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MYTHS AND GLITTER: Stories in color, glass, and metal

MYTHS AND GLITTER: STORIES IN COLORS, GLASS, AND METAL

Ethan Freeman and Petra Heitkötter - Painting
Exhibition Period: May 18th - June 14th, 2024
Vernissage: May 18th at 7 p.m.
Artist Talk: June 6th, 2024, at 5 p.m.
Finissage: June 14th, 2024, at 5 p.m.
Location: Pashmin Art Gallery, Gotenstr. 21, 20097 Hamburg

With great anticipation, Pashmin Art Gallery presents the exhibition "MYTHS AND GLITTER - STORIES IN COLORS, GLASS, AND METAL," which brings together fascinating artworks by two renowned artists, painter Petra Heitkötter and musical star and painter Ethan Freeman. A 25-year friendship connects the two.

Petra Heitkötter, a respected painter from Bremen, has presented her works in over 40 solo exhibitions across Europe, found in both private and public collections.

Ethan Freeman, an outstanding musical performer with a shining career in productions such as "The Phantom of the Opera," "Cats," "Jekyll & Hyde," and "Disney's Aladdin," now debuts as a painter alongside Petra Heitkötter at Pashmin Art Gallery.

Although both artists work in different ways, they share the common goal of enchanting the viewer into a world of enchanted narratives, aiming to surprise and entertain.

The exhibition is curated by Natalja Nouri and moderated by Jasmin Eikmeier. Internationally renowned curator Dr. Davood Khazaie will provide insights into the creative processes of Freeman and Heitkötter.

Petra Heitkötter, the Bremen-based artist, works with a variety of materials to create contrasts and assemble new ensembles. This results in intense colors like dramatic red, velvety black, and glittering white, transformed into splendid objects by gold, copper, brass, aluminum, and glass. This is her unique signature.

The interaction of light and material gives her works a unique dynamic, present in both her smallest works and large-scale paintings. Each of her paintings is a testament to experience, exploration, versatility, and depth.
Ethan Freeman has his studio in Hamburg and has been engaged in painting for many years. Now, for the first time, he is making his work accessible to a wider audience.

His painting, much like his stage work, is about telling a story, now with color and canvas. While on stage, negative emotions like hatred and violence are often the theme, his painting reflects the positive, striving for beauty and joy. He uses vibrant colors and textures to convey sensual delight. Each painting becomes a narrative. The aim of his pictures is to express beauty, joy, ecstasy, and occasionally humor.

Be part of our vernissage event on May 18th at 7 p.m., where the artists will be personally present.

Ethan Freeman will be accompanied by James Mironchik, who will give a small taste of his musical repertoire.

For further information, please contact Pashmin Art Gallery at +49 40 69 21 98 99 or via email at [insert email address]. Visit our website at www.pashminart-gallery.com.

Naturtag Halstenbek

Plant market, information stands, hands-on activities for children
This year, Halstenbek Nature Day begins again with a large event on Halstenbek Town Hall Square: There you have the opportunity to buy local flowers and pre-grown vegetables, honey and other bee products as well as seeds of local flowers.
Find out more about environmental, climate and nature conservation at the stands of the environmental associations.
Children have fun baking stick bread and doing crafts with natural materials
10:00 to 13:00 on the town hall square:
Stalls selling vegetables, local flowers and honey; seed library of the Halstenbek libraries
Information and participation offers: NABU, BUND, Boy Scouts of the Evangelical Church, Halstenbek allotment association, Halstenbek green sponsors, BI Krupunder See, Holstein beekeepers, Wedeler Au regional park, Pinneberg district hiking movement, Halstenbek climate alliance, Halstenbek solar initiative, Hamburg fawn rescue, trifolia Rellingen, ADFC Halstenbek, Naturgarten eV Hamburg, as well as private stands

NDR Bigband / Golnar Shahyar / Kinan Azmeh / Wolf Kerschek

With their latest programme for the Hamburg International Music Festival entitled »A Flow of Protests and Kindness«, the NDR Bigband and Hamburg arranger and big band leader Wolf Kerschek conjure up the hope of the peace-building power of music to overcome cultural divides and differences. In one set each with singer Golnar Shahyar and clarinettist Kinan Azmeh respectively, they create the utopia of a music that is universally understandable and able to heal wounds.

Golnar Shahyar is a new face to work with the NDR Bigband. Born and raised in Iran, she also has Canadian citizenship and currently lives most of the time in Vienna. A restless person out of necessity, a world traveller in her music, who translates the essence of her experiences as a woman striving for self-determination between cultures into the abstract, sensual language of poetry and music with overwhelming force and enormous precision.

Kinan Azmeh, on the other hand, has been working with the NDR Bigband for some time now. After several joint productions, a joint CD was released in autumn 2021 – called »Flow«: Wolf Kerschek had dressed up Azmeh‘s compositions into tailor-made arrangements, and the NDR Bigband garnished the whole thing with bravura and sophistication. Like Golnar Shahyar, Kinan Azmeh is a musician for whom the course of history has made it difficult to return to his home country.

Born in Damascus in 1976 and raised in Syria, where Arabic and Levantine sounds filled the air, it was important to him early on as a musician not to be restricted to his geographical place of origin. He pursued an education in Western »classical« music and eventually graduated from the Juilliard School in New York with a degree in the clarinet. He soon garnered a reputation as a musician for whom any stylistic definitions were too narrow. There is just one profession he has ever remained loyal to, and that is music. Beyond borders and without restrictions.

PERFORMERS

NDR Bigband jazz ensemble

Golnar Shahyar vocals

Kinan Azmeh clarinet

Wolf Kerschek director

Neue Philharmonie Hamburg

The Neue Philharmonie Hamburg was founded in 2003 and is made up of freelance professional musicians from all over the world. Its artistic portfolio focuses on symphonic music from the Baroque to the Modern periods. In addition, the Neue Philharmonie Hamburg also regularly appears in smaller formations, such as chamber music ensembles.

PERFORMERS

Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie Hamburg chamber orchestra

PROGRAM

Antonio Vivaldi
Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), Op. 8

sowie Werke von W.A. Mozart, A. Dvorak, P. Tschaikowsky, F. Kreisler

Neugrabener Markt

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays there is always fresh produce from the region in the Marktpassage.

Night Flea Market at Rindermarkthalle St. Pauli

From April onwards, the forecourt of the Rindermarkthalle St. Pauli transforms into a flea market under the starry sky every Wednesday and Thursday evening!

Grab yourself a drink and browse through second-hand items, furniture, records, art, books, curiosities, and useful goods at up to 100 stalls. Plus, enjoy street food and good music.

Register for stall spaces at the flea market in front of the Rindermarkthalle via: www.nachtflohmarkt-rindermarkthalle.de

Event time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM