Three Things for November 3
1. Lee University Chamber Strings and Handbells to perform in joint concert
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Lee University Chamber Strings will join with Handbells to perform “Tango Love,” a concert featuring all things tango.
“If you love to tango, the evening belongs to you,” said Xiaoqing Yu, director of Chamber Strings and associate professor of violin at Lee.
The performance will include pieces such as “Hungarian Rhapsody,” “Tango Mariana,” “La Sortija,” “La Paloma,” “Tangoed Tango” and “Devil’s Tango.”
The event, free to everyone, will be located in Pangle Hall at 7:30 p.m., and will also be live streamed at leeu.live.
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2. There’s no place like home: escaped king cobra returns to terrarium
A week-long snake hunt ensued after a venomous, seven foot king cobra, officially named Sir Vass (Sir Hiss), escaped from his terrarium in a Swedish zoo. The snake later returned to its home by itself.
The cobra originally disappeared on Saturday, Oct. 22 after escaping its enclosure through a light fixture. X-ray cameras were used to search for “Houdini,” the name given to the cobra by aquarium employees, and it was eventually found hiding in the insulation between two walls.
Holes were drilled into the walls where Sir Vass was hiding, but it disappeared again. A little while later, the king cobra slithered home, reappearing in its terrarium on Sunday, Oct. 30.
“It was too stressful for Houdini with all the holes in the walls, so he wanted to go home again,” Jonas Wahlstrom, CEO of the Skansen Aquarium, told SVT.
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3. Another painting targeted by climate activists
Two Belgian climate activists were sentenced to a month in prison after one of them attempted to glue his head to Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” masterpiece, to protest fossil fuel production.
A video was released of one man gluing his head to the glass covering the 17th-century painting, while the other, wearing a shirt that said “Just Stop Oil,” poured a can of tomato soup over the first man’s head. The second man then proceeded to glue his own hand to the wall.
The activists were sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 2 to two months in prison, however a judge in The Hague suspended half of the sentence, so the men will only serve one month. The third man, who filmed the demonstration, will appear in court on Friday, Nov. 4.
In October, multiple climate change demonstrations also targeted works of art — activists hurled mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in Germany, and protestors tossed soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London. However, no works of art were damaged by these protests.
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