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Inspiring young minds
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 05/03/2024
» Children are the future of the nation and art serves as a powerful tool to nurture and channel their creative potential. Recognising this fact, the National Gallery Singapore has been organising "The Gallery Children's Biennale", an art event specifically designed for young people, since 2020.
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Getting soft power right
Life, Published on 08/01/2024
» After three months in office, the Srettha Thavisin government has raved on about populist policies in the guise of digital wallets and soft power projects that will create income to boost our declining economy. With optimism, we learned that Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Pheu Thai party leader and head of the National Soft Power Strategy Committee (NSPSC), has drafted a budget of 5.1 billion baht to boost festivals and creative industries. It is welcoming news to hear this government is priortising art, music, literature, design, fashion, film, food, games, sports and festivals as essential sources for the creative economy. Where this enormous chunk of budget will come from, like digital wallets, remains to be seen.
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Netflix partners with TAT, DNP & CEA to launch ‘Uncover Thailand: A Creative Travel Guide’
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 19/02/2023
» Netflix recently joined hands with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), and the Creative Economy Agency (CEA) to launch the “Uncover Thailand: A Creative Travel Guide'', a first-of-its-kind Thailand travel guide (thailandtravelmap.com).
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When the dust settles
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/01/2023
» When Sakarin Krue-On, artist and lecturer at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, was asked to create an artwork for the 2021 exhibition "Art For Air" at Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center, he was struck with the idea of using snow globes.
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A daring mission
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 12/10/2022
» This year seems to be one of clarification for those still curious about what happened during the gruelling rescue operation of a lost soccer team at Tham Luang Cave four years ago. There have been plenty of movies and documentaries covering this topic, from Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's The Rescue and Ron Howard's thrilling drama Thirteen Lives to Emmy-winner Pailin Wedel's upcoming documentary The Trapped 13: How We Survived The Thai Cave.
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Bank caper, South Korean style
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 12/07/2022
» In the past few years, Netflix and the Korean entertainment industry have taken the country's original streaming content to another level. The phenomenon has impacted not just locally, but worldwide too. With its own solid storytelling style, there's no tale from Hollywood today that Koreans can't do. From the thriller smash hit Squid Game and zombie apocalypses in Kingdom or #Alive to missions in space The Silent Sea and Space Sweepers.
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Netflix film by Thai creators preaches harmonious existence
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 02/06/2022
» Netflix is screening the first preschool animation, Sea Of Love, by Thai creators to teach children and viewers of all ages how to live together in harmony.
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Exhibition examines spiritual roots of tattoos
Life, Published on 28/04/2022
» The Embassy of France in collaboration with Alliance Française Chiang Mai presents "Trance/Figuration: Tattoos From Birth To Death", featuring a multi-feature immersive work of sacred tattoos, at the French School of the Far East (École Française d'Extrême-Orient) in Chiang Mai, until May 22.
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A TV show born of pandemic
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/09/2021
» Seven years ago, only a few people living outside the Philippines would have heard of director Erik Matti or his crime thriller masterpiece On The Job, despite it being a film to likely revive the long dormant action genre in the Philippines. Thanks to the age of streaming services, the film has recently landed on HBO GO, where Thai viewers can watch it for the first time in the form of a six-part miniseries.
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Extinctions as seen through art
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 01/07/2021
» On show at Warin Lab Contemporary art gallery, the "Reincarnations III – Ecologies Of Life" project by Ruangsak Anuwatwimon is a site-specific work. The art gallery is the former home of Dr Boonsong Lekagul, a medical doctor and the first ecologist in Thailand to advocate the need to preserve endangered animal species in the country.
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