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• Stephen Beaudoin shares about the chorus of tomorrow

  25-09-2021 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stephen Beaudoin, Executive Director of The Washington Chorus, talks about the chorus of tomorrow and the role of the arts in building community.
  
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• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art – Director of Development

  25-09-2021 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  CommunityFounded in 1635, Hartford is Connecticut’s state capital and one of America’s oldest and most historic cities. The region is home to almost 1 million residents, with a city population close to 125,000 people. Located in the Connecticut River Valley, Hartford features 17 diverse and beautiful neighborhoods set amongst rolling wooded hills. Considered the Insurance Capital of the World, Hartford’s insurance industry is joined by aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, and
  
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• ‘My art is a protest’: disrupting ideas about black people in British rural areas

  25-09-2021 12:09
  
  Madinah Farhannah Thompson’s art is informed by her experience as a black primary schoolchildGrowing up as one of the only black pupils at her primary school in Norwich, Madinah Farhannah Thompson says she felt isolated and that it affected her mental health.Now the artist is using her complicated experience with the countryside in her work, which grapples with themes of rejection and racism felt by black people in rural areas. Continue reading...
  
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• A happy baby on a train: Dina Alfasi’s best phone picture

  25-09-2021 11:00
  
  ‘That the young girl in the foreground was a soldier with a gun on her knee is an integral part of that moment’Dina Alfasi has often said that her favourite place to shoot is on the train. It’s not only a mobile studio with, as she puts it, great natural light and interesting subjects; it also lends itself to contemplation, to being in the moment.The Israeli photographer was on her way to work in Haifa, Israel when this baby started laughing. It was 8am, on a June morning. The
  
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• The Man Who Sold His Skin review – tattooed refugee story offers up art-world satire

  25-09-2021 10:31
  
  Serious themes are undercut by the flippant tone of this story about a Syrian refugee who becomes a conceptual art objectHere is a muddled caper of movie that doesn’t know what it wants to say; it doesn’t work as a satire of the international art market, nor as a commentary on the racism of white European culture. And its attitude to Syria is undermined by a silly and unconvincing ending that leaves a strange taste in the mouth. It is inspired by the Belgian conceptual artist Wim Del
  
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• Going out, staying in: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  25-09-2021 07:00
  
  Whether it is a live gig, a new film or a game to play at home, our critics have your plans for this week coveredGagarine
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  A clever French coming-of-age story with a space race twist, Gagarine is the tale of a resourceful teen hoping to save a condemned housing project from the bulldozers. This smart debut is neatly constructed around the (spoiler alert) real-life demolition of a 370-apartment complex, and blends lived-in social realism with cosmic fantasy.Continue reading...
  
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• That Punk Beethoven?

  25-09-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who are the supposed punks of the classical music world? It seems that, for many commentators, any composer who went against the grain in some way was a punk. – The Conversation
  
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