My Experience with the I and Thou reading by Martin Buber
Martin Buber was a prominent twentieth-century philosopher, religious thinker, political activist, and educator. Born in Austria, he spent most of his life in Germany and Israel, writing in German and Hebrew. He is best known for his 1923 book, Ich und Du (I and Thou), which distinguishes between “I-Thou” and “I-It” modes of existence. One of the […]
I-You, He-She, It!
The Women’s March, International Women’s Day, and the 61st Commission of the Status of Women are just some of the ways that quite recently, women have taken over the international spotlight. The topic is unavoidable, but just what are we talking about? The women’s movement sparks millions of questions and quite possibly even more different […]
From Little Gems to Big Ideas
Last night, I attended a screening of a fabulous documentary entitled “Les Pepites” with cultural companion and fellow intern, Nerea. The event was co-hosted by the French and Cambodian Missions at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. This film told the story of a French couple, who fell in love and built a beautiful […]
How My Shanghai Adventure Led Me To WYA
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore A little over a month into the internship and I find myself on the office couch, pondering about the last 5 years since college graduation. As I stepped out of my university’s covered courts […]
Built to overcome: The Impossible, a review
To be human is to be kind. If there is one thing I’d take away from The Impossible (2012), it would be that. In the desire to care and in the intent to reach out to one another, social barriers are irrelevant. In the face of seemingly insurmountable tragedy, we revert to what we truly, […]
Reflections on European Arts Forum 2016
How could I summarise 2016 EAF? Maybe with these three words: Beauty, Talent, Splendour. Primarily, I deeply regretted not to participate to the exposition event on Saturday, June 25th. I could not come to this venue was due to the fact I was given a poetry prize in Metz, France. As I arrived in Brussels, […]
The Best Kind of Sound
If Christmas in the Philippines is one thing, it’s the joyous array of sounds that inevitably remind us that the holidays are upon us. Such sounds include young carolers chiming from door to door, the buzzing of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping, and blissful laughter, as both young and old spare their final […]
Human Dignity as the GrundNorm
Brown skin, Black skin, White skin, But red blood. Same brains, Same currency, Same buses, But different rights? He donated ‘black’ blood, It saved a ‘white’ life The black blood did not choose; it did not discriminate It blended with the ‘white’ blood Little babies in playing parks They know not […]
The Gents Glembays
Gospoda Glembajevi [tabs] [tab title=”Hrvatski”] Gledalište je prepuno, s mnogim sumnjama i neizvjesnostima iščekuje se nadolazeća predstava uprizorena prema djelu „Gospoda Glembajevi“, jednom od najvećih klasika hrvatske književnosti 20. stoljeća. Cijelo Hrvatsko narodno kazalište zauzeli su mladi srednjoškolci u pratnji svojih profesora, što je posebno lijep prizor s obzirom na opće zaziranje mladih od kulturnih […]
Are You Listening?
The documentary, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake, follows a group of actors as they take the message of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the war-torn countries of Rwanda, Northern Ireland, and former Yugoslavia. The actors artistically convey the message of the commission through a play in which they are the […]
