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Montreal Luxury Eternal Rose & Flowers
Would you believe us if we tell you that roses can last for more than a week? What if we tell you that they can last for more than a year?
Aluna Gifts is an online shop that introduces a new concept of gifting. This Montreal-based company believes that gifts are meaningful and therefore should last for eternity. Aluna Gifts offers eternal real roses and sunflowers, eco-chocolates and more.
Eternal Roses (also known as preserved or forever roses) are 100% REAL ROSES that have been grown, cultivated and preserved to last for years. They go through a procedure which consists of discoloration, treatment with glycerin and other natural elements, and finally coloration. This unique preservation technique creates fresh-looking roses that will last for up to 4 years.
A common question people ask regarding eternal roses: “So, are these dried roses?” and the answer is NO; the process of preserving roses, stems, sunflowers, etc. is different than drying out flowers.
Drying flowers is usually done by hanging them upside-down and letting them airdry for several weeks. This process results in dehydrated, colourless, fragile roses, stems and leaves.
Preserved flowers are cultivated and immediately treated to keep them looking at their best for years! The preservation method includes adding non-harsh elements such as glycerine and colouring them rather than dehydrating or drying them out.
Aluna works closely with Canadian companies to supply the best quality handmade gift and display boxes. They offer their products in fabulous packaging like acrylic and luxury paperboxes all made in Canada.
Why Aluna:
- Aluna’s roses and sunflowers are grown and handpicked in Ecuador, third-largest flower export and the biggest rose producer and export in the world.
- Both acrylic and gift boxes are made in Canada by hand
- All XL roses are assembled by hand
- A bouquet of eternal roses with a stem will look as lovely as fresh-cut roses but will last you for 4 years instead of 1 week.
- Eternal flowers are low maintenance: No need to water, just avoid direct sunlight and dust if needed (they provide a free brush with every order)
You can check out their online shop: https://alunagift.ca
Product Feature: Pokète sweatshirts & Scarves
Montreal Designed Sweaters and Scarves
Pokète sweatshirts and scarves allow women to carry their own stuff in the most comfortable, practical and pretty way possible. In their very own pockets! No need to carry a purse, just be able to go wherever and whenever, hands-free. Historically, most women’s clothing either have unusable pockets or none whatsoever which leaves them with nowhere to put even their most basic essentials!
Canadian Born Brand
Pokète is a new Canadian brand born out of the need for women to have functional and practical clothing and accessories with pockets. Its focus is on making women’s lives easier. The styling is timeless and great quality because women should love what they wear and be able to keep clothing for many many years. All styles feature hidden zip pockets to keep valuables safe.Inspired by Everyday Experiences
Pokète’s collection is inspired by a few common and everyday experiences. These include travelling (or not), taking the dog for a walk or going to play in the park with kids, all without having to drag an oversized bag. Also, wearing clothing and accessories with pockets that look great and are not clumsy or bulky is a nice addition to the wardrobe.The Founder
Andrea Majnemer is the founder and “Head Pokèteer” behind the brand. She used her extensive years in the fashion industry to bring this idea to fruition. The lightbulb moment to jumpstart the project was her lifechanging cornea transplant that restored her vision. This event propelled her desire to see as much of the world as possible and instilled immense gratitude for her recovered independence. She sees Pokète evolving into offering more items, ideas and services around making all women’s lives easier.The Products are useful in so many situations:
- Run all errands hands free with a place to put your essentials (keys, credit card, ID and phone)
- Hold someone’s hand without having to constantly adjust a purse strap
- Play with your kids without a bag dragging you down
- Going for a walk with your dog and always having a place for the “bag”
- Have your passport and boarding pass readily available for airport security (when that happens again)
- Commute to work with all you need in your pocket
- Feel safe from pick pocketers with your valuables safely hidden on you
- No need to dig under your seat or in an overhead bin for your earphones while traveling
- Keep needed medications on you
- Bike ride with a functional pocket
- Go to music festivals and free up your hands
- Any time you just don’t want to carry a purse!
SPOTLIGHT: Montreal-Based Financial Sherpa Will (seriously) Change Your Relationship With Money
She was one of the first three women ever on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. And she can heal your heart. At least when it comes to finances.
After living and breathing finances for much of her impressive career, Daniele Soare is now an abundance coach (or, as she aptly puts it, a Financial Sherpa), guiding people to get their finances on track, but also to work through the often painful and intense emotions that surround money.
Think about it. How often during your life have you been given negative messages around money? Especially debt? If you’re like most people, probably a lot.
When it comes to finances – financial struggles or even lack of understanding in particular – guilt, shame, fear, doubt, feelings of scarcity, even feelings of failure, can all form a thick cloud around everything, holding you back from truly taking control of your financial life. That’s pretty challenging considering our finances can impact virtually every aspect of our lives.
Daniele believes that changing our perspectives around money and embracing more positive emotions are critical to allowing (yes, allowing!) financial abundance into our lives. And she would know. She started on the trading floor, thriving in the chaos, working her way up to one of the most prestigious roles in trading at that time.
But Daniele felt a greater calling; to help other people thrive in their financial lives as well. She realized that, “We’re taught how to earn money… but not how to manage or invest it.”
Queue every millennial collectively looking back on their education and thinking… “Yup. Sounds about right!”
Because so many of us are not taught these things, coupled with those limiting emotions we all have around money, effectively managing and investing our money can feel so far out of reach. We know darn well it isn’t avocado toast keeping us from home ownership, for example, but how to negotiate a mortgage, build a retirement portfolio, manage debt, save for our children’s education while still paying off our own education, put a vacation in the picture, but also the potential needs of aging parents… all while enjoying (and juggling) our lives, work and families?
That gap between where you are and where you want to be can feel like the Grand Canyon. And me without a helicopter… or any idea how to fly one.
That’s what Daniele strives to correct. To narrow that gap between where most people are, and where they have a right to be! Because she truly believes that a life of abundance is everyone’s right, and she’s teaching people the practical strategies to make it happen.
Daniele calls her approach (and her business) The Spirit of Money. She takes a “humane, loving and holistic” approach to guiding people through daunting terrain, helping them work through their fears and difficult feelings, to understand things in a way that makes sense for them, and to get on a financial path that’s right for them and their families.
What Daniele teaches is not just the basics, but really a whole way of life that allows abundance in and clears away those negative, limiting, get-you-nowhere feelings and beliefs. This should really be part of our standard high school curriculum but, until that time, you can contact Daniele here.
After living and breathing finances for much of her impressive career, Daniele Soare is now an abundance coach (or, as she aptly puts it, a Financial Sherpa), guiding people to get their finances on track, but also to work through the often painful and intense emotions that surround money.
Think about it. How often during your life have you been given negative messages around money? Especially debt? If you’re like most people, probably a lot.
When it comes to finances – financial struggles or even lack of understanding in particular – guilt, shame, fear, doubt, feelings of scarcity, even feelings of failure, can all form a thick cloud around everything, holding you back from truly taking control of your financial life. That’s pretty challenging considering our finances can impact virtually every aspect of our lives.
Daniele believes that changing our perspectives around money and embracing more positive emotions are critical to allowing (yes, allowing!) financial abundance into our lives. And she would know. She started on the trading floor, thriving in the chaos, working her way up to one of the most prestigious roles in trading at that time.
But Daniele felt a greater calling; to help other people thrive in their financial lives as well. She realized that, “We’re taught how to earn money… but not how to manage or invest it.”
Queue every millennial collectively looking back on their education and thinking… “Yup. Sounds about right!”
Because so many of us are not taught these things, coupled with those limiting emotions we all have around money, effectively managing and investing our money can feel so far out of reach. We know darn well it isn’t avocado toast keeping us from home ownership, for example, but how to negotiate a mortgage, build a retirement portfolio, manage debt, save for our children’s education while still paying off our own education, put a vacation in the picture, but also the potential needs of aging parents… all while enjoying (and juggling) our lives, work and families?
That gap between where you are and where you want to be can feel like the Grand Canyon. And me without a helicopter… or any idea how to fly one.
That’s what Daniele strives to correct. To narrow that gap between where most people are, and where they have a right to be! Because she truly believes that a life of abundance is everyone’s right, and she’s teaching people the practical strategies to make it happen.
Daniele calls her approach (and her business) The Spirit of Money. She takes a “humane, loving and holistic” approach to guiding people through daunting terrain, helping them work through their fears and difficult feelings, to understand things in a way that makes sense for them, and to get on a financial path that’s right for them and their families.
What Daniele teaches is not just the basics, but really a whole way of life that allows abundance in and clears away those negative, limiting, get-you-nowhere feelings and beliefs. This should really be part of our standard high school curriculum but, until that time, you can contact Daniele here.
Convergence: Arts, Neuroscience, and Society a thrilling Artscie double exhibition!
This Friday the first of two inter-intra-trans-disciplinary vernissage happenings will take place at the Visual Voice Gallery at 5 pm. From April 12th to the 27th students form the DART 498: Art+Neuroscience+Culture course taught at Concordia University will be exhibiting their collaborative works in two venues, as mention one is the Visual Voice Gallery at the famous artsy Belgo Building (yes according to Wikipedia this building houses the biggest number of Contemporary Art Galleries in Canada) and the second venue is the Black Box space at Concordia University.
The DART course is in interdisciplinary class that invites students to creatively explore the intersection of arts, neuroscience, and society, and how these domains shape the understandings of ourselves and others. Concordia Fine Arts students work with the RI-MUHC Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience program (BRaIN) and McGill Neuroscience students within the Convergence, Perceptions of Neuroscience initiative to create self-directed, collaborative projects which converging artistic and scientific research.
The course combines lectures, debates, site visits, and independent study to encourage all participants to understand and discover territories outside their artistic or scientific comfort zones. The course develops in two terms, where the final work for the artists during the first term consists on creating an artistic response to one of the neuroscience lectures taught. Then, the final projects after the two terms consist on a collaborative project where neuroscience students share their research to inspire the art students. Thus, artists and neuroscientist work hand in hand to produce a piece where convergence actually occurs.
“Our main purpose is to create a connection, a convergence, between different areas of society to make neuroscience research more accessible to the public and to give to our students the opportunity to communicate their research, learn, and acquire a broad perspective from highly skilled artists as well as the public, in the process.”
www.convergenceinitiative.org
One of the projects we want to especially acknowledge on this post is Self-flow, a resulting ongoing series of paintings portraying blood vessels with actual blood ink* from the artist Lily Jiménez-Dabdoub.
*Blood was extracted in a safe environment by health professionals— MD. Fernanda and nurse Freddy Jáuregui— who the artists thank. They also encourage those struggling to reach out to professional counselling services.
Self-Flow sensitizes the viewer and connects them with mental health, thus confronting their existing stigmas. Self-Flow is a series of four light boxes containing three layers of organic papers (bamboo, silk and hemp) where images of Liam’s brightfield micrographs of human brain blood vessels (revealed using CD31 immunostaining) were translated by Lily into Sumi-e brush strokes. Then, Liam’s contour drawings were engraved in the glass. The containment of this work represents the contained emotions people suffering from mental health disorders experience due to social stigma. The images are lit to acknowledge these emotions.
Self-Flow unveils a state of peace and creative flow. Human blood* as an ink suits both creators who wanted to portrait its’ emotional intensity and dynamism. The blood degrading colour shows a similarity to the 3,3′-Diaminobenzidine (DAB) staining tint in Liam’s micrograph images and Lily’s own personal experience with depression and anxiety.
Finally, to mention all the works you will find at this thrilling exhibition:
Urban DNA
by Deirdre Hatton (Neuroscience student) and Laura Rosero (Artist). An experimental piece involving volunteer participation and the urban landscape. Urban DNA project aims to investigate the effect of certain genetic mutations on how we navigate through the city.
The Cookie Theft
by Marielle McCrum (Speech Therapist) and Rochelle Panganiban (Artist). Using a common language assessment tool as its base, The Cookie Theft: Case Studies takes invented responses to the test image and depicts them visually. Each script represents different types and severities of communication disorders that could occur following a neurological event such as a stroke.
MS and the Invisible
by Elena Lin (Neuroscience student) and Maria Mathioudakis (Artist). Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating yet often non-communicable disease that attacks the central nervous system. The etiology is not well-understood, and the biological mechanisms that underlie the disorder complex. Of note are immune cells that interact with the nervous system and the profound impact the cells can have in the exacerbation or mitigation of symptoms experienced by patients. The artists were inspired by the contours of moving cells recorded via microscopy: the waves that cells make and their purposeful undulations through space. Using the medium of wire, Mathioudakis and Lin not only capture the idiosyncrasies of cell morphology but also the interplay between what is visible/perceptible (the solidity of the medium) and invisible (the negative space framed and shadows formed). The artwork concomitantly explores concepts of cell-cell interactions in the microscopic world and the macroscopic phenomenology of patient experiences – ultimately bringing into light the pain individuals with multiple sclerosis endure.
Synapsense
by Raina Fan and Erin McKenzie Wall (Neuroscience students), Maya Moussall and Alice Perichon (Artists)
All these works are part of the Visual Voice Gallery exhibition from April 12 – 27, 2019
Vernissage: April 12, 2019, 5 pm – 7 pm
Belgo Building, 372 Ste-Catherine Street West, space 421, Montreal QC, H2V 2K8
The second vernissage will take place on April 27th at The Black Box Space at Concordia University.
Black Box
Exhibition: April 19 – 28, 2019
Vernissage: April 25, 2019, 5 pm – 7 pm
Art & science symposium: April 27, 2019
Concordia University, EV OS3-845/855, 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal QC H3G 2W1
The works you will find here are:
Alien Agency
by Naila Kuhlmann and Zahraa Chorghay (neuroscience students) and the Matthew Halpenny and Matthew Saleciak (Artists).
Sensenet is a conceptual piece realized as an experiential installation, based on the concepts of alien agency in art (a property where the artwork takes on its own meaning, outside the creator’s intent) and the motif of timing and synchrony in neural circuits. By gathering and manipulating data on the senses gathered from participants within the installation environment in real time, Sensenet subverts the individual’s perception and encourages synchronization of the collective senses, thus challenging concepts of identity and consciousness.
🐸 👓 🧠 Frog’s Eye Viewer
by Vanessa Li (Neuroscience student) and Natacha Vieilleux (Artist)
A playful insight into how the developing visual system of a tadpole functions and evolves. In this imaginary tadpole sporting a single giant eye, visual neurons are represented by an army of colourful frogs.
Salience
by Yuting Zhang (Neuroscience student) and Ryan Bruggeman (Artist)
The Network
by Erin McKenzie Wall (Neuroscience student), Giuliana Greto and Tania Marquez (Artists)
Harvesting the Mind Through the Passage of Time
by Morteza Pishnamazi (Neuroscience student) and Tania Marquez (Artist)
Starlight Gone
by Liam O’Leary (Neuroscience student) and Elizabeth Parent
Case and Control
by Kathryn Vaillancourt (Neuroscience student) and Alessandro (Tarek) Ghaleb-Debello (Artist)
Synapsense
by Raina Fan and Erin McKenzie Wall (Neuroscience students), Maya Moussall and Alice Perichon (Artists)
All these works are part of the Visual Voice Gallery exhibition from April 12 – 27, 2019
Vernissage: April 12, 2019, 5 pm – 7 pm
Belgo Building, 372 Ste-Catherine Street West, space 421, Montreal QC, H2V 2K8
The second vernissage will take place on April 27th at The Black Box Space at Concordia University.
Black Box
Exhibition: April 19 – 28, 2019
Vernissage: April 25, 2019, 5 pm – 7 pm
Art & science symposium: April 27, 2019
Concordia University, EV OS3-845/855, 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal QC H3G 2W1
The works you will find here are:
Alien Agency
by Naila Kuhlmann and Zahraa Chorghay (neuroscience students) and the Matthew Halpenny and Matthew Saleciak (Artists).
Sensenet is a conceptual piece realized as an experiential installation, based on the concepts of alien agency in art (a property where the artwork takes on its own meaning, outside the creator’s intent) and the motif of timing and synchrony in neural circuits. By gathering and manipulating data on the senses gathered from participants within the installation environment in real time, Sensenet subverts the individual’s perception and encourages synchronization of the collective senses, thus challenging concepts of identity and consciousness.
🐸 👓 🧠 Frog’s Eye Viewer
by Vanessa Li (Neuroscience student) and Natacha Vieilleux (Artist)
A playful insight into how the developing visual system of a tadpole functions and evolves. In this imaginary tadpole sporting a single giant eye, visual neurons are represented by an army of colourful frogs.
Salience
by Yuting Zhang (Neuroscience student) and Ryan Bruggeman (Artist)
The Network
by Erin McKenzie Wall (Neuroscience student), Giuliana Greto and Tania Marquez (Artists)
Harvesting the Mind Through the Passage of Time
by Morteza Pishnamazi (Neuroscience student) and Tania Marquez (Artist)
Starlight Gone
by Liam O’Leary (Neuroscience student) and Elizabeth Parent
Case and Control
by Kathryn Vaillancourt (Neuroscience student) and Alessandro (Tarek) Ghaleb-Debello (Artist)