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Arts Alert
Tuesday, July 18

by Cathleen Bond

Museum  of GlassCanadian architect Arthur Erickson has designed the new 75,000 square foot state-of-the-art Museum of Glass located in Tacoma, Washington. The museum will house a "hot shop amphitheatre with viewing gallery, 13,000 square feet of exhibition space, a theatre, a technologically advanced resource centre, and a Museum store." Ground-breaking ceremonies begin this month in downtown Tacoma, a city undergoing vast urban revitalization.

The Museum of Glass should be open to the public in July 2002. I've been trying to find out more information on this project. If you know anything please write me an email or better still, post it in our message section. I just can't learn enough about Canadian architects and their projects.

Link: Museum of Glass architectural plans:

Museum of Glass plans

Lord of the Flies
There's something disturbingly prophetic about William Golding's great novel, Lord of the Flies, the story of a group of young British schoolboys stranded on an island in the South Pacific. Golding suggested than book was based on his observations of breakdown in parliamentary reform, however the novel seems entirely as viable today as it did then. Indeed, to me it seems even more prescient. We're living in a time when the weak, sick, old and poor are being hung out to dry, road rage is the great national pastime, and one of the top rated programs on the tube is Survivor.

Rather than watching the sleazy TV knock-off, why not head over to Niagara On The Lake to see the theatrical adaptation?

Shaw Festival
William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Festival Theatre
until October 29
Niagara-on-the-Lake
1-800-511-SHAW

Fine Tuning
Tonight you have two ways of enjoying the new CBC Radio program todradio.com ... the usual way on your audio receiver, or online where the show is accompanied by webcams, a live chat and lots of added features. I watched online the first two weeks of this new experiment, and enjoyed it mightily. The text on the live chat scrolls a bit funny, but the community of participants adds a lot to the show. Host Tod Maffin is a Vancouver futurist and digital entrepreneur and is quite self-effacing and funny. Tonight's topic is "Digital Morality," 8 p.m. online and on CBC Radio One.

Links:
todradio.com
Tod Maffin Consulting

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