Archive for the ‘The Arts’ Category

Héctor Aristizábal: Telling stories to change the world

Héctor Aristizábal: Telling stories to change the world
By Dr. Alcira Dueñas This past weekend, I had the unique opportunity to attend a talk, a play, and part of a workshop by Héctor Aristizábal, a multiphacetic artist with a singular approach to life and a serious commitment to transform the vital experience of many around the planet. The way Héctor...
May 16th, 2010 | The Arts | Read More

Ernesto Yerena: A rising grassroots artistic force

Ernesto Yerena: A rising grassroots artistic force
We are Human Fist: Collaboration with Shepard Fairey visit http://hechoconganas.com This “golden boy” of social art has already created historic images. And he’s just beginning. For the thousands of people who have participated in recent pro-immigration marches and demonstrations...
March 16th, 2010 | Culture, The Arts | Read More

Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women in North America Speak Out

Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women in North America Speak Out
Being interracial in Canada is about crossing borders: some imaginary, and some rigidly imposed.  It is also about juggling with hyphens and margins, and struggling to carve out a space in Canada’s proclaimed multicultural imaginary – a space that, as many might argue, is largely make-believe...
February 23rd, 2010 | Creative Writing, Culture, Featured, The Arts | Read More

The African American

The African American
An Open Poem Response to Smokey Robinson Smokey Robinson’s original poem There’s no shame in taking on another new name Because each new identity increases our game Sojourner Truth Frederick Douglass Ntozake, Amiri B. Malcolm X, Martin Luther and Assata, you see? But you don’t understand That...
February 10th, 2010 | Creative Writing, Culture, Featured, The Arts | Read More

Teatro Nopalero: Seeking social change, justice and consciousness through theater

Teatro Nopalero: Seeking social change, justice and consciousness through theater
A group of young activist actors bring forth a theatrical approach to deal with social issues at the grassroots level. Phoenix, Arizona, February 1, 2010 – In the context of Arizona’s legislation and crackdown on undocumented immigration, Teatro Nopalero emerges as a developing alternative to...
February 2nd, 2010 | Culture, Featured, The Arts | Read More

Searching for whitopia: An improbable journey to the heart of white America

Searching for whitopia: An improbable journey to the heart of white America
Verily I say unto you, it is easier for a person of color to enter into the picnic grounds of the Aryan nation than it is for him to talk to the residents of a co-op apartment in the Manhattan neighborhood of Carnegie Hill. It’s true says Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably...
December 16th, 2009 | Culture, The Arts | Read More

Not everybody loved hominid fossil “Lucy”

Not everybody loved hominid fossil “Lucy”
It’s 150 years later, and we’re still debating Darwin’s good old Origin of Species. A new exposition center, The Discovery Times Square Exposition, was launched in New York City, and featured the 3.2 million-year-old fossil known as “Lucy.” For many museum enthusiasts and ethnographers alike,...
December 6th, 2009 | Culture, The Arts | Read More

Slavery in Canada forgotten, until now

Slavery in Canada forgotten, until now
History is not the past, it is how we recount the past. A Past, Denied: The Invisible History of Slavery in Canada is a feature-length documentary by independent filmmaker Mike Barber. The film, which is currently in production, explores how a false sense of history—both taught in the classroom and...
November 19th, 2009 | Culture, The Arts | Read More