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TAFAKKUR: Part 85

Music Therapy

In 1944 Edgar Cayce, who healed thousands of people while in a trance state, said "Music is the medicine of the future."

Currently, some religious scholars in the Islamic world denounce music. This paper analyzes the Islamic perspective on music and singing, and concludes that using music as a therapeutic agent in medicine is not forbidden.

Documented evidence shows the power of music can be tapped to heal the body, strengthen the mind, and unlock the creative spirit. Published papers and journal articles offer dramatic accounts of how doctors, musicians, and healthcare professionals use music to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness. During childbirth, music can relieve expectant mothers' anxiety and help release endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, and thereby dramatically decrease the need for anesthesia.

Exposure to sound, music, and other acoustical vibrations can have a lifelong effect on health, learning, and behavior, for such exposure stimulates learning and memory and strengthens one's listening abilities. Music has been used as a treatment or cure from migraines to substance abuse.

One thousand years ago, Muslim physicians were in the forefront of medicine and used innovations and therapeutic techniques that are now considered modern. They treated mental illnesses by confining patients in asylums with twenty-first-century techniques of music therapy. In Fez, Morocco, an asylum for the mentally ill was built early in the eighth century, and asylums for the insane were built in Baghdad (705), Cairo (800), and Damascus and Aleppo (1270). In addition to baths and drugs, the mentally ill received kind and benevolent treatment, and were exposed to highly developed music-based therapy and occupational therapy. Special choirs and live bands were brought daily to present singing, musical, and comical performances to patients.

Malik al-Mansur Sayf al-Din Qalawun built the al-Mansuri hospital in Cairo (1284). Its most outstanding characteristic was that, just like today's advanced hospitals, provisions were made to entertain patients with light music. Professional storytellers were appointed to narrate stories and jokes (radio, TV, and computers perform these functions today). People who called the faithful to prayer would sing religious songs in their melodious voices before the morning call to prayer; so that afflicted patients might forget their suffering. This hospital still renders such services today.

Medical benefits

Music therapy has been lost for more than 1,000 years in the Muslim world and in the West. In the last three decades or so, the West has shown tremendous interest in using music therapy to treat several diseases and ailments. No one knows exactly how music heals, but it looks like our brains are wired to respond to it.

Dr. Clive Robbins, a co-founder of the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University in New York City, says: "There is something intrinsically musical about the brain's neurological structure and the muscular function of the human organism. At a nonverbal level, music activates our minds, integrates our attention, and seems to help regulate some body functions." He has treated a child afflicted with cerebral palsy with music therapy in order to teach the child how to balance his body, coordinate his limbs' movement, and communicate. It has made him motivated and intent.

The right song seems to work in more than one way-distracting us from pain, boosting one's mood, reviving old memories, and even prompting the body to match its rhythms. Music has long been appreciated for its calming effects, but new research shows it also may have the power to restore and keep us healthy. Soothing sounds, from Tibetan chants to Beethoven symphonies, are being given scientific credit for preventing colds, easing labor pains, and even boosting anti-aging hormones. One study found that surgery patients who listened to comforting music recovered more quickly and felt less pain than those who did not. The International Journal of Arts Medicine reports that infants in intensive care units go home three days earlier, eat better, and gain more weight if the staff talks and sings to them.

Clinical studies and anecdotal evidence from music therapists suggest that the sound of music is soothing and comfortable. For example, music is credited with lowering cortisol, a stress hormone, as much as 25 percent; boosting endorphins, the body's natural opiates or feel-good drugs; reducing pain after surgery and reducing the need for sedatives and pain relievers; making patients recover from surgery faster and with less pain; possibly preventing colds; raising blood levels of Immunoglobin A (immune system fighter) to a whopping 14.1 percent; and easing labor without drugs. It also seems to help premature infants in intensive care; stimulate the brain's neural connections and promote children's spatial ability and memory; lower blood pressure as much as 5 points, reduce heart rate, improve cardiac output, and relax muscle tension; and manage non-pharmacological pain and discomfort.

But these are not all of its benefits, for research shows that music also improves the mood and mobility of people with Parkinson's, decreases nausea during chemotherapy, helps patients participate in medical treatment, decreases length of hospital stay, relieves anxiety and reduces stress, eases depression, enhances concentration and creativity, brings positive changes in mood and emotional states, increases awareness of self and environment, gives a sense of control over life through successful experiences, provides an outlet for expressing feelings, improves memory recall and thereby contributes to reminiscence and satisfaction with life. In addition, music therapy may allow for emotional intimacy with families and caregivers, relaxation for the entire family, and meaningful time spent together in a positive, creative way.

Exciting new research suggests that our brains respond to music almost as if it were medicine. Music may regulate some body functions, synchronize motor skills, stimulate mind and even make us smarter. According to Suzanne Hanser, D. Ed., a lecturer at Harvard Medical School's Department of Social Medicine: "There is no set prescription or a particular piece of music that will make everyone feel better or more relax. What counts is musical taste, kinds of memories, feelings and associations a piece of music brings to mind. Some people relax to classical music, others like the Moody Blues. The key is to individualize your musical selections."

Depression

Research conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine provides some interesting results. For one group of 20 people aged between 61 and 86, moods rose and depression fell when they listened to familiar music they selected, on their own or with the help of a music therapist, while practicing various stress-reduction techniques. A control group who missed out on the music and the exercises saw no improvement during the 8-week study period. It helps to perform gentle exercises, depending on one's fitness level, while the music plays. Movements should be light and flowing. Breathe to the music, and gently come to rest when the music ends.

Insomnia

A study from the University of Louisville School of Nursing Research indicates that 24 out of 25 people with sleeping problems nod off more quickly, sleep longer, or get back to sleep more easily after listening to classical and New Age music. The music must be quiet and melodic, have a slow beat and few, if any, rhythmic accents. To be effective, one should skip the after-dinner coffee or tea and avoid telephone calls and TV after 9 p.m. Softer and quieter music should be played as bedtime approaches. Listen to the music in bed with a tape recorder or a CD player equipped with a silent on/off switch. One should lie quietly and take even, deep breaths.

Stress

Many studies have found that soothing melodies can ease anxiety and quiet both blood pressure and heart rate even under very stressful conditions. Everyday stress also responds to music. Select music that grabs your attention and, at the same time, relax your body so that all of your worries slip away. Slow music, like a love song sung by an accomplished singer or a calm instrumental piece may be perfect. If a slow tune gives your mind time to fret or obsess, switch to something livelier. Sit or lie down in a comfortable position and where you will not be disturbed. After a few minutes, perform a relaxation exercise.

Pain

One Yale University School of Medicine study found that people who listened to their favorite music while awake during a surgical procedure needed smaller amounts of sedatives and pain medication than those who did not. Music therapists and researchers say that physical discomfort from post-operative pain to chronic aches can be eased with flowing melodies and distracting rhythms. Dr. Alicia A. Clair, a board-certified music therapist and professor and director of music therapy at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, says that music can bring transitory relief from short-term and long-term pain and discomfort, such as arthritis and osteoporosis. Gentle and soothing stress-reducing music, which can relax and distract the mind, is helpful. Martha Burke, a board-certified music therapist in Durham, North Carolina, says: "Gently flowing music or music with a slow, steady pulse can help promote relaxation, which can then alter a patient's perception of pain. Soothing music can lower the heart rate and breathing rate, leading to further relaxation, and reduces tension that comes with the pain. We know music is so incredibly complex--it has tempo, rhythm, melody, and harmony. And so it stimulates the brain in many ways at once."

Brain damage

Samuel Wong, a Harvard-trained physician based in New York City, plays musical instruments to help patients with brain damage (from strokes) and Alzheimer's reconnect to the world. He is also music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Honolulu Symphony. "When brain damage (from stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) leaves a devastated mental landscape, music 'builds a bridge' that allows patients to reconnect with the outside world. The study of medicine has informed my performance of music, and my learning of music has deepened my role in healing," he says. In 1996, researchers at Colorado State University tried giving 10 stroke victims 30 minutes of rhythmic stimulation each day for three weeks. Compared with untreated patients, they showed significant improvements in their ability to walk steadily. People with Parkinson's enjoyed similar benefits. Stroke victims and patients with Parkinson's walked more steadily and with better balance and speed if they practiced while hearing a balanced metrical beat or a piece of music with a powerful, even beat. A musical beat from any genre seemed to provide a rhythmic cue, which has a powerful, organizing effect on the brain's motor skills ;it helps harmonize movement almost at once, according to researchers. Scottish researchers have found that a daily dose of music significantly brightens the moods of institutionalized stroke victims. When daily music therapy was administered for 12 weeks, the patients were less depressed and anxious, and more stable and sociable than other patients in the same building. Music therapy also has proved useful in managing Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases.

Sounds of healing

Mitchell L. Gaynor, MD, director of medical oncology and integrative medicine at New York's Strang Cancer Prevention Center (affiliated with the Cornell Medical Center), says: "More doctors are seeing a connection between harmonious sound and health. If we are around very harmonious people and harmonious vibrations and harmonious sounds, we begin to feel better. I have never found anything more powerful than sound and voice and music to begin to heal and transform every aspect of people's lives. It can really change people's lives.” "We know that music is capable of enhancing the body's immune function, lowering heart rate, lowering stress-related hormones like cortisol that raise our blood pressure and depress our immune systems. It also trims complications after heart attack, calms anxiety, slows breathing and increases production of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers. Eighty percent of the stimuli that reach our brains come through our ears."  "Even before birth, music makes a difference. Hearing is the first sense to develop, when the fetus is only 18 weeks old (Qur'an 32:9). We know that the unborn child hears for literally half the pregnancy and is affected profoundly by what it hears. Studies show that music by Mozart and Vivaldi actually can bring down fetal heart rate, calm brain waves, and reduce the baby's kicking. Rock music, on the other hand, appeared to drive fetuses to distraction, greatly increasing kicking." "Our bodies are 70 percent water, and thus excellent conductors for sound and vibration. We do not hear just with our ears, but literally feel vibration's sound with every cell in our body. Disharmony and noise, whether from traffic, the boss yelling at us about a deadline, or a jackhammer on the street can make us stressed, depressed, and pessimistic--all of which depress our immune systems. That is why disharmony can eventually lead to disease." "Our own voices are very underutilized healing tools. Singing is a great way to tap music's healing power. If you are self-conscious, try chanting. Anyone can do it, and you can't do it wrong. We are just seeing the tip of the iceberg as far as the incredible power of sound to affect every cell and every organ system in our bodies."(10) The Qur'an says: He fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him something of His spirit. And He gave you (the faculties of) hearing and sight and feeling (and understanding). Little thanks do you give! (32:9, 16:78, 67:23). Dr. Keith Moore, professor and chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Toronto's School of Medicine, writes in his most popular textbook on human embryology that the human embryo first gets the ears (hearing), then the eyes (sight), and next the brain (feeling and understanding or mental faculties) in that order, as mentioned in the above Qur'anic verses. On the other hand, very loud music with sounds louder than 90 decibels cause stress and ear damage. Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D., director of the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies in Charlotte, NC, says: "Very loud music creates an altered state of consciousness akin to an alcoholic or drug-induced stupor that can become addictive."

The Mozart effect

Don Campbell, a composer, music researcher and teacher, healer and the author of The Mozart Effect, learned that he had a potentially fatal blood clot in an artery just below his brain. He shrunk the blood clot from more than 1.5-inch length to one-eighth of an inch by humming quietly for three to four minutes at a time, up to seven times a day. He did this for three weeks before he went back for a second brain scan. In The Mozart Effect, he writes: "You know music can affect your mood: it can make you feel happy, enchanted, inspired, wistful, excited, empowered, comforted, and heroic. Particular sounds, tones and rhythms can strengthen the mind, unlock the creative spirit, and miraculously, even heal the body. Exposure to sound, music, and other forms of vibration, beginning in-utero, can have a life long effect on health, learning and behavior." In conclusion, one should listen to a piece of music that one finds inspirational and uplifting. Dr. Ahmed al-Kadi of Florida's Akbar Clinic conducted research on the healing power of listening to Qur'anic recitations. There is an urgent need for conducting more research on music therapy by Muslim physicians in the West and in the Muslim world.

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Courageous actions were recently recalled and celebrated.

Emergency personnel were recognized at the Prince William Chamber of Commerce’s Valor Awards on March 19.

More than 600 community members attended the annual event, which was held at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas.

The program was opened up to the public for the first time this year.

Aaron Gilchrest from NBC4 retold the stories about the honorees.

“We all enjoyed the positive high energy felt by the Award recipients and attendees alike when the dramatic and daring scenarios of heroism were read aloud,” Chamber President and CEO, Debbie Jones said in a release. “We are proud to be apart of this wonderful community.”

Here are the individuals who were recognized at the Valor Awards:

City of Manassas Park Department of Fire & Rescue

Valorous Unit Award

Battalion 589, Battalion Chief Adam Jones, Engine 509, Fire Medic Randy Leach, Firefighter/EMT  Kentry Snow, Medic 509, Captain Josh Brandon, Fire Medic John Pearre, Master Firefighter David Sullivan

Haymarket Police Department

Merit Award for Valor

Officer John Gregory

Manassas City Police Department

Merit Award for Valor

Senior Police Officer Alexander

Merit Award for Valor

Parking Enforcement Officer Isabel Meyers

Merit Award for Valor

Officer Joshua Aussems, Officer Shaun Barrett, Officer Ethan Eustace, Officer Juan Armas

Hillary Robinette Award

Senior Detective Speights

Hillary Robinette Award

Lieutenant Elia Alfonso, Sergeant Serena Bowers, Master Detective Michael Gemmell, Master Detective Tim Urey, Master Detective Jonathan Agule, Senior Detective Speights, Detective Luis Armas, Officer Ryan McCarthy, Crime Analyst Alemayehu

Manassas Volunteer Fire Company

Bronze Award for Valor

Firefighter Terry Norling

Prince William County Department of Fire & Rescue

Valorous Unit

Swift Water Boat 524, Captain Brian Ferguson, Technician I Victor Vega, Technician I Aldo Bonilla, Technician I Michael Chergosky

Merit Award for Valor

Technician I Cody Durham

Merit Award for Valor

Lieutenant Kenneth Zack

Merit Award for Valor

Lieutenant Nick Feliciano, Technician II Chris Gott

Valorous Unit

Rescue Squad 510, Technician II Christopher Clark, Driver: Technician II Daniel Jackson, Officer Bucket:  Technician I Kevin Ganssle, Driver Bucket: Technician I Michael Baker

Prince William County Police Department

Investigative Merit Award

Officer Ronald Carpio, Detective Lourdes Cainas, Detective Donald DeShazo, Rose Hellmann, Crime Scene Specialist Shreya Kamath,       Crime Analyst Rebekah Kushner, Detective Katherine, Zaimis, Detective Jonathan Kennedy

Investigative Merit Award

Detective Nathan Thomas, Detective Robyn Hyatt, Detective Victor Cordero, Detective Josh Lane, Crime Analyst Jacquelin Graham, Crime Analyst Dawn Locke-Trillhaase

Merit Award for Valor

Officer Sean K. Richards

Hillary Robinette Award

Detective Helga Thorsdottir

Hilary Robinette Award

Officer Darrick Dillon, Detective Joshua Lane, Detective John Agule(MCPD), Detective Derrick Black (MCPD), Detective Jeremy              Booth, Detective Simon Chu, Detective Christopher Koglin (MPPD), Detective Alicia Larkins, Detective Kevin Morin, Detective Matthew Newton, Detective Walter O’Neal, Detective Daniel Sekely, Detective Wayne             Smith, Detective Nicholas Waymire, Detective Robert White, Sergeant Gavin Young (MCPD), Sergeant Ryan Pavol, First Sergeant Kenneth Hulsey

Silver Award for Valor

Officer Joshua Myers, Officer Christopher Hume, Officer Jordanis Lozier, Officer Jonathan Seals, Officer Nicholas Kelly, Investigator Robert Drumm, Officer Brian Kimble

Gold Award for Valor

Officer John Yenchak, Officer Franco Martinez, Officer Rachel Mynier, Officer Matthew Takats, Officer Nicholas Kelly, Officer Evan Jurgensen, Officer Jordanis Lozier, Officer Taylor Claton, Officer Benjamin Infanti, Officer Wade Dickinson, Officer Travis Hardman, First Sergeant Daniel Crawford, Officer Kevin Vasquez, Sergeant David Bliss

Stonewall Jackson Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad

Merit Award for Valor

Firefighter/EMT Carlos Ambrosini

Silver Award for Valor

Firefighter Ian Lauderdale

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NHPR Folk Songs and Dance Calendar 2.25.18

>Wild Eagles Blues Jam at the Stone Church ~ Newmarket, NH ~ 7:30pm

>Bluegrass Jam at McNeill’s Brewery ~ Brattleboro, VT ~ 8:30pm ~

>Celtic Music Jam at Harlow’s Pub ~ Peterborough, NH ~ 7:30pm ~

>Old Time Country, Gospel & Bluegrass Jam at the Old White Church ~

Ctr. Tuftonboro 6:30pm ~ 603-569-3861

>Hoot Night at Wildcat Tavern ~ Jackson Village, NH ~ 7pm ~

>>Irish Session at Bagitos Bagel & Burrito Café ~ Montpelier, VT ~ 2pm ~

>Celtic & Old Timey Music Jam at DelRossi’s ~ Dublin, NH ~ 6pm ~

>The Squid Jiggers or Dave Rowe at Bull Feeney’s ~ Portland, ME ~ 8pm ~ 207-773-7210

>Hoot Night at the Wildcat Tavern ~ Jackson Village, NH ~ 7pm ~

>Live Irish Music(Family Friendly) w/Various Musicians including

Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki and Jim Prendergast   at the Stone Church ~

>Bluegrass Jam at Harlow’s Pub ~ Peterborough, NH ~ 8pm ~

>Traditional Irish Place at the Salt Hill Pub ~ Newport, NH ~ 6pm ~

>Open Irish Session at Beara Irish Brewing Company  ~ Portsmouth, NH

First  Sunday of every month:

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

>Big Bill Morganfield (son of Muddy Waters) and Jason Ricci (Blues) at Capitol Center for the Arts ~ Concord NH ~ 6pm ~  https://ccanh.com/events/

>Footings (Eric Gagne and Elizabeth Fuchsia and others, blended genres) at Bass Hall, Monadnock Center for Culture and History ~ 19 Grove St.  PO Box 58  Peterborough, NH 03458 ~ 603-924-3235 https://monadnockcenter.org/

Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 4, 2018

>March Mandolin Festival at Concord Community Music School ~ 23 Wall Street, Concord NH

Performers include: Marla Fibish, Will Patton, Matt Shipman, and David Surette, with special guest Susie Burke

>March Mandolin Festival concert featuring Marla Fibish, Will Patton, Matt Shipman, and David Surette, with unique guest Susie Burke  at Stone Church Music Club ~ Zion’s Hill, Newmarket, NH  ~ 7pm  ~ http://www.stonechurchrocks.com  603-659-7700 or 603-659-6321 soozendave@surfglobal.net

>Tom Rush at the Firehouse Center for the Arts ~ Newburyport, MA ~ 8pm ~ 978-462-7336, http://firehouse.org/

>Del (McCoury) & Dawg (David Grisman) at the Capitol Center for the Arts ~ Concord, NH ~ 8pm ~ 603-225-1111

>March Mandolin Festival concert featuring Marla Fibish, Will Patton, Matt Shipman, and David Surette, with special guest Susie Burke at Concord Community Music School, ~ 23 Wall St. Concord NH ~ 7:30pm  ~ http://www.ccmusicschool.org   603-228-1196 soozendave@surfglobal.net

>Tom Rush at the Firehouse Center for the Arts ~ Newburyport, MA ~ 8pm ~ 978-462-7336, http://firehouse.org/

>Aine Minogue, Celtic Harp and Vocals at Immanuel Episcopal Church ~ 20 Church Street, Bellows Falls VT ~ 7:30 ~  http://stonechurcharts.org/

>Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki  (Songs of Emigration -Traditional Irish) at First Baptist Church ~ Plaistow NH ~ 12 noon ~ 603-382-5843

>Tracy Grammer at Me & Thee Coffee House ~ Marblehead, MA ~ 781-631-8987,

>Jeff Warner Songs of Old New Hampshire at the Orford Congregational Church ~ Orford, NH  ~ 7pm ~ 603-353-9307

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

>Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki  (Songs of Emigration -Traditional Irish) at Goodlife ~ 254 North State Street, Concord NH ~ 12 noon ~ 603-228-6630

>Saint Patricks Fiddle Frenzy with all the Red Fox Band at Immanuel Episcopal Church ~ 20 Church Street, Bellows Falls VT ~ 7:30 ~  http://stonechurcharts.org/

>Kip Ferguson at Acoustic Café, Wadleigh Memorial Library ~ Milford, NH ~ 7pm ~ 603-249-0645,

>St. Patrick’s Day Party w/ The Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Trio at The Stone Church ~ Newmarket, NH ~ 8pm ~

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

>J.P. Cormier at Red & Shorty’s House Concerts ~ Dover, NH ~ 8pm ~ 603-

Friday, March 23 through Sunday, March 25, 2018

>>Downeast country Dance Festival ~ Topsham, Maine

Include:Notorious with caller Adina Gordon, Velocipede with caller John McIntire, Frigate with caller Dugan Murphy

>Zydeco Revelators at Bass Hall, Monadnock Center for Culture and History ~ 19 Grove St. ~ PO Box 58 ~ Peterborough, NH 03458 ~ 7:30pm ~ 603-924-3235 https://monadnockcenter.org/

>Masters of the Celtic Harp: Gráinne Hambly & William Jackson at Immanuel Episcopal Church ~ 20 Church Street, Bellows Falls VT ~ 7:30 ~  http://stonechurcharts.org/

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

>>2 Old Friends (Emery Hutchins & Jim Prendergast) at Wiggin Library ~ Stratham, NH ~ 6:30pm ~

>David Surette and Susie Burke at Chandler House Concerts ~ Andover MA ~ potluck 6pm, concert 7pm ~ boehmerc1103@gmail.com for more info

>Charlie Daniels Band (Country and Bluegrass) at Capitol Center for the Arts ~ Concord NH ~ 6pm ~  https://ccanh.com/events/

>Robinson and Rohe (Singer-Songwriter Duo) at Immanuel Episcopal Church ~ 20 Church Street, Bellows Falls VT ~ 7:30pm ~  http://stonechurcharts.org/

>Mud Boots and Black Tie Gala (music by Downeast Soul Coalitio0n) at Chocolate Church ~ 804 Washington Street, PO Box 252, Bath, Maine 04530-2617 ~  ~  207.442.8455 ~7:00pm  ~ https://www.chocolatechurcharts.org/

>Peter Yarrow at the Firehouse Center for the Arts ~ Newburyport, MA ~ 8pm ~

>>2 Old Friends (Emery Hutchins & Jim Prendergast) at Along the Way Coffeehouse ~ Ipswich, MA ~ 7pm ~

>Frank Wallace (Guitar) Birthday Party at Immanuel Episcopal Church ~ 20 Church Street, Bellows Falls VT ~ 7:30pm ~  http://stonechurcharts.org/

>>NEFFA Festival ~ Mansfield, Massachusetts

Over 200 performers like: Lisa Greenleaf, Bluestockings, Mystic Seaport Chantey Singers, Tony Saletan, and many more. Participatory festival. Equal parts dance and song.

>Hilton Park at Acoustic Café, Wadleigh Memorial Library ~ Milford, NH ~ 7pm ~ 603-249-0645,

>Banbury Ale: Party Music in 17th Century Britain at Bass Hall, Monadnock Center for Culture and History ~ 19 Grove St. ~ PO Box 58 ~ Peterborough, NH 03458 ~ 7:30pm ~ 603-924-3235 https://monadnockcenter.org/

>Jim Rooney, Pat Alger & Chris Brashear at Deb’s House Concerts ~ Chesham, NH ~ potluck 6:00pm concert 7pm ~

(check site for more info closer to the date. . This event Might Have Been in 2017 instead of 2018)

>Ellis Paul at Red & Shorty’s House Concerts ~ Dover, NH ~ 8pm ~ 603-

>Ellis Paul Songwriting Workshop at Red & Shorty’s House Concerts ~ Dover, NH ~ 2pm ~ 603-

Thursday, June 7 through Sunday, June 10, 2018

>Sea Music Festival ~ Mystic, Connecticut

Performers include: Walter Askew — California, Matthew Byrne — Newfoundland, Judy Cook — Ohio, FUNI (Bára Grímsdóttir and Chris Foster) — Reykjavík, Iceland, Sara Grey and Keiron Means — Maine and New York, Jim Mageean and Pat Sheridan — England and Ireland, Mara (Brigitte Kloareg, Katell Kloareg and Yuna Léon) — Carnoet, Bretagne, France w/Mary Ann Roberts out of Wales (initially from Trinidad), Dan Milner — New York, Lee Murdock — Illinois, Lynn Noel — Massachusetts, Norman Kennedy — Vermont & Scotland, 3 Fragrant (Max Cohen, Lui Collins & Donna Hébert) — Massachusetts, Steve Turner — England, The Vox Hunters (Armand Aromin & Ben Gagliardi) — Rhode Island, Dan Zanes — New York City.

Friday, June 8 through Sunday, 10, 2018

>Roots on the River ~ Bellows Falls, Vermont

Performers include: Miss Guided Angels, Bayou X, Low Lily, Starline Rhythm Boys, Mary Gauthier,  Vance Gilbert, Alicia Howe, The Conclusion of America, Roger Marin, Freebo, Hayley Reardon, Nora Jane Struthers, The Black Lilies, The Slambovian Circus of Dreams , and many more

Wednesday, June 13 through Sunday, June 17, 2018

>Blistered Fingers Family Bluegrass Festival ~ Litchfield, Maine

Performers include: Blue Highway, Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Darve Parmley and Cardinal Tradition, The Little Roy and Lizzie Show, Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass, Dave Adkins Band, Zink and Company, The Misty Mountaineers, Tony and Heather Mabe, The Baker Family, Backwoods Road, The Gibson Brothers, Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and more.

Sunday, July 15 through Sunday, July 22, 2018

>Earth Fellowship Center Ukulele Workshop and Festival art Earth Fellowship Center ~ Albany NH ~ http://worldfellowship.org/ -LRB-603-RRB- 447-2280 ~ featuring Molly and Daniel Watt

>Garnet Rogers and Archie Fisher at Peterborough Players ~ Peterborough, NH ~ 7:30pm ~

Note: Most dance locations Need clean soft-soled sneakers and do not

Allow street shoes. Partners not required.

>FYI: Dance occasions in May, 2017 and later are recorded with this Google Calendar:

>Contra dance w/ assorted Callers & Musicians at the Town Hall,

>Clogging   at Dance In Motion Dance Studio ~ Randolph, Vt. ~ 6:45

>Scottish Country Dance /w Loren Wright directing at The Church of the

Good Shepherd ~ Nashua 7:00 PM ~ 603-891-2331 or

>Scottish Country Dance /w Bernard McGrath resulting at The

Westminster Center School ~ Westminster 7:30 PM or

>Contradance at the Richard W. Black Center, Hanover, NH, 7 PM,

>Scottish Country Dance /w John Bartholomew leading, Bill Tobin and Gary Apfel

At The Town Hall ~ Fairlee, Vt. ~ 7:00 PM ~ 603-353-4647 or

>Line Dancing at the Gilford Public Library ~ Gilford, NH ~ 9am ~

>Scottish Country Dance at The Community Parish House ~ Greenland,

>Set Dancing Lessons & Practice Dance at the Durham Universalist

Church ~ Durham, NH ~ 7pm ~ 603-749-1038, www.seacoastsetdancers.org

>Contra Square Dance at the Tamworth Townhouse ~  Tamworth, NH ~ 8

PM ~ July & August ~ 603-323-8023 (maybe not in Winter)

>Circle Dance at Neskaya ~ Franconia, NH ~ 3:30pm ~ www.neskaya.com

>Line Dancing at the Starr King Unitarian Meeting House ~ Plymouth,

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Monday, February 26, 2018

>Clogging at the Dance in Motion Dance Studio ~ Randolph, Vt. ~ 6:45 PM, workshop 6:00 PM ~ 802-522-2935, Greenmtnclogger@aol.com

>Contra dance w/various Callers & Musicians at the Town Hall ~ Nelson, NH ~ 8PM, 603-827-3044 or

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

>Line Dancing at the Gilford Public Library ~ Gilford, NH ~ 9am ~ 603-524-6042

>Contradance at the Richard W. Black Center ~ Hanover, NH ~ 6:45 PM, 781-385- 1480

>Scottish Country Dance / /w Loren Wright leading at The Church of the Good Shepherd ~ Nashua, NH ~ 7:00 PM ~ 603-891-2331 or nashuascd@comcast.net

>Scottish Country Dance /w John Bartholomew leading, Bill Tobin and Gary Apfel at The Town Hall ~ Fairlee, Vt. ~ 7:00 PM ~ 603-353-4647 or GaryApfel@MyBluelight.com

>Scottish Country Dance /w Bernard McGrath leading at The Westminster Center School ~ Westminster, Vt ~ 7:30 PM ~ 603-352-9371 or 802-463-3078 kjh@sover.net

>Contra & Scandinavian Dance w/ Steve Zakon-Anderson & Moving Violations at the Guiding Star Grange ~ Greenfield, MA ~ Scandi 8pm, contra 8:30pm ~ 403-549-1913

>Scottish Dance /w Bill Tobin leading at The Town Hall ~ Lancaster, NH ~ 7:30 PM ~ 802-751-7671 or 1btobin@together.net

>Scottish Country Dance at The Community Parish House ~ Greenland, NH ~ 8:00 PM ~ 603-773-9795 or ljstravel@attibi.com

>>Conventional Square Dance at the Town Hall, Wentworth, NH, 8 PM, 603-764-9993

>Contra w/ George Marshall & Wild Asparagus at the Guiding Star Grange ~ Greenfield, MA ~ wkshp 8pm, dance 8:30pm ~

>Contradance at the Town Hall ~ Deerfield, NH ~ 8PM ~ 603-463-4182, 603-679- 1915

>Circle Dance at Neskaya ~ Franconia, NH ~ 3:30pm ~ www.neskaya.com 603-823- 5828

>Line Dancing at the Starr King Unitarian Meeting House ~ Plymouth, NH ~ 4pm ~ 603-536-1179

>Clogging at the Dance in Motion Dance Studio ~ Randolph, Vt. ~ 6:45 PM, workshop 6:00 PM ~ 802-522-2935, Greenmtnclogger@aol.com

>Contra dance w/various Callers & Musicians at the Town Hall ~ Nelson, NH ~ 8PM, 603-827-3044 or www.monadnockfolk.org

>Line Dancing at the Gilford Public Library ~ Gilford, NH ~ 9am ~ 603-524-6042

>Contradance at the Richard W. Black Center ~ Hanover, NH ~ 6:45 PM, 781-385- 1480

Organizer: NHPR Folk Show Dance Calendar

>Scottish Country Dance / /w Loren Wright leading at The Church of the Good Shepherd ~ Nashua, NH ~ 7:00 PM ~ 603-891-2331 or nashuascd@comcast.net

>Scottish Country Dance /w John Bartholomew leading, Bill Tobin and Gary Apfel at The Town Hall ~ Fairlee, Vt. ~ 7:00 PM ~ 603-353-4647 or GaryApfel@MyBluelight.com

>Scottish Country Dance /w Bernard McGrath leading at The Westminster Center School ~ Westminster, Vt ~ 7:30 PM ~ 603-352-9371 or 802-463-3078 kjh@sover.net

>Circle Dancing at the Milford Unitarian Church (Every dance is taught and beginners are welcome. No partners needed) ~ Milford NH ~ 7:30pm ~ Contact is Mary Kuhn and her telephone number is 603-487-2732. Mail maryfloyd@mfire.com

>Scottish Country Dance at The Unitarian Church ~ Keene, NH ~ 7:30 PM ~ 603- 352-3237 or tantrim@keene.edu

>Scottish Dance /w Bill Tobin leading at The Town Hall ~ Lancaster, NH ~ 7:30 PM ~ 802-751-7671 or 1btobin@together.net

>Scottish Country Dance at The Community Parish House ~ Greenland, NH ~ 8:00 PM ~ 603-773-9795 or ljstravel@attibi.com

>Contradance at the Wescustogo Hall ~ North Yarmouth, ME ~ Potluck at 7:30, Dance at 8:30pm ~ 207-233-4325 or fiddle103@yahoo.com

>Contradance w/ Northern Magic, David Millstone calling, Tracy Hall, Norwich, VT.,7:45 PM All Dances are taught, beginners welcome clean, soft-soled sneakers demanded, 802- 785-4607 or rbarrows@cs.dartmouth.edu

>Contra at Old Town Hall ~ 1800 RT-140, Gilmanton Ironworks, NH ~ Together: Burt Fientuch & Bill Zucker. Gale Wood; Deadly~ 8:00 PM ~ 603-267-7227 603-793-5296 gtomwood@gmail.com

>Contra at The First Unitarian Society ~ Exeter, NH ~ 8:00 PM with workshop at 7:30 PM ~ 603-679-1915

Friday, March 23 through Sunday, March 25, 2018

>>Downeast country Dance Festival ~ Topsham, Maine

Include:Notorious with caller Adina Gordon, Velocipede with caller John McIntire, Frigate with caller Dugan Murphy

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Bart Cassiman (°1961), freelance-curator, art critic and editor, is an art historian and studied press- and communication sciences at the Ghent University (1979-1984).

Early Years 

He was the project-leader of the exhibition Initatief 86 which took place in the St. Pieters Abbey and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ghent in 1986. This was an exhibition on Belgian art for which Kasper König, Jan Hoet, Jean-Hubert Martin and Gosse Oosterhof made the selection. The exhibition included a.o. works by Chantal Akerman, Guillaume Bijl, Jacques Charlier, Luc Deleu, Lili Dujourie, Jef Geys, René Heyvaert, Raoul De Keyser, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Panamarenko, Guy Rombouts, Walter Swennen, Narcisse Tordoir, Jan Vercruysse and Didier Vermeiren,… 1

From September 1986 until the end of 1988, Bart Cassiman was curator for Contemporary Art at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels where he organized (in collaboration with the director Jan Debbaut) several exhibitions of contemporary art (Gilbert & George, John Baldessari, Didier Vermeiren, Narcisse Tordoir, Claes Oldenburg, Art & Language, Luciano Fabro, Per Kirkeby, Jan Vercruysse,…)

Curatorial Practice 

As a free-lance curator he organized several exhibitions between 1989 and 1991. Amongst others:

Rombouts and Tordoir, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1989.

Noli me tangere - with Lili Dujourie and Cristina Iglesias, Locus Solus - Genova, Italy, 1990.

De Pictura - an exhibition on motive and alibi in the painting of Herbert Brandl, Helmut Dorner, John Murphy, Mitja Tušek, Narcisse Tordoir and Walter Swennen - Bruges La Morte, Bruges, 1990.

The solo-exhibitions of Lili Dujourie, Kunstverein, Bonn, 1989; Le Magasin, Grenoble, 1990.2

Espacio Mental with René Daniëls, Thierry De Cordier, Isa Genzken, Cristina Iglesias, Thomas Schütte and Jan Vercruysse at Valencia, IVAM-El Carme in 1991 was his first major group show and has made Cassimans name as a particular exhibition maker. The exhibition contained about 80 works, was complex and layered so that the different interrelations between the artworks became almost endless.3

He has been a member of the Jury of the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium, Krefeld (1990-1995) and also of the program-commission of the Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (1989-1993).

Bart Cassiman’s reputation became really established when he has been the project-leader of the section Contemporary Visual Art of Antwerp 93, European Capital of Culture. For this temporary organization he realized three major projects which differed in terms of intent and content.

For the Middelheim Museum he invited ten artists (Per Kirkeby, Richard Deacon, Panamarenko, Thomas Schütte, Juan Muñoz, Matt Mullican, Bernd Lohaus, Harald Klingelhöller, Didier Vermeiren, Isa Genzken) to make a work, which was bought by Antwerp 93 for the permanent collection. Those sculptures are nowadays considered as masterpieces and several of them the eyecatchers of the Middelheim Museum. They were placed on Middelheim Low, which became by doing so the section of contemporary art of the museum. A section invented by Cassiman and realized with the support of Bob Cools (The Mayor), Eric Antonis (the intendant of Antwerp 93) and Hans Nieuwdorp (the director of the Art Historical Museums of the City of Antwerp). This project became known as New Sculptures.4

For the first time, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts hosted contemporary artists who gave form to entwining of remembrance and imagination in the creative process. This project (exhibition and book), The Sublime Void (on the memory of the imagination), can be considered as his ‘pièce de résistance’, included the artists Jean-Marc Bustamante, Jan Vercruysse, Rachel Whiteread, Juan Muñoz, Niek Kemps, John Murphy, Mitja Tušek, Gerhard Richter, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Luc Tuymans, Robert Gober, Cristina Iglesias, Harald Klingelhöller, Didier Vermeiren, Thomas Schütte, Ettore Spalletti, Luciano Fabro, Jeff Wall, Jannis Kounellis, René Daniëls, Franz West, Fortuyn/O'Brien, James Welling, Lili Dujourie and Thierry De Cordier. The accompanying publication contains texts, essays, poems etc. by a.o. Adorno, Augustinus, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Blanchot, Borges, Broch, Canetti, Handke, Hölderlin, Kafka, Kristeva, Musil, Michelangelo, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Rilke, Valery, Wenders, Wordsworth… It has been rewarded with the Gouden penning van Plantijn-Moretus, an award for the best book published in 1993.5

For the third project, he invited after conscientiously research and several workshops three colleagues-curators (Iwona Blazwick, Yves Aupetitallot and Carolyn-Christov Bakargiev) to make an exhibition with artists from different cultural backgrounds to produce a new work in the extended M HKA. The for a long time underestimated exhibition On taking a normal situation and translating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present which included at that time a few quite well-known artists (such as Jimmy Durham, Mark Dion, Eugenio Dittborn, Judith Barry and Renée Green) in combination with a lot of artists who were at the beginning of their public life and have since then co- determined the international discourse for years (Maria Eichhorn, Zarina Bhimji, Ann Veronica Janssens, Andrea Fraser,…)6

From 1994 until 1998 he was member of the advisory-committee of the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp.

In 1995 he realized an exhibition with Dora García, Dianne Hagen, Gert Verhoeven, Lisa May Post, Anne-Marie Schneider and Stephen Wilks, at Galerie Nelson, Paris. In the same year he co-ordinated the project Arte Habitable with Alicia Framis. He wrote the essay for the catalogue which he edited too.7

In 1997 Bart Cassiman curated the exhibition and edited the publication Green Easter (with Dianne Hagen, Carla Klein, Aglaia Konrad, Peter Rogiers, Stephen Wilks and Robert Suermondt) at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle.8 He wrote a substantial essay on the work of Lili Dujourie and edited the catalogue and curated the show at Lisson Gallery, London. 9

At the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam he curated the Open Studio’s 1997. This project included more than 50 young artists, such as Carlos Amorales, Emmanuelle Antille, Lise Baggesen, Maura Biava, Franck Bragigand, Jeroen Eisinga, Meshac Gaba, Winneke Gartz, Mark Hosking, Runa Islam, Saskia Janssen, Moshekwa Aaron Langa, Fang Lijun, Els Opsomer, Ebru Özseçen, Anne Van der Plas, De Rijke/De Rooij, Emmanuel Ropers, Dierk Schmidt, Tim Stoner, Tomoko Take, Fiona Tan, Hermann Terrier, Claire Todd, Vera Weisgerber, Edwin Zwakman,…

At the end of 1997 he organized also two exhibitions with the Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot. In Hasselt (Provinciaal Museum) he curated his first painting overview. In Amsterdam (Artbook) he curated an exhibition on drawings.

In 1998 he organized his - till today - last exhibition: Privacy: Tuymans – Balka for Serralves, Porto.10

In 2000 he was responsible for the Flemish selection for the Milano Europa 2000 project. The selected artists were: Marie José Burki, Jan Van Imschoot and Gert Verhoeven.

Art Critic 

Bart Cassiman is also active as a free-lance art-critic, having written essays for catalogues on a.o. René Daniëls, Raoul De Keyser, Harald Klingelhöller, Lili Dujourie, Cristina Iglesias, Jan Vercruysse, Thierry De Cordier, Paul Robbrecht, Walter Swennen, Narcisse Tordoir, Henk Visch, Guy Rombouts, Dianne Hagen, Peter Rogiers, Stephen Wilks, Juan Muñoz, Thomas Schütte, Isa Genzken, Alica Framis, Robert Suermondt, Aglaia Konrad, Carla Klein,… and several articles for international art-magazines (Flash Art, Kunst & Museumjournaal, Meta, Artefactum, Kunst Nu and Metropolis M), about art policy and specific subjects related to art.

In 1989 he edited the first small monography De architectuur en het beeld (The Architecture and the Image) on the work of the architects Paul Robbrecht/Hilde Daem.11 In 1995 he did the same on the work of Thierry De Cordier with a text of Stefan Hertmans.12

In 1996/1997 he is a member of the staff of editors of DWB (Dietsche Warande en Belfort), an important magazine on literature. For this he edited a special number (DWB 6/97) on Juan Muñoz.13

Educational Parcours 

On the level of education, Bart Cassiman has been, besides for almost a decade (1989 – 1998) tutor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, a guest-lecturer at the Appel Foundation in Amsterdam and Le Magasin in Grenoble (for the curator training which is organized by those institutes), at Sotheby’s London (educational studies for future artworld-professionals) and at P.A.R.T.S., the institute for dance founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker of Rosas.

Since 1985 he participated at many lectures, symposiums and workshops on the subject of contemporary art organised by different museums, art institutions and galleries. amongst others in Geneva he participated at the symposium La possibilité de l'art. Où commence, où finit l'art dans le monde de l'art contemporain (25-26 February 1989, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève|Centre d'art contemporain) and in Stuttgart at A new spirit in curating (25-26 January 1992, Künstlerhaus). He was a member of the studygroup which prepared the symposium Writing about art (1991, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven). At the occasion of the publication Art, gallery, exhibition. The gallery as a vehicle for art, edited by gallery Andriesse and De Balie, Amsterdam, he took part in the symposiums organized in Amsterdam (7 September 1996), Rotterdam (8 September 1996) and Antwerp (8 October 1996). In Brussels (25-26 October 1996) he participated at the colloquium Art et commande publics, organized by Encore Bruxelles.

The Absent Museum.

From 1989 until 2000 he was responsible for the BACOB bank collection of contemporary art. The collection contained at the end about 180 works of around 40 different international artists, a.o. Stan Douglas, Franz West, Herbert Brandl, Lili Dujourie, Cristina Iglesias, Thomas Schütte, Harald Klingelhöller, Allan McCollum, Narcisse Tordoir, Helmut Dorner, Luc Tuymans, Jan Fabre, Bazilebustamante, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Thierry De Cordier, James Welling, Juan Muñoz, Jan Vercruysse, Mitja Tušek, Gert Verhoeven, Stephen Wilks, Dianne Hagen, Jan Van Imschoot, Robert Suermondt, Carla Klein, Niek Kemps, Alicia Framis, Isa Genzken, Ebru Özseçen, Gregor Schneider, Valerie Mannaerts, Bjarne Melgaard, Mike Kelley, Carlos Amorales, Miroslav Balka.

Due to a severe illness Bart Cassiman was forced to stop all his professional activities at the end of the nineties. Without any doubt one can say that he was one of the most active and energized persons of the artworld between the mid-eigthies and the end of the nineties. With colleagues such as Saskia Bos, Ulrich Loock, Julian Heynen, Dennis Zacharopoulos and a few others he was responsible for the visualization of a generation by making exhibitions and writing texts and convincing many museums and collectors to buy their works.

The bank for which he collected more than a decade bought as a result of his engagement and advise the well-known Vanderborght building in the heart of Brussels, at the end of the nineties. Everything was prepared to open the first private (corporate) museum on this scale in Western Europe. The opening was planned for the spring of 2002. But because the engine of this whole operation fell silent the project died a quiet dead. Big parts of the collection were sold and so stays the capital of Europe deprived of an urgently needed Museum of Contemporary Art…

References.

Cassiman, Bart; Martin, Jean-Hubert; König, Kasper; Oosterhof, Gosse; Hoet, Jan (1986). Initiatief 1986. Gent, Belgium: Imschoot.

Cassiman, Bart (1989). Lili Dujourie. Grenoble: Centre national d'art contemporain.

Cassiman, Bart (1991). Espacio mental. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana.

Pauwels, Hilde (1993). Nieuwe beelden : Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim. Antwerpen: Antwerpen.

Cassiman, Bart; Ramael, Greet; Vande Veire, Frank (1993). The sublime void : on the memory of the imagination. Ghent: Ludion.

Cassiman, Bart (1993). On taking a normal situation … Antwerpen: Antwerpen 1993 v.z.w. / Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen.

Cassiman, Bart (1995). Arte Habitable. Amsterdam.

Cassiman, Bart (1997). Green Easter. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Deurle: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens.

Dujourie, Lili; Cassiman, Bart (1997). Lili Dujourie. London: Lisson Gallery.

Ramos, Maria (1998). Privacy : Luc Tuymans/Miroslaw Balka. Porto, Portugal: Fundação de Serralves.

Cassiman, Bart (1989). Paul Robbrecht Hilde Daem. De architectuur en het beeld. Antwerpen: deSingel.

Hertmans, Stefan (1995). Eenzaamheid op de marktplaats. Over het werk van Thierry De Cordier. Brussel: Hayen.

Cassiman, Bart (December 1997). “Juan Muñoz”. Dietsche Warande & Belfort. N°6.> Further Reading

Primary sources.

Cassiman, Bart. “The pictorial diversity of a generation”. 6 Young Flemish Artists. Dirk De Bruycker, Walter Swennen, Philippe Tonnard, Narcisse Tordoir, Hans Vandekerckhove, Philippe Vandenberg. Washington: Art Society of The International Monetary Fund (1986).

Cassiman, Bart. “«Farbzustände» von Raoul De Keyser”. Guillaume Bijl, Jan Vercruysse, Lili Dujourie, Raoul De Keyser. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern (1986).

Cassiman, Bart. “Einigie (möglische) Überlegungen zum Niederschlag von René Daniëls’ amüsiertem Umgang mit der Wirklichkeit in Wort und Bild”. Daniëls. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern (1987).

Cassiman, Bart. “L'Oeuvre au Noir”. Flash Art. N°146 May / June 1989.

Cassiman, Bart. Harald Klingelhöller. Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum; London: The Whitechapel Art Gallery (1990).

Cassiman, Bart. “Alzumeazume or La Musee Amusée”. Kunst & Museumjournaal. N° 5 1990.

Cassiman, Bart. “Images and their effects: Imagination in the plural” Walter Swennen. Heerlen: Stadsgalerij (1990).

Cassiman, Bart. Cristina Iglesias. Amsterdam: De Appel (1990).

Cassiman, Bart. “Propos sur le maître de schoorisse” L'Art en Belgique. Flandre et Wallonie au XXe Siècle. Un point de vue. Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1991).

Cassiman, Bart. “Het relaas van een wanhoop: over de meester van Schoorisse. Thierry De Cordier” Kunst & Museumjournaal. N°5 (1992).

Cassiman, Bart “Necessary but not urgent” Pose. N°9 Spring / Summer 1993.

Cassiman, Bart. “Lili Dujourie” Kunst in België na 1980. Brussel: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (1993).

Cassiman, Bart. “Jan Vercruysse” Kunst in België na 1980. Brussel: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (1993).

Cassiman, Bart (a.o.) “Middelheim, 1995+…” De WItte Raaf. N°58, November-December 1995.

Cassiman, Bart. “Par amour de l'art” De Morgen. 1 December 1995.

Cassiman, Bart. “The same again, but different” L&B (Lier en Boog). Series of Philiosophy of Art and Art Theory. Volume 13 (1998).

Cassiman, Bart. “Adieu Chantal” Knack Focus. 10 October 2015.

Secondary sources.

Early Years.

Waterschoot, Hector. “Een hete, artistieke zomer. Gentse musea en galerijen brengen een monsterprojekt : Initiatief 86” Knack. 18 June 1986.

Van Den Abeele, Lieven. “Initiatief 86. Alleen visitekaartje van Belgische kunst” De Standaard. 27 June 1986.

Gillemon, Danièle. “L'art contemporain à Gand: une abondance d'expositions pour vous édifier ou vous achever !” Le Soir. 25 July 1986.

Meuris, Jacques. “«Initiatief 86» : Gand au carrefour de l'art contemporain” La Libre Belgique. 11 July 1986.

De Baere, Bart. “Het is geen diktaat over Belgische Kunst” Special Knack Magazine. (1986).

De Zutter, “Initiatief '86 of hoe een mug een olifant baarde” De Morgen. 21 June 1986.

Curatorial Practice.

Borka, Max “Lili Dujourie in het Bonner Kunstverein. Fluweel en schone schijn. Verdwaalde rekwisieten op zoek naar een auteur.” De Morgen. 28 December 1989.

Favet, Catherine. “Lili Dujourie” Art Press. October 1990.

Bost, Bernadette. “Velours et marbres de Lili Dujourie” Le Monde. 11 July 1990.

Braet, Jan. “Moord in de galerie” Knack. 18 July 1990.

De Cecco, Emanuela. “Lily Dujourie, Cristina Iglesias. Locus Solus” Flash Art. April / May (1991).

Borka, Max. “'Espacio Mental’ in Valencia. De nazaten van de Heilige Hiëronymus” De Morgen. 31 May 1991.

Penxten, Stéphane. “L'imagination au pouvoir” La Libre Belgique. 12 June 1991.

Cortés, José Miguel G. “Los estratos de la mente. Seis artistas europeos en Valencia” El Pais. 1 June 1991.

Jarque, Vicente. “Moradas del arte. El Centre del Carme acoge una muestra colectiva bajo el título de Espacio mental” Cultura. June 1991.

Middendorp, Jan. “Ver van de dolle menigte” Knack. 26 June 1991.

Lambrecht, Luk. “Mental Space” Forum International. N° 10, November 1991.

Entrop, Pieter. “Bart Cassiman” Metropolis M. N° 4 1991.

Braet, Jan. “Antwerpen '93. Het ideale museum” Knack. 10 March 1993.

Van Den Bergh, Jos. “Bart Cassiman on his show "The Sublime Void”“ Forum International. N°18 May / August 1993.

Gillemon, Danieèle. "Le Deuxième Souffle du Middelheim” Le Soir. 9 June 1993.

Braet, Jan. “Antwerpen '93. Als op een zomernacht. Nieuwe Beelden voor Middelheim” Knack. N°24 1993.

Lubbers, Frank. “Nieuwe Beelden” Metropolis M. N° 4 1993.

Van Mulders, Wim “Nieuwe beelden voor het Middelheim” Muziek & Woord. June 1993.

Turine, Roger Pierre. “Le Middelheim contemporain” La Libre Belgique. 11 June 1993.

McFadden, Sarah. “Sculpture garden sprouting new works. The Middelheim museum enjoys a breath of fresh air” The Bulletin. 24 June 1993.

S.N. “Kirkebys store skulptur/hus” Politiken Sǿndag. 18 July 1993.

Van der Geer, Cees. “Herwaardering van een beeldenpark” Haagse Courant. 19 July 1993.

Montón, Carmen. “Amberes y Lisboa planean ceder parte de la capitalidad cultural europea a Sarajevo” La Vanguardia. 25 July 1993.

Bracke, Eric. “Hedendaagse kunst in Antwerpen: 'Het sublieme gemis’. Met andere woorden” De Morgen. 30 July 1993.

Chauvy, Laurence. “Expositions à Anvers. L'imagination et sa mémoire / La surprise est dans le parc” Journal de Genève et Gazette de Lausanne. 31 July 1993.

Braet, Jan. “Antwerpen '93. De Lege Ruimte” Knack. 4 August 1993.

Borka, Max. “Letter from Antwerp” The Bulletin. 5 August 1993.

Depondt, Paul. “Dingen waarvan de tijd nog niet is aangebroken” De Volkskrant. 6 August 1993.

Romare, Kristian. “Skulptur for skulpturer” Information. 6 August 1993.

Von Radziewsky, Elke. “Der geliehene Sinn” Die Zeit. 6 August 1993.

Van der Geer, Cees. “Kunstwerken als toekomstige dingen” Haagse Courant. 18 August 1993.

Braet, Jan. “In de maag van geest” Knack. 18 August 1993.

Braudeau, Michel. “L'Anvers de l'art” Le Monde. 21 August 1993.

Muller, Robert-Jan. “Tien nieuwe beelden in Middelheim” Archis. September 1993.

Marcelis, Bernard. “Le Manque Sublime” Art e Culture. September 1993.

Puvogel, Renate. “The Sublime Void” Kunstforum. September 1993.

Barten, Walter. “Doorbroken concepten. Twee boeiende exposities in culturele hoofdstad Antwerpen93” Het Financieele Dagblad. 4 September 1993.

Vonck, Bart. “Hun tijd is nog niet aangebroken. Tentoonstelling 'Het Sublieme Gemis’” Markant. N°35 10 September 1993.

Lebovici, Elisabeth “L'Anvers du décor” Libération. 18 September 1993.

Bouman, Ole. “Talent voor de ultieme leegte” De Groene Amsterdammer. 22 September 1993.

Braet, Jan. “Tegen de nieuwe schoolmeesters” Knack. (1993).

Lambrecht, Luk. “Over een drieluik” Antwerpen 93. (1993).

Ruyters, Marc. “Afsluiting van drieluik in het MUHKA. Ook beeldende kunst weet het antwoord niet” Financieel Economische Tijd. 25 September 1993.

Wilson, Andrew. “Antwerp 93” Art Monthly. November 1993.

Lambrecht, Luk. “Antwerp 93” Flash Art. November / December 1993.

Bracke, Eric. “De versnipperde archipel” De Morgen. 14 February 1997.

Borka, Max. “Groene Pasen bloemleest kunst uit schemerzones” De Standaard. 15 February 1997.

Braet, Jan. “Eros en Narcis in hun eerste bloei” Knack. 26 February 1997.

Barten, Walter. “Eigenzinnig en consequent” Het Financieele Dagblad. 3 March 1997.

Lorent, Claude. “Le printemps de l'art actuel” La Libre Belgique. 10 March 1997.

Pontzen, Rutger. “Groene Pasen” Metropolis M. N°2 1997.

Borka, Max. “Onder lakens van lood. Lili Dujourie in de Londense Lisson Gallery” DS MAGAZINE. 13 June 1997.

Van Hove, Jan. “Broedplaats voor jonge kunst. Rijksacademie Amsterdam houdt open ateliers” De Standaard. 1997.

Roos, Robbert. “Rijksakademie open voor jacht op het nieuwste talent” Trouw. 28 November 1997.

Ruyters, Marc. “De onacademische aanpak van de Rijksacademie” De Financieel-Economische Tijd. 29 November 1997.

Art Critic.

Van Synghel, Koen. “Museum voor Krappe Kunsten. Het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen op zoek naar ruimte in eigen huis” DS MAGAZINE. 8 December 1995.

Ruyters, Marc. “Tegen '92 zou Brussel zowat de Kunsthalle van Europa moeten zijn. Interview met Bart Cassiman” De Morgen. 28 September 1988.

Braet, Jan. “Kunst om te stelen” Knack. 17 September 1997.

The Absent Museum.

Pitteljon, Honoré (ed.). Artesia Center for the Arts. Bruxelles: Artesia Banking Corporation (1999).

Mast, Michel (ed.) Bacob & Art. Bruxelles: Bacob & Art (1996).