second entrance and new rooms and a partly new interior. david chipperfield has succeeded in merging the two existing historical buildings into. one functioning modern institution.

the face of it is a sort of understanding organizational requirements and the challenge here was really to understand how we could best use this building and how we could best connect it so we wrote academy itself. there were academy of arts was founded in seven hundred sixty eight. it's been given classes and holding exhibitions ever since now with the remodelling and expansion it can put our treasures on display that it previously didn't have space for and show off its finest pieces. like michelangelo's tie daytona to their best advantage these new interventions allow us as it were took to brings them not to feel constrained by having too much in a small building i mean we've grown by seventy percent. the new passage may be

small but its effect is enormous it connects the two historical buildings making the entire institution readily accessible. this isn't the first time david chipperfield has given hallowed old halls a new lease on life. when you're building a new building. you are you are the or so so everything you have to defend your ideas. when you are working with an existing going to your defending the building you're defending your you're working on behalf of the building in the world and normally. the other people are also interested in that building so you have a common you're more united. the newest museum on berlin's museum island it's reconstruction completed in two thousand and nine set. new standards. david field

integrated what remained of the original building with modern architecture in a way that had never been seen before. we've made a small contribution on the museum and we've been very. lucky to have been in this special city at a very special time and to be part of. burdens continuous. self description. david chipperfield firm is close to completing work on the james cmon gallery which will give the museum island a new central reception area the british architect has left his mark on berlin in many other spots as well. if you work in somebody else's city you have no enticement. you are you have to justify everything you do you shouldn't be there. it's not your

place so you have to on. this privilege very carefully and to prove that you could bring something. to it that's. the someone from that might not be able to. other chipperfield creations include the helpers wakefield gallery in england completed in two thousand and eleven. who makes museum in mexico city finished in two thousand and thirteen and a recently dedicated cemetery chapel in in a go a japan david chipperfield has projects the world over. my career has been built. at the in the courtesy of others. other cultures and therefore i've been i think very self-conscious. that my

position is this has a very. high level of responsibility towards other cultures. back at the royal academy of arts in london david chipperfield has brought new light clarity and structure to this venerable institution and provided space for it to strive for the next two hundred fifty years. and staying in london the duke and duchess of sussex have made their first official appearance as a married couple since their wedding last saturday prince harry and his wife megan attended a garden party of buckingham palace to celebrate prince charles's seventieth birthday. and in other stories making headlines on the cultural scene the berlin after how monica hosted dozens of amateur musicians at the famous concert hall more on that at the house of today's express. one hundred one amateur musicians from thirty three countries gave

a concert in the open in a film or neat on the british conductor simon rattle. the occasion was there for the money's open house on monday. several thousand visitors took the opportunity to attend rehearsals and concerts go on tours and participate in workshops and discussion panels. last weekend some twenty one thousand fans converged on life safe for the twenty seventh believe festival said to be among the largest of its kind in europe. it kicked off on friday with among other things a public victorian picnic in a city park. packed into this unique four day event where over one hundred concerts and a wide array of fringe events. the

queen visited the chelsea flower show on monday traditionally members of the royal family attend the event one day before the official opening. over six hundred fifty exhibitors all presenting their latest prompts and cognex answers the spotlight is on the show gardens around one hundred sixty five thousand international guests are expected for the five days event. staying on the subject of flowers a belgian florist geoffrey moore todd made sure that sculpture has become i catches with his. floral decorations some colorful caps hats or beards he even put his mark on the capitol.

classical statues getting a modern update a crown of colorful flowers to decorate a normally bastogne head. all around brussels stone and bronze figures or sporting bouquets of beautiful blooms around their heads. belgium's former king leopold the second even got a bright new bed. for the project is the brainchild of belgian floral artist. some find it funny that i put flowers on someone else's work others downright disrespectful but my interest stems from a romantic inclination to hide the statue and allow it to be rediscovered at the same time. even brussels most famous statue the mannequin pierce has been given a flowery. figure was created by sculptor sharon do kanwar in sixteen nineteen. tourists seem to

like the new look. the feel they something the first time i came here i found the statue a bit small i expected it to be bigger so i was a bit disappointed. but now that i'm seeing it for the second time it's very cute. with these new decorations made by the artist i have to say it's very pretty. by finding an appropriate statue before he begins any work he needs permission from the local authorities. the uses wire mesh to create a mold which he will then attach the flowers to. his studio a package helps the mash to hold it shape and it's time to get really creative juices chosen flowers to create made to measure for each statue. it's a slow process each flower work takes ten hours to complete. formal task hopes his

words will breathe new life into the serious often forgotten statues in the city's parks and make people smile when they see them. even for some friends came to visit me from abroad from france and vietnam and they wanted to know who the statues were of and i didn't know what to say. that's when i started to take an interest in them and eventually to engage with them and make them more colorful through my flowers which produced a moth and you have a different vantage not only for the tourists locals appreciate the change and begin to see these familiar monuments in a new light. everything. very much appreciate this initiative mainly because it draws attention to statues that have been a bit forgotten in the parks of brussels to give them a new color that we've never seen. they remind people of their presence. i find that sculpture over there particularly lively is going to have to create

more of it on each vowel is unique and stands in place on the statue until the blossoms went. time now to let you in on this week's draw we want to know when you like to give flowers please visit our website for all the details and you could qualify to win a euro max watch now when it comes to dance some people might shy away from it because they think you will be boring but then i would recommend going to see something by choreographer wayne mcgregor he likes to experiment with new music poetry and movement he recently collaborated with the bavarian state ballet for a special production called portrait wayne mcgregor there's a closer look. here. when a reddish choreographer when mcgregor rehearse is at the very end state opera concentration is intense.

he scrutinizes the dancers every move. part of the job of a corrupt affair is to work with the material that's in front of them so it's part of the pleasure of making advances is working with these extraordinary individuals but they become part of the creation process. mcgregor's dancers put a great deal of themselves and their own ideas into they were persons. i think is because i've fixed position of what the thing should be i have a kind of an idea and i want to see how the bodies are responding in real time and i want to use that as an opportunity rather than a cost so you would go

a long long haul that's the phrase. driving his latest piece is the rhythm of poetry in particular thirteenth century persian spiritual verse. those poems is a very minimal very simple in their idea but the more you revisit them and the more you watched and think about them all the spaces open up with potential other meanings so what first seems very simple becomes and leslie complex. gregor is a perfectionist who builds on an endlessly conflicts foundation recently he even had his own genome sequenced in order to transpose the patterns into dance he's long been inspired by science and technology now the inspiration is spiritual verse . one of things i've really learned from science and experience through through. science is understanding either my cognitive pathways better or i've recently done a very big genetics project which is about my genetic code and how these relate to

how you are as an individual how you choose to live your lives. when mcgregor compliments the poetry with the music of finnish composer sorry a whole. works posed richly organic orchestral textures and paint compelling sonic images. it's not easy music for the dancers to interpret. i when i listen to chi is music for example it puts me in different physical states and for me is is i guess bodies in states of change and so that's what is the most important thing for me looking at how music inspires or infects or shapes physical states of change. gregory spent one night alone in the national gallery in london he describes an experience similar to the effect of listening to music. he couldn't help but get

the feeling that the old masters for speaking to him. for me the work catches you you don't catch the work it kind of tells you the moment you need to make this thing. and in a way that's why don't we have so far one of ideas because i always feel the the calling comes from. it's not that i'm ok now i'm going to do this it's speaks to me and i feel compelled to make that work. with rigorous studies the moves the very instate ballet dancers come up with. the way you do this. he pieces them together one by one to form a complete ballet. there's always a honeymoon period the first week is so exciting and then they realize they go on

the forward. there's always a way you realize it takes a lot of invested energy to get to the level that we want to get up and we're just exploring and mean it's it's only a. big change it's only a dance just like life itself as when mcgregor sees it a philosopher who uses body language to convey his message. or. if you are feeling chronically tired or burned out then perhaps the school of life has what you need and this is a global educational center which teaches individuals how to become happier and more relaxed while the philosopher and bestselling author of. founded his school of life in two thousand and eight and today it has thirteen centers worldwide so we take a look now at a day in the life of the school of life. students at the student

life are learning how to be lucky in five easy lessons going to well when you feel lucky you often take risks but people who take risks sometimes fail to go for home or locally schick. so how do you strike it lucky my your math is one of twenty two people who are here to find out she discovered the night school a couple of years ago. it's not about giving lectures which tell you what you should think like they do in french schools and on the contrary the schools approach is about open mindedness to push. it's about opening up new perspectives and arousing curiosity. but mainly it's about getting you to try something new to test your limits explore new visions be curious and open to others who were on. my email has lived in paris for over fifteen years. she first heard about the school when she was going through

a mid-life crisis she just separated from her partner and father of her children so the timing was perfect. mix took several courses at the school of life which confirmed what she'd always suspected life goes on. in new mine for me it's also a philosophy of life it's about trying even in tough times to see problems as an opportunity and a challenge that should end with you. to do things differently and better if. there are schools of life in thirteen cities worldwide the franchise in paris hilton four years ago. run by friday o'shea it's not on the first school of life founded in london in two thousand and eight. and with you know we talk about culture as a whole we talk about. the psychology of painting fine art photography. and

pictures things out of the wisdom of the ages after all for two thousand years great thinkers have been reflecting on the same problems we face today who vessels so let's be inspired by them and take a holistic approach to. the school of life of course is called love two point zero or how do i find my dream job the often little nuggets of wordly wisdom classes started twenty one year olds and faneuil she decides what's on the curriculum she chooses the instructors avoiding academics in favor of people with plenty of life experience like carolyn this will hurt me. this but i want to give people hope many think they're just unlucky that it's fate and they just accept it. but i don't agree but i think everyone has luck it's just a matter of bringing it into your life. not age. couple inda supernanny explains

how through personal anecdotes from the worlds of science and culture. one of the haunts is that luck is what you make of it. people who follow the intuition are daring and go through life with their eyes open can produce their own luck. but couldn't the participants have figured that out on their own. for what it is you need you course to stay. away from the courses don't be afraid to do things whether they work out or not something will come of it and that's what brings luck it doesn't come knocking at your. part of it meditate live in the moment and say yes more often to participate came away with at the end of the whether or not they'll bring them luck is however anyone's guess. and finally last weekend we saw prince harry and his new wife megan declare their love and

front of millions of people in the form of an elaborate wedding well other couples celebrate love over dinner or with gifts but we put together some alternative ways to woo your lover here are. five european romantic customs that you probably never heard of. romeo and juliet shakespeare's star crossed young lovers but it's likely they never lived here and verona and juliet certainly never lived in this house or stood on this balcony which was built in the twentieth century but some sharp marketing people came up with the idea of selling this location to tourists and hundreds of thousands because every year. many read letters and other items at the foot of juliet statue number five on our list of romantic european customs despite the fact that the story of romeo and juliet ended in tragedy. when people in germany

carry trees through the streets and then set them up in public places it's either christmas or the end of april for centuries germans have been putting up large trees to mark the first of may sometimes outside the homes of people they love. number four on the list of romantic european customs this tradition is particularly popular in the rhineland region but the trees can only stay in place for one month the celebrations include beer cake and kisses. wales the home of rugged landscapes and medieval castles centuries ago during the long winter nights the local residents had to come up with new ways to keep themselves occupied some took up wood carving. they often gave these items as gifts of their special someone. number three on the list of romantic european

customs love spoons. they're much too ornate to be used at the dinner table but these booms are popular presence in wales even today. winter nights in scandinavia are long but so are summer nights lots of extra time to party for centuries people in nordic countries have celebrated the festival of midsummer some of the age old fertility rituals associated with the festival are still practiced today. number two on our list of romantic customs an early morning walk through the countryside is said to bring luck in love or just pick some plowers and tuck them under your pillow at night or a vision of your future love should appear in your dreams. dancing has always brought men and women closer together and that's still true today. but it's no longer fashionable to place

a piece of locally grown fruits under your arm in this tradition imported from austria young women placed a slice of apple in an underarm levenson later they offer it to the young man of their choice. so our number one apple slice dance it does make sense from a biological point of view underarm sweat is chock full of pheromones chemical signals that tell us right away whether we're attracted to someone. or to make my partner do that with me and with that we wrap up the show as always thanks for tuning in was big and tomorrow. or. next time on huron max playing polo on segues instead of horses is the latest trend from the us now ahead here in europe players need to have quickly flexes and a good overview of the field sounds just the ticket for a host michel could go but can she learn to play it in

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