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AIDS 2010 :: The Shuga Effect
July 20, 2010 – 10:10 pm | No Comment
AIDS 2010 :: The Shuga Effect

Behavioural change through media and social networks, it’s the buzz phrase of NGO’s and larger organizations alike. Commercial outlets have caught in the last few years, capitalizing through a social marketing framework - playing on …

Retrospective: ‘Streets’ Change Shape
July 17, 2010 – 6:08 pm | No Comment
Retrospective: ‘Streets’ Change Shape

The Chicago-based Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)’s urban festival of music, faith and social justice took place on June 19th to an audience as diverse as the cultures represented onstage at Marquette Park. The festival, …

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.

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 …

A Runway of Nostalgia
April 25, 2010 – 6:37 pm | No Comment
A Runway of Nostalgia

Fashion memories, obvious inspiration, familiar beats and local celebrity meet hardwork, talent and tremendous heart at the 60th showcase for Toronto’s Ryerson University, School of Fashion, featuring the work of the 25 most impressive students, curated by FASHION Magazine’s Sarah Casselman.
Feature contributor to This Is Worldtown, Danah Abdulla of The Yuppie Activist, reviews.

This is…ROX
April 21, 2010 – 8:38 pm | No Comment
This is…ROX

What’s the trick to listening to Roxanne Tatei’s (known musically as ROX) musical harmony? There’s a familiarity in her tunes that makes you feel like you know her, and an honesty in her demeanor that makes you want to get to know her. This is ROX Music - soulful, authentic and incredibly endearing. This is Worldtown chatted with ROX over the phone in between her busy recording and touring sessions, catching up on what exactly gives music - her music in particular - soul.

Worldtown via Londontown :: The Empire Strikes Back (Last Chance)
April 17, 2010 – 6:26 pm | One Comment
Worldtown via Londontown :: The Empire Strikes Back (Last Chance)

Charles Saatchi showcases thirty-five Indian and Pakistani artists dissecting the social and political processes around Indian politics and identity. Obscure, provocative and partly amateur though undoubtedly complex, The Empire Strikes Back intertwines medium and message for an unapologetic display of Indian Art today. The show runs at the Saatchi Gallery in London until May 7th.