{"id":188,"date":"2013-06-29T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T06:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/?p=188"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:58:20","slug":"drawing-paradise-exhibition-in-st-leonards-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Paradise exhibition in Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"584\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 584px; height: 296px;\" data-original-width=\"584\" data-original-height=\"296\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 392px; height: 296px;\" data-original-width=\"392\" data-original-height=\"296\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tutu-cutting_small.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"388\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"292\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"189\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tutu-cutting_small.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"283,213\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1370376460&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cutting tutus\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;lino image being cut Emily Johns&lt;\/p&gt; 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height: 292px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Emily Johns travelled to Iran in 2006 and again this February on an international peacemaking delegation. She has created an exhibition of lino prints about the history of British\/Iranian relations over the last century &#8211; tobacco, tutus, coups and chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drawing Paradise on the \u2018Axis of Evil\u2019\u00a0<\/span> 4 \u2013 17 July<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Hastings Arts Forum<\/strong> 36 Marina, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0BU Preview: Friday, July 05 at 6:30 &#8211; 8:30pm<\/p>\n<p>www.drawingparadise.org<\/p>\n<h2>Accompanying events:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Thursday 4 July<\/strong><\/span> 7.30pm: The Cow, Iranian film hosted by St Leonards Film Society<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Thursday 11 July<\/strong><\/span> 11:00am: Artist&#8217;s talk<br \/>\n7.30pm: A Separation, Iranian film hosted by St Leonards Film Society<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Saturday 13 July<\/strong><\/span> 12:00am \u2013 2:00pm: Printmaking and stories for children age 8-12yrs<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Sunday 14 July<\/strong><\/span> 2:30pm: Iranian film and discussion hosted by St Leonards Film Society<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Tuesday 16 July<\/strong><\/span> 7:00pm \u2013 9:00pm: \u201c<strong>The Rose and the Nightingale<\/strong>\u201d a Persian Divan with divine refreshments. Bring Persian poetry to share. Donations welcome.\u00a0<strong>Stephen Watts<\/strong> will be reading his translations of Ziba Karbassi, also two very fine \u00a0poets Reza Baraheni &amp; Esmail Kh&#8217;oi. <strong>Krysia Mansfield<\/strong> and Las Pasionaras will be singing her new composition composed for the exhibition. Sufi stories told by <strong>Ariane Hadjilias. <\/strong>Rumi performed by<strong> Fari Bradley.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Johns travelled to Iran in 2006 and again this February on an international peacemaking delegation. She has created an exhibition of lino prints about the history of British\/Iranian relations over the last century &#8211; tobacco, tutus, coups and chemical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-lino","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilyjohns.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}