If you’ve ever taken a huge leap into the unknown only to be surprised on the other side by a host of loving arms waiting to catch you, you’ll have an inkling of the sentiments of the activists who took part in the three historic protest marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Continue reading Selma: There’s a Little Bit of Heaven in That Muddy Road to Freedom

Album: Spin Cycle Artist: Afiara Quartet “I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return’d to me, And answer’d: ’I Myself am Heav’n and Hell.“ – Omar Khayyam The process was singular: The Afiara Quartet sent commissions to four of Canada’s best composers: Kevin Lau, Laura Silberberg, Rob Teehan, and Dinuk Wijeratne. Each was to write a piece for a string quartet, a piece that would be recorded and remixed by the famous dj and music producer Skratch Bastid, whose role it was to create new recordings that … Continue reading Spin Cycle by the Afiara Quartet: The Inspired Construction of an Enchanting Musical Cyborg

Film: Leviathan Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Writers: by Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin “In this work at all times, the human spirit is shown as modified by its relation to force, as swept away, blinded, by the very force it imagined it could handle, as deformed by the weight of the force it submits to.” – Simone Weil, “The Iliad, or The Poem of Force” “You are covered by the divine being, you can do whatever you want, enjoy . . . Not only the explicit message: renounce, suffer and so on… but the true hidden message: pretend to renounce and you … Continue reading You Can’t Pull in Leviathan With a Hook, But He May End Up Beached on Your Shore