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A love for musical theatre doesn’t just mean shelling out for theatre tickets – for many fans, it means seeing the world anew through song and staging. (The last time I had to run out for late-night groceries, I smiled after pausing to appreciate how an ascending stack of pallets under a streetlamp looked primed for a tap dancer.)
Such imagining through the lens of art has been important for many people during the pandemic. Following pandemic theatre shut downs, artists’ online collaborations have been giving rise to new forms of arts production and engagement.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Sarah Bay-Cheng of York University writes about a historic Grammy Award win for a musical theatre album composed and shared over TikTok. While this is a significant change in how musical theatre is created and signals a historic win, “musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.”
Also today:
All the best.
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Susannah Schmidt
Education + Arts Editor
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The duo ‘Barlow and Bear,’ made up of singer Abigail Barlow and composer Emily Bear, won the 2022 Grammy Award for best musical theatre album for ‘The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,’ shared over TikTok.
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Sarah Bay-Cheng, York University, Canada
Although a Grammy win for a TikTok musical was a first, musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.
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Until recently, most biomedical studies did not consider sex or gender.
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Monica De Paoli, McMaster University
Biomedical studies have traditionally used male animals and men as research subjects. That is a problem for everyone because for many diseases, there are sex differences in how they affect people.
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Degrowth is an opportunity to recentre our economies on what really matters.
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Jennifer Ellen Good, Brock University
Degrowth offers the world a new story, one that acknowledges the role economic growth has had in climate change and identifies alternatives.
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Buddhist monks march through Saigon streets in 1963, during the early stages of a protest demonstration that ended in the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức.
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Chris Goto-Jones, University of Victoria
The self-immolation of Wynn Bruce on Earth Day in Washington, D.C., not only raises questions about climate grief but also about intercultural understanding.
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A growing number of businesses across a wide range of industries are successfully selling voyeurism to their audiences.
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Trish Ruebottom, McMaster University; Madeline Toubiana, University of Alberta; Maxim Voronov, York University, Canada; Sean Buchanan, University of Manitoba
Voyeurism provides a glimpse into the private life of another person to give audiences a revealing and entertaining experience.
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La Conversation Canada
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Les changements climatiques influencent le calendrier des différentes étapes du cycle de vie des plantes, notamment la floraison au printemps et le flétrissement des feuilles à l’automne.
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Roberto Silvestro, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); Sergio Rossi, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Les changements climatiques modifient le calendrier des événements récurrents du cycle de vie des plantes, engendrant des conséquences critiques sur le plan écologique et économique.
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Des enfants ukrainiens s'entraînent aux arts du cirque, à Budapest, en Hongrie, le 22 mars 2022. Une centaine d'entre eux, accompagnés de leurs entraineurs, ont fui les villes assiégées de Kharkiv et de Kyiv au milieu des bombardements russes.
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Albane Buriel, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Des programmes humanitaires intégrant l’art et les pratiques artistiques sont conduits auprès des enfants ukrainiens afin de les aider à surmonter leurs traumatismes.
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Ukraine Invasion
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Anna-Sophie Maass, Lancaster University
Russia and the west have failed to see eye-to-eye over Ukraine. It’s a disconnect that goes back two decades or more.
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Jonathan Este, The Conversation
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
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Radityo Dharmaputra, Universitas Airlangga
Many academics and former diplomats commenting on Russia’s invasion show a lack of sympathy towards Ukraine. That needs to change.
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Podcasts
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Daniel Merino, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Listen to two space experts discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens international collaboration in space on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Arts
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Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia
Evelyn Araluen’s award-winning book Dropbear is a sizzling collection of poetry and prose that is both deeply funny and deadly serious.
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Health
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Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
Images of war, violence, suffering and death can have a traumatic impact on those who view them.
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Science + Tech
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Adrian Dyer, RMIT University; Jair Garcia, RMIT University
Bees watching another bee dance to point out the location of flowers experience a surge of dopamine
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