Stories about Arts & Culture from July, 2007
Singapore: 7 Bloggers Marina Admires
Singapore blogger Marina lists seven Singapore bloggers she admires.
Hungary: Museums, Toilets, and Domestic Products
Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar writes about free toilets and museum admission fees, and about the Hungarian domestic products market.
Congo-Brazzaville: Point Noire music festival
Congopages on a recent music festival in Point Noire (Fr), Congo Brazzaville. There are photos!
Benin: Debating, feting Voodoo
Benninese blogger Blaise Aplogan writes about the upcoming festival of Voodoo, set to take place in Paris this week, and the ongoing Voodoo debate (Fr): “More and more, prophetic religions, notably Christianity, are investing in a dialogue with traditional African religions…[and] traditional African religious leaders are asking themselves what meaning...
Argentina: Farewell to Roberto Fontanarrosa
Mariano Amaratino of Denken Über [ES] says goodbye to Roberto “El Negro” Fontanarrosa, an Argentine cartoonist and writer.
Estonia: Smaller Minorities
Itching for Eestimaa writes about Estonia's “smaller, less vocal minorities [that] usually get lost in the shuffle.”
Central Europe: Charles Bridge; Carpathian Forests
Belatedly, a link to the post on the 650th anniversary of the Charles Bridge in Prague and the primeval beech forests of the Carpathian – at NvB: Bored in Brno?.
Israel: Harry Potter does not observe the Sabbath?
The synchronized worldwide launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, fell at 2:01 a.m. local time in Israel, during the Jewish Sabbath, when Israeli law requires most businesses to close. Read Gilad Lotan's translation of Hebrew blogs to see whether the Sabbath was observed.
Saudi Arabia: Jeddah Film Festival
The Second Jeddah Film Festival or Jeddah Visual Shows Festival is being held in Saudi Arabia, writes Saudi Jeans.
Syria: Camping in Canada
Syrian blogger Omar enjoyed an unforgettable camping in Canada.
Russia: “Absurdistan” Review
Music and Life – Everywhere! reviews Gary Shteingart's novel “Absurdistan.”
Nepal: Jeans and Tradition
United We Blog! on the way things change, as the younger generation prefers to wear jeans rather than the traditional attire.
Sri Lanka: Arranged Marriages
London, Lanka and Drums on arranged marriages, the author's changing views over the years.
Touring Libyan blogs: women at the realm, promoting blogging, missed calls and other annoyances
Libyan women are a cut above, with the top 43 graduates from high school being girls. However, some bloggers argue that their place is still in the home. In other developments, blogging is making its way to students, mobile phones are a must have, and Libyans have got the hang of making missed calls, for others with credits on their phones to call them back.
Jamaica: Reggae and the Diaspora
“One of the implications of this nexus between Rastafari and the work of songwriters such as Burning Spear, Bob Andy and Bob Marley was their insistence in giving voice to the plight of the dispossessed by using the prophetic discourse of the Bible.” Jamaican Geoffrey Philp explains.
Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados: Globalising Soca
News of the upcoming release of Barbadian singer Alison Hinds’ new album has Caroline at Caribbean Beat Blog worried “about the way our music, our people, our artists are represented, misrepresented, or not represented at all in this new push to ‘globalise’ soca.”
Iran:Photos and Tehran
Thanks to Mr.Behi we find a great collection of photos from Tehran:streets,people,museums,parks and…
Russia: Eulogy for Dmitry Prigov
Langour Management writes about the recently deceased Russian conceptualist poet and artist Dmitry Prigov.
Kuwait: Flugtag Meeting Held
Flugtag is taking Kuwait by storm,writes Projekt Cyan.
Latvia: Urlas
All About Latvia writes about a dying breed – the urlas or small businessmen of the early 1990s.
Singapore: Myanmar Culture Festival
MMHan is inviting Singaporeans to visit a Myanmar Traditional Show to be held in Singapore.
