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The first Fitzrovia Festival was held in 1973 with the theme “ The people live here !” in an effort to demonstrate that among the offices, restaurants and cafes there was a residential community that wanted its voice heard and in 1974, the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association was formed and raised money to create a neighbourhood centre in a disused glass shop on the corner of Tottenham Street and Goodge Place: The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre was opened in 1975.
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The name Fitzrovia was recorded in print for the first time by Tom Driberg MP in the William Hickey gossip column of the Daily Express in 1940.
Cyberia, the first internet café in the UK, was located in Fitzrovia.
first and Festival
A new work on the program was Nikolai Lopatnikoff's `` Festival Overture '', receiving its first New York hearing.
Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first New York performance of Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival.
* The first day of Awa Dance Festival ( Tokushima )
* The first day of Takayama Spring Festival ( Takayama, Gifu, Japan )
Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >
In November 2009 at the Teatro Salieri in Legnago occurred the first staging in modern times of his opera Il mondo alla rovescia, a co-production between the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and the Fondazione Arena di Verona for the Salieri Opera Festival.
He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).
On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.
Devo played their first European tour since 1990 in the summer of 2007, including a performance at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim.
The longest established festival is the Edinburgh International Festival, which first ran in 1947.
The movie was a critical success, and won Coppola his first Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.
The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).
The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.
Today there are thousands of film festivals around the world, ranging from high profile festivals such as Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival ( Park City, UT ) to horror festivals such as Terror Film Festival ( Philadelphia, PA ), and the first U. S. film festival dedicated to honoring the impact of music in film: the Park City Film Music Festival: http :// www. PCFMF. com.
Digital feature film distribution began in 2005, along with the arrival of the world's first online film festival, the GreenCine Online Film Festival, sponsored by DivX.
The Zero Film Festival is significant as the first and only festival exclusive to self-financed filmmakers.
first and was
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.
It was her first smile.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
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The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.
Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.
Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.
All this went through Casey's mind in the first instant, but what held his interest was the fact that these two should be together at all.
Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.
The first committee meeting will be held on May 19.
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
-- The first in a series of five productions will be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 26.
About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.
The first meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, a great big place where we were able to meet members from all the other states.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
The ovum is at first rigidly held but in fertilised eggs, the innermost layer liquefies and allows the embryo to move freely.
That same year, first parliamentary and presidential elections were held.
# The Lambeth Conference ( first held in 1867 ) is the oldest international consultation.
During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.
In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.
* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.
* During the first week of August in Sweden, the Medieval Week of Wisby in Gotland is held each year.
* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.
The first American automobile race is generally held to be the Thanksgiving Day Chicago Times-Herald race of November 28, 1895.
Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.
Free exhibitions often are held on the first floor, which also provides some opportunity to see the interior design.
The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.
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