again 'bout Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts Begins Filming in Bali Village Demonstrators Seeking Compensation from Filmmakers Mar Start of Bali Filming of 'Eat Pray Love.' (10/23/2009) Oscar-winning Hollywood star Julia Roberts has arrived in Bali for what is expected...

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We (Bali) are always welcome for the tourists

Visit Indonesia Year(s) Government to Retain VIY for Third Year in Effort to Woo 7 Million Visitors in 2010. (10/23/2009) Indonesia's Department of Culture and Tourism has announced its intention to continue the current Visit...

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Waiting for her at monkey forest Ubud

Eat, Pray, Love, and Pay Bali Governor Pastika Angered by Villagers Coercing Additional "Fees" from the Producers of "Eat, Pray, Love." (10/23/2009) As reported by balidiscovery.com the commencement of filming of the major...

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I miss Bali's old fashion

Four Nights of Classic Balinese Cinema in Ubud A Four-Night Celebration of Balinese Dance on Film by the Amandari Resort, Sayan, Ubud, October 14-17, 2009. (10/16/2009) As part of its celebration of 20 years of operation,...

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eat, pray, love novel's author

Eat, Pray, Love   published by Viking, February 2006 By the time she turned thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern, educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want— a husband, a house in the country,...

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brata 1 homestay: Balinese International Film Festival '09

brata 1 homestay: Balinese International Film Festival '...

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Balinese International Film Festival '09

Schedule of Film Screenings at the Bali Film Festival. (10/10/2009) First established in 2007, the Balinale International Film Festival returns to Bali October 20-25, 2009, steadfast in its commitment to provide an opportunity for international filmmakers to show and screen their films to the Indonesian market while, simultaneously,...

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Culture of Bali

Bali is renowned for its diverse and sophisticated art forms, such as painting, sculpture, woodcarving, handcrafts, and performing arts. Balinese percussion orchestra music, known as gamelan, is highly developed and varied. Balinese performing arts often portray stories from Hindu epics such as the Ramayana but with heavy Balinese influence....

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The History of Bali

Bali was inhabited by Austronesian peoples by about 2000 BC who migrated originally from Taiwan through Maritime Southeast Asia.[2] Culturally and linguistically, the Balinese are thus closely related to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines, and Oceania.[3] Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the...

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other foreign artists

No list of expatriate painters in Bali would be complete without the name of Antonio Blanco, who settled here after independence. Married to a beautiful Balinese woman and father to several talented children, Blonco has successfully created a legend in his own time based on admirable talents, eccentric flair and a long...

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1928-Rudolf Bonnet

he son of an Amsterdam baker, Rudolf had to fight hard to escape his petty bourgeois background and become an artist. His lust to live the artist’s life brought him to Italy early where he was strongly influenced by Renaissance drawing and met with Nieuwenkamp who had a villa near Florence. Nieuwenkamp convinced Bonnet to travel...

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1927- Walter Spies

In almost everybody’s opinion, Walter Spies was the greatest and certainly the most flamboyant painter to live in Bali, Where his name has become a legend. Born is Russia to the parents of German diplomats, Spies was both a brilliant artist and musician. At the early age he was thrown into the creative maelstrom of the...

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some of the foreign artists in Bali 1904 - 1967

1904-W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp.The first artist to visit Bali. Born in Amsterdam in 1876, Nieuwenkamp’s nickname was the "Wanderer". He came not only to make his own art but to learn Balinese traditional painting. A multi-faceted autodidact,The first artist to visit Bali. Born in Amsterdam in 1876,...

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Bali's Geography

In one of beautiful beach in Bali WHERE IS BALI? The island of Bali is part of the Republic of Indonesia and is located 8 to 9 degrees south of the equator between Java in the West and Lombok and the rest of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba and Timor) in the East. Flying time to Jakarta is about 1.5 hours, to Singapore...

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Bali map

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Balinese Gamelan

A gamelan  is an ensemble normally composed primarily of percussion. In Bali, orchestras of tuned gongs, bronze kettles, bronze metallophones, bamboo xylophones, drums, cymbals and flutes fill the night air with animated music. Melodic parts interlock, divided in such a way that musicians play alternate notes to form...

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Brata I Homestay

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UBUD WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL '09

Suka Duka : Compassion and Solidarity 7 October – 11 October 2009 The established will meet the new. The East will cross paths with the West. It will be a literary celebration like no other. This year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival promises to be as exciting as ever. Our 2009 theme Suka-Duka: Compassion & Solidarity. Suka Duka is an ancient communal wisdom that for centuries has been one of the main pillars of Bali’s...

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