Archive forApril 24, 2005

Turn off your TV and check out what’s coming up in Richmond’s cultural scene (Richmond.com)

What is your favorite springtime activity? Let's Get a Little Culture... Courtesy of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Turn your TV off and get outside for TV-Turnoff week.

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With Pope Benedict’s ascent, American cultural conservatives scored a big one (WOAI)

Now that Americans have had a few days to absorb the election of Pope Benedict XVI, it's clear that conservative Christians - whether Roman Catholic or not - feel they've won another battle in the nation's culture wars. Liberals seem to ready to concede the point, but they aren't happy about it.

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Week highlights Asian cultures (The Davis Enterprise)

Published Apr 18, 2005 - 02:56:16 CDT. The 32nd annual Asian Pacific Culture Week at UC Davis this week will focus on performance arts to celebrate and promote awareness of this diverse community. This year's theme is the "Yellow Brown Empowerment Project."

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Disney faces cultural, economic gap in China (Detroit News)

GUANGZHOU, China -- Ever since Mickey Mouse visited Lin Huanbin's school here last summer, telling fairy tales and passing out Mouseketeer certificates, the 11-year-old boy has been unable to get Mi Laoshu out of his mind.

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Cultural Calendar (di-ve)

The Malta Council for Culture and the Arts is in the process of collecting data on cultural events that are scheduled for July, August and September 2005. This information will be published in the next edition of Kultura 21 magazine.

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Cross-cultural collaborations spice up Arts Festival programme (Channel NewsAsia)

SINGAPORE : World premieres, Asian premieres and Singapore premieres -- there will be lots of new acts at the 2005 Arts Festival in the fields of theatre and dance.

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Ground control: NASA attempts a cultural shift (Seattle Times)

The Columbia disaster prompted changes beyond simple safety measures. But efforts at improving communication between managers and the experts who advise them have had mixed results.

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Katherine cultural precinct awaiting federal cash (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The organisers of the first cultural precinct at Katherine in the Northern Territory say work on the $12 million facility should begin within the year.

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Cultural flight in kites (Middletown Press)

MIDDLETOWN -- Adults and children built kites on Saturday at the Green Street Art Center, hoping they would fly.

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The cultural ambidexterity of a man with two writers inside him (The Daily Star Lebannon)

"Politics and the novel are an indivisible case," insisted the late Palestinian author and leftist activist Ghassan Kanafani. If the recent experience of leading Israeli writer Sami Michael offers any insight, Kanafani's words retain their truth today. Michael's newly published novel "Pigeons in Trafalgar Square".

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