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Anne Arundel Education Notes (Baltimore Sun)
Introducing a group of about 40 fourth- through sixth-graders to Chinese culture, language and customs, the Maryland Summer Center for Chinese Studies will conduct its two-week summer program at Meade Middle School from tomorrow through July 18.

Piano competitors push each other (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Eighteen pianists from nine countries will compete in the Artist Division of the 52nd World Piano Competition, through July 13 at the Aronoff Center. Last week, as about 170 youngsters ages 7 to 17 competed at the Young Artist level, the artist-level hopefuls were warming up for their Olympian feats, to be held before a panel of high-powered judges beginning Wednesday.

On Film, a Monk?s Passion and Protest (New York Times)
With the help of a New York-based producer, a documentary profiling the life of Palden Gyatso, a 77-year old former political prisoner in China, will open in August.

Tehran to host major Arts Fest (Islamic Republic News Agency)
Iran - Tehran - Arts Festival Artists from around the country have been invited to take part in the Second Artistic Festival on Products from Artistic Bureau's Provincial Branches, which the biggest artistic event in the country.

Restoring Kabul's Glory (Washington Post)
Project to remove garbage is pumping new life into a crumbling historic district in the Afghan city.

Art calendar (Honolulu Advertiser)
ARTSPREE 2008, with art activities, demonstrations, dance, music and art by local artists; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 12; The Contemporary Museum; free; 526-0232.

The art of the word of God: Artists unite to create Saint John?s Bible (Tacoma News Tribune)
Next weekend, Tacoma Art Museum will display the first handwritten Bible since the invention of the printing press 500 years ago. The Saint John?s Bible, commissioned by a Benedictine university in Minnesota, isn?t just a Bible ? it?s more than 1,000 2-feet-by-3-feet pages of calligraphy and illuminations, thousands of hours of scribe work, hundreds of cow skins for the pages. It?s a huge ...

Calligraphy draws student interest (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - Calligraphy is considered to be a classic art form pursued by adults, but the fact that nearly 1,000 young students are studying it in Hanoi belies the claim.

Queens County events and recreation (The Advance)
Bingo Every Saturday Afternoon at Port Medway Fire Hall...

Exhibit aims to shatter US stereotypes of Islam (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. | In the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi and her friend Aliki Moschis-Gauguet noticed that the only depictions they saw of Muslim women showed figures behind veils, oppressed by their cultures.