Culture

NBC Sports has launched Hockey Culture, a multi-platform content offering dedicated to bringing equality and inclusion to hockey. Led by NBC Sports NHL analyst Anson Carter, Hockey Culture will address contemporary topics within the sport, aim to promote diversity around the game and on the ice, and increase community engagement with hockey. Anson Carter sits down with head women’s ice hockey coach of Arcadia University Kelsey Koelzer, who also happens to be the first Black player to be the top pick in a professional North American hockey league draft. … [Read more...] about Hockey Culture: Kelsey Koelzer on breaking down playing, coaching barriers

Hanoi (VNA) – An agreement on scientific cooperation in the field of culture was signed between representatives of the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the Ben Gurion Heritage Institute of Israel via a video conference on September 8. Under the agreement, in the 2020-2022 period, the two sides will coordinate to implement scientific and cultural research projects in the field of museum study, share experience and exchange delegations in the fields of museum, relic site and exhibition related to the biography, life and career of President Ho Chi Minh and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. In 2021, they will jointly organise an exhibition at the Ben Gurion Heritage Institute in Israel and an exhibition at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Vietnam. … [Read more...] about HCM Museum, Israeli heritage institute ink cultural cooperation agreement

Ore Streams is an ongoing research project by the Italian designers Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi of Studio Formafantasma into a major design challenge – how to ensure that the millions of digital products bought each year will be disposed of and recycled responsibly. They began by mapping the gigantic, often global illicit trade in e-waste and analysing its social, political and economic impact, as well as the dire environmental consequences by talking to recyclers, designers, manufacturers, politicians and Interpol. Tellingly, many of the recyclers had never discussed their work with designers before. … [Read more...] about Alice Rawsthorn’s cultural highlights

“My dad likes to say that Adelaide was built for his generation,” she says. “If you’re a baby boomer, there’s so much for you here. A lot of the rhetoric used is from the Don Dunstan era, without acknowledging that the state has lost a lot of its progressive tendencies since then. People are resting on the laurels of the past. Most of the cultural institutions are from that time – they are all 42 years old.” … [Read more...] about How Adelaide could become Australia’s most exciting city – simply by doubling down on culture

After the opening ceremony, China Daily talked with the European Union's ambassador to China and the directors of the Goethe-Institut China and Danish Cultural Center to learn about the value of cultural diversity and how it strengthens people's ancestral roots. … [Read more...] about At European culture exhibit, all routes lead to home