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“Yo soy la resurrección y la vida”: imágenes para Domingo de Pascua / “I am...
The Face of Jesus drawn by a little boy named Ben_2011 Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas_pintor boliviano_Cristo aimará_Aymara Christ_1939 Jesus as अवतार (avatāra) and guru_mosaic depiction from India...
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Ramadan Mubarek, My Gay Brothers and Sisters!
A young man who combines his Faith with High Self-Esteem – a winning combination. The first day of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan and Toronto’s World Pride Parade fell on the same day this year,...
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Women Out and About Together: SlutWalks, Blame Games, and Reclaiming Names
By now you may have heard about how SlutWalk Toronto got started, and how a small group of people in our city kicked off what became a global movement by challenging harmful, victim-blaming language....
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Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín / The 24th International Poetry...
Joséphine Bacon_Poeta Innu_Canadá El Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín / The 24th International Poetry Festival of Medellín, Colombia, starts today! . The inaugural readings include the...
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Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes
A first-ever exhibition for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto opens today: Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes. The Anishinaabe Peoples gave us many of the place...
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Victor Ekpuk: Painting and Nsibidi ideograms: an evolution
Victor Ekpuk_Ode to Mother Victor Ekpuk_Composition number 2 Victor Ekpuk_State of Beings . . . Victor Ekpuk is a Nigerian-born artist who now lives in Washington, D.C. His art, which began as...
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A “narrbong” of Indigenous Australian poems and paintings
Jackie Giles (1935-2010)_Purrungu rock hole showing underground travel coils of the ancestral snake or jila_2008 Oodgeroo Noonuccal God’s One Mistake . “It repenteth me that I have made man.” (Genesis...
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Cuento anaranjado: tallando una calabaza de Hallowe’en… / Orange Story:...
Cuento anaranjado: tallando una calabaza de Hallowe’en… . Desde mi niñez me he sentido atraído por la calabaza de Hallowe’en. Así pues…puedo ser un artista retratista que blande una navaja – o un...
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José Guadalupe Posada: the ‘calaveras’ of a Mexican master of social...
The etchings of José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) demonstrated a worldview that was, and often still is, profoundly Mexican. A commercial illustrator who also printed political broadsides, Posada...
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Antonio Valeriano: Nican mopohua and Mexico’s Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 1531: Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin’s encounter with Santa Maria Totlaconantzin (Our Lady of Guadalupe): …..Auh in acico in inahuac tepetzintli in itocayocan Tepeyacac, ye tlatlalchipahua….. *...
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Gozo del Invierno: George du Maurier y el Patinaje
George du Maurier (1834-1896) Rincomania (1875) . Friends of the fleeting skate, behold in this A Rincomaniac’s dream of earthly bliss, Sketched by the frantic pen of one who thinks That Heaven is...
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Tanya Tagaq: Nunavut’s radical Inuk throat-singer
. . . Inuk artist and poet Alootook Ipellie (Iqaluit, Baffin Island, 1951-2007) might’ve thrilled to the vocal sounds – both traditional and progressive/highly original – of contemporary...
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Toronto Reggae History Project: 1972-1987
Stranger Cole in Toronto… Visit Reggae Toronto at http://reggaetoronto.com/
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Won’t You Be Our Valentine? Five Beautiful Women & Five Beautiful Men /...
. . . . . Marvin Gaye (1939-1984) . Don Cheadle (born 1964) . James Todd Smith (L. L. Cool J., born 1968) . John Amaechi (born 1970) . . Shemar Moore (born 1970) . . . ....
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Black History Month and Canada’s Flag (50th anniversary)
On this day, the 50th anniversary of Canada’s Flag, we reflect on the contributions of Black people to Canadian society through elected or appointed office… . There is a journey of commitment and hard...
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Black History Month: Samba and Calypso
Congo pepper – sliced, on ice! Minus 24 degrees celsius this morning, here in Toronto… February is, typically, our coldest month of the year, but today is exceptionally cold; a blue-blue sky and...
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Picong: the verbal “duels” of calypsonians
Silhouette pen and ink by Bruce Patrick Jones_The Calypsonian Master wears many hats: Party inciter, social commentator, dueling wordsmith! Picong or Ex-tempo, is light comical banter with music,...
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Imaginary Portraits
Lynette Yiadom–Boakye_Knave_oil on canvas_2011 “Painting for me is the subject. The figures exist only through paint, through colour, line, tone and mark-making…..They don’t share our concerns or...
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