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Once Junk Mail Now Historical Rarity
In dentistry or at work cleaning is always a good idea. In 1997 the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago was in the middle of an architectural renovation. So, everything was being moved out. A storage closet used for large framed artwork that was rarely ever used was among […]
Kamishibai for Kids & in Manufacturing
August 11, 2011
Bang-bang, bang- bang. The loud noise of the wooden clappers, hyoshigi (hyo-shigi), signaled the beginning of the Japanese story. It wasn’t your ordinary book reading session. It was Kamishibai “paper drama”. About twenty kids, with their parents, gathered at the Japanese American Service Committee in Chicago to get something their parents in the United States […]
The Power of Music
June 21, 2010
While Invisible Bridges is trying to build bridges between cultures Millennium Park and its Music Without Borders concerts series is destroying any conventional cultural boundaries! Every summer since 2007, Chicago’s Millennium Park, mainly its Jay Pritzker Pavilion, turns into a mock United Nations assembly, where many nations are represented and many voices are heard – […]
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World Pulse
September 8, 2011
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