Monday, November 18, 2019

A GREAT NEW PLACE FOR PIZZA IN MONTREAL!

PIAZZA SALUMI fumagalli is a new hot spot in the heart of Montreal where you can buy the most delicious crispy pizza topped by meat products that come directly from Italy! I discovered this place when we went there to pick up fresh pizza to serve for my birthday cocktail. As you can tell by the photo below the varieties of recipe are quite unique.



You can also eat you food in the store and shop for Italian delicacies to bring home. 
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ENJOY!

 

Thursday, November 14, 2019

THE WARRIOR QUEEN OF JHANSI

TRAILER 
Portrait of Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi




This exquisitely beautiful movie is based on a true story. It is so refreshing that the history of women is emerging in the cinema at this time when the rights of women are once again being challenged in many political arenas. Director Swati Bhise's first feature movie brings to life a long forgotten world and culture that was totally overtaken by the British. The English sense of entitlement was enormous! It appeared normal to those "civilized" people to just take from others and killing them if that was not acceptable to the indigenous people!

Lakshmî Bâî a young widowed queen who became a warrior raised an army of 14 000 women who fought the British Raj.

The queen is played by Devika Bhise the director's daughter. Other cast members include Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Nathaniel Parker, Ben Lamb.

What amazed me the most was to learn the story of these courageous women at a time ( 1850s) when women's rights were not even yet recognized in the west. Again, the beauty of the film is mesmerizing. 

Opening in theaters this November 15.







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Sunday, November 3, 2019

MONTRÉAL EN NOVEMBRE


ENGLISH translation app on the left
ALL movies for CINEMANIA festival are dubbed in English!

07.11  > 17.11.2019

Le 25e CINEMANIA débute au Cinéma Impérial ce jeudi 7 novembre avec un film éclatant PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU de Céline Sciamma. Ce film est récipiendaire du Prix du Scénario au Festival de Cannes en 2019 et met en vedette Adèle Haenel dans le rôle d'Héloise et Noémie Merlant dans le rôle de Marianne. Enfin les histoires de ce qu'ont vécu les femmes commencent à émerger! Ici, Marianne doit peindre Héloise pour le fiancé de cette dernière dans le contexte d'un mariage arrangé auquel elle résiste. Visitez le site pour connaître tout sur les activités, invités spéciaux et horaires des films.

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LES MISÉRABLES

Réalisateur Ladj Ly
Interprêtes Damien Bonnard, Djebril Zonga, Alexis Manenti, Steve Tientcheu
Un combat de clans urbains très contemporain se déroule dans ce drame.
Participez à un événement spécial GRATUIT sur la course aux Oscars en présence de l'équipe du film le samedi 9 nov à 16h au Sofitel. Plus d'informations ici 
 





ALICE ET LE MAIRE

Réalisateur Nicolas Pariser
Interprêtes Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier, Nora Hamzawi, Maud Wyler

Après avoir consacré 30 ans à la politique, le maire de Lyon, Paul Théraneau (Fabrice Luchini), traverse une crise existentielle : il est en panne d’énergie et de nouvelles idées. Pour y pallier, Paul engage une jeune et brillante philosophe, Alice Heimann (Anaïs Demoustier).


ANTIGONE

Réalisateur Sophie Deraspe
Interprêtes Nahéma Ricci-Sahabi, Nour Belkhiria, Rachida Oussaada, Antoine Desrochers

La réinterprétation moderne par Sophie Deraspe de la tragédie grecque Antigone met en vedette Nahéma Ricci, dans le rôle d’une brillante étudiante de 17 ans.

  Participez à un événement spécial GRATUIT sur la course aux Oscars en présence de Sophie Deraspe le samedi 9 nov à 16h au Sofitel. Plus d'informations ici 





LOLA VERS LA MER

Réalisateur Laurent Micheli
Interprêtes Benoît Magimel, Mya Bollaers, Sami Outalba
Lola, 18 ans, est une jeune femme transgenre qui, peu de temps avant son opération finale, apprend que sa mère vient de mourir.

BON FESTIVAL!!!!

Une série bouleversante débute aujourd'hui à PLANÈTE + LA SCIENCE FACE AU TERRORISME. On y découvre que ce qui était science fiction est devenu la réalité. C'est une série extrêmement bien documentée et qui pose les questions importantes face aux technologies et à la robotique munie d'une intelligence artificielle au bord de devenir autonome. La plus grande tristesse pour moi alors que je visionnais la première émission de la série et constatais l'ampleur du génie humain était de constater que nous ne sommes pas encore en mesure d'appliquer celui-ci pour la paix.


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Thursday, October 31, 2019

THE PLAGUE AND DOCTOR CAIM by G. E. Gallas


A crowdfunding project by G.E. Gallas about "a darkly humorous graphic novel about a doctor grappling against the Black Death." See link below for more info!

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Friday, October 25, 2019

CARRION @ MONUMENT NATIONAL

Présenté par le MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) au Monument-National du 30 octobre au 2 novembre 2019, ce solo magnétique de Justin Shoulder présente la figure de Carrion, sorte de spectre post-humain capable de se métamorphoser en une multitude de formes et de parler une multitude de langues.

Dans cette œuvre de science-fiction qui élabore une figure de la multiplicité, le corps de Justin Shoulder et sa collaboration avec le costume, la lumière, le son et l'espace sont utilisés pour animer une série de créatures ancestrales nées d'antécédents de diasporas queer et de généalogies imaginaires.

Affrontant les affres de l'accélération évolutionniste forcée, il vagabonde au milieu d'un site archéologique et se transforme en fantôme venu de l'Ouest, en virus, en trickster, en oiseau préhistorique. Mêlant spectacle de club à la dramaturgie de Victoria Hunt sur l'exploration corporelle brute, Carrion est le point culminant de l'histoire de la performance de Justin Shoulder.
Site archéologique parsemé d'indices d'un avenir spéculatif, l'espace lui-même devient une figure dans l'œuvre alors que Justin Shoulder passe au crible les détritus pour devenir différentes créatures habitant leur royaume natal. Un certain nombre de royaumes sont traversés : la Romance occidentale, le Squelette du Bouddha, la Simulation de la nature, le Glacier éructeur, l'Oiseau préhistorique, et plus encore, y compris les étapes liminales qui se transforment d'une créature à une autre.

Les figures performatives qui font office de texte de l'œuvre s'inspirent d'une mer d'idées et de sentiments. Quelques réflexions et recherches actuelles incluent : l'anthropocène et le capitocène, l'espoir, les possibilités de faire l'avenir, la chute / fragilité de l'Occident, et le monde du ciel mythique philippin et ses créatures mythiques comme un parallèle aux corps et potentialités queer / hybrides.
 
« Les créatures sont et ne sont pas, en même temps, reconnaissables. Ils possèdent de multiples qualités qui scintillent dans et hors de la vue, selon la façon dont ils se déplacent. L'effet fait office de mirage. Une nymphe géante, d'aspect inoffensif, a une fente sensuelle en son centre, qui s'ouvre et se replie pour révéler un dos humain lisse. » – Cleo Mees, RealTime magazine

S'inspirant des mythologies ancestrales queer et biculturelles, Carrion nous transporte dans un lieu où le passé lointain entre en collision avec le futur lointain, nous alertant sur les changements qui se trouvent déjà en nous.
crédit photo : Alex Davies
BIOGRAPHIE : JUSTIN SHOULDER
 
Justin Shoulder est un artiste qui travaille dans la performance, la sculpture, la vidéo et la production d'événements communautaires et de vie nocturne. Son œuvre principale, Phasmahammer, est une écologie d'alter personas basée sur un mythe ancestral queer. Ces créatures sont incarnées par des costumes et des prothèses fabriqués à la main et animés par leurs propres langages gestuels. Justin Shoulder utilise son corps et son métier pour forger des liens entre les expériences queer, migrantes, spirituelles et interculturelles. Il est membre fondateur du collectif d'artistes queer The Glitter Militia et du Club Ate, un groupe qui fait honneur aux voix contemporaines de la communauté queer de l'Asie-Pacifique.
 
Il s'est produit et a exposé à l'échelle internationale, récemment en tant qu’artiste de performance en résidence avec le programme La Manutention au Palais de Tokyo (Paris 2019), avec Carrion au Fusebox Festival (Austin, É-U / 2018), le corpus vidéo de l'œuvre Ex Nilalang pour AsiaTOPA du Club Ate (Melbourne, Australie / 2017), First Sight au Museum Macan (Jakarta, Indonésie / 2017) et la première du long métrage théâtral de Carrion pour Liveworks, Performance Space (Sydney, Australie / 2017).
 
EN BREF

Quoi ?
CARRION
de JUSTIN SHOULDER

Quand ?
- 30 OCT : 20h  **PREMIÈRE**
- 31 OCT : 20h
- 01 NOV : 20h
- 02 NOV : 20h

Durée ?
60 minutes


Où ?
Presenté par le MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) au Monument-National
1182, boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal H2X 2S5


Billetterie ?
www.m-a-i.qc.ca/carrion

514 982-3386

- Régulier : 28 $
- Réduit : 22 $
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Groupe (10+) et 14 ans et moins : 16 $
- Accompagnateurs pour les spectateurs ayant un handicap : 0 $

Thursday, October 24, 2019

EMERGE ART • The Mystery of Man's Quest For Knowledge

The image on the left was taken July 23, 2013. The image on the right was taken May 6 2019. These images have been filtered with enhanced contrasts to reveal the subtle profiles that appears to cover me, the figure that is obscured in the center of the bowl where I am taking the photos. I wondered why one was looking to the right and the other to the left? They are both facing North-West. I am the one who is in a different place.
© -LENA GHIO   
FRANÇAIS app de traduction à gauche
NOTE The images are dark so click on them to look closer

A response to: 

Postdoctoral Researcher of the Philosophy of Science, Ghent University

« Empirical evidence is the information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and documentation of patterns and behavior through experimentation. » Wikipedia

« Researchers gather empirical evidence through experimentation or observation. Empirical evidence is information acquired by observation or experimentation. Scientists record and analyze this data. The process is a central part of the scientific method. »

• Before I get on with this article I wanted everyone to recognize that what I call Emerge Art is also empirical evidence as per the rules of science defined above by the scientific community.

I decided to write a response to the brilliant article  "Human intelligence: have we reached the limit of knowledge?"  by  because in it he raises the same questions I believe Emerge Art answers about the Theory of Everything and how consciousness arise in matter?

" Human brains are the product of blind and unguided evolution. They were designed to solve practical problems impinging on our survival and reproduction, not to unravel the fabric of the universe. " - M.B.

MEANING

The image of the beautiful girl looking right is so 
overpowering that I had not noticed the motif of 
a large face looking calmly towards the northern 
window that I highlighted on the image
 above right. 
Emerge Art does Google News  © 2019 -LENA GHIO 

My experiments with clouds, plants and water demonstrate that evolution is not blind or random, but rather it is a complex tale being told by the forces of the world we want to understand. Our brains evolved as a result of observing the universe. Furthermore, our ancestors learned and created knowledge by observing the phases of the Moon, the motions of the Planets and the positions of the Stars; they learned about hunting, agriculture and medicine by observing nature.  They used shamanic journeys, drumming and scrying (reading water) to gain access to unseen information that would help them survive and developed spirituality.


What contemporary scientists cannot figure out is that our ancestors were witnessing the unified field from the middle perspective where we live everyday, the place of MEANING. They did not build rocket ships but they got us here. As today's scientists struggle to find the unified field, they still pay no attention to phenomena like scrying; they have dismissed the knowledge they could gather with astrology because they could not read the stars so they called astrology stupid, eliminated MEANING from it altogether instead of observing the evolution of MEANING. 

I attended a conference by Hubert Reeves , a world renowned astrophysicist, where he explained MEANING thus: "for us to understand that the word b-l-a-c-k means the color black depends on how the letters are sequenced to form the word we recognize." His analogy applies in all dimensions, think DNA. Astrology speaks with geometric figures that form sequences that have MEANING.

Many scientists have boldly announced God does not exist without ever proving that last statement scientifically. They came to their conclusion by arguing with old books written by old men, searching for relics in the old countries but they ignore expressions of the living forces except to industrialize and commercialize them. MEANING is often lost on them. Nature is always responding to us, if they decided there is no wonderful, wonderful will not show up. To conclude this line of thought, imagine all there has been left behind by science that is there to explore.

Today science is shattered in thousands of specialties that look at the microscopic quantum field and the macrocosmic universe while scientists ask themselves how to prove the unified field, that place where we live in the middle, where the microscopic and macroscopic meet! What is even more mystifying is that they cannot recognize their blind spot!

CONSCIOUSNESS & THE BRAIN

In the article Boudry discusses a group of philosophers that call themselves Mysterians who cannot grasp the link between mind and body as they tackle the question of consciousness. When I observe what can happen in a bowl of water, with just the right light, I see the answer clearly. The great physician Galen in ancient Rome had determined that the liquid in the brain was the person's intelligence. When you see Emerge Art you understand what he means. We are made of 70% water! Our solid bodies are made of mostly water. There have been documented cases of people living normal lives with half a brain while the other half of their head is composed only of fluid.

Scientists are looking at which part of the brain gives rise to consciousness. The flaw in their approach is that they have dismissed Galen's observations about where consciousness and intelligence comes from because until now, we could not document the evidence that water has awareness, sentience. If consciousness resides in the fluids around the brain, this solves the question about where consciousness comes from. The brain then becomes an object that deciphers what consciousness tells it. There have been documented cases of people leading normal lives with half a brain. There is a well documented case studied by neurologist Marina Anikina. So while studying the complexities of the human brain it is well to know more about the role of fluids in the rise of consciousness.

Sade ©  2014 -LENA GHIO 
Thomas Huxley said in his work "On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and its History", 1874 : " The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their body simply as collateral product of its working, " If there is truth in the possibility that intelligence and knowledge can be transmitted through the water in our bodies it is quite possible that each of our individual apparatuses, bodies,  could be receptors and transmitters that work according to each of our individual design. To be clear: the form of our brain would NOT be the source of intelligence BUT the form of our receptor-transmitter of intelligence. This would also mean that the connection between mind and body is indivisible like Einstein's equation E = MC 2.

My experiences with water demonstrate that the forms it will make are a response to words and meanings that surround it. This is also what Dr Masuru Emoto witnessed at the microscopic scale. This suggests consciousness is activated by meaning and responds in kind.

 said: "  Yes, there are electrical currents produced in the brain, but there is an electric current in a light bulb and no one calls it conscious or explains how electric currents invent the music of Mozart or the plays of Chekhov. " YET Emerge Art, that IS created as light is compressed in water, uses electrical light to form images or pictorial messages that we do understand! My first Emerge Art have my old living room lamp in the center of many images(Sade). 


This is an astonishing study I have used often to illustrate the extraordinary and complex response of water. I had a written note asking water to tell me who was the Nagual Don Juan Matus? I placed a print of images from book covers  by Carlos Castaneda who is the author whose entire book collection is primarily about his relationship with a Yaqui Indian shaman named Don Juan Matus. The books I placed the bowl of water on were by followers of Carlos Castaneda who now write about their own experiences with the type of practices described in Castaneda's books. One of the singularities the writers use to describe their meeting with Don Juan is that nobody saw the same man. People describe a man in an elegant suit while others see him in kaki pants and sandals. Look carefully inside the bowl at what water did! A perfect analogy to the written word! This is an example of how a "state of consciousness" connects with its contents: thoughts and experiences. Meaning is part of any equation that makes scientific sense.
The Nagual  © -LENA GHIO 
BIG BANG

Finding the roots of consciousness takes us all the way back to the Big Bang that is perfectly aligned with the Theory of Everything. When an unexplainable image pops up in water, it is a little Big Bang but also a Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena. Emerge Art shows us how gravity bends light because when you look at the sequences of images that lead to magnificent ones like those in this article you see the light being shaped and bended as if the water were hands kneading dough.

When you understand astrology, you recognize that it is like a language that evolves through geometric designs and relationships between celestial bodies, their motion, their mass and their own schedules. These celestial bodies create time, space and move gravity, like water kneading light to produce Emerge Art, that scoops up and shapes smaller things like atoms, as they move through the heavens. Gravity created light by compressing atoms until they ignited into stars and then created water by compressing the stars until they cried. It is a merciless creator.

In his article, Boudry questions whether we can finally learn the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything and still not be able to make  sense of it. What I have observed as I share my humble discoveries is that the universe and the mysteries of Spirit have been mansplained. This leads to deep prejudices where insight that are not governed by past mansplanations cannot be accepted by contemporary brains who still bow to the male authority archetype. Men are still the voices of scientific knowledge and the only ones allowed gravitas to express absurd theories like string theory, for example, that has yielded no empirical evidence at all so far. We have lost the female perspective so far and that is a vast field of scientific exploration. I hope women will have a chance to voice their knowledge and not have it mansplained back tom them! The truth would prevent men from playing ego games among themselves with science and religion where everyone wants to be right. Men love to sit around with other men enjoying their cocktails and cigars and showing off what they know, they will never give that up. I believe people will continue to argue regardless of the truth and all manners of hypothesis will continue to be generated regardless of evidence.

My argument responds to the question in this title: "Human Intelligence: Have We Reached The Limits Of Knowledge." No, we have not. Emerge Art, for example, opens endless opportunities for research in endless fields from science to art to Artificial Intelligence. 


Same images as above but I drew a dark contour around the figures to make them pop out.  © -LENA GHIO    
 LANGUAGE

Emerge Art also raises fascinating questions about the evolution of language. Water and light create symbols that scryers have interpreted as oracles, messages from the Gods. This fits perfectly with Carl Jung's work on the universal unconscious. In his quest to understand the totality of the mind, he also studied the symbols in dreams, ancient religious scripts and alchemy. He noted the recurrence of motifs that still exist in the dreams of modern men like the mandala. Noam Chomsky asks why language developed at all. For me this is simple. The word creates, Emerge Art proves that! We are a manifestation of meaning, of language, of stories woven in the fast moving designs of the universe all the way down to our DNA. We are language embodied. Think about DNA. Each of us grows into the tale encoded in the microscopic contents of living cells, evolving until the moment we are disengaged from life and die. 

From Amaryllis experiment 2012 
At the everyday level, once humans had a basic vocabulary of symbols they were able to make it phonetic. Human physiology evolved. On this subject I must recall the experiment that produced the lemon tree that took a human form: the seed reacted to gravitational waves propelled forward from the eastern horizon at the very instant I planted it. Gravity won over the plant's DNA. ( note- I will give the details of my calculations if and when I am integrated in a research team. ) The story in the design of our solar system at the very moment I planted the seed defined the human form. The impact of the solar system on the human form is an aspect of evolution that has NEVER been studied by scientists because the men and or their institutions  decided it was unprovable  superstition to assume the solar system impacted our bodies. Ancient wise men studied the impact of the stars and planets on human lives and human bodies, but men fight to be right like being right is a treasure, so this knowledge was ridiculed. So I did prove that the solar system in motion affects evolution and overrides DNA in my experiments. 

To conclude this part about language and answer Chomsky's question:  'What's the nature of the combinatorial and generative system that yields an infinite array of structured expressions, each of which expresses a thought with a finite base?' I propose my equation for the Unified Field that I have proven with clouds, plants and water :  E  = MC squared / G + RF  = T + S

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

The above equation will help find solutions to deal with the climate crisis. In my experiment Amaryllis Sculpted by Gravitational Modulations I discovered that Time and Space of seeding impacted the size of the plants that grew, the speed of their growth and the quantity of water they needed. I am not talking of Time Space as planting a seed in China in the summer and the other seed in Canada in winter. I am talking about the Alignment Geometry of Celestial Mechanics (AGCM) and how they are positioned relative to the planted seed. I believe we will eventually prove that AGCM created the DNA from which life on Earth emerged from the known forces. That is another endless field of knowledge to explore right there.
I filtered the image even more. As the two face each other they are facing North-West windows. © -LENA GHIO     

In my opinion the confusion that exists today at the cutting edge of theoretical physics is that too many fields of inquiry from our ancestors were arbitrarily dismissed because modern scientists who dismissed things like astrology or scrying did not know how to formulate adequate experiments and ambitious men destroy knowledge constantly. One only needs to look at what the Republican leadership has done to decades of scientific inquiry during Donald Trump's presidency right in front of our eyes. If today's scientists reexamined their position they would not feel the task so daunting. If you cannot find water in the desert, go to the lake. - a Lena Ghio proverb October 2019

Early humans were observing plenty and this made their brains and knowledge grow. They could read the language of nature and began our ambitious quest to know the universe. Paradoxically, Emerge Art proves intelligence, even genius, exists independent of the physical human brain.