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There’s Still a Sweet Wind of Benevolent Wisdom Blowing in America, and It’s Actually Changing Things

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The Mindful Bard: A Call to Action by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 31 2014-08-08 Book: A Call to Action Author: Jimmy Carter “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” – Matthew 10:16 NIV “Violence against women is the most prevalent and the most hidden injustice in our world today.”– Jim Wallis, as quoted in A Call to Action One dilemma of North American voters is that elections are often little more than strategic popularity contests. Contests in which the prevailing beliefs of resistant … Continue reading There’s Still a Sweet Wind of Benevolent Wisdom Blowing in America, and It’s Actually Changing Things

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Everyone Should Have One’s Own Museum

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In Conversation With Susan Malmstrom, Part II by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 31 2014-08-08 “You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.” – Truman Capote, from Breakfast at Tiffany’s Susan Malmstrom is an artist specializing in digitally produced photography. She grew up in California, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine, and has lived in Canada since 2004. Her … Continue reading Everyone Should Have One’s Own Museum

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From the Archives: In Conversation With Film Scholar Francesco Casetti

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by Wanda Waterman First seen in the Voice Magazine, Volume 16 Issue 49 2008-12-19 Francesco Casetti is a renowned professor of cinematography and author of the recent Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity (see Voice review here). Mr. Casetti is chair of the Department of Media and Performing Arts at the Università Cattolica in Milan and was recently a Visiting Professor at Yale University. Recently, Mr. Casetti spoke with The Voice from Connecticut. “The cinema is exactly this: an experience that vacillates between the possibility of an excitement beyond measure, and an adherence to measures that avoid all risk. … Continue reading From the Archives: In Conversation With Film Scholar Francesco Casetti

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Art, History, and Nature in the Tapestry of the Grand Design

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In Conversation With Susan Malmstrom, Part I by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 30 2014-08-01 Susan Malmstrom is an artist specialising in digitally produced photography. She grew up and studied in California, received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine, and has lived in Canada since 2004. Her life’s work manifests a sense of wonder, curiousity, a love of memorablilia, an obsession with strangeness, and a delightfully twisted sense of humour. (Check out her amazing collection of portfolios here.) Her current project, The Repository of Wonders, is a travelling … Continue reading Art, History, and Nature in the Tapestry of the Grand Design