Culture and Media

We conducted a short interview with renowned Turkish Ebru artist Atilla Can about UNESCO’s celebration of his work, and appreciate his cooperation. Here my video about the three Ebru artists we have interviewed up to now [readers unfamiliar with Ebru can…

This coming June 5th Switzerland is holding a constitutional referendum on whether to implement basic income policy. Swiss entrepreneur Daniel Häni and German author Philip Kovce have written a book to accompany the referendum. This book is now available in…

The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe is the last “arty” stop for Sliver of a Full Moon, a play by Mary Kathryn Nagle that dramatizes the legislative struggle to enact the Violence Against Women Act of 2013.…

SILO A SPIRITUAL PATH will be shown at the Cannes Marché du Film 2016 Doc Corner Program on May 12. This particular program is the professional convention of the Marché du Film that is exclusively dedicated to featuring documentary films.…

On April 8, 2016, reporter Karen Cheung writing on Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) website announced the jailing of four Guangzhou (just over the border from Hong Kong-Shenzhen) activists facing jail terms for inciting subversion of state power. All they…

Lantau Island resident Christopher Mercer, British, flew in to the Philippines to bring back to Hong Kong his couple Blaesy Amar, and their children Jacob and Jude. He tells of his journey, starting on arrival at Kalibo airport in Antique…

 What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery? Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from…

Glastonbury Festival is a yearly UK five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in a farm (mud, lots of mud!) near Somerset in June. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and…

By Craig Murray Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian…

So, what is it that’s truly appealing about being in Vientiane, Laos? Does it go beyond the low RPM laid-backness of the place? Is it because people greet each other by saying, “Be at ease”? Is it the way this…