STAM activities http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/events STAM activities http://www.stamgent.be/modules/core/layout/images/rss2.gif http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/events Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:39:26 +0100 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:39:26 +0100 en refectory concerts http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/refectory-concerts

 

22.01.2012
Marc Mauillon
Mon chant vous envoy
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04.03.2012
Tiburtina Ensemble
Ergo sum homo
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10.06.20102
Collegium Vocale Gent
Reponsoria
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© photo: Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

 

 

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]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:53:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/filip-berte-the-graveyard the story of ghent http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/the-story-of-ghent STAM's permanent exhibition is 'The Story of Ghent'. A chronological trail takes you on a trip through time, making Ghent legible by analyzing the different periods in history. Read more

 

 

 

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]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:20:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/the-story-of-ghent ghent light festival http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/ghent-light-festival A warm blanket over the wintery soul of Ghent.

During the past years, the City of Ghent has invested a lot of money in the atmospheric lighting of the city centre. The Gent Light Plan has been internationally awarded. The Light Festival wants to bring the Light Plan in the spotlights and reveal a glimpse of the unique and hidden charm of the city.

Depart for an exploratory voyage along the wintery track in the Ghent city centre and plunge in the most exciting light experiences. A subtle game of beams that reflect on the water surface, unexpected projections on buildings, poetic shadows that play in the semidarkness between the hidden treasures of the city. About fifteen internationally renowned artists and light designers lead you during the darkest days of the year along a 6 km track. On several unique locations, both inside and outside, you can admire the work of the light artists.

when

From January 27th till January 30th 2011, every evening from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.

where

In the historic city centre of Ghent the track guides you along the water courses that meander along many historic places and monuments. Along the track you can find a lot of places where you can warm up and where you can have a drink or a snack.

A shuttle service (bus, boat, bicycle) will be organised between STAM, Ghent City Museum, and the track of the Light Festival, enabling a combined visit to the exhibition 'Enlightened City' and the Light Festival.

price

You can visit the track for free. Guided tours will be charged for.

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]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:36:00 +0200 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/ghent-light-festival STAM opening http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/stam-opening STAM will be opening in October... and Ghent will know about it! Visitors and locals will flock to STAM and the Bijloke and the streets and squares will be awash with music and festivity. STAM will give you a warm welcome so make sure you do the same for STAM!

 

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]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:01:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/stam-opening edmond sacré, portrait of a city http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/edmond-sacre-portrait-of-a-city The Ghent photographer Edmond Sacré (1851-1921) left behind a very diverse oeuvre of portraits (individuals and groups), landscapes, streetscapes and shots of buildings and events.

His photographs show how Ghent was transformed around the turn of the century. In the city centre whole rows of houses were demolished to make way for new streets and squares and to free up historic monuments. Encroaching urbanization destroyed the rural character of the outskirts.

In this project the relationship between images of the city and change is examined by means of Sacré's photographs.


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]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:46:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/edmond-sacre-portrait-of-a-city liber floridus (1121), the world in a book http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/liber-floridus-1121-the-world-in-a-book In the early twelfth century Lambert, Canon of Saint-Omer (now in French Flanders), compiled an encyclopaedia of the knowledge of his predecessors. In that book entitled Liber Floridus he describes the world and the cosmos, and man’s life within that greater whole. His own contribution was mainly in the fields of cosmography, geography and cartography.

Lambert illustrated his findings with colourful miniatures which help make this medieval encyclopaedia a truly superb piece of work. He was drawing maps of the world four centuries before cartography became a discipline in its own right. And, yes, the earth was... round!

A world-famous manuscript, the Liber Floridus is recognized by the Flemish Community as a masterpiece. It derives from St Bavo’s Abbey in Ghent and is now part of Ghent University Library’s collection.

In the exhibition at STAM, scientific insights into this mediaeval masterpiece take the form of a fascinating story. Thanks to precious illuminated manuscripts from the late-eighth to the twelfth centuries loaned by institutions in Belgium and abroad, the Liber Floridus can be shown alongside its sources and works by Lambert’s contemporaries.

The ambulatory and Gothic refectory of the former Bijloke Abbey with its fourteenth-century wall paintings provide a fitting setting for this feast of medieval knowledge and cartography.

in association with the departments of Geography (Faculty of Sciences), Archaeology, History and Literature (Faculty of Arts) and Ghent University Library.


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]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:36:00 +0100 http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/liber-floridus-1121-the-world-in-a-book enlightened city http://www.stamgent.be/en/activities/detail/p/enlightened-city

Curator: Terenja van Dijk

A city is a permanent ‘chiaroscuro show’: squares bathe in sunlight, tower blocks cast their shifting shadows, town houses reach for the light, a cheerful cacophony of light banishes the night, artificial light attacks our biorhythm, dark sides of the city spurn the bright lights… Life in the city is conditioned by light and darkness. The new STAM takes this usually underexposed theme as the starting-point for the first in a fascinating series of temporary exhibitions about urbanity.

 

 

light and life

How does a blind person experience the city? That question, so intriguing for sighted people, opens the first STAM exhibition. We set about examining how light and the lack of light affect a city’s development and life in the city. Take the pre-industrial age, when the rhythm of life followed the natural day-night pattern. Did it really? How did light and darkness determine what people did? The introduction of artificial light in the nineteenth century triggered a revolution: night became day, as people said at the time. It had a dramatic effect on all aspects of life: on economic and working life, but also on social life and on the hours we slept.

The exhibition uses documents and diaries, models, paintings, photographs and installations to tell this story. And it does so in an extraordinary location: the old Bijloke Abbey. We also link Ghent with the world: for a twenty-four-hour period a video installation connects the contemporary city with the world through the ‘City One Minutes’ project: one-minute films of cities in different time-zones.  

 

 

twin models and stained-glass windows

Are we seeing an evolution towards more light in urban development and in the architecture of our homes? Did modernism invent ‘light living’? The exhibition sheds light on several carefully chosen places and buildings.
Using twin models and a sun simulator we examine the incidence of light in the life of striking buildings at two different times in their history.

We end in the old abbey church, the perfect place to take a look at how light is deployed symbolically: STAM’s magnificent collection of stained-glass windows will glint and gleam, we will show how light and propaganda, and faith and light coexist harmoniously, how a light-filled city makes itself the leading light and sets about celebrating light…

 

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gallery texts in English available for download here

 

 

 

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