Tag: Spain

  • Sephardic Folklore – the Spanish Romancero

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    Dr. Samuel Armistead, who passed away this year, considered his scholarly work on the Spanish Romancero to be his crowning achievement.  The Romancero is a tradition of stories and ballads handed down in Sephardic folklore.  Dr. Armistead’s website Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews provides a wealth of information on the oral literature of Sephardic Jews…

  • Shift Change Trailer

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    Shift Change is a new documentary (to have its world premiere on October 18, 2012, in Oakland, CA) that highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and in Mondragon, Spain.  The film couldn’t be more timely, as 2012 has been declared by the U.N. as the “International Year of the Cooperative.” Take a look at the preview and please…

  • Cooperatives Cont’d. – The Emilia Romagna Cooperatives in Italy

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    If you are interested in an alternative econonic model to the traditional corporate capitalism practiced in the US, you’ll find this presentation informative and uplifting.  It highlights the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy which is one of the richest in Europe. Emilia-Romagna is also one of the most cooperative regions in the world. Nearly two out…

  • Radical New Model of Earth’s Core

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    Simon Redfern tackles new ideas about the earth’s core puzzle in BBC News: Seismic data indicate that the western and eastern hemispheres of Earth’s inner core differ, and this has led some to suggest that the core was once subjected t an impulse – presumably from the collision of a space rock or planetoid which…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    New Songs The afternoon says: “I’m thirsty for shadow!” And the moon: “I want stars.” The crystal fountain asks for lips, the wind, for sighs. I’m thirsty for scents and for laughter. Thirsty for new songs without irises or moons, without dead loves. A morning song that can shiver quiet backwaters of the future and…

  • Morocco’s Fes Festival: Music, mysticism and meaning

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    Get ready for flamenco guitar, social consciousness and Sufi mystics. The world’s most spiritual music fest kicks off this week. By CNN Travel staff 3 June, 2013 Uzbekistan’s Yuldusz Turdevia Ensemble performed at the 2012 Fes Festival in Morocco. The official goal of Morocco’s annual Fes Festival (June 7-15) “is to harness the arts and spirituality in the…