Art, Culture, Leisure

Art, Culture, Leisure

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Photography
Photography is image-making that makes use of light to produce a picture. In some cases, electromagnetic radiation outside the field of visible light is also used to create images, usua...

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Sculpturing
Sculpturing – or sculpting – is the process involved in making a sculpture, a three-dimensional art form. There are all sorts of ways that sculpturing can be carried out. Indeed, some o...

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Film
Since moving pictures were first put together from a series of still photographs to settle a bet – whether a horse raised all its hooves off the ground, or not, when running – people ha...

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Painting, Drawing
Both painting and drawing are predominantly two-dimensional forms of art. Of course, you can paint or draw onto a three-dimensional structure, but this tends to be referred to as a fini...

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Sports & Physical Activity
If you think about sports and physical activity as one thing, then they both involve using movement and agility to perform a certain task. This might be as straightforward as running a ...

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Music
There are various definitions of music. Eastern and Western musical traditions are very different from one another, and it is hard to define a genre like jazz with the same meaning as, ...

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Board Games
Board games are typically played at a table by multiple participants with several different pieces or cards. Usually, although not exclusively, the action takes place on an unfolded boa...

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Travelling
To some people, travelling is a great luxury, and for others, it is an essential part of their job. Therefore, a distinction should always be drawn between travelling for recreation and...

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Poetry
Poetry is a form of literature. It is often distinguished from prose which tends to operate in a standard grammatical manner that replicates speech. The text you are reading now is pros...

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Dance
Dance is a purposeful form of human movement that has some symbolic, societal or aesthetic value. Although many people dance at social gatherings or on their own at home, it is a form o...

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Festivals
Typically, festivals involve people coming together in the act of celebration. In ancient times, people would gather together to bring harvests in, often working cooperatively to ensure...

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Literature
Any body of text is really a form of literature. If you collected all your old shopping lists, then you could consider this to be literary to some, small extent, for instance. More comm...

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Crafts
Generally speaking, crafts developed historically within specific trades. Some people still refer to craftsmen by their old-fashioned name, artisan. However, the term craft - in the sen...

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Theatre
Theatre is a performance that involves live-action. It can range from a one-person show to a cast of thousands. In many cases, theatrical performances are carried out in purpose-built e...

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Nature
In its widest sense, nature constitutes all physical things that are not human-made. This means that the entire planet and all of its bio-systems which support life are to be considered...

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Forest Bathing
Forest bathing is an English translation of a Japanese term, shinrin-yoku. Both of these words come from Middle Chinese terms - sim-lim, meaning forest, and jowk, meaning bathe. As such...