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People who couldn’t name nor point to the village their great-grandparents came from are obsessed with #culture because they have none.
They have none.
https://sfba.social/@vij/115652728126440923
Studiocanal, Heyday Films and Sanrio are set to bring the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters to the big screen for a new era of storytelling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/05/entertainment-news/mr-men-little-miss-film/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #entertainmentnews #mrmen #littlemiss #children039sbooks #filmadaptations
Welsh artist makes first ever Folk Album of the Year shortlist
#Culture
https://nation.cymru/culture/welsh-artist-makes-first-ever-folk-album-of-the-year-shortlist/
After controversy over use of CCTV footage and following a re-edit, Shiori Ito’s Oscar-nominated documentary is finally getting released in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/04/film/shiori-ito-documentary-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #shiroito #academyawards #documentaries #film #journalism #sexcrimes #women039sissues
People who couldn’t name nor point to the village their great-grandparents came from are obsessed with #culture because they have none.
They have none.
https://sfba.social/@vij/115652728126440923
Music programs in prisons cultivate hope and dignity, while reducing the chances of re-incarceration. But journalist Maurice Chammah says that's only one side of the story — that listening to music made by incarcerated people has the power to change people on the outside. Here's his 2023 story for The Marshall Project on the history, impact and potential of prison music. "Listening to and sharing music may sound like a soft, superficial way of changing a broken system, but you can’t get policy change if you haven’t paved the way with culture," he writes.
Excellente vidéo de Marouchka, de la chaîne Youtube "Qu'est-ce qu'on lit ?", sur un sujet complexe : la cotisation sociale des artistes et auteurs·trices.
Depuis au moins 15 ans l'organisme en charge de collecter les cotisations des artistes n'a pas fait son travail, sous prétexte qu'il n'en avait pas les moyens... mais tout en occupant un hôtel particulier à Paris pour 600 000 € de location annuelle, entre autres joyeusetés.
C'est scandaleux.
#AGESSA #SSAA #Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6CYEKi1cM
Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
#HackerNews #Instagram #Office #Return #Instagram #News #Work #Culture #Remote #Work #2026
How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7s1aAsNPlNhSye8OsMqmH6pMR32OYGGdLT6VKyFaQE/edit#slide=id.p
#HackerNews #How #to #Attend #Meetings #Internal #guidelines #from #the #New #York #Times #meetings #productivity #guidelines #NYTimes #work #culture #communication #tips
Iconic musician Yumi Matsutoya sat down with The Japan Times for a rare conversation about AI, memory and her role in creating city pop. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/12/01/music/yumi-matsutoya-ai-music/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #yumimatsutoya #citypop #jpop #yumiarai
A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
#HackerNews #LittlePrince #Museum #Switzerland #Art #Culture #Travel
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for the screenplay of the 1998 film "Shakespeare In Love," has died at the age of 88. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/30/stage/tom-stoppard-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #tomstoppard #obituaries #uk #theater
A rare dance trinity: Ballet, butoh and kabuki share the stage https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/29/stage/tokyo-performing-arts-ballet-butoh-kabuki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #butoh #ballet #kballet #akajimaro #dance #kabuki
The influence of immigration and weather on culture is so much clearer when travelling around the country.
Just one example: gardening.
Melbourne, at least the north where there's been a lot of southern European and middle eastern immigration, has just tonnes of food gardening in back and front yards. Olive and lemon and pomegranate trees are standard front yard staples, backyards are very often mostly made up of veggie beds, and there are plenty of permaculture-ish "nature strips" or verges. A lot of the weeds are edible too, and people collect them (mallow leaf, nettle, wild fennel).
Less in the rural areas as you head north, because farms. Then in Albury and the towns in Southern NSW it starts up again, but the vegetable patches are smaller and there are fewer olive trees.
Canberra seems to be getting more into veggie beds since I left in 2009, but the weather there isn't super kind to water-and-warmth loving annuals.
Cabramatta, where the dominant culture is Vietnamese, is back to the Melbourne-ish gardening. Different plants due to weather and culture, but every little space is used.
In Newcastle it's hard to find any real evidence of food gardening at all. I suppose it's more British, historically? The weather would be great for it, if you could handle the rain. Mangoes grow here! There are a few little community gardens in the hipper areas, but none of the visible margin-gardening I'm used to at home.
I'm not saying I fully understand what's going on exactly, but the difference is clear.
From nonexistent musical instruments created from AI-generated designs to an opera performed by a humanoid robot, this year’s Art Week Tokyo repeatedly asked, “What is real?” and “Who is the artist?” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/28/art/ai-japan-art-week-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #artweektokyo #exhibitions #tomomiadachi #keiichiroshibuya #yumakishi
Music programs in prisons cultivate hope and dignity, while reducing the chances of re-incarceration. But journalist Maurice Chammah says that's only one side of the story — that listening to music made by incarcerated people has the power to change people on the outside. Here's his 2023 story for The Marshall Project on the history, impact and potential of prison music. "Listening to and sharing music may sound like a soft, superficial way of changing a broken system, but you can’t get policy change if you haven’t paved the way with culture," he writes.
Decades in, hundreds of credits deep, veteran actor Mariko Tsutsui’s secret to inhabiting her characters hasn’t changed: unwavering, meticulous preparation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/28/film/mariko-tsutsui-dawn-chorus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #marikotsutsui #japanesefilm #yoshinorisato #kojifukada
I'm here, I'm #queer, I belong in Texas, too.
The Barbed Wire asked me to take a moment to introduce myself, and why our state needs #trans reporters like me, and media where we can see our stories reflected.
This one starts when I'm just 13 years old...
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/transgender-journalist-living-in-texas/
"Transitioning didn’t begin when I decided to start estrogen, but decades ago, when I realized — one revelation at a time — that I was becoming an adult free to make my own choices about my identity and its expression."
#ICYMI, my introduction to my new series at The Barbed Wire:https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/25/transgender-journalist-living-in-texas/
#trans #LGBTQIA #culture #politics #USpol #Texas #news #journalism #media
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