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Desc: 11th North America Bangla Literature and Cultural convention,2008 @ Los Angeles. |
Harold Pinter dies aged 78
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Desc: Harold Pinter, the iconic British playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and two-time Oscar nominee (The French Lieutenant's Woman and Betrayal) died of cancer on Dec. 24. His stage works, marked by verbal acrobatics and the loaded pause, include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and No Man's Land (1974). |
Comfort Woman (part5)
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Desc: Comfort Woman: Slaves of Destiny
by: Maria Rosa Henson
We made this short film for our Philippine Literature subject. |
Heroes-Part 1
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Desc: Documentary on romantic heroes in literature. |
The Weary Blues
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Desc: The Weary Blues poem read by Langston Hughes with images. |
Carlos Fuentes
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Desc: Carlos Fuentes' lecture at Dartmouth with introduction by Lilly Kanso |
The Enid Blyton Story - Part 2
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Desc: The story continues with Enid's early life. |
Tomnuang Badaja - Pen Ron
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Desc: Neang badaja is a story from Khmer literature about a young girl who comes from a very wealthy family. She falls in love with one of her servants. Her family disapproves and they run away and start a new life together in the forest. They eventually hvae two kids together. She says to her husband that she really misses her parents and hope they would forgive her and asks if they could go back and visit. On the way heading back her husband gets bit by a snake and dies. She tries to cross one child over the stream and leaves the other child on land. The child on land was the baby and while waiting for his mother to come back was grabbed by an eagle. The mother panics and tries to go back on land to get him. While trying to get her child on land her other child drowns. She goes back into town to look for her parents only to discover they died in a fire. She becomes crazy and would mistake other kids for her own crying for them. |
Heroines-Part 1
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Desc: Documentary about heroines in romantic literature. |
Curious George FREE B
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Desc: Free ASL translation (part B) of H. R. Rey's Curious George. |
Animal Rights - Outdoor Video Education - Fur
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Desc: Showing PETA's "What's wrong with Fur" to the public and handing out literature.
Now the public can make a more informed decision on wheter or not to buy fur products.
The Song:
'We always win' by Anima Mundi |
ZOE JIMENEZ CORRETJER, Poeta
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Desc: La escritora Zoé Jiménez Corretjer leyendo un poema del libro Rosa Náutica |
Forest Song - Rosa Wol, soprano
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Desc: Yaara Ben-David is an urbanic collage-artist, a poet and literature-critic, who opened her collages-exhibition named "Caress in full Light" (like the title of her last poem-book) at the theatre-hall of Kibbutz Mishmar Ha'Emek (18.12.2008 - 15.1.2009). For her, this special art is a kind of completion to poetry, and given the time - a sediment of fruitful mutual correlation is created between those two mediums of art.
Yaara's poem (all rights reserved) "In a Forest" (composed by Robert Nissanson - all rights reserved) was among the poems chosen to open her exhibition, and it is full of symbolic themes and metaphores.
Translation:
"In a forest where everything has started,
a splitting woman from splitting the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life,
singing in a thirst to disappear.
If only another word you will tell her
not to disturb the world-noise to flow.
When her voice slided in a negligence of a fallen shawl,
I covered myself with an antique twitter as in my born-day,
till Adam came.
When he was late to come in the Six Days of Creation,
(she) took out a second-hand dress, from another World-Creation,
to cover the flesh-nudity.
A second-hand dress to take out and throw away,
to take out and throw away, like a bad dream
that was once a cameo to
love."
Sung by Rosa (Vered) Wol, soprano
Piano-accomp. by Riva Wolkowicz
Photo and vid-editing by Salomon Wolkowicz
תערוכת-הקולאז'ים של האמנית התל-אביבית המשוררת ומבקרת-הספרות יערה בן-דוד, נושאת את שם ספרה האחרון: "ליטוף באור מלא", הוצאת עקד (כל הזכויות שמורות). לדבריה, אמנות הקולאז' מהווה השלמה מסוימת לשירה. העשייה בשני המדיומים הללו אינה בהכרח סימולטנית אך עם הזמן נוצר כנראה משקע של השפעה הדדית מפרה
התערוכה נערכה במבואה של התיאטרון בקיבוץ משמר העמק, ולוותה בזמרה-הקראה של חלק משיריה של יערה. שירה "ביער" (כל הזכויות שמורות) הולחן ע"י רוברט ניסנסון (כל הזכויות שמורות) והושר בפי זמרת-הסופרן ורד רוזה וולקוביץ' שלוותה ע"י אמה בפסנתר. צילם בוידאו וערך: סלומון וולקוביץ |
M Butterfly ENGLISH (4/11)
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Desc: Great Movie! |
Ancient Vimanas, VRIL
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Desc: "The Secrets of Gravitation!"
In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called Vimanas. India's national epic, The Mahabharata, is a poem of vast length and complexity. According to Dr. Vyacheslav Zaitsev: "the holy Indian Sages, the Ramayana for one, tell of "Two storied celestial chariots with many windows" "They roar like off into the sky until they appear like comets." The Mahabharata and various Sanskrit books describe at length these chariots, "powered by winged lighting...it was a ship that soared into the air, flying to both the solar and stellar regions."
According other sources; in 1875, the Vimanika Shastra, a 400 BC text written by Maharshi Bhardwaj was discovered in a temple in India. The book dealt with the operation of ancient Vimanas (thus IFOs) and included information in steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightning, and how to switch the drive to solar energy or some other |
Gulzar - Baat Pashmine Ki - Part 1
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Desc: A stage audiovisual show highlighting bouquet of works from the creative genius of Gulzarsaab whose contribution to Hindi films and literature has been tremendous |
The Snowy Day FREE
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Desc: Free Translation (text and images) into ASL of Keats' The Snowy Day |
Adonis & Raed Khoshaba- Poetry and Music العود والشعر
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Desc: An evening of poetry by the poet Adonis in the House of Literature in Bonn amd
the music of the Oud player Raed Khoshaba |