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Last call for Essex Arts and Cultural Fund submissions
FINAL submissions are being invited for Essex County Council’s Arts and Cultural Fund before the deadline on Monday 11 December. The fund has supported over 60 arts and cultural projects since launching in 2021. It provides between £2,500 and £30,000 to successful applicants to deliver free and low-cost activities, events and exhibitions throughout the county.…
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Indian-origin novelist awarded Singapore’s highest arts accolade
SINGAPORE: Eighty-one-year-old Indian-origin writer Meira Chand was among the three Singaporeans conferred the Cultural Medallion, the city-state’s most prestigious arts accolade, in recognition of their artistic excellence and contribution to enriching the country’s arts and culture scene. Chand, fellow novelist Suchen Christine Lim and Malay dance veteran Osman Abdul Hamid received the award from President…
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Google Launches Experimental AI Instrument Playground as Part of Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture has launched a new experiment as part of their move to more AI-based program. Instrument Playground was developed by the Arts & Culture Lab Artist in Residence Simon Doury, and according to the disclaimer on the Instrument Playground landing page, the program uses MusicLM allowing users to generate synthetic music from…
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Tribal Museums Day Livestream Take Viewers Across Indian Country
Details By Elyse Wild December 05, 2023 “Yahipi kin waste” (Welcome in Dakota) signs greeted visitors to the Hocokato Ti, the Museum and Cultural Center of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Shakopee, Minnesota, on December 2nd, as they hosted a livestream event to bring attention to the diversity of Native American cultures on Tribal…
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Tribal Museums Day Livestream Take Viewers Across Indian Country
Details By Elyse Wild December 05, 2023 “Yahipi kin waste” (Welcome in Dakota) signs greeted visitors to the Hocokato Ti, the Museum and Cultural Center of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Shakopee, Minnesota, on December 2nd, as they hosted a livestream event to bring attention to the diversity of Native American cultures on Tribal…
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Tariq ‘Black Thought’ Trotter on his impact on hip-hop and new memoir, ‘The Upcycled Self’
Jeffrey Brown: Under his stage name, Black Thought, Trotter would write and rap his way to world stages as co-founder of The Roots, a band known for its instrumentation, live performance, and grounding in jazz and other genres. Now, in “The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are,” he takes…
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ArtsQuest Awarded Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Bethlehem, PA, Dec. 5. 2023 — ArtsQuest is excited to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $82,500 from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for the 2023-2024 Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP), specifically in the Special Program Priorities (SPP) component. Participation by Boyle Construction, Univest Bank and C.F. Martin &…
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How Zines Brought Power to Those on the Margins of Culture
Installation view of the Brooklyn Museum’s “Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines,” on view through March 2024 Paula Abreu Pita / Brooklyn Museum The history of zines—short for “fanzines” or magazines—stretches back to the 1930s, when authors produced short, usually self-made publications with mimeograph machines. Early zines were associated with science fiction fans, eventually expanding…
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There’s a BIPOC Artist Meet-Up happening on December 13th
The Urbana Arts and Culture Program and College of Fine and Applied Arts are sponsoring an event for “Champaign-Urbana BIPOC artists, creatives, makers, storytellers, and cultural bearers” at Gallery Art Bar on December 13th from 6 to 9 p.m. This is the first quarterly event by the new CU BIPOC Artist Collective, and it’s an…
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Tracing our food sources | Food For Thought with Kat
We’re out of whack. It’s not just the holidays. We’re out of sync with each other, with our neighboring communities, with the Earth. It hasn’t always been this way. Evidence suggests that members of the Abenaki Native American Indian tribes were here in Vermont (and elsewhere in New England) 11,000 to 13,000 years ago. They…
