Arts and Culture

If you’re thinking of doing blackface for Halloween, just don’t 0
- Arts and Culture, Entertainment
- October 31, 2018
Author: Philip S. S. Howard, Assistant Professor of Education, McGill University Once again, another racist incident about blackface has made headlines. This time it surrounds NBC host Megyn Kelly, who apologized both on air and in a memo to colleagues after her on-air comments defending racist Halloween costumes. During a round-table discussion about costumes on
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PBS docuseries ‘Native America’ recreates cultures pre 1492 0
- Arts and Culture
- October 24, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE —The story of Native America taught in U.S. public schools usually begins at contact with European explorers. Children then get lessons about Thanksgiving, maybe the Trail of Tears or the 19th century wars over the removal of tribes in the American West. Rarely discussed is life in the Americas before Columbus’ 1492 voyage. A
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Skoden Banksy: Part Two 0
- Arts and Culture
- October 24, 2018
After a mysterious artist painted a “Skoden” mural under the Newport Bridge just outside of Brantford, question came up as to who the artist was. On Wednesday, October 3, an email was sent to the Two Row Times with excerpts from a reflective journal written by the “Skoden Banksy” after their arrest for painting the
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ImagineNATIVE set to begin 0
- Arts and Culture, Entertainment
- October 17, 2018
TORONTO — The anticipated 19th Annual ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival will run until Sunday of this week at 401 Richmond St. West, with the entire Richmond Building hosting the Art Crawl. This years festival will present 153 individual media works including 10 dramatic feature length films which is the most in ImagineNATIVE history.
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Bringing stone to life, with Solomon King 0
- Arts and Culture, Entertainment
- October 17, 2018
Sculptor, Mason and Stone Artisan Solomon King was commissioned to create the turtle sculpture that will be placed at the centre of the indigenous healing garden outside of Toronto City Hall. The turtle represents the land and clans of many bloodlines of indigenous people. Used for the basis of the sculpture, the depicted turtle climbing
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Skoden Banksy: Part One 0
- Arts and Culture
- October 17, 2018
After a mysterious artist painted a “Skoden” mural under the Newport Bridge just outside of Brantford, question came up as to who the artist was. On Wednesday, October 3, an email was sent to the Two Row Times with excerpts from a reflective journal written by the “Skoden Banksy” after their arrest for painting the
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