cultural diplomacy
Governing by psychographic magic eight ball: Somewhere, Patrick Muttart is smiling.
Over the last four days, the Conservatives have pledged to:
Annals of wasted tax money III: I’m with the band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56bnbaaIsw
Canada has nothing to tell the world
That’s the conclusion one must draw from the decision to can the program under which the Canadian government sent artists abroad, chronicled here by ITQ. Not for the first time, I’m left wishing the Harper government would work a little harder at imitating the Bush administration. Here are a few cultural and public diplomacy initiatives the State Department has funded in recent months:
It all depends on what you know
Dizzy Gillespie in Zagreb in 1956, with the Yugoslav composer Nikica Kalogjera in the back seat, during a State Department goodwill tour. From a new photo exhibit of U.S. jazzmen as ambassadors of goodwill. Gillespie’s tour is perhaps most fondly remembered by fans, because it allowed his astonishing big band to stay together long after ordinary economics would have put an end to it.