Rima Abdul Malak, the country's minister of culture, announced the record-high budget earlier this week. €208.5 million of that money will go to the Culture Pass program for young adults. - Screen Daily
Skim an Axios story, and it will fly past so quickly you’ll have no idea what it says. You have to read carefully to grasp its basic meaning. Then you have to waste even more time trying to figure out how much to discount for bullshit hype. - The New Republic
“Readings can afford to pay a living wage to its workers. This is a multi-store business that, until 2021, posted profits for 25 consecutive years, and which in the past year has spent considerable amounts of money opening both a new store branch and a warehouse, without consulting workers.” - The Guardian
Developers are increasingly swapping out more mainstream materials like concrete and steel, in favour of wood. It's linked to the country's ambitious efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 and become Europe's leading circular economy. - BBC
At a time when attitudes toward sex work, transgender individuals, and other sexual minorities are by and large changing for the better, it is perhaps ironic that Silicon Valley’s CEOs are so rapidly closing off the spaces where such communities have long gathered. - Wired
The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will serve as a new building for small to midsize theatres such as Third Rail and PETE, and will serve as a space to nurture artists and the performing arts. The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will operate under a model of collective leadership, artist empowerment, and affordable access. - American Theatre
The project aims to nurture the artists and arts leaders of tomorrow by investing in arts education, including artists-in-schools programs, student performances, master classes, internships, and volunteering opportunities. - San Francisco Classical Voice
Karen Russo Burke's decade-long tenure included a merger with the city's orchestra and opera company into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and has seen attendance increase by over one-third. - Dayton (Ohio) Daily News
Findings confirmed this cohort ‘talked about how arts and culture helps them stay up to date; they use the phrase “to keep young, keep relevant”. Story after story of people talking about how they try and keep up to date with what’s happening in music, because they’re interested. - ArtsHub
The money – gifted in sums from $125,000 to $1.5-million, to both big institutions and smaller independent theatre, mostly based in Toronto, all but one in Ontario – is earmarked for a pair of broad purposes over the next two years: theatre production and marketing. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
"Unfamiliar language, outdated ethics, baffling behaviour? We've become used to sifting racism or sexism in these texts – but what other problems give people pause in rehearsal or performance? ... Where do audiences and creatives stub their toes on Shakespeare's plays?" - The Guardian
The most obvious is that, for the first time, all are by writers of colour. A glimpse between their covers reveals something else though. Namely, an embrace of magical realism and the unsettling that have been a feature of mainstream Canadian and international fiction for a while now. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
"Where a mens' retailer once stood in the boutique clothing and cafe mecca of Little Collins Street, changing rooms have been transformed into cozy mirrored reading booths. ... (These are) areas that were aching for some love following the crippling impact of six lockdowns over 19 months." - Bloomberg CityLab
Once the service identifies a track, it will show you an information page with its title, artist and single/album cover where you can play the song, add it your playlist or queue and add it to your favorites. - Engadget
