The Flying Seagull Project is a collective of clowns, musicians, dancers, play-workers, and play-specialists who work in the harshest of refugee camps across Europe to help the kids laugh, play, and feel good. They entertain as many kids as possible…
Chinese kindergarten teacher Gao Chengnu was sent to a Chinese labor camp and tortured. She committed no crime — she was targeted because she practiced Falun Gong.
In this excellent Ted-Ed video that’s just under 6 minutes, Alex Gendler goes into how the genre of Dystopia emerged. He looks at how dystopian novels — such as Gulliver’s Travels, Animal Farm, and Brave New World — don’t just come with warnings…
Justine Leconte is a French blogger who has an online channel that talks about style and beauty from the perspective of a French woman.
In the Name of Confucius is a gripping documentary by Canadian-based producer, writer, and director Doris Liu. The one hour-long investigative documentary questions “What is the purpose and political influence of Chinese-funded Confucius Institute programs?” that are popping up all around…
Alex NG is a Hong Kong-based photographer born in the ’60s. He studied journalism in the 1980s, and would travel to Mainland China by rail taking photographs on slide film. Years later, he was looking through an old box of…
In Vox’s video, China’s panda diplomacy, explained, I was surprised to learn how pandas are used as tools in China for diplomatic strategies. Most all of the pandas in zoos worldwide belong to China and are just on loan.
The cult classic 1980’s Japanese television series Monkey, from the classical Chinese book Journey to the West, is being remade in New Zealand as a 10-part series due for release in 2018.
Iris Lu’s parents lived in the rural province of Yunnan. In the 1990s, her mother, Deng Cuiping, started practicing Falun Gong to help relieve stress and insomnia. This was at a time before the persecution began in China, and the…
A powerful documentary by Leon Lee, Avenues of Escape has just won 4 awards at the 2017 Leo Awards. The documentary is about three female Falun Dafa practitioners who escape spiritual persecution in China by crossing a jungle to find freedom in North…
The Flying Seagull Project is a collective of clowns, musicians, dancers, play-workers, and play-specialists who work in the harshest of refugee camps across Europe to help the kids laugh, play,…
Chinese kindergarten teacher Gao Chengnu was sent to a Chinese labor camp and tortured. She committed no crime — she was targeted because she practiced Falun Gong.
In this excellent Ted-Ed video that’s just under 6 minutes, Alex Gendler goes into how the genre of Dystopia emerged. He looks at how dystopian novels — such as Gulliver’s Travels, Animal…
Justine Leconte is a French blogger who has an online channel that talks about style and beauty from the perspective of a French woman.
In the Name of Confucius is a gripping documentary by Canadian-based producer, writer, and director Doris Liu. The one hour-long investigative documentary questions “What is the purpose and political influence…
Alex NG is a Hong Kong-based photographer born in the ’60s. He studied journalism in the 1980s, and would travel to Mainland China by rail taking photographs on slide film.…
In Vox’s video, China’s panda diplomacy, explained, I was surprised to learn how pandas are used as tools in China for diplomatic strategies. Most all of the pandas in zoos worldwide belong…
The cult classic 1980’s Japanese television series Monkey, from the classical Chinese book Journey to the West, is being remade in New Zealand as a 10-part series due for release…
Iris Lu’s parents lived in the rural province of Yunnan. In the 1990s, her mother, Deng Cuiping, started practicing Falun Gong to help relieve stress and insomnia. This was at…
A powerful documentary by Leon Lee, Avenues of Escape has just won 4 awards at the 2017 Leo Awards. The documentary is about three female Falun Dafa practitioners who escape spiritual persecution in…
Qiu Yang is the first Chinese filmmaker to be awarded the prestigious Palme D’or Award for his short film A Gentle Night at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in France last…
Chinese student Yang Shuping has received backlash from Chinese nationalists for a speech she made at the University of Maryland celebrating the “fresh air of free speech” in the United…
Polish photographer and visual artist Wiktoria Wojciechowska took part in an artist residency in Beijing in 2013. She produced the award-winning series Short Flashes, inspired by an excerpt from Polish writer Wiesław…
Autumn or fall, depending on what part of the world you are from, is the season of the year that is rich in color and has inspired many artists.
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, won the Audience Award at this year’s 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered, in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Blacklisted Music and Arts Festival 2017 is an eclectic event where artists and musicians who would rather be blacklisted than remain silent in the face of injustice come together.
Short Flashes is an award-winning photo series by Polish artist Wiktoria Wojciechowska that looks at impermanent moments of everyday life in Hangzhou, China.
The Eagle Huntress is a documentary film by Otto Bell that follows the loveable character Aisholpan, a teenage Kazakh girl from a nomadic family in Mongolia, who attempts to become…
Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is an astoundingly beautiful anime based on a 10th-century Japanese folk story, The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon-Child. The film is directed by Isao Takhata (Grave of…
British filmmaker Claire Oakley’s film Tuning In is a delicately shot short documentary about South African Soprano Pumeza Matshikiza.
The Flying Seagull Project is a collective of clowns, musicians, dancers, play-workers, and play-specialists who work in the harshest of refugee camps across Europe to help the kids laugh, play, and feel good. They entertain as many kids as possible…
