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Art, Culture, and Healing the World: A Conversation with Haema Sivanesan


Photo by Laura Gildner
Haema Sivanesan is a curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), British Columbia. She has held leadership and curatorial positions in public galleries and visual art centers across Canada, as well as in Australia and South Asia. Her curatorial work typically focuses on art from South and Southeast Asia and its diasporas, with an interest in non-Western post-colonial and trans-national histories, world views, and practices. Recent exhibitions include: 
Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters (2019), 
Fiona Tan: Ascent (2019)
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest (2018).
In 2018, Sivanesan was a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, Curatorial Research Fellowship (2018–19); and in 2016, she was a recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, Hong Kong, multi-year research and exhibition development grant for the project  ....

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COVID-19 triggers huge rise in donations for research


COVID-19 triggers huge rise in donations for research
The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 sparked a huge rise in private philanthropic giving by billionaires and big private company charitable foundations in China with a substantial amount going towards research and development of vaccines, antiviral drugs and other treatments being developed by teams of scientists throughout China but particularly at elite universities and research centres.
A research report on
Pandemic Philanthropy in China by Bridge Consulting’s Beijing Office calculated that some CNY1.8 billion (US$279 million) was contributed to research and development (R&D) in China in the first half of 2020 after a strict lockdown was declared on 23 January 2020 in Wuhan, where the virus is thought to have originated. ....

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