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I want to share with you a report from the first NOW festival for IMEDI, where you can find my short interview. The festival was created as a protest to the destruction that war brings, through the opposite of destruction - creation, art. The war built new borders and thickened old ones, we needed a common language to restore at least a dialogue - art is a language that is accessible to everyone https://lnkd.in/dgy5PMrg And here's a report from Channel One from the second festival that happened this year (it's grown 3 times in a year's gap) https://lnkd.in/darrd2W4

VIDEO preview of the exhibition: 2:18 minutes

#Didyouknow There used to be a wax museum in Fair Park. And in September of 1964, the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum put not one but two assassination related dioramas on display. Learn more about this #popculture oddity in this video.

Highly recommended- book in advance!

Great days are coming for the Pool-Billiards industry. More and more organizations value billiards higher than ever before and investments increase year after year. The World Billiards Museum in Yushan, China highlights the culture that every player knew about but most people who hadn’t had the chance to engage more with billiards, didn’t! Take a look at the video and let me know what you think in the comments section. *If you were looking for the right moment to invest in pool-billiards, that would be now. #billiards #pool

Is it possible to break out of the scarcity mentality trap that many museums get into? It is possible. Inspiring, courageous, generous, and bold leaders like Sally Shaw MBE, Director of Firstsite, prove it every day. When you talk to her, as I have done today, it becomes very clear. It is possible to overcome structural constraints by believing in other values such as generosity, unconditional community support, trust in each other, and inviting others to share them. I love Sally's museum-cave concept. Despite the passage of time, human beings remain the same and seek similar things: to connect with others, to feel part of others, to feel respected, valued, and supported. Sally and her team make this possible because, as she says, the more you give, the more you receive and generate. This is how a museum arises from the mentality of the gift and collective generosity. They are changing the museums and the society for the better. https://firstsite.uk/

An excellent day, full of insight and new contacts…..recurring theme - omnichannel and dealers really challenging their operational costs…. Jigcar really can deliver on this through optimised logistics and stock management 

Amazing young people involved in the young carers project I used to run at Centre 33 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough getting the airtime they deserve! 🙏 2023 school census data suggests there were 39,000 'known' young carers in the UK - yet so many don't recognise the unpaid care they provide to a sibling or parent as deserving of any support, so the real number is likely to be much bigger. Stats suggest there could be as many as 820,000 young carers aged 11-15. If you know a child providing consistent, prolonged psychological/ emotional and/or physical support to someone they live with who has a disability, mental illness, or addiction, make them aware of their right to support from their Local Authority. No young person should feel alone in having to care for someone they depend on, and love. #YoungCarersActionDay #youngcarers #childrensrights #childrights #support #carers #unpaidlabour #centre33 #cambridgeshire #peterborough #youngpeople #mentalhealth

🗣️ Artist's Conversations: Alberto Lago To the artists participating in the exhibition "Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art" at the Harn Museum of Art, the museum asked the following question: What would you like audiences to take away from the experience of viewing your work in the exhibition? In this video you can watch artist Alberto Lago answering the question.

Theatergoers: You don’t have to travel to London this spring to see what’s new and fresh; if the last two weeks are any indication, what’s new and fresh in London has come to you. First, there was the splendid new “Cabaret” which has arrived largely intact on Broadway with a mostly UK cast. And now at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, you can catch “Patriots” by Peter Morgan (“The Crown”), a dramedy about the Russian we all love to hate—Vladimir Putin. VP, played by Will Keen whose coif bears an unsettling resemblance to you-know-who’s, squares off against Boris Berezovsky (Michael Stuhbarg) in the retelling of their feud which began in 2000. By way of information, BB, an engineer, mathematician and oligarch, made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s, when the country implemented privatization— and he gained control over Channel One, the country's main television channel one. BB also helped fund Unity, the political party that would form Putin’s first parliamentary base. Once Putin finally does come to power, however, he becomes a dictator, bending the country to his iron will. Let Russia join NATO as he once promised? Nyet. Instead, Putin suspends all dissent and threatened news media who would not follow his line. His POV? Mother Russia had strayed too far to liberalism in the 1990s; as a former head of the KGB, he wants to bring back the good old days of one-man rule. Naturally this does not sit well with BB who realized he has created a monster. “You were nothing before I created you!” he shouts at VP. To which VP shouts back, “And now YOU are nothing!” To be clear, the play, which captures the facts pretty accurately, merely imagines the dialogue between the two men, which was perhaps never as black-and-white or simplistic as Morgan has written it here. But “Patriots” does beg the question of who the real “patriot” is—the oligarch who wants more Western-facing activity to advance his own interests, or the dictator who believes the old way (Communist dictatorship) more closely aligns to the “real” Russia. Stuhlbarg is a bit more antic than usual as BB. As for Putin, President Obama once compared the dictator to the bully who sits at the back of the classroom and never does his homework, and Keen captures that perfectly. Luke Thallon is excellent as the slick oligarch Roman Abramovich, ex-owner of football team Chelsea FC who unlike BB chooses to play ball with Putin. Paul Kynman not only plays Boris Yeltsin but is a ringer for him. Alex Hurt (the late William Hurt’s son) is serviceable as Alexander Litvinenko, the dissident who was poisoned in London under mysterious circumstances. “Patriots” in short is an entertaining show both for fans of Michael Stuhlbarg and for those who eat, live, and breathe international politics. But if you want the real truth about Russian influence these days, all you need to do is glance at the morning edition of the New York Times.