World Radio Day 2021: Theme And Quotes To Commemorate The Powerful Medium
02/13/21 AT 7:40 AM
On Feb. 13 every year, the world celebrates the most powerful, widely consumed, and heard medium - the radio.
Considering the unique ability the instrument has in reaching out to a wide range of audiences and the power it holds in shaping the thoughts of its users, the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 proclaimed this day as the World Radio Day with an aim to promote the medium and encourage its use.
The theme for this year s celebration is New World, New Radio, which is divided into three sub-themes namely, evolution, innovation, and connection.
Prix Pictet, Confinement
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More than 40 photographers shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Pictet photography prize since 2008 cast their eye over a world depleted by the Cobid-19 pandemic in
Prix Pictet, Confinement. High-profile names such as Naoya Hatakeyama of Japan, London-born Susan Derges and the US photographer Joel Sternfeld give their own personal responses, in texts and imagery, to the devastation caused by the coronavirus crisis. The US photojournalist Ed Kashi shows sufferers being transported to hospital by the emergency services while the French photographer Stéphane Couturier focuses on “buildings in Brasilia’s banking sector [representing] a world that has suddenly become obsolete”. Activist Shahidul Alam’s image is pithily summed up in its title:
Photographer s shot of Telus Sky building qualifies for World Photographic Cup
There are a lot of images to represent how people felt this past year, but a Cochrane woman s photograph of the Telus Sky building in Calgary really hit the nail on the head.
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A Cochrane woman s image of the Telus Sky building in downtown Calgary has qualified her for a spot in the World Photographic Cup.(Jacquie Matechuk)
Architecture and design streaming platform screens these highlights this month.
Louis Kahn’s Tiger City (113 mins)
Bangladesh / USA 2019 (Available from Feb 1)
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how the famed American architect built a daringly modern and monumental parliamentary complex in war-torn Bangladesh. This very personal fourteen-country odyssey delves into Bangladesh’s quest for democracy, how Kahn brilliantly wove together Eastern and Western forms, and the power of great architecture to embody the highest ideals.
Coast Modern – (56mins)
USA/ Canada 2012 (Available from Feb 8)
Travelling along the Pacific North West coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies. Stepping inside the most inspired dwellings on the west coast, we feel how the light and space of a classic Modernist home can work in collabo
Opening date to be announced
Over the past few decades, many of Moscow’s 70-plus billionaires have gone abroad to establish art enterprises. Leonid Mikhelson is turning that tide with the opening, a stone’s throw from the Kremlin, of GES-2, a second home for his Venice-based V-A-C Foundation.
The architect Renzo Piano has spent five years transforming a disused 20,000-square-metre power station into V-A-C’s new artistic hub, with gallery spaces and a 420-seat, glass-fronted playhouse as well as a library, learning centre, residency block and restaurant. A former vodka warehouse nearby will become a centre of ‘experimentation and cultural production’ for the local creative community.