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Five Questions for Hina P. Ansari
Hina P. Ansari’s relationship with Bollywood goes way back to the burgeoning of the industry. Her grandfather was a multi-faceted filmmaker known as one of the leading and first film noir directors of the Mumbai-based industry. She has made a name for herself in the fashion and entertainment
Summerasaurus Part II: A Day in the Quarry
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the badlands of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs. Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing
Three Questions with Cyrus Sundar Singh
Popular imagery of India is often full of bright colours that create vibrant landscapes. Taking a closer look it becomes clear that not only are India’s many forms of street art a huge source of these aesthetics, but also that they are changing. Canadian filmmaker Cyrus Sundar Singh, enchanted
Three Questions for Prashant Kadam
For a long time, bioscopes have been a part of India’s bustling landscape, an aspect of childhood that came and went as bioscopewallahs travelled through the country. Bioscopes are an early movie projector taking the form of a wooden box, the interior of which has pictures that can be viewed
Summerasaurus Part I: Digging for Dinos
Mark Farmer recently returned from an expedition to the far end of southern Alberta with Dr. David Evans, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the ROM, in search of dinosaurs! Join us over the course of the next month as Mark and Dr. Evans put up their notes from the field, detailing
Five Questions for Noah Cowan
Fun fact about the TIFF Bell Lightbox: its Artistic Director started out as a box-office volunteer. As a teenager, Noah Cowan volunteered for the relatively young “Festival of Festivals”, now the Toronto International Film Festival. Since those humble beginnings, he has started Midnight
A tortoise by any other name is…a new species.
In 1861, American Physician and Naturalist James Graham Cooper described a new species of tortoise from the deserts of California, and a 150-year mystery began. He named this new discovery Agassiz’s Land Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), but the name was changed some years later to Desert Tortoise.
From the Field: The Tell Madaba Archaeological Project… Week 2
By Daniel Kwan, Gallery Facilitator and Volunteer Our excavation at Tell Madaba in Jordan has begun! After a rather lengthy cleaning effort, our unit is now free of dense foliage and garbage. In the previous dig season (June 24 – August 8, 2010) we had excavated approximately nine feet down,
ROMWalks: Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you!
Every time you turn a corner in Toronto, you discover another venerable stone building resplendent with arches, turrets, gables, or statues perched in a niche. Some are nestled between the encroaching skyscrapers of the banking district, others sit proudly on their original estate. The heritage
Five Questions with Krishna
Submitted by Netta Kornberg, Intern with the Institute for Contemporary Culture. In 2008, when Srinivas Krishna ’s When the Gods Came Down to Earth was installed in front of the ROM, we had no idea he’d be back three years later, this time for Bollywood stars rather than Hindu Gods. On Sunday