“Being involved in the community is part of our DNA.” –
Anna Lin Yip
It’s easy for your taste buds to be satisfied after feasting on power bowls, salads, and wraps, but with four locations across Beijing, Moka Bros gives customers something else to warm their hearts. Their list of do-good deeds is as colorful and varied as their menu:
• Power Up smoothie sales benefit Smile Angel, a charity that helps kids with cleft palates regain their smiles.
• Wooden cutlery sales from takeout orders generate revenue for
Roots & Shoots’ tree-planting project.
• A special Lanzhou Power Bowl provides schooling for girls in rural China.
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More than 280 creative teens across Northern Nevada, including a student from Truckee, will soon be awarded for their original artwork submitted to this year’s Scholastic Art Awards. A panel of local judges sorted through more than 1,200 works submitted in 17 categories for the Northern Nevada visual arts component of the 2021 Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards, overseen by the Nevada Museum of Art. Winners and scholarship recipients will be honored with a virtual ceremony, premiering live on the Nevada Museum of Art Facebook page at YouTube channels at 6 pm this Friday, Feb. 19.
Exhibitions of the American Visions Nominees and Gold Key winning works are on view through March 5 at the Nevada Museum of Art and Sheppard Contemporary at the University of Nevada, Reno, respectively.
Japanese literature in translation has won plenty of acclaim in recent years acclaim that only continues to increase. 2018’s “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Takemori sold more than 650,000 copies, made the shortlist for multiple major book awards, and was named a best book of the year by 14+ major publications from
The New Yorker to
Buzzfeed.
The next year, “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa and translated by Stephen Snyder was a finalist for the National Book Award and the International Booker Prize. And in 2020, Yu Miri’s “Tokyo Ueno Station” (translated by Morgan Giles) one-upped “The Memory Police” and actually won the National Book Award.
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Open Heart Surgery Theatre presents the podcast pilot episode. Martha Ross and Coleen Shirin MacPherson, two theatre makers find themselves grappling with their obsession with Leonora Carrington, the English-born Mexican painter and writer whose surreal life and art has impacted many. Their obsession transforms as they chat with writer Heidi Sopinka; falling into Carrington’s paintings themselves, they witness a world that is strange, animalistic, mythological and absurd.
Listen to the first episode on Thursday, January 21 at 7 pm at https://www.facebook.com/Openheartsurgerytheatre
The Wild Women podcast is created in collaboration with Yearime Castel Barragan (performer), Mitchell Akiyama (original musical score), Christopher Ross-Ewart (sound design/sound editing) and special guest Heidi Sopinka. With support from the Canada Council for the Arts