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Barkerville has a half million dollar ask into the province SHARE ON: Barkerville Main Street (Photo by Chris Sharpe) Barkerville is facing a 670 thousand dollar budget shortfall going into this year, but James Douglas, the Public Programming & Global Media Development Lead, says this money would really help. “With this new fund that was recently announced by the province, we’re very excited about it, we’re very excited to be able to work with the Minister of Tourism and we do, from the ...

Barkerville has a half million dollar ask into the province SHARE ON: Barkerville Main Street (Photo by Chris Sharpe) Barkerville is facing a 670 thousand dollar budget shortfall going into this year, but James Douglas, the Public Programming & Global Media Development Lead, says this money would really help. “With this new fund that was recently announced by the province, we’re very excited about it, we’re very excited to be able to work with the Minister of Tourism and we do, from the ...

Steven Smith Awarded Tennessee Historical Commission Special Commendation For His Books Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Tennessee Historical Commission has announced winners of this year’s annual Certificate of Merit competition. These awards are presented each May during National Preservation Month. The Commissioners’ Special Commendation category went to Steven Smith in Soddy Daisy, for authoring four books. Since 1975, THC’s Certificate of Merit Program has recognized exemplary wo...

/ The Aspen Ideas Festival will continue to be virtual this summer. Organizers said theyll return to an in-person event next summer, with a virtual option available for online audiences. As more people get vaccinated and temperatures warm up across the country, people have nostalgia for the before times — before the pandemic, that is. Recent data suggest that nearly two-thirds of Americans are intending to travel for vacations, and some are planning overdue family gatherings. Others still ar...

Albany Museum of Art reopens in-person ‘Homeschool Day’ Homeschool Day has reopened for in-person learning. (Source: WALB) By Gabrielle Ware | April 3, 2021 at 12:18 PM EDT - Updated April 3 at 12:18 PM ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - For the first time in months, the Albany Museum of Art’s (AMA) “Homeschool Day” is back in person. The museum says they stopped in-person learning due to safety concerns surrounding the pandemic. But now they’re back open, helping kids an...

ARTISTS of all ages could win prizes of up to £1,000 in a competition aimed at showcasing the county’s talent. The Dorset Art Prize, sponsored by Dorset Community Foundation and Poole Museum, is run by the art and design department of Bournemouth and Poole College and aims to encourage artists across the community to get creative. Entries, which are open to any Dorset resident, can be in any medium including paintings, sculpture, film, animation or textiles. This year’s theme in th...

ARTISTS of all ages could win prizes of up to £1,000 in a competition aimed at showcasing the county’s talent. The Dorset Art Prize, sponsored by Dorset Community Foundation and Poole Museum, is run by the art and design department of Bournemouth and Poole College and aims to encourage artists across the community to get creative. Entries, which are open to any Dorset resident, can be in any medium including paintings, sculpture, film, animation or textiles. This year’s theme in th...

(MENAFN - Emirates News Agency (WAM)) ABU DHABI, 14th February, 2021 (WAM) -- The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, held the first event of its 2021 cultural programme, a collaboration with New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) titled ‘Stories We Continue to Tell: The Many Returns of One Thousand and One Nights. Hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), the virtual seminar focussed on why this collection of Middle East...

Springsteen on Broadway, his intensely personal one-man show at the intimate, 975-seat Walter Kerr Theatre . Just a couple of hours after that, Netflix will make public a document of the show, filmed during a July performance. © 2021 KSMU Radio