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LondonTown.com: London landscapes celebrated in new exhibition

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South London parks are the subject of new photographic exhibition at the Horniman Museum.

LONDON, June 08, 2015 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — A new photographic exhibition celebrating London’s lesser-known landscapes open this month at one of London’s friendliest museums. South London Landscapes is now open at the Horniman Museum And Gallery this week and runs throughout the summer, featuring photographs of the Horniman itself as well as other picturesque public spaces in and around south London. The Horniman is one of London’s liveliest small museums, boasting excellent natural history and music galleries, a small aquarium and extensive landscaped grounds. For more information, and to see the latest deals on London hotels, see LondonTown.com.

South London Landscapes features photographs taken by London-based landscape photographer Max A Rush. The photographs, which include pictures of the Horniman Gardens, are taken in unusual and beautiful weather and capture how the passage of the seasons and the forces of the weather transform the appearance and character of the local landscape. Areas featured in South London Landscapes include Brockwell Park, Crystal Palace Park, Dulwich Park, Dulwich Wood, Ruskin Park and the Horniman Gardens.

Max Rush says: ‘These are a few of my favourite locations around south London. I’ve continually returned to them over the years, watching the seasons pass and the elements batter, freeze and occasionally warm their well-worn faces. I’ve witnessed moments of transcendental beauty in familiar places and endeavoured to capture them as truthfully as I can. So many people fight their way out of the city every week for the sake of nature, but perhaps what they’re looking for was here all along.’ For more information on this and other exhibitions and events taking place at the Horniman this summer, see LondonTown.com.

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LondonTown.com: Groundbreaking London exhibition looks at post-war Black British artists

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Guildhall Art Gallery explores the work of little-known but pivotal Afro-Caribbean artists
LONDON, June 08, 2015 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — A groundbreaking new exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London will look at the little-known and rarely exhibited history of 20th-century Black British art. No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990 runs from 10 July 2015 to 24 January 2016, and will explore the history of art produced by Britain’s Afro-Caribbean citizens, reflecting their experiences in the country after the major emigrations that occurred following the end of the Empire at the conclusion of the Second World War. For more information on this and other exhibitions in London this summer, see LondonTown.com, where you can also find information on London events and cheap London hotels.

At the heart of the exhibition will be a recreation of the Bogle-L’Ouverture Walter Rodney bookshop, created by renowned artist and curator Dr Michael McMillan (West Indian Front Room) and sound and visual specialists, Dubmorphology. Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in a stunning multi-sensory, multi-visual experience including works of art, sculpture, photographs, paintings, letters and other artefacts from more than 25 prominent Black artists during this period including Eddie Chambers, Sonia Boyce, Denzil Forrester and Chila Kumari Burman.

Influenced by the emergence of newly independent African and Caribbean states, global liberation struggles, the fight against unfair discrimination and an insistence on dignified citizenship within Britain, these artists found expression by way of ‘creation for liberation’. The exhibition will explore these struggles and celebrate their contribution through four themes: ‘Elbow Room’, ‘Broad Shoulders’, ‘Clenched Fists’ and ‘Open Arms’.

Throughout its tenure, No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990 will also play host to a series of scheduled events enriching the visitor experience through a diverse range of educational talks, workshops and gallery tours. For more information on this and other exhibitions in the City of London, see LondonTown.com.

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LondonTown.com: Cutting-edge US artist receives first major European show in London this summer

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Raven Row gallery in Spitalfields hosts a retrospective of ground-breaking US artist Larry Johnson.

LONDON, June 08, 2015 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — One of America’s most interesting contemporary artists is to receive his first major European exhibition at a new gallery that focuses on cutting-edge, avant-garde art. Raven Row is a non-profit contemporary art exhibition centre in Spitalfields that is housed within two eighteenth-century merchants’ houses integrated with new galleries and its next exhibition, Larry Johnson: On Location runs from 11 June to 9 August 2015. It is directed and funded by Alex Sainsbury of the Sainsbury family, whose family have funded many great art projects in London, such as the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery. Raven Row is a very different enterprise, offering thoughtful shows on lesser-known artists and allowing visitors to explore the fascinating quarter of Spitalfields. The area is filled with fashionable boutiques, great shops and cool bars and restaurants. To explore its attractions, see LondonTown.com, where you can also find the latest room rates for hotels in London.

On Location brings together a selection of works by Larry Johnson from the early 1990s to the present. The show’s uncontested star is Los Angeles, the city in which Johnson has lived and worked all his life. For over thirty years, LA’s physical and imaginary appearance has served as the set for the artist’s photo-based investigations of the glamour industry, replete with fading stars and premature deaths. Johnson’s work bears the marks of a generation of artists sampling readymade images and texts to create seductively laconic pictures. Yet the colourful sheen of Johnson’s photo-based works is also a foil for sexual, political and semantic tension. The artist’s pictures are encryptions of a Hollywood demi-monde, referring to the cultures from which his work emerges – queer, political, filmic and theoretical.

The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based writer Bruce Hainley, and by Antony Hudek, Curator and Deputy Director of Raven Row. Commie Pinko Guy, a publication edited by Hainley with new essays by Morgan Fisher, Lisa Lapinski, Hainley, Hudek and Wayne Koestenbaum, as well as reprints of classic underground queer writing, will accompany the exhibition. For more information on this and other exhibitions in London’s cutting-edge contemporary art scene, see LondonTown.com.

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LondonTown.com: Classic London cinema at the Southbank all summer

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BFI Southbank unveils new season dedicated to films exploring the UK capital.

LONDON, June 08, 2015 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — London On Film is a new major season of films at the BFI Southbank that will explore and celebrate the capital for four months from 1st July to 9th October. This is the first time the BFI has ever celebrated the city in which it is based, and will feature 200 films, a number of which have been unseen since they were first filmed, offering an extraordinary perspective of the city from the past 120 years. The BFI Southbank is the national home of cinema, featuring three state-of-the-art screens in Waterloo on the Southbank.For more on this vital cultural quarter, as well as the latest rates forLondon hotels, seeLondonTown.com.

The London On Film season will include events such as a Soho Weekender (24-26 July) to celebrate the unique culture of Soho captured in films from 1896 – 1985 such as West End Jungle (1961), The Small World of Sammy Lee(1963) and Sunshine in Soho (1956). There will also be a discussion event Vanishing Soho on the state of Soho today in the light of current major changes for those who live and play there. It will include some of the earliest films ever made, such as RW Paul’s Blackfriars Bridge (1896(. Films from major filmmakers include Anthony Asquith’s evocative Underground (1928), the first feature to be shot on the underground and Nicolas Roeg’s Performance (1970), which takes us into the dangerous realms of psychedelic and sexual experimentation. There will also be films by Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Winterbottom and Otto Preminger.

Black experience is highlighted in a series of key films including Earl Cameron’s pioneering role as a black sailor in the crime drama Pool of London (1951) with fine use of locations around Tower Bridge, Poplar, Southwark and the City; Cameron also stars in the little seen The Heart Within (1957) another crime thriller set in London’s Docklands. Sapphire (Basil Dearden, 1959) is a film-maker’s response to the Notting Hill race riots wrapped up in a murder mystery while Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1981) shows the demoralisation of black youth, and offers an eerily prescient portrait of the situation in Deptford which would give rise to the Brixton Riots of the same year. For more information, see LondonTown.com.

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LondonTown.com: British Museum gets its medals out for the great French Sun King

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Free exhibition at the museum showcases remarkable 17th-century emblems of Louis XIV’s reign

LONDON, June 08, 2015 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — The British Museum is holding a new exhibition that looks at the medals drawn from the reign of the great French Sun King, Louis XIV. Triumph and disaster: medals of the Sun King runs from 4 June to 15 November and marks the tercentenary year of the death of Louis XIV. It is one of several free exhibitions that are held at the British Museum every year to draw attention to the many easily overlooked marvels within its collection and to present them in new ways to mark anniversaries or to reinterpret the material. For more information on the full programme of exhibitions at the British Museum, see LondonTown.com, where you can also find the latest information on cheap hotels in London.

The Louis XIV medals are preserved as they were in Louis XIV’s own day and includes contributions from the British Library which has a unique manuscript scrapbook of drawings and notes on the creation of the history, and the V&A. The medals were a way for the king to portray his reign and the greatest writers (including Jean Racine), historians, artists and medalists of the day were brought together by the king to ensure that posterity would see his rule as Louis wished it to be seen: the reign of an ideal and ever victorious monarch.

The early medals portray a dazzling image of a ‘Sun King,’ who is represented as hard-working, accessible, generous and just; a king that worked for the benefit of the people, glorifying as much in their happiness as in victory over his enemies. The picture changed as war succeeded war and defeat succeeded victory. The later medals, though careful to represent only French successes, are so numerous that they give the impression not of victory but of endless and draining warfare.

Elsewhere in Europe, particularly in the Netherlands, medals were produced that mocked and satirized the official French medals. These rival medals showed the French sun eclipsed by the zodiacal signs of his enemies, and Louis as an old man being roundly beaten by Queen Anne. Collectively, these medals and attendant literature present a fascinating and unique self-portrait of a regime which dominated Europe for nearly sixty years, and which established the primacy of French taste and French culture for over a century.

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LondonTown.com: Art film screenings at London’s best gallery this summer

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Tate Modern screens new and classic avant-garde and artists’ films this summer.

LONDON, June 08, 2015 — /REAL TIME PRESS RELEASE/ — The Tate Modern has announced its summer season of cinema screening and film premieres, which will take place in the gallery between May and July 2015. The Tate Modern is one of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries, and its extensive programme of events includes a summer film season that introduces new art film as well as rarely-seen work by inspiring and maverick filmmakers. The screenings cost £5. The gallery is located on the South Bank close to Blackfriars, London Bridge and Waterloo rail stations. For more information on things to do in the area, and to see the latest rates for cheap hotels in London, see LondonTown.com.

Films programmed this summer at the Tate include Agnes Martin’s Gabriel on 5 June, which takes place in conjunction with Tate Modern’s retrospective of Agnes Martin. This evening presents the artist’s only completed and rarely screened film. It follows the wanderings of a ten year old boy in rural New Mexico, where Martin lived and worked, in a contemplative study of landscape and nature. On 12 June, Sharon Lockhart will present her newest body of films and photographs in a unique opportunity to see this ambitious work in progress, followed by a conversation with Tate’s senior curators Catherine Wood and Andrea Lissoni. Created in collaboration with a group of 15 young women in Poland, the project empowers the authority of the girls’ voices and their perspectives on the world. Over the weekend from 19-21 June, Parviz Kimiavi will feature. Spanning four screenings over three days, this will be the UK’s first major survey of maverick filmmaker Parviz Kimiavi, a pioneer of alternative cinema in 1970’s Iran. Kimiavi created surreal and hallucinatory films, using non-professional actors and harsh desert landscapes.

On 26 June, A Night at the Pictures: An evening for Larry Johnson will honour the legacy of artist Larry Johnson. Curator Bruce Hainley and writer Wayne Koestenbaum will discuss his work, followed by a specially selected cult film. On 8 July, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s new film will be screened. This addresses political issues alongside scientific and anthropological histories. Drawing on a personal photographic archive, the film presents a young fictional researcher who leads a group between the IFAN Museum in Dakar and the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. The screening will be introduced by a live concert by the electronic music act PAL. Finally, over three days from 10-12 June, The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists on Screen will explore the film work of key artists in South Africa. It begins with a rare showing of William Kentridge and Angus Gibson’s Freedom Square and Back of the Moon 1986 (part of the Johannesburg Free Filmmakers’ Co-Operative) and ends with the UK premiere of Robin Rhode’s Recycled Matter 2015. For more information on this summer of screenings, see LondonTown.com.

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Canbank Venture Capital Fund (CVCFL) picks up Stake in Shiva Industrial Security Agency Pvt Ltd (SISA), Surat

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* SISA is a leading  ISO Certified Pan India Security Services Company having more than 4000 Guards and 150 plus cash Vans, with a turnover exceeding Rs 55 Cr. * SISA to deploy funds for expansion of operations across India.

Mumbai, India, June 08, 2015 — Canbank Venture Capital Fund through its Fifth Fund viz., Emerging India Growth Fund has invested Rs.11 Cr by way equity shares and convertibles for a minority stake in Surat based M/s Shiva Industrial Security Agency (Guj) Pvt Ltd (SISA).

SISA is a leading ISO Certified Pan India Security Services Company having more than 4000 Guards and 150 plus cash Vans, with a turnover exceeding Rs 55 cr. Among the security solutions offered by SISA are Manned Guarding, Cash Handling, Electronic Security Equipment, Event Security and Emergency Response Services.  With a nationwide presence, SISA is providing security services to leading corporates, Industrial Units, Airports, Metro Stations, Public & Private Sector Banks, Malls/shopping complexes, Apartments, Hospitals etc.

Said  Mr S Thiruvadi, Managing Director, Canbank Venture Capital Fund Ltd. (CVCFL) , “The Private Security services sector in India is expected to grow at 20% annually up to 2019 with 90% of security comprising of manned guarding and secure cash movement.  SISA has a progressive professional management which envisages taking the company on fast track growth. CVCFL anticipates that the company through profitable business mix and quality management shall be able to offer significant returns through dividends and capital appreciation on exit.  CVCFL aims to assist unlisted mid stage/late stage companies in the manufacturing and services sector with good growth potential and require funding”

Indian private security services industry has an estimated business of Rs.30,000 Cr and has been repeatedly growing at 15-20% annually and FICCI expects it to cross Rs.60,000 Cr by 2020.  But only 60% of this is in the organized sector and ‘physical guarding’ accounts for bulk of the revenue.  The private security services industry is one of the largest employers in India.  There are around 6.5 million private security personnel employed across India and it is expected to continue to grow in the future.

States Sameer Sharma, MD, SISA, “We have been looking for funds to expand and upgrade our operations especially in the field of Physical guarding and Cash Management Services. The funds from CVFCL shall be deployed towards adding Branches to boost the existing guarding strength and also to increase our Cash Van fleet strength by adding another 100 Cash Vans this Financial Year 2015-16. The company also proposes to give added thrust to high margin business segment like Emergency Response Services & Event Management Security services. The aim is to become one amongst India’s top ten Security Services Providers and reach a turnover of Rs 150 Crore by FY 2017-18.

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Cirrus Data Launches Data Migration Server for Legacy, Cloud and Data Storage Center Moves

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Version 3.0 can natively run virtual appliances allowing the streamlining of P-to-V conversion as part of the migration process.

New York, NY (USA), June 05th, 2015 –– Expanding the reach of live data storage migrations with zero downtown and no interruption of services is the motive behind Cirrus Data Solutions release of its Data Migration Server version 3.0. DMS is built on proprietary and patented technology called “Transparent Datapath Intercept.” Cirrus is a provider of applications that manage and optimize storage area networks (SANs).

“Data Migration continues to be a point of pain for companies outgrowing their storage infrastructure,” said Sridhar Vasudevan, Principal Architect, Datalink Corporation. “We have a strong relationship with Cirrus Data, and have extensively used the DMS product to support our clients in their data migration requirements. The new features in version 3.0 further expands the scope of services we can provide to our customers.”

Data Migration Server by Cirrus is the industry’s first block-level data migration appliance designed from the ground up to eliminate production downtime during migration. DMS supports all types of data migration schemes including: local storage refresh and local to remote (data center move), legacy to cloud (physical to virtual), cloud to cloud, cloud to datacenter, and other common storage management practices.

Throughout the migration process, DMS requires zero downtime until the scheduled cut-over time.

Data Migration Server is based upon proprietary technology called “Transparent Datapath Intercept” which was built on the notion that data appliances should look like a wire when installed into a live SAN. Because of this intercept, the Cirrus Server can be installed in-line between the switch and the storage unit with as much ease as changing a Fiber Channel cable.  The install takes five seconds per path.

“With worldwide Cloud initiatives going mainstream and with the amount of data growing at a dizzying rate, the need to migrate data from one place to another is also growing exponentially,” says Wayne Lam, Cirrus CEO. “The IT manager has no way to migrate data fast enough, and can face negative consequences. This is why we developed Data Migration Server so that data center operations can take full advantage of cloud storage options that offer more flexibility to end users and can run more cost effectively, faster, and with less power consumption.”

Data Migration Server 3.0 includes the following functionality for enterprise data centers:

* Remote Data Migration — enables DMS appliances at different geographic locations to transfer data to one another, with encryption, compression and verification.
* Swing Box Support — the ability to transport compressed data on low-cost drives.
* Cloud datacenter and Virtual Machine Environment Support — DMS installs as a Linux VM and facilitates data movement from physical to virtual servers.
* 16-Path per DMS Cluster — increasing the pipeline for data movement, with cluster support of up to 16 paths.
* No need to make switch zoning changes, to modify LUN masking or to change/add host drivers, which substantially reduces risks, and saves both time and money.

All Cirrus Data appliances are designed to be 100% transparent, requiring no modifications to the existing environment. Cirrus appliances are built on the patented Transparent Datapath Intercept technology, which allows for true plug-and-play installation of the appliances within a heterogeneous environment.

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Headquartered in Long Island, New York, Cirrus Data Solutions is a developer of software for data migrations and caching within data centers and storage area networks (SANs). Its software appliances are sold/licensed through a network of systems integrators and channel partners including Cognizant, Dell, Fujitsu, IBM and Datalink. The team holds 18 patents, with the most recent one being granted by the US PTO on August 2012 (# 8,255,538) for Transparent Datapath Intercept. For more information visit http://www.cdsi.us.com/ or email info@cdsi.us.com.

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