{"id":1573,"date":"2009-04-02T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2025-03-15T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:34:42","slug":"carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCarnival\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Human societies seem to need to break the day to day routines of life by creating occasions for people to gather together to celebrate and display, feast and frolic. Often it seemed that the frequency and splendour of these events was most evident when there was a great difference between the very rich and the very poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Christian countries, the time before Easter – Lent, was regarded as a period for fasting, for \u2018putting away the pleasures of the flesh\u2019 – the origin of the word Carnival: but before Lent started there was a period of festivities – processions, celebrations and feasting – what we now call a Carnival, the name having slipped slightly as sometimes happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aspects of this concept CARNIVAL will be seen reflected in the works on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Revelry
Revelry & Intoxication (detail) by Gareth Deakin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Download poster here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gallery is run by local artists who have put together a collection of works to tempt the discerning, those of you who may not have unlimited pockets but know how to enjoy the unique value of an original creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE OFFICIAL OPENING is at 6.30pm Friday 3rd April
<\/strong>followed by a feast of dining at the Verandah Cafe.
Dinner $15 \/ Dessert $4 if booked (66 897 449<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND we offer a 15% discount on all art-works purchased at the official opening!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human societies seem to need to break the day to day routines of life by creating occasions for people to gather together to celebrate and display, feast and frolic. Often it seemed that the frequency and splendour of these events was most evident when there was a great difference between the very rich and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-51"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueknobgallery.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}