“We do not have a diverse literary ecosystem in Canada; its diversity has shrunk rapidly in the past two decades. Two recent accounts amply demonstrate a narrowing of Canada’s publishing activity.” – The Conversation
Month: September 2019
The Long And Ugly Fight Over Copyright To Emily Dickinson’s Work
“The [story] involves theft, adulterous affairs, a land deal gone wrong, a feud between families, two elite colleges, and some of the most famous poems in American literature.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
Saving Endangered Indigenous Languages By Digitizing Them Is A Tricky Business, And Not Just Technically
“New technology like smartphone keyboards, language-learning apps, and digital databases makes revitalization work easier than ever, but it also requires hard conversations about which parts of a language must be kept offline.” – Slate
Now Here’s A Marketing Challenge: Rebranding London’s Vagina Museum
It is, as it were, a sensitive area. “Positioning a brand and crafting a suitable tone of voice is a mind-bendingly tricky thing to perfect. The Vagina Museum has built a reputation and a following on social media due to its irreverent, tongue-in-cheek tweets and exchanges with other users. Whether the branding should mirror or counteract this was a defining choice throughout the process.” – Museums and Heritage Advisor
A Stage Combat Consultancy Run Entirely By Women
With four RSC plays, three other London shows, and a regional production all this year alone, the company called Rc-Annie is one of the most in-demand firms of its kind. Reporter Nick Smurthwaite talks to Rc-Annie’s two founders, Rachel Bown-Williams and Ruth Cooper-Brown. – The Stage
How Local Dialects Work
Remember how you learned about swearing? It was probably from a kid around your age, maybe an older sibling, and not from an educator or authority figure. And you were probably in early adolescence: the stage when linguistic influence tends to shift from caregivers to peers. Linguistic innovation follows a similar pattern. – The Walrus
Mezzo Dolora Zajick Will Retire From Opera Next Year
“[Her] final performance will take place at the Metropolitan Opera in the spring of 2020, when she will make her role debut as Kabanicha in performances of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová scheduled for May 2, 6 and 9.” – Opera News
An Israeli TV Series Shows The Jewish State Locked In Civil War
“In [Autonomies], set in the near future, civil war has cut the land into two countries. The coastal State of Israel is nonreligious, with the cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv as its capital. Jerusalem is a walled, autonomous city-state, run by [ultra-Orthodox] Haredi rabbis. At first glance dystopian, the show is in fact an artistic extrapolation of real-life rifts in Israeli society.” – The Guardian
Choreographer David Bintley On 24 Years Running Birmingham Royal Ballet, And On Why He Left
“I haven’t made anything for three years. First, there is no money, second the job has tilted so much towards administration there is no time to make stuff. I have always said there are two different kinds of AD – those that choreograph and those that don’t. At certain times in a company’s history you will need one or the other. At this point in my life I simply want to make dance. I’m happy not to be a director any longer. I don’t want to be stuck in an office again.” – The Stage
Art Institute Of Chicago Plans Major Long-Term Makeover Of Its Campus
“For its first North American commission, the prize-winning firm Barozzi/Veiga … has begun formulating ideas aimed at making an inward-looking museum rooted in the 20th century more extroverted and modern via methods that could include adding new buildings, reconfiguring existing ones and rethinking the presentation of art within them.” – Chicago Tribune