Cultural Hall LDS Art – Artwork For Multi-Purpose Rooms

December 30th, 2011 by admin No comments »

A common name for a room in the LDS church is a cultural hall. Depending on who you are or what location you come from this could mean different things. A cultural hall could be the basketball gym that is in most LDS churches or it could also be a large room for gatherings or meetings. Sometimes these rooms are called multi-purpose rooms.

When weddings occur, most LDS weddings are performed in temples, however, the reception is usually held in the gym or cultural hall of the meeting house. This would be a time when artwork, flowers and other festive items adorn these gyms. Other times when artwork might be displayed would be during primary or ward activities. This room usually does not have art on the walls because stake and ward members use the facilities to play athletic events such as basketball, volleyball, or dodge ball. These gyms often have a stage where productions such as road shows take place.

Multi-purpose rooms are usually large rooms like the relief society room or the priesthood room where large Sunday schools or other meetings are held. This room often has artwork displayed on the walls. Because this room is not the sacrament meeting room or the chapel it is generally okay to place artwork on the walls. Some of the paintings might include the Savior teaching the sermon on the mount, or Jesus appearing to Mary after His resurrection.

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Martial Arts Or Real Self Defense? A Big Fight on the Horizon

December 30th, 2011 by admin No comments »

People either don’t realize the difference between Martial Arts and Real Self Defense or the don’t want to admit that someone can be right about this topic.

Though in movies it may seem to look all the same, there is a quite big difference between these ways of fighting.

According to some sources, there should be three basic categories. Traditional-Cultural Arts, Sport Martial Arts and Real Self Defense.

To think that one is better than other would be wrong. Each has it’s own added value for the one practising it and it should be in general knowledge of people to know what the hell they are training in reality.

Traditional-Cultural Martial Arts

As the title says, Cultural Arts are connected with each different nation and it’s culture. Like Karate for Japan-Okinawa. That is a way of fighting that was developed not only as a fighting art, but also as a lifestyle. People did not train Karate, but they lived Karate.

It went through a lot of different changes and is literally deformed in many diverse types of martial art. Experts say “If you want to train real Karate, you have to go to Okinawa.” And the same goes for other Cultural Martial Arts.

Some people say that in later ages people trained these martial arts and used it for regular field fighting. But that was long time ago. Far from now. And as mentioned before, people not just trained it but also took the martial art as a style of life.

Sport Martial Arts

In this category should belong all the martial arts you can see on TV. Kick Box, Box, Olympic Judo, Olympic Karate and so on. These are the ones based on dueling others. That means that real fights are occurring in it!s repertoire. What makes them different from the last category is that there are people and rules putting the hole thing under some kind of control.

You can see judges taking care of fair play of the fight. There is some kind of prepared fighting environment like a ring or tatami or alike. Rules that competing fighters must obey. You won’t find anything like that on the street.

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