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Diwali: When the World Illuminates

Hanzo Learning Center

Each year, as the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun and shadows grow longer, a celestial celebration cuts through the impending gloom: Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Marked this year on November 12, Diwali is a radiant beacon in the calendar of many cultures.

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Libraries Change Lives: 1100 people take part in STEM Activities at Perton Library Science Fair

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Perton Library’s annual Science Fair and Spring Festival took place on Saturday 11 May 2024 and was a community collaborative project within Staffordshire County Council. Libraries play a significant role in not only raising general academic achievement but also engagement with science and maths.

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We are Celebrating 30 Years Since A Day For Scotland

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Held at Fallen Inch Field, this huge outdoor festival combined music, politics and family fun. Billed as ‘a Festival for Our Future’, this was a key event not only for Stirling, but in linking popular culture and politics in the campaign for a Scottish parliament.

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My NewCo Los Angeles Picks

John Battelle's Searchblog

But I was born in LA, I grew up there, and every time I get back, I get homesick for the light, the warm air, the heady nonsense, and – lately – the extraordinary business culture that’s been brewing these past five or ten years. pm: Festival Party/MeetUp at Tastemade! pm – DocStoc . I’ll be listening too.

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BC Gay and Lesbian Archives photographs now online!

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Here are just a few examples: Billiards at the Chinese Cultural Centre, Gay Games (Aug. Betty Baxter at Stonewall Festival, Vancouver (1992). Reference code: AM1675-S4-F27-: 2018-020.5652. Square dancing event (1990’s). Reference code: AM1675-S4-F03-: 2018-020.2104. AM1675-S4-F09-: 2018-020.2640. Act up demonstration (Aug. 2, 1990).

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Co-op Radio fonds now available!

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The In Visible Colours conference, an international women of colour and third world women film/video festival and symposium, was hosted in Vancouver in November of 1989. The recordings provide a unique record of subversive media practices and social/cultural/political work in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland since 1975.

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Scaling Through Culture: WeWork and Blue Bottle (vs. Regus and Starbucks)

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Scaling Through Culture: WeWork and Blue Bottle (vs. Bryan is a lovely Irish fellow who is deeply passionate about his work, and he insisted on explaining the Blue Bottle culture to me – evidence of which was all around us, as we took the meeting in a cafe that had been approved to serve his product (yes, approved !).

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