Artists have really come together collectively to try to bring us joy in every way that they can. This weekend, we have very colorful and vibrant picks for you in case you need a little pick me up. We could all benefit from things that were created to bring us optimism.
Friday, Jan. 22-Feb. 21
Bringing optimism into the new year, the Esplanade Association presents “Hatched: Breaking through the Silence,” a four-week audio and visual experience open to the public. After months of taking socially distanced walks and not seeing anything at the Hatch Memorial Shell I am excited to finally be able to stop on my walk and be able to watch a 15-minute show designed to lift my spirits with projection-mapped visuals and music composed by Maria Finklemeier and recorded by local musicians.
Biden taps William Burns to head Central Intelligence Agency
President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday that he had selected longtime US State Department official William Burns to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Burns was a 33-year veteran of the US diplomatic corps, rising to Deputy Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014 in the Obama administration. He retired in 2014 to head the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a major foreign policy think tank in Washington.
As a top-level State Department official through the administrations of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama, Burns is implicated in virtually every crime of US imperialism over the past three decades, including the war in Iraq, the US-NATO attack on Libya, the military coup that drowned the Egyptian Revolution in blood, and the US intervention in Syria.
Films at Fowler to host movies and discussions
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Films at Fowler has a new name and will now be hosted online with Zoom discussions.
For 26 years film viewers have gathered on winter evenings at Fowler Library to watch some of the most interesting and stimulating examples of current and classic cinema from around the world.
The series, now called Films at Fowler, cannot meet at Fowler Library in person in 2021. Films will not be available to watch from home on Kanopy, a free streaming service available to library patrons. After each movie, participants will gather on Zoom on scheduled evenings for a discussion. The theme of the movies this year is Movies Are Your Passport.
Black & White Category June 2020 Winner, taken in India.
As ASIAN Geographic’s annual Images of Asia (IOA) 2020 Photo/Videography Competition looms closer, submissions to our IOA Monthly competition – the precursor to our annual event – are pouring in. We have received stunning photos across the categories, and are now featuring our monthly winners in an exclusive interview!
Below is our interview with one of this month’s spotlight, Yasser Alaa Mobarak, the IOA Monthly June 2020 winner in the Black & White category, selected from the May 2020 entries.
AG: What is the story of your beginning and journey to creating great images?
Yasser: I got into photography during the Egyptian Revolution at the age of 18 as a contributing photojournalist to the