Location: Singapore
Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach
Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual and religious. A former stand-up comic, she is also the founder of arts collective Dis/Content.
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Minnesota creatives respond to a big idea: Let s make opera small
By Rob Hubbard Special to the Star Tribune February 4, 2021 10:33am Text size Copy shortlink: What does it have to do with me? That question has probably kept many people of color away from opera.
It s understandable, given that the subject matter comes mostly from the perspectives of white European men of past centuries who often dealt with race and culture in wince-inducing ways.
To Minnesota Opera s credit, the company decided to open up the process of creating new operas. Last fall it put out a call for Minnesota-based teams to develop mini-operas MNiatures, about 10 minutes in length with increased diversity and inclus
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From the moment the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened, it was clearly the go-to venue for the Smithsonian’s jazz initiatives. Even more than many of its jazz events, though, NMAAHC’s
Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and
The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons seem made for each other. The iconic bassist’s work honors King alongside
Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and
Muhammad Ali, building gospel-tinged music around their words and ideas in a dramatic way that by itself evokes a poetry reading. It’s shrewd programming, then, that McBride’s NMAAHC performance (with students from New York’s Juilliard School) based on