The long awaited CD “Double Focus” by the Tanzanian poet and musician Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi is set for release in Oslo, Norway, in November this year. The CD contains music and spoken word. Recorded at Urban Sound studio in Oslo by the legendary recording engineer Jock Loveband, “Double Focus” brings together musicians from […]
How to publicize your writing by speaking in schools, libraries, and shopping malls
Speaking to School and Library Audiences and Storytelling Free book publicity is about storytelling to library and school audiences, giving interviews to the media, speaking about what’s in your book, and reading in public and on CDs or DVDs, broadcasting on Web sites, and doing book store appearances, and book tours, if you are able […]
Author Sees Book Is A Tool For Christian Fellowship
by Jackie O’Neal Bill Joyce, author of How Can We Find True Love? The Twelve Steps of Spirituality thrives on life’s simple joys. He describes himself as an "adventurer who has found treasure in the little things received like the giggle of a grand-daughter, and the joy I see in my […]
Summer Hours Movie Is A Summer Bore
I recently saw the new French movie Summer Hours (French title, L’heure d’été) at my local arthouse cinema http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/009/09May/CAC-SummerHours.htm. Directed by Olivier Assayas, it begins with the grown children of an elderly woman gathering with their families at the family home outside Paris. She has devoted herself to the memory, works and possessions of a deceased […]
Wayang Kulit or Balinese Shadow Puppet
Sesame Street may be the ideal storytelling medium of western kids of worlwide, but the Balinese sticks to its aged-old Wayang Kulit or shadow puppets. An oil lamp flame licks and glimmers through a thin white cloth screen as melodies air from the gamelan ensemble. A crowd gathers in front of the center of attraction. […]
Video:Obamas host first White House egg roll
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of children will play on the White House’s south lawn during one of Washington’s most anticipated annual events: the Easter Egg Roll. This rite of spring, which dates back to 1878, is named for races that challenge children to push eggs across the grass using oversized spoons. The first egg roll […]
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