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"Culture is a Verb" Heritage, Charities, Art, Fundraising, Climate Heritage, Culture, Nonprofits — not necessarily in that order.
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The new Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum on SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus marks the beginning of a new legacy for the university. #TyeePresents
A Bold New Art Museum Opens on SFU’s Burnaby Mountain Campus | The Tyee
The Gibson combines three existing galleries into an accessible new space.
thetyee.ca
September 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The new Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum on SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus marks the beginning of a new legacy for the university. #TyeePresents
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Three years of efforts to repair and restore Calgary's Chinese Cemetery came to a finish on Thursday, as volunteers cleaned the final headstones and grave markers that had been damaged and left askew for decades.
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Chinese Cemetery restoration completed after three years - LiveWire Calgary
For the vast majority of the 20th century, and into the 21st, the headstones in Calgary’s Chinese Cemetery have laid damaged both by neglect and by vandalism. But for the past three years, Calgary’s…
livewirecalgary.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Three years of efforts to repair and restore Calgary's Chinese Cemetery came to a finish on Thursday, as volunteers cleaned the final headstones and grave markers that had been damaged and left askew for decades.
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Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Waterlilies, 1991 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129106
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June 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Waterlilies, 1991 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129106
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129106
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Happy National Doughnut Day everyone!
Canada eats more doughnuts per capita than any other nation on the planet. Over one billion doughnuts are consumed annually in Canada.
We also have the most doughnut shops per capita.
Lloydminster, AB/SK eats the most doughnuts per capita.
Canada eats more doughnuts per capita than any other nation on the planet. Over one billion doughnuts are consumed annually in Canada.
We also have the most doughnut shops per capita.
Lloydminster, AB/SK eats the most doughnuts per capita.
June 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy National Doughnut Day everyone!
Canada eats more doughnuts per capita than any other nation on the planet. Over one billion doughnuts are consumed annually in Canada.
We also have the most doughnut shops per capita.
Lloydminster, AB/SK eats the most doughnuts per capita.
Canada eats more doughnuts per capita than any other nation on the planet. Over one billion doughnuts are consumed annually in Canada.
We also have the most doughnut shops per capita.
Lloydminster, AB/SK eats the most doughnuts per capita.
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By photographing New York commuters in 1998, Matthew Salacuse captured a time when the division between home and work was sharper: many of his subjects are dressed in suits, travelling between these two worlds; none of them are peering at smartphones.
The Everyday Dramas of Manhattan Rush Hour
In 1998, Matthew Salacuse took hundreds of pictures of New York commuters. Then he forgot about them for more than twenty years.
www.newyorker.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
By photographing New York commuters in 1998, Matthew Salacuse captured a time when the division between home and work was sharper: many of his subjects are dressed in suits, travelling between these two worlds; none of them are peering at smartphones.
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I’m rewatching The Last of Us Season 1 and I thought I would share little bits of Canadian history when I find them.
The Alberta Legislative Building, built between 1907 and 1913. Fort Edmonton (the fifth one) once sat next to it on the same grounds.
The Alberta Legislative Building, built between 1907 and 1913. Fort Edmonton (the fifth one) once sat next to it on the same grounds.
April 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I’m rewatching The Last of Us Season 1 and I thought I would share little bits of Canadian history when I find them.
The Alberta Legislative Building, built between 1907 and 1913. Fort Edmonton (the fifth one) once sat next to it on the same grounds.
The Alberta Legislative Building, built between 1907 and 1913. Fort Edmonton (the fifth one) once sat next to it on the same grounds.
Particularly true in Alberta, Canada!
A cartoon by Becky Barnicoat, from 2019. #NewYorkerCartoons
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April 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Particularly true in Alberta, Canada!
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In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.
Beloved historic landmarks navigate an uncertain future after the LA fires
In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.
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Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉
March 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a fantastic medieval map of Ireland from a 15th-century navigational chart, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 1352, f. 3r ☘️🎉
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It was a privilege to join volunteers here in Ottawa for the Safe Wings bird display at the museum of nature. While Canada’s leaders focus on protecting national economic interests, they must also protect our environment, which is declining at an unsustainable rate. We (the public) must expect more.
March 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It was a privilege to join volunteers here in Ottawa for the Safe Wings bird display at the museum of nature. While Canada’s leaders focus on protecting national economic interests, they must also protect our environment, which is declining at an unsustainable rate. We (the public) must expect more.
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March 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The first photo book maker ever? Anna Atkins was a 19th-century botanist turned photographer who used photographic techniques to record plant specimens.
She was collected samples from around the world and used photography as a new way to preserve and share them with others.
#WomensHistoryMonth
She was collected samples from around the world and used photography as a new way to preserve and share them with others.
#WomensHistoryMonth
March 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The first photo book maker ever? Anna Atkins was a 19th-century botanist turned photographer who used photographic techniques to record plant specimens.
She was collected samples from around the world and used photography as a new way to preserve and share them with others.
#WomensHistoryMonth
She was collected samples from around the world and used photography as a new way to preserve and share them with others.
#WomensHistoryMonth
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The strata of architecture here, in London.
(Pic from last year)
#photography #cityPhotography #Photo #london #UK #architecture #art
(Pic from last year)
#photography #cityPhotography #Photo #london #UK #architecture #art
March 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The strata of architecture here, in London.
(Pic from last year)
#photography #cityPhotography #Photo #london #UK #architecture #art
(Pic from last year)
#photography #cityPhotography #Photo #london #UK #architecture #art
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Exclusive: The future of a vast collection of public artwork is in doubt as the Trump administration plans to fire workers who preserve and maintain over 26,000 pieces owned by the U.S. government, including paintings and sculptures by renowned artists.
Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks
The fate of artworks dating to before the Civil War is uncertain after the dismissal of most workers in the General Service Administration’s fine arts and preservation units.
wapo.st
March 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Exclusive: The future of a vast collection of public artwork is in doubt as the Trump administration plans to fire workers who preserve and maintain over 26,000 pieces owned by the U.S. government, including paintings and sculptures by renowned artists.
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Listening to radio ads right now is like "Canadians are strong. Canadians are tough. Canadians never back down. Canadians deserve the best. That's why at Bob's Lube Garage, we know your tire lube should smell like poutine and Lake Erie fish,"
March 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Listening to radio ads right now is like "Canadians are strong. Canadians are tough. Canadians never back down. Canadians deserve the best. That's why at Bob's Lube Garage, we know your tire lube should smell like poutine and Lake Erie fish,"
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Did you know that HEF are on LinkedIn? Join the conversation on our page: buff.ly/3EsEAbB
March 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Did you know that HEF are on LinkedIn? Join the conversation on our page: buff.ly/3EsEAbB
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When the American government set out to erase indigenous culture, one woman set out to save tribal music, traveling far and wide with her cylinder phonograph, trousers, and bow tie. On #InternationalWomensDay, Frances Densmore's remarkable story:
The Woman Who Saved Native Song
“We understand the people better if we know their music, and we appreciate the music better if we understand the people themselves.”
www.themarginalian.org
March 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When the American government set out to erase indigenous culture, one woman set out to save tribal music, traveling far and wide with her cylinder phonograph, trousers, and bow tie. On #InternationalWomensDay, Frances Densmore's remarkable story:
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On this day in 1903, Maud Lewis was born in Nova Scotia.
Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
🧵1/12
March 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
On this day in 1903, Maud Lewis was born in Nova Scotia.
Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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Born with a condition that developed into rheumatoid arthritis, she became one of Canada's most celebrated folk painters.
Let's learn more about this amazing artist!
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This is fabulous news for Rich Sutton, Edmonton’s quiet computer genius, and the father of reinforcement learning for AI. And it’s great news for the University of Alberta, too. #ualberta #TuringPrize #Edmonton #yeg #AI
Computing science professor wins ‘Nobel Prize in computing’
Richard Sutton, a University of Alberta computing science professor and one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, has been honoured as co-recipient of the 2024 Association fo...
www.ualberta.ca
March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is fabulous news for Rich Sutton, Edmonton’s quiet computer genius, and the father of reinforcement learning for AI. And it’s great news for the University of Alberta, too. #ualberta #TuringPrize #Edmonton #yeg #AI
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The house may be Victorian, but the colourful decor, murals, and garden are a unique work of 20thC outsider art that deserve to be saved.
@londonermag.bsky.social on Mr Pink's house in Lewisham, and what it says about Windrush-era Caribbean-British identity.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/mr-pinks-hou...
@londonermag.bsky.social on Mr Pink's house in Lewisham, and what it says about Windrush-era Caribbean-British identity.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/mr-pinks-hou...
March 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The house may be Victorian, but the colourful decor, murals, and garden are a unique work of 20thC outsider art that deserve to be saved.
@londonermag.bsky.social on Mr Pink's house in Lewisham, and what it says about Windrush-era Caribbean-British identity.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/mr-pinks-hou...
@londonermag.bsky.social on Mr Pink's house in Lewisham, and what it says about Windrush-era Caribbean-British identity.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/mr-pinks-hou...
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #53, 1980
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120404
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120404
March 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #53, 1980
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120404
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120404