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Arts Alert Friday, July 28 by Cathleen Bond
In this week's coverage of Canadian arts magazines, why would I toss in
mention of Canadian Business magazine? Well, if any of us hope to find an
audience for our art, let alone make a few bucks, we have to open a couple
of chakras to the biz side of the arts. And Canadian Business is one of the
few biz publications to take the arts seriously. In its recent transformation
from a monthly to a bi-weekly, it's upped coverage of the cultural side of
life -- particularly the digital arts.
This week's earlier columns:
A Bird Finally Sings
Googoosh will perform in Toronto July 29th at the Air Canada Centre and in Vancouver Aug. 5th
Fine Tuning
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Along these same lines, a new magazine called Realm is covering some of the
same territory as Canadian Business, but from a purely youth perspective. It
uses
very clever design (think: Shift magazine, with friendlier colours)and
powerful writing to cover the young entrepreneurs' scene. The featured story
this issue is 30-year-old Mary Ballentyne, the vice-chair of the new
Aboriginal People's Television Network. If you want to figure out a way to make a little cash from your own
artsy inclinations, you might want to check out these two mags.
We're all aware of the 1979 Islamic revolution. This was partly a cultural
revolution determined to eradicate what many felt was the destructive
"decadence of the past." One feature of this cultural muzzling was the edict
banning women from singing in public. Many artists and entertainers fled,
however Googoosh "the former Queen of Persian pop" chose to stay in her
homeland, silence her voice and live with the hell that followed: "For almost
22 years I stayed I my apartment sitting on a couch. I didn't go out of meet
anyone as such. Sometimes I went out to buy fruits, or shop at a
supermarket... It's been years since I heard my voice. I always hummed in a low
voice. I used to sing so quietly that my voice developed a ceiling. I was
always trying to shut down my voice." Well things have changed. In 1997
President Mohammed Khatami was elected, cultural freedoms have emerged, and
Googoosh has been freed from her political bonds and has arrived in Canada to
finally sing her songs.
Twenty clicks through Canadian
culture: Test your memory, from Anne of Green Gables to Shift.