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- Cultural Bias and the Value of Learning - Associated Content
- Celebrate the holidays with regional cultural festivals - Dallas Morning News
| Vancouver Designated a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2011 - msnbc.com Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:56 AM PST VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, accompanied by His Worship Gregor Robinson, Mayor of Vancouver, today announced that Vancouver has been designated a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2011. The other two cities to receive this title are Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and Levis, Quebec. "Vancouver is renowned for its cosmopolitan charm, its vibrant cultural scene, and its wide range of activities," said Minister Moore. "Our Government is pleased to confer on Vancouver, for the second time in that city's history, the prestigious title of Cultural Capital of Canada. This honour is well deserved and a fitting celebration of Vancouver's 125th anniversary." "Vancouver is home to a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural community, and in 2011 we'll be showcasing it throughout the city with our 125th anniversary celebrations," said Mr. Robertson. "This support from the Government of Canada will help us build on the cultural legacy of the 2010 Winter Games and make 2011 a year to remember in Vancouver." The Cultural Capital of Canada designation is awarded for merit, on the basis of a candidate community's achievements that demonstrate an ongoing commitment to the arts and culture. Funding amounts vary according to the size of the municipality. Vancouver could receive up to $1.75 million. The City of Vancouver will use the funding to organize and implement several activities, including celebrations to mark the city's 125th anniversary, a literary festival, free tours of municipal sites, pedestrian spaces for public art, a commissioned artwork by a First Nations artist, a poster series about remarkable women, a mural project, and a multimedia presentation based on Aboriginal and immigrant cultural traditions. (This news release is available on the Internet at www.canadianheritage.gc.ca under Newsroom.) © MarketWire 2010 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Cultural Bias and the Value of Learning - Associated Content Posted: 13 Nov 2010 09:55 AM PST How can anyone truly research anything or truly learn anything worth knowing if his culture constrains him? Everything we see, we unconsciously filter through our own bias, our schema. We hear everything as if we have a So we must educate ourselves. We have acknowledged that this cannot be done without dragging our cultural perspectives into it. We know that we cannot check our bias at the door, so how can we learn? Truly learn? For a start, we can strive to understand our own culture. Say a machine was invented with a window into another world. If we were to peer into it, would we not first learn to work the idiosyncrasies of the machine? Wouldn't the taint of our own science be our greatest ally? In other words, the tools that we would use to educate ourselves are part of our world. Only by familiarizing ourselves with our own language, our own fears, and, yes, our own prejudices will we ever understand the bigger picture—if we are to understand it at all. No one can teach this, it must be self-taught or, more accurately, self-realized. The western culture presents a particularly horrific prison by its emphasis on individualism. As we have learned, separation from culture leads eventually to madness, and our culture touts isolation. Even our living arrangements seem intent on creating wide gaps between us and "them." Now we need to invite "them" over for beers and conversation. Perhaps this is as good a start as any. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Celebrate the holidays with regional cultural festivals - Dallas Morning News Posted: 13 Nov 2010 08:58 AM PST 11:24 AM CST on Saturday, November 13, 2010Are you looking for new ways to celebrate the holidays? We have found 16 cheery festivals in Texas and our neighboring states that are spiced by the flavors of eight cultures. Listen to holiday music in German or French. Learn to make ornaments or decorate cookies in the Cajun or German traditions. Sample Norwegian or cowboy foods. Shop for handmade gifts from many different countries and maybe pick up a little something for yourself. German Fredericksburg: St. Nikolaus Markt – This nonstop Christmas festival and market features tree-lighting, lighted Christmas parade, live entertainment, a children's area and workshop, German food and shopping around the decorated Marktplatz. Fredericksburg is 270 miles southwest of Dallas. Details: 2-9 p.m. Dec. 3 and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 4. 830-997-6523; www.fredericksburg-texas.com. La Grange: Trail of Lights – Your walk along the quarter-mile trail between the Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery state historic sites will be illuminated by thousands of lights. Entertainment and refreshments accompany a tour of the 1850s-era, festively decorated German-style home of H.L. Kreische. La Grange is 216 miles south of Dallas. Details: Adults, $3; children ages 3-12, $1. Hours: 6-8 p.m. Dec. 4, 10, 11, 17, 18. 979-968-5658; beta-www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/ parks/find-a-park/kreische-brewery-state- historic-site. San Antonio: Kristkindlmarkt – This traditional German Christmas outdoor market offers handcrafted gifts, clothing, crafts, jewelry, decorations, gingerbread houses, quilts, pottery and more, plus German foods, beverages, entertainment and a visit from Nikolaus. Free admission. Details: 422 Pereida St.; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 4. 210-930-6374; www.beethovenmaennerchor.com/kristkindlmarkt.htm. Stonewall: Holiday Cookie Decorating and German Traditions – Decorate cookies in the German Christmas tradition, and learn to make wreaths and candles at the Sauer-Beckmann living-history farm at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park. Stonewall is 258 miles southwest of Dallas. Details: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 27. 830-644-2252 or 830-644-2455; beta-www.tpwd.state.tx.us/ calendar/fairs-festivals-and-food/holiday-cookie-decorating-german-traditions-in-the-19002019s. Mexican-Hispanic San Antonio: Fiesta de las Luminarias – Stroll the banks of the San Antonio River, lit by 6,000 luminarias (candles in sand-filled bags). Traditionally, luminarias symbolically light the way for the Holy Family. Details: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 3-19; candles are lighted at dusk. 210-227-4262; www.paseodelrio.com/events. San Antonio: Bazar Sábado – Do your global Christmas shopping at the San Antonio Museum of Art, where carefully selected crafts, textiles, jewelry, holiday ornaments, folk art and more from Latin America, Africa and Asia are sold one Saturday a year. Free buñuelos and coffee or hot chocolate to early line-standers. Details: In the Great Hall and the River Landing, 200 W. Jones. Adults, $3; children 11 and younger free. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 11. 210-978-8100; www.samuseum.org. San Antonio: Hecho a Mano/Made by Hand – Handcrafted ceramics, jewelry, woodwork, fiber arts, furniture, metalwork, clothing and other items, both traditional and contemporary, make quick work of your gift list. Details: Guadalupe Gallery, 723 S. Brazos St. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Dec. 3. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 4, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 5. Friday, $10 per person or $15 per couple; Saturday and Sunday, $2 or two cans of food for food bank. 210-271-3151; www.guadalupe culturalarts.org. British Galveston: Dickens on The Strand – The historic Strand becomes Victorian London for a weekend of merriment. A parade each afternoon stars Queen Victoria herself, with decorated carriages and period costumes. There's a lantern-light parade Saturday and Victorian bed races on Sunday afternoon. Entertainment and shopping are nonstop. Details: Adults, $12; children 7-12, $6; buy tickets by Dec. 3 online for a discount. Hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 4 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 5. Ask about extra-cost tours and dining events in several historic houses. 1-866-505-4456; 409-765-7834; www.dickensonthestrand.com. Cowboy Anson: Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball – This annual three-day celebration is a dance in 19th-century style featuring waltzes, schottisches and polkas. Women wear period dress, and men must check their hats at the door. Michael Martin Murphy headlines on Dec. 16. Anson is 200 miles west of Dallas. Details: Dec. 16-18 at Pioneer Hall. Tickets: Thursday, $15 (in advance only); Friday or Saturday, $5. 325-537-2589; www.ansoncowboys christmas ball.com. Lubbock: Candlelight at the Ranch – As you tour the historic ranch buildings at the 14-acre National Ranching Heritage Center, you will glimpse typical frontier holiday celebrations, from campfire gatherings to decorating a tree with homemade ornaments. Also planned are traditional music, hot cider and a visit from Santa Claus. Lubbock is 348 miles northwest of Dallas. Free admission; donations welcome. Details: 3121 Fourth St. 6-9 p.m. Dec. 10-11. 806-742-0498; www.depts.ttu.edu/ranchhc/ candlelight.htm. Richmond: Campfire Christmas – At George Ranch Historical Park, a wagon ride transports visitors on a tour of 19th-century ranch buildings plus dinner, singing and storytelling around the campfire with the ranch's cowboys. Richmond is 267 miles south of Dallas. Details: Reservations required: 281-343-0218. Adults, $40; children and seniors, $35. 6-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 10-11 and 17-18. www.georgeranch.org. Cajun-Creole Eunice, La.: Liberty Theatre's Christmas Show – The weekly Rendezvous des Cajuns Music Show features the Jambalaya Cajun Band's special Christmas treat of Cajun and traditional holiday music in French. You can also two-step and waltz to Cajun tunes. Eunice is 364 miles southeast of Dallas. Details: 200 Park Ave., 6-7:30 p.m. Dec. 11. Tickets, $5. 337-457-7389; www.eunice-la.com/liberty schedule.html. Lafayette, La.: Old Time Christmas – Traditional crafts, music and foods, plus Mama and Papa Noël create a Cajun-Creole Christmas at Vermilionville living-history park. Enjoy a typical Acadian meal, string popcorn and create candles and other decorations. Lafayette is 390 miles southeast of Dallas. Details: 300 Fisher Road, Lafayette. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 14-17. Adults, $8; seniors 65 and older, $6.50; students 6-18, $5; children 6 and younger, free. Additional charge for Acadian meal and some crafts. 1-866-992-2968; www.vermilionville.org. Jewish New Orleans: Chanukah at Riverwalk – This annual ceremony features traditional Israeli music, dancing, food and the lighting of a 12-foot menorah. Free. Public welcome. Details: Riverwalk Marketplace's Spanish Plaza, 1 Poydras St.; 4-6 p.m. Dec. 5. www.riverwalk marketplace.com. Norwegian Clifton: Norwegian Country Christmas Tour – A day filled with arts and crafts demonstrations; Norwegian and German goodies; tours of historic churches and new homes; storytellers, folk dancers and other entertainers; an authentic Norwegian lunch; and shopping. Clifton is 96 miles southwest of Dallas. Details: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 4. $10 for home tour. Lunch (reservation only): adults, $10; children ages 6-12, $5. 1-800-344-3720; www.cliftontexas.org/ festivals.html. Spanish colonial Goliad: Los Pastores – At Mission Espíritu Santo in Goliad State Park, see a Spanish-colonial play with songs, dances and costumes, similar to one used by Spanish missionaries to teach Indians the Christmas story. Goliad is 321 miles south of Dallas. Presented in Spanish, but English speakers will find it easy to understand. Details: 108 Park Road 6, Goliad. 2-4 p.m. Jan. 8. 361-645-3405; www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/ findadest/parks/goliad_and_ mission_espiritu_santo. Mary G. Ramos is a Dallas freelance writer. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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