Cornerstone has acquired worldwide sales rights for Irish writer and director Frank Berry’s (“Michael Inside”) drama “Aisha” and will commence sales at the upcoming Cannes virtual market. The film, which has wrapped production in Ireland, stars Letitia Wright (“Small Axe”) and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”). It charts the experiences of Aisha, a young Nigerian woman,
Grand Promenade walkabout Monday
The Imagine Carlsbad team will host a Carlsbad Village walkabout with a Q&A starting at 6 p.m. Monday focusing on the Grand Promenade and Grand Street Tunnel. Meet Gary Nessim and Bob Wilkinson on the corner of State and Grand to review plans for a village gathering space called the Grand Promenade and proposed Grand Avenue tunnel under the Interstate 5 freeway to Pio Pico. For questions, email garynessim@att.net.
College Republicans subject of meeting
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The Carlsbad Republican Women Federated will host Austin Katz as keynote speaker for a presentation on “What’s New with College Republicans in California” at its brunch meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Holiday Inn, 2725 Palomar Airport Road. Katz, a senior at the University of California San Diego, is the president of the College Republicans at UC San Diego and activism director for the California Federation of College Republicans. Cost is $32 per guest, paid in advance by cred
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The struggles and triumphs of low-caste journalists in India s only all-female newspaper are chronicled in Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh s documentary.
A group of 20 or so women young, barefoot and in saris sit in a circle on the floor in the new documentary
Writing With Fire. Comprising the staff of
Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female newspaper (whose title translates to “waves of news”), the women are told that the publication will expand its online operations soon, and they must adapt. The digital divide among the journalists rural women from the Dalit caste (India’s lowest, formerly called “the untouchables”) quickly appears. One notes that it’s necessary to get articles out fast to win the race for eyeballs on social media, while another struggles to send emails on her first-ever phone, since the shortcut for that feature is “E,” a letter in a language (English) she doesn’t know.
A pediatric oncology nurse at CHOP is doing extraordinary work reuniting foster kids with their siblings.
Hallee Adelman s brand new book in her Great Big Feelings collection helps us help them work through it. It s called Way Past Worried. Kids are feeling these big emotions right now, too, (but) they might just be expressing them differently than adults are, Adelman says. We re encouraging kids to get out their feelings by doing an activity, like making some Worry Whip.
What is Worry Whip?
It s basically a whipped cream recipe that helps channel the idea of keeping your feelings from spilling everywhere.