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• What’s Behind All The Book Bans?

  24-04-2022 22:30 via learningforjustice.org
  
  A Nambé Pueblo scholar describes how book bans might affect Native peoples. “We are few in comparison to nearly all other groups. If [children from other groups] read Native books and develop empathy for us … their actions will be shaped by us” rather than by stereotypes. – Learning for Justice
  
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• British Artist Sonia Boyce Wins Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion

  24-04-2022 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Boyce is the first Black woman to represent the UK at the Biennale. The jury “commended Boyce for raising ‘important questions of rehearsal’ as opposed to perfectly tuned music” in her piece Feeling Her Way, which combines music, sculpture, collage, and video. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Mississippi Masala, Thirty Years On

  24-04-2022 21:30 via huffpost.com
  
  “The movie’s deep, sometimes unnervingly honest explorations of racism ― not to mention colorism, white supremacy, colonialism and displacement ― still feel groundbreaking 30 years later.” – HuffPost
  
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• The Artists Of Ukraine Deal With The War In A Variety Of Ways

  24-04-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kinder Album says, “Now I need to draw, I don’t have time to think, I need to express the feelings of the moment, because tomorrow something else will happen. Before the war, I had a lot of time. Now I don’t.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Jennifer Egan Loves Doing The Work To Promote Her Books

  24-04-2022 20:30 via irishtimes.com
  
  Why not, she says – there’s no reason not to work just as hard promoting your book as you did writing it. “The worst that can happen is you’ve spent a little energy on something that didn’t result in you being a bestseller.” – Irish Times
  
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• Making Films In Iran To Elude A Feeling Of Total Despair

  24-04-2022 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Panah Panahi is the son of acclaimed, and officially stifled, filmmaker Jafar Panahi. “No matter how hard you try to be positive and go on fighting, we feel completely trapped. The only possible option is this dream, sometimes reality, of fleeing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Who Gets To Decide How A Theatre Audience ‘Should’ Act?

  24-04-2022 19:30 via orartswatch.org
  Critic Marty Hughley responds to an opinion piece by the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and he’s fine with audiences quieting the heck down. For instance: “Why is the shushing rude, but the intrusive sound that precipitates it isn’t?” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Keeping Languages Alive Through Spelling Bees

  24-04-2022 19:00 via alaskapublic.org
  
  For Alaskans whose people’s languages are Yup’ik and Iñupiak, “the spelling bee gives students the opportunity to practice reading and writing a language they might only speak or hear.” – Alaska Public Radio
  
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• You Don’t Have To Forget Your Troubles To Get Happy

  24-04-2022 18:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  If people want to be happier, there are research-backed ways to do it – including “Search for transcendent truths beyond your narrow day-to-day life,” and “Be active mentally,” which both sound like great motivations to make, and experience, art. – The Atlantic
  
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• Martin Scorsese Wants Us To See Restored Classic Movies

  24-04-2022 18:00 via indiewire.com
  
  And he wants it enough to launch a whole project, with Film Foundation, to show one each month for free. (Which, let’s face it, is pretty amazing – classic films, or even anything before, say, 2015! – are ancient according to a lot of film fans today.) – IndieWire
  
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• And The Winner Of The Streaming Wars May Be

  24-04-2022 17:30 via variety.com
  
  Wait … AT&T? Looks like they got out of streaming just in time. – Variety
  
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• How Do You Follow Up A Smash Hit First Novel?

  24-04-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  You throw your second one in the (metaphorical) trash can, of course. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Joyce DiDonato Takes On A Big Role

  24-04-2022 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  That is, battling climate change. “If the result is more mystical than activist, DiDonato’s aim remains, as her liner notes say, a prompt for her listeners ‘to build a paradise for today.'” – The New York Times
  
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• How To Help Netflix Fix Itself

  24-04-2022 16:00 via theverge.com
  
  The first big streaming network has been coasting – and it can no longer afford to coast. – The Verge
  
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• BookTok Is Driving A Rise In Book Purchasing At Stores And Shops Across The World

  24-04-2022 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sales rose 5% in the UK, for instance. BookTokkers, aka TikTok users,are “replicating the time-honoured sales method that bookshop staff have often employed – suggesting books to shoppers that they might like. And that’s one area that the pandemic hit hard.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Libraries Embrace Their Status As Public Square

  24-04-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  And that includes using – and celebrating – the space around the library. They’re people places (even if the use of library apps has shot up during the pandemic). – The New York Times
  
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• The Movie Saving Indie Movie Theatres Right Now

  24-04-2022 14:30 via deadline.com
  
  Arthouses are in trouble (see the previous article). But Everything Everywhere All at Once is proving surprisingly robust – and what makes it “a bonfire at arthouses is that it’s aimed squarely at the demo that has been fueling the box office rebound …18- to 34-year-olds.” – Deadline
  
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• Can Indie Movie Houses Survive The Pandemic?

  24-04-2022 14:00 via variety.com
  
  It’s not easy because older audiences just aren’t coming back. Yet operators are starting to be a bit more optimistic. “The opportunity to see it in a theater is a better experience for just about any type of movie. We just need to reacquaint people with it.” – Variety
  
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• 59th Venice Biennale review – the women’s biennale

  24-04-2022 14:00
  
  In a seismic year, female artists take centre stage, while a timid institutional response leaves Ukraine to valiantly fend for itselfIt’s the most momentous biennale in living memory. I have never seen anything like it. This has nothing to do with the war, of which more later, though the Russian pavilion is closed and the borscht-coloured super-yachts all duly banished. Nor is it to do with the year-long delay caused by a pandemic that has no visible reflection whatsoever in the many thous
  
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• COVID Postpones Tony Awards Nominations

  24-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  But – so far! – not the awards themselves. – The New York Times
  
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• This Week’s UnderTow: Why are Police Playing Disney Songs? And Why did this Orchestra Fire it Conductor for… Conducting?

  24-04-2022 05:28 via artsjournal.com
  This week’s podcast of The UnderTow, ArtsJournal’s new weekly podcast, features three stories from the past week. Sometimes stories are not exactly about the things they seem to be about at first look.
  
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