Rachel Zarrow March 17, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 1:07 pm
An adaption of artist jackie sumell’s “Solitary Gardens” at UC Santa Cruz. The garden plots are meant to represent a solitary confinement cell, taking up the same 6-by-9-foot space. The plants, which are selected remotely by an incarcerated person in solitary confinement, only grow in the spaces where humans would usually be able to walk in the cell. Photo: R.R. Jones
In the 2017 book “How To Do Politics With Art,” Lilian Mathieu describes how the arts play an important role in protest.
“It provides material and symbolic resources,” the French sociologist writes. Art “contributes to movement framing, mobilizes constituencies, sensitizes the broader public, and produces social change by renewing cultural traditions.”
Part Three of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world.
Debra Schaffner has spent much of the past year working on her first feature-length documentary. “Curse of the Mutant Heirloom” explores how women, including herself, deal with the knowledge that they carry the BRCA gene mutation, which results in increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer and is more prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews.
The pandemic prevented Schaffner from filming outside of her Oakland home, so she decided to lean more heavily on animation and miniatures to tell the women’s stories. She built a small robot version of her late mother (“It looks quite a lot like her”) and fashioned a tabletop-size model of a kitchen, inspired by the one in her childhood home in New Jersey, out of wood, tiles and handmade wallpaper.
Posted: Thu 11th Mar 2021
Argument over lack of support for £3.5m Children’s Services cash injection as ‘maths’ and process challenged again by Labour group
The Lead Member of Children’s Services condemned the Labour group on Wrexham council for not raising questions over the department before rejecting a budget that will see £3.5m injected into the service.
Members of the Safeguarding, Communities & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee were examining the reasons why Children’s Services are reporting an overspend of £5.9m for eight months of the financial year, a topic that has had two recent heated debates.
One such debate came during the formal setting of the council’s budget, that had a £3.5m cash injection earmarked for the service. The budget passed Council, however the Labour group did not support it, citing the questions around the overspend as to why.
Here s how much North Wales council tax bills will rise by from next month
Taxes will be increased in every county in the region
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Ratepayers across North Wales face higher council tax bills from next month.
Wrexham Council’s under-fire social care department is facing significant budget pressures within the current financial year. The children’s budget is on course to be overspent by £5.9 million with a large proportion accounted for by a rise in the cost of placements for children under the local authority’s care. Spending on agency staff and legal costs has also contributed at a time when the department’s performance has been rated as “inadequate” by Care Inspectorate Wales due to safeguarding concerns. The excess expenditure is set to come under the spotlight at a meeting of councillors being held later this week.