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Post Your Maps :: Yusuf Sayman
May 28, 2010 – 10:30 am | No Comment
Post Your Maps :: Yusuf Sayman

We will regularly be presenting a featured artist, writer or performer who is exploring questions of identity and personal narrative through their medium of expression.

The map is your representation. No rigid lines, no defined routes. You direct it on your own account.

Who Speaks for Arizona?
May 27, 2010 – 11:13 pm | One Comment
Who Speaks for Arizona?

It’s been nearly one month since Arizona passed law SB1720 into procession, effectively aiding the discrimination of all migrants in the state. The law may purport to stem the flow of “illegal” immigrants across …

Post Your Maps :: SoundRight
May 16, 2010 – 11:49 am | One Comment
Post Your Maps :: SoundRight

We will regularly be presenting a featured artist, writer or performer who is exploring questions of identity and personal narrative through their medium of expression.

The map is your representation. No rigid lines, no defined routes. You direct it on your own account.

Worldtown Hearsay :: Arabs are funny too
May 12, 2010 – 12:13 am | One Comment
Worldtown Hearsay :: Arabs are funny too

Bombs, turbans and chanting “In the Name of God” - these are the limited satirical portraits distributed of Arabs when it comes to comedy. Fortunately, there’s a growing positive association with Arabic comedic timing as …

Worldtown Via Londontown :: The 2010 Palestine Film Festival
May 4, 2010 – 11:15 pm | No Comment
Worldtown Via Londontown :: The 2010 Palestine Film Festival

Exile, memory, displacement, discovery - all themes you may expect associated to the Palestinian cause and embodied in corresponding creative matter. The films at this year’s London Palestine Film Fest resonate with all of these …

Worldtown Via Londontown :: Chris Ofili’s Bite
May 4, 2010 – 10:49 pm | No Comment
Worldtown Via Londontown :: Chris Ofili’s Bite

Artists with bite: if you are in London, be sure to check out Chris Ofili’s exhibit at the Tate Britain on until May 16th. One of the best young artists coming out of Britain …