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Leanne Martin-Pollock

Leanne Martin-Pollock was born in Canada, and after working abroad several years in Russia, London and Greece, moved to Tanzania in 1999 and has garnered 20+ years’ experience cultural and corporate settings in Africa. Leanne was the Country Coordinator for Music Crossroads from 2003 to 2005, also in 2003, set-up Music Mayday operations in Tanzania. In short time, and with limited budget, she managed to set-up a fully operational organization and to oversee the implementation of activities (i.e., festivals, workshops, concerts) in which hundreds of creative Tanzanian youth participated and attracting tens of thousands of peers.

The MMTZ flagship festival, B-Connected, took place in Dar es Salaam, and was simultaneously held in other countries where Music Mayday operates such as Ethiopia, South Africa and Holland. Through her commitment and positive energy, she fully mobilized her team and many volunteers, artists, partners and sponsors came on board which altogether made the Dar es Salaam edition of the B-Connected festival highly successful for several ye

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Pollock, Martin Rivers, 1914-1999 (professor of biology, University of Edinburgh)

Biography

Martin Rivers Pollock was born on 10 December 1914, the son of Hamilton Rivers Pollock and Eveline Morton Pollock. He attended Winchester College before gaining a place at Trinity College Cambridge in 1933 (Senior Scholarship 1936). At Cambridge he studied Medicine (pre-clinical), moving to University College Hospital Medical School, London to complete his medical training in 1937-1939. He qualified M.B., B.Chir. in 1940.

Pollock held hospital appointments at University College Hospital and Brompton Chest Hospital 1939-1941 before joining the Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service as a Bacteriologist in 1941. In 1943 he was seconded to a Medical Research Council unit to work on infective hepatitis. In 1945 Pollock was formally taken onto the staff of the Medical Research Council. He worked at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill, London, initially under Sir Paul Fildes before being appointed Head of the Division of Bacterial Physi

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Who is Jackson Pollock?

This photograph shows Jackson Pollock at work...just look at the mess he is making on the floor!

He dripped paint onto large canvases on the floor. This way of painting was called action painting because Pollock would move very quickly across the painting, dribbling the paint in long, wobbly lines. Sometimes he threw the paint onto the canvas – and some of his paintings still have footprints on them from when he stepped in the paint.

Pollock was born in 1912 in Wyoming in America. When he was eighteen he moved to New York and trained as a mural painter. This meant he was used to working on a very large scale and so the idea of painting on a big canvas didn't scare him at all.

In 1943 a very rich art collector called Peggy Guggenheim asked him to make a mural for her. Pollock was so excited that he ripped down a wall in his house so that he could fit a huge 20 foot canvas inside. Peggy was very pleased with the painting and she invited him to have an exhibition at her gallery.

Jackson Pollock was an abstract expressionist artist. The abstract