Tag: Arts

  • Photographing Spirituality

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    James Estrin, co-founder of the The New York Times Lens blog will be exhibiting a collection of his work documenting human spirituality at the 92nd Street Y on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Michael Winerip, who is familiar with Esterin’s work notes: Having worked many, many 12-hour days with him, I can say firsthand that James Estrin’s photos definitely don’t…

  • “How to Be Alone”

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    The first incarnation of “How to Be Alone” was a collaborative video by two Haligonian artists: musician and former poet laureate Tanya Davis, and filmmaker/illustrator Andrea Dorfman. After the video was first released in 2010, it went viral. (At the time of this printing, it had over six million views.) In 2011 Davis released her first book…

  • Poetry: Music to the Mind

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    Scientists at the University of Exeter have found that poetry arouses the same regions of the brain as those that respond to music. In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a “reading network” of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found…

  • Shut Up and Listen

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    When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re trying to help, and tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. His advice…

  • Sunday’s Poem

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    Noshi Gillani Is a poet from Pakistan who writes in Urdu. Noshi Gillani was born in Pakistan in 1964. Her fifth collection of poems: Ay Meeray Shureek-E-Risal-E-Jaan, Hum Tera Intezaar Kurtay Rahey (O My Beloved, I Kept Waiting for You) was published in Pakistan in 2008. Can Someone Bring Me My Entire Being? My arms, my eyes, my face? I am a…

  • Susan Cain: The power of introverts

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    In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.  

  • Haiku-Writing Suspected Killer Hunted by Japanese Police

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    The Telegraph reports on a  poetry-writing suspected killer who is being hunted by Japanese police after the bodies of five people were found in a tiny mountain village. The chief suspect is a 63-year-old villager at whose home police found a “haiku” poem stuck to the window. The haiku is a traditional Japanese form, a…

  • Philippine National Folk Dance Company Wins Top Award

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    The world-renowned Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company won the Gold Award in the 14th World Folklore Festival in Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, Turkey, on July 7, 2013, besting dance groups from Brazil, Egypt, Greece, Ukraine, Estonia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Slovenia, Mexico, Hungary, Serbia, North Cyprus, Turkey, and Slovakia. The Bayanihan company, whose name means working together for…

  • Tuesday Prayer

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    Tonight BY AGHA SHAHID ALI 1949–2001 Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar —LAURENCE HOPE Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell tonight? Whom else from rapture’s road will you expel tonight? Those “Fabrics of Cashmere—” “to make Me beautiful—” “Trinket”—to gem—“Me to adorn—How tell”—tonight? I beg for haven: Prisons, let open your…

  • Freeman’s Trade and Craft Guild whose history dates back to the 1450’s still exists in Durham

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      A Short History of Durham City Freemen The Freemen of Durham today has eight trade guilds or companies. There were sixteen but eight have ceased to survive. The remaining guilds are the Barbers, Butchers, Cordwainers, Curriers, Drapers, Joiners, Masons and Plumbers. The oldest recorded, now defunct, was the Weavers Guild whose records go back to…