Last blog post for April 2025
- The WASM Blog
- Apr 29
- 2 min read
Films:
With films from all over South Asia, including Nepal and Bhutan (for the first time), the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal has a wide variety of films this year with cinema screenings that include discussions and a free online component. We spoke with the festival director, Syeda Bukhari about this year's lineup.
For more information, go to https://saffm.centrekabir.com
Interview:
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Arts and culture news:
Revisiting a story about lost art:
An Ontario teacher found works of art in the bargain bin. So, she set out to find their creator. The sculptures were lost in the mail somewhere between Nova Scotia and Montreal before winding up for sale.
One of two sculptures Sonja Krawesky found in a bargain bin store in Hamilton, Ont. She knew it didn't belong there, so she set out to find its creator. (Submitted by Sonja Krawesky)
Sydney Blum – exhibited at the Robertson Arès Gallery in Montreal, 2024 and 2021:
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Otto P. Kelland:
From the CBC archives: songwriter Otto Kelland tells the story of ‘Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s’. A Newfoundland classic is being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame: Otto Kelland’s ‘Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s’. The induction will take place at the East Coast Music Gala in St. John’s on May 8th. We dug into the CBC archives for this interview with the songwriter himself. From 1995, here’s Otto Kelland with the story behind his beloved ballad.
Cape St-Mary's Lighthouse c/o Wikipedia
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San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain: An Icon of Modern Creativity
c/o Wikipedia
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Sketchbooks:
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Lots to check out at the Morgan Library and Museum:
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Why a herd of life-sized animal puppets will make a 'mass migration' across continents. A new art project will see dozens of life-sized animal puppets migrate some 20,000 kilometres from Senegal to Norway to draw attention to climate change and biodiversity loss. Artistic director Amir Nizar Zuabi spoke to As It Happens guest host Helen Mann.
The project was launched at Wimbledon College of Arts (c/o BBC)
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Books:
How horses shaped the modern world, from the origins of pants to life-saving vaccines. 'We wear pants because of horses. Prior to riding horses, no one wore pants,' says the historian.
In The Horse, historian Timothy Winegard traces how horses revolutionized the way humans hunted, traded, travelled, farmed, fought, and interacted — and how they also inspired architecture, invention, furniture, and fashion.
(Penguin Random House/Becky Winegard)
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