As if people mattered
L-Istrateġiji Kultural Reġjonali jippromwovu t-tisħiħ tal-komunità bit-twettiq tal-potenzjali tal-individwi, l-iżvilupp tal-udjenzi, u l-innovazzjoni tal-wirt kulturali.
Engaging with COVID-19 through research in arts projects
‘A confluence of external factors helps encourage the latent talent in a community to flourish.’ David Byrne [1]
WHAT’S UP, DOC: The power of culture in non-fiction
Drama is life but with the dull bits taken out, says Alfred Hitchcock.
Let’s call it a day
“There’s a Chinese saying. ‘When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. When is the next best time? Now’”
Richard Powers – The Overstory
When the littlest things matter the most (Lyon, 2020)
It’s 7.50 a.m. Stepping out of the elevator is our next-door neighbour, coming back from his daily morning stroll. He’s over 85, looks 70. I ask him how he’s doing, ten days into lockdown. He says it’s reviving memories of the curfew imposed by the Nazis back in 1943. “A city shouldn’t be this quiet,” he adds.
Free-falling (and climbing back out again)
“We shall not escape these weeks. They recapitulate, always varied and always fresh, always doing and never alone.” Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light
Recognising realities enough to reimagine political ‘audiences’
“If art is an act of utterance to an imagined audience, does speaking the truth matter if no one will ever hear you?” asks provocatively artist/academic Hakan Topal, while scrutinising what is termed as the Turkish cultural-political scene.
‘Imagine’ – Creativity in formal and informal education
I sit at my dining table, in an apartment situated right in the middle of a busy pedestrian street. Whilst working remotely I enjoy the collage of sounds; wind rustling through leaves, construction work in the distance, dogs barking, cars and delivery trucks driving past. Amongst these various layers of sounds, children play, at times loud enough for me to grasp some words. Today two children are running up and down the street, at one point they pause and the boy instructs… ‘Imagine you are…’.
Noti dwar id-distanzi u d-diżorjentazzjoni
Ix-xhur li għaddew għosfru f’distanzi li ferqu persuni minn persuni u persuni minn postijiet. Ir-rutini bidlu l-orbita, it-toroq ħadu nifs u ħafna karozzi raqdu raqdiet twal. Id-dinja tax-xogħol irrispondiet b’laqgħat virtwali u Zzumjajna sakemm xbajna u tqallajna.
Measure for Measure – Sean Buhagiar
First of all, I believe we should be proud of our country’s medical reaction to the Covid-19 Pandemic. As it is, I feel we are considered lucky when it comes to the health repercussions this pandemic could have had on our island. In fact, we are currently already seeing the country defibrillate its economy. A lot of sectors are slowly re-starting with the hope that the new normal summons a better version of ourselves; a better relationship with this earth.