This sounds like a slice of arts funding paradise: “Particularly targeted at those who do not already have access to public funding and people on lower incomes, the Culture Seeds grants could go towards hiring a venue space or funding artists to lead workshops. Recipients of the grants will be supported with further funding applications by the mayor’s volunteering and social action team and will be given access to resources, surgeries and networks.”
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Cannes Has Banned Netflix Films From Competing At The Festival, And Here’s Why
Netflix, which had the rules bent for Okja last year, can’t get around it this year: The films have to be in theatrical release in France to be considered for awards at Cannes. Festival director Thierry Fremaux: “The Netflix people loved the red carpet and would like to be present with other films. But they understand that the intransigence of their own model is now the opposite of ours.”
In The Sentimental (And Not Very Good) Homage Cartoons To Dead Celebrities, We See The Dying Of Political Cartoons
Ouch: “We are instantly ready to be nostalgic about anything and anybody. Death tribute cartoons are a feature of a society constantly being made aware of what it has lost. They’re never funny, they rarely make much sense, and they pander in a way that’s embarrassing. I’m sure we’ll see many more of them.”
Liam O’Flynn, Founder Of Planxty And A Modern Master Of The Irish Uilleann Pipes, Has Died At 72
O’Flynn collaborated with everyone from John Cage to Sinéad O’Connor – and even poets: “A further pairing was with the poet Seamus Heaney, who explained his love of O’Flynn’s playing: ‘The pipes call and raise the spirit. They also quieten and open up the daydream part of people.'”
Want To See What Ancient Ruins Would Look Like If They Were Still In Good Shape Now?
Take a look at these pretty great GIFs. Just wow.
A French Comic Book Artist, Celebrated (And Questioned) In France, Crosses Into The U.S. And English This Spring
Yvan Alagbé: “What I’m interested in is work that renders visible what has previously been invisible. …But you need to look long and hard before that can happen.”
Photographers Combating Stereotypes
Two photographers talk about what they’re doing in their shows at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, and it’s not what you’ll hear in the news. “The shows tell a wildly different story about Mexican Americans than the political punch lines you might hear about bad hombres in the news. They document activism, faith, community and culture.”
So A Librarian Just Sits Behind The Desk And Reads All Day, Right?
Hahahahhahahaahah (despairing laughter): no. “I cling to these happy memories whenever somebody breaks the copy machine for the fourth time that day by jamming a ballpoint pen inside the feed tray. Or spills their kale smoothie down the side of the circulation desk. Or when a person decides to eat an extra large pizza while vaping in the women’s bathroom. I think: remember why you chose this job? The elegance? And I laugh.”
Religious Films Are Suddenly Doing Well At The Box Office
What gives? Faith and religion used to be the kiss of box office death. Now, as many other box office certainties fall, the film “I Can Only Imagine” has picked up pretty solid box office numbers, coming in second only to “Black Panther” and “Tomb Raider” in its first week of release. “Other recent successes include Heaven Is for Real, the story of a boy who briefly dies, which grossed $91m in the US. Fireproof, about a porn-addicted fireman, made $33m from a $500,000 budget. God’s Not Dead, which follows a college student whose faith is challenged by a philosophy professor, made twice that.”
Is It Possible To Make Theatre Out Of Slam Poetry?
Kit Yan, whose shows have been selling out American Repertory Theatre and winning awards, says it’s a challenge. “Director Jessi Hill and I have had a lot of conversations about what is slam poetry and what is theatre. The rules of slam poetry include a microphone, a time limit, no props … all these things you can’t do. Putting slam poetry into a theatre and just taking some of those rules out frees up the story in so many ways.”