People with Passion ... an hour with ... Brian Lee

Travellers III (Triptych 200x300)

your chance to have a personal meeting with one of Vienna's artist community.

Brian Lee will be available shortly under the "people with passion" program to meet a very small group of interested people, to share thoughts and experiences in a personal way, over a coffee or beer in his fine art studio "Red Rose Studio" in Rudigergasse

if you are interested to attend this very special event, please contact nigel now

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"young entrepreneur seminars" in niederoesterreich



as part of the vienna-hub initiatives to support start-ups in the region, we are planning a series of events to showcase international start-ups and seasoned global entrepreneurs, and use that to lead discussions with budding entrepreneurs from the area.

10 events are planned across the year, dates and speakers to be announced as confirmed. a launch meeting is planned for june/july

to compliment this program will come the vienna-hub coaching and mentoring program, where coaches from Commerce and Arts will lead a group of up to 20 people, a mix of commercial and artistic high potentials. in true vienna-hub fashion this is designed to bring more artistic creativity into commerce, and more commercial awareness to artists. Mark Tuttle, a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and Joe Garcia, a renowned opera singer, are ready to lead the first group - if you are interested please apply soon as possible to nigelstonham (at) gmail.com

Soundwalks in Vienna

“Let’s climb out of our bubbles, emerge from behind our walls and windows, computer screens, loudspeakers and headphones and open our ears directly to the environment. Let’s listen to “place” as if listening to a mysterious new concert performance or sound event. “Let’s listen like we have never listened before,” as the late Howard Broomfield used to say.

In a “soundwalk”, the listening “audience” moves through a place and the environment “performs.” The walking listener and the environment create a unique piece together that can only occur during the time of the walk. In a “soundwalk” we take the time to hear the environment: we are its true ear witnesses. And like any musician, the environment offers us its sounds for our consideration.

“Soundwalking” can be a way to deepen our relationship to “place”; to gain knowledge and information from the sound environment; to orient oneself in a place — especially in an unfamiliar one; to let the world in without any compulsion to respond; to be open without a need to define, intellectualize, categorize, or interpret; to listen without expectations, assumptions or judgement; “Soundwalking” can be a meditation: the world happens, the sounds occur and they pass. It can be a regular practice (alone or in groups).

A soundwalk is any excursion whose main purpose is listening to the environment. It is exposing our ears to every sound around us no matter where we are. We may be at home, we may be walking across a downtown street, through a park, along the beach; we may be sitting in a doctor's office, in a hotel lobby, in a bank; we may be shopping in a supermarket, a department store, or a Chinese grocery store; we may be standing at the airport, the train station, the bus-stop. Wherever we go we will give our ears priority”. Hildegard Westerkamp is a Canadian electroacoustic composer.

- coming soon. contact nigel for information

Coaches & Mentors

some of the coaches and mentors available for you through Vienna Hub:-


Deborah Walker

Joe Garcia

John Brookes

Liz Lux

Mark Tuttle

Sylvia Bobrowsky

Tim Cox

Tom Challenger

please contact nigelstonham (at) gmail.com to discuss your needs

Vienna Hub Social - June 2nd 2009

"Focus Focus Focus"

"Success needs ability, effort and focus!" - as one of my earlier mentors advised

So what is the focus today...

1) Offering some lucky kids the chance to see the Mr Men and Little Miss books brought to life with wonderful people like Cat and Joe

2) Offering some lucky people the chance to invest in art by Brian Lee , or to attend one of his masterclasses

3) Offering young commercial and artistic people the chance to benefit from investing a bit of their time and money in a mentoring program with the likes of Mark and Joe, offering some cross training between the artistic and commercial mindsets.

For more information about any of the above, to meet people with passion, and the chance to discuss many other topics of interest, come along to the Vienna Hub Social on 2nd June, to be held in MuseumsQuartier. register here in xing or here in facebook or drop me a note on nigelstonham ( at) gmail.com . For more information on plans for this year - Vienna Hub 2009

Vienna Hub Talent Pool - Brian Lee

On Brian Lee

Abstract painting came about as a reaction to the five-hundred-year-long domination of realism in western art.

It has offered us a new way to 'see', even if it has opened up a space for highly questionable work that is without merit. Once in a while, an artist comes along 'who breathes a new vision into this genre'.

This is especially true with works by skilled painters who combine preparation with natural and spontaneous execution; Brian Lee is one of those rare painters. Today, the contemporary art scene is a wilderness littered with bad art and I define 'bad art' simply as art that is vacant of feeling. Lee's art is a refreshing call in the wilderness, it is alive and celebrates life, it is redeeming. His paintings are not ideas that are freeze-dried, aiming to impress academia. There is a genuine tie to human experience, which is quite natural when a painter is more involved in probing the essence of life, the invisible behind the visible, than in echoing the chaos of the world around us that is self-evident.

Brian's works are inspired by an integral sense of place. The places and realms he conjures up seem almost musical, where lyrical fields of brush strokes, form and color, give rise to a soft symphony where the occasional wandering spirit has taken refuge. Lee infuses these abstract realms with a deep, fervent spiritual feeling; spaces that are both real and imagined. Sometimes these places are very familiar and at other times they lay just beyond the depiction of recogizable objects, having gradually stripped them of any superfluous vestiges and where the 'realm of feeling' becomes paramount. The paintings become a visual music where rhythm demands richness but also terseness and purity. His paintings combine the denseness of oil paint with the lightness of air and the movement of water. Having blurred the territorial boundaries between abstraction and representation, he has made ambiguity a positive and central element in his art. We can call this ambiguity or we can call this freedom. In this freedom he organically fuses a dignified, confident manner, which is centered, with a powerful unrestrained momentum.

The artist's quest for insight into the essence of nature and form that underlies our chaotic world, has given the colors and forms in his paintings a strong power of communication. The language is honest, uninhibited and profound, the results springing from his palette to his canvas, sometimes with explosions of color. There are bombardements of clouds, waves and outpourings of molten lava. Waves roll and crash, steam rises where waves hit heat, combining forces - pulling and tugging; there is constant movement. But the paintings are always human, always more than palpable and full of feeling; the atmosphere of the place softening what would have been an overwhelming outpouring. It is as though Brian begins his work by constructing a creative landscape that literally invites a host of forms and feelings to visit; inhabiting his work like spectral entities and giving us an illumined message. In not just looking at Brian's work, but in seeing it, we notice how his forms begin to fuse, in different proportions, into 'One', like an alchemy of art, in which the spirit of one element transmutes into the next. Alchemy plays a strong role here: it is a tale of transmutation of the psyche as told through the heart.

These paintings are pure magic; the fusion of spirit and matter.

Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson, Artist, Author and Educator

All enquiries –

Nigel Stonham, MBA – nigelstonham (at) gmail.com +43 676 555 8531

Happiness in 2009

article updated and renamed, to avoid law of attraction / negativeness..

new text:-

how to increase your happiness?
pillowfights are one idea.
coaching mith moni and stonnie is another. watch for a seminar near you shortly, or contact nigel directly for an immediate appointment


old:-
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how to manage and relieve stress ?

http://www.pillowfightday.com/ is one idea, hopefully coming soon to a park near you.

other ideas are to engage with Moni and Stonnie for a mixture of systemic and happiness coaching to work on your stress and a positive plan to reduce your stress levels and increase your happiness.

feeps link ?

Vienna Hub 2009

Vienna Hub

- runs coaching, development and sales programs for start-ups and businesses

- runs coaching, development and management programs for performing and visual artists

- runs coaching, development and marketing programs for city-marketing and tourism

and ...

- runs a non-profit organisation bringing people with passion from the above to provide intercultural inspiration, motivation and mentoring to local people


smaller print:-

Vienna Hub is an international commercially based virtual matrix organisation, based in Vienna - " City of my Dreams"

Blue Sky Stuff is a NiederÖsterreich registered non-profit international kulturverein, based in Mödling - "Happiest City on Earth"
MDS3-V-0878/001 International Kulturverein
Konto - Bank Austria - 12000 # 51854 050 355

First Tuesday Vienna operates under licence from First Tuesday

contact:- nigelstonham at gmail.com

2nd June 2009 - vienna hub social and more !

as ever, on the first Tuesday of the month, something is stirring

although its a holiday week, the vienna hub social is planned for 6.30 til 8.30 pm at ( a venue to be announced to attendees ). watch this space for more and pass the info on

it is hoped to be launching some new activity in the area of start-ups and entrepreneurs earlier that day in Mödling, NÖ, along the lines of a series of workshops featuring international entrepreneurs, and a coaching program for startups. again, watch this space

there is also a chance of a barbeque on monday 1st june, more to follow

20.5 at Moulin Rouge