Alice — Tea?
May14

Alice — Tea?

 “I was inside the lounge of the St. Tudno Hotel.  At the table were Alice, the March Hare, the Hatter, the Dormouse and the Queen of Hearts.”  — C. M. Rubin  With apologies to Lewis Carroll… It was Friday, May 4, 2012. I fell down a rabbit hole in search of a tea party for 1,000 children and a world record jam tart eating attempt. Down down down I went… until suddenly — thump! I was inside the...

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Alice, Is This Cool?
Apr30

Alice, Is This Cool?

  “Johnny Depp has made it cool to like Alice,” was Miss Alice Llandudno Nicol Thompson’s answer to my question — Why do children today still love Alice in Wonderland?  With Johnny Depp’s 3-D visual spectacle of a movie currently standing at a worldwide gross of $1,024,299,904, I suspect he made Alice in Wonderland very cool for a lot of Disney executives too. But what about serious Carroll fans? ...

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Alice — Meet Alice
Apr19

Alice — Meet Alice

 “Without Alice there would be no Wonderland.” — Ian Turner  “Magic, beauty, color, amusement, character, intrigue, questions, excitement, puzzlement, amazement, fear, suspense, fun and a happy ending” are the reasons why Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is still a classic today, according to Ian Turner, celebrity host of Llandudno, Wales, Alice Day on May 4, 2012. And Turner’s favorite...

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Alice — May 4, 2012
Apr13

Alice — May 4, 2012

 “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” — Lewis Carroll  Everybody’ s got Alice fever in Alice town — Llandudno, Wales — but no one is as curious or as excited as me! That’s because on Friday, May 4, this famous seaside Welsh resort is launching a fantastical Wonderland event.  It will celebrate what would have been the 160th...

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Alice in Italy
Feb23

Alice in Italy

 The Mart: the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto  Alice In Wonderland is the first exhibition to comprehensively focus on Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice” books and their enormous influence on the world of visual arts from the first publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 to the present day. From the 25th of February to the 3rd of June 2012, the visual extravaganza...

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