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No ordinary wedding singer
Life, John Clewley, Published on 02/03/2021
» In 2016, World Beat featured an album, Bahdeni Nami (MonkeyTown Records, Germany), by the prolific Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman.
Arabic theatre is cultural lifeline for Sweden's migrants
AFP, Published on 12/09/2020
» STOCKHOLM: In a theatre in Stockholm's suburbs, a small crowd gathered to watch three actors, two Syrian and one Swedish, act out the lives of a young migrant couple settling into life in Sweden.
Examining the golden hour
Life, Published on 24/12/2019
» The term "golden hour" has many meanings. Medics describe it as the critical time between life and death experienced by trauma patients where medical intervention can still have a successful outcome while landscape photographers use the term to articulate the transition of light between night and day.
Protecting national treasures
Life, Published on 02/09/2019
» Popular culture tends to depict art and antique collectors as evil thieves who rob priceless treasures belonging to all of humanity. Nonetheless, many collectors and private museums say they collect for the purpose of preservation, because national entities do not have the capacity to safeguard rare objects from destruction by environmental harm and war, the actual thieves in their view.
On the screen in the Lion City
Life, Published on 29/11/2018
» The 29th Singapore International Film Festival opened on Wednesday and Southeast Asia's premier film event will run until Dec 9.
All eyes on Asia
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/10/2018
» Asia's premier cine-event took off last night. The 23rd Busan International Film Festival once again draws all attention to the South Korean port city as it hosts the annual showcase of films, especially Asian films. One part to promote the South Korean film industry -- a formidable machine of creativity and commerce -- and one part to reign as a centre of filmmaking activity in this part of the world, Busan has gone through some bumps, political and managerial, but remains steadfast in being in the biggest in Asia.
Capturing the refugee crisis on camera
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 06/02/2018
» Currently, there are 65 million people around the world who have been forcibly uprooted from their homes due to war, persecution and conflict. Twenty-one million of them are refugees, and half of them are children. We see stories about them daily, saturated in the news to the point that we've started to become numb.
Three is the magic number
Life, John Clewley, Published on 30/01/2018
» This week World Beat considers three stringed instruments from Africa: the valiha from Madagascar, kora from West Africa and oud from North Africa (which may have originated in what was Persia). All these instruments are plucked and 10 years ago, a bright spark in the music business thought it would be a good idea to bring together three master pluckers of these three instruments to see what music they might create. The result was the 3MA project release back in 2008.
The human condition, from a distance
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/12/2017
» Ai Weiwei's Human Flow is a film that spans the latitudes of a mural painting, vast and long, covering one end of the Earth to the other, many times with a top-down view. This documentary about forcibly displaced people around the world -- from Syria and Iraq, from Eritrea to Mexico -- plays out in the broad scope of Refugee 101, and it works as a (very long) campaign presentation of United Nations High Commission of Human Rights (UNHCR).
End Come Too Soon
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 19/11/2017
» Though it feels like an afterthought, a final EP by one of the most thrillingly cerebral UK art-rock outfits proves how much they will leave an unfillable dent in indie-rock.