Poetry

Moutai's "MEI" Culture Empowers Overseas New Media Marketing and Promotion

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Additionally, they focus on conducting a series of marketing and promotional activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival to spread Chinese traditional festival culture and Moutai culture.

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  • Additionally, they focus on conducting a series of marketing and promotional activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival to spread Chinese traditional festival culture and Moutai culture.
  • Moutai's overseas media platforms combine creativity and ingenuity to carefully plan monthly themed events and interactive games.
  • Moutai's overseas media platforms have specially planned periodic online gaming activities, increasing the participation and interaction rates of overseas fans.
  • Moutai's "MEI" culture has rich connotations, and actively disseminating Chinese traditional culture and Moutai culture is an important part of implementing Moutai's internationalization.

Shared Moonlight, Shared MEI! Moutai Celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival with International Marketing Activities!

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

International distributors of Moutai carried out various international marketing activities with the theme, “Shared Moonlight, Shared MEI” during the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2023 to better celebrate the festival with the world, to keep promoting the integrated innovation of Moutai culture and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and to display Moutai’s “MEI” of reunion to the world.

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  • International distributors of Moutai carried out various international marketing activities with the theme, “Shared Moonlight, Shared MEI” during the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2023 to better celebrate the festival with the world, to keep promoting the integrated innovation of Moutai culture and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and to display Moutai’s “MEI” of reunion to the world.
  • Japanese distributors held a Moutai product-tasting event entitled “Full Moon in Japan, Savor the Chinese Baijiu” on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
  • There were Moutai products for display, and mooncakes and Moutai cocktails for the guests to taste at the dinner party.
  • Under the same full moon, people reunited and celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival together with the “MEI” of Moutai.

Dilan Qadir wins 2023 Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

TORONTO, Oct. 24, 2023 /CNW/ - Dilan Qadir, a Kurdish Canadian writer, is the recipient of the 2023 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship, which is awarded annually to one member of PEN Canada's Writers in Exile community.

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  • TORONTO, Oct. 24, 2023 /CNW/ - Dilan Qadir, a Kurdish Canadian writer, is the recipient of the 2023 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship, which is awarded annually to one member of PEN Canada's Writers in Exile community.
  • This year, Qadir will work under the guidance of David Bezmozgis, an award-winning writer and filmmaker and the Creative Director of the Humber School for Writers.
  • "I'm grateful for the opportunity provided by the Humber Scholarship," says Qadir.
  • Now, with his Humber scholarship, he joins an alumni of previous recipients: Maria Saba (2020), Arzu Yildiz (2021), and Luis Horacio Nájera (2022).

6 books to help talk to your child about climate change

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

But adults can face the dilemma of how to talk to children about these incredibly serious issues without upsetting them further.

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  • But adults can face the dilemma of how to talk to children about these incredibly serious issues without upsetting them further.
  • We are educational linguists investigating how writers and illustrators communicate ideas related to climate change to children.
  • Books are an important way to help conversations around climate change in safe, age-appropriate ways.

1. Walk of the Whales by Nick Bland

    • For children four and up Walk of the Whales shows children how the world around them is interconnected.
    • It is a simple tale of what happens when whales walk out of polluted oceans and establish homes on land.

2. Iceberg by Claire Saxby and illustrated by Jess Racklyeft

    • For children five and up Iceberg is a beautifully illustrated book that brings the luminescent beauty of Antarctica to life.
    • For children, Iceberg makes a gentle plea to appreciate and protect the world around us before it is lost forever.

3. How to Bee by Bren MacDibble

    • For children eight to 12 years How to Bee is set in a future Australia where insecticide has rendered bees extinct.
    • The importance of biodiversity is a key theme, as is our place within the ecosystem.

4. Bindi by Kirli Saunders and illustrated by Dub Leffler

    • This beautifully illustrated verse novel is told from the perspective of an 11-year-old Indigenous girl as her town survives catastrophic bushfires.
    • Children will find strength in this story of perseverance and healing and may also develop a deeper connection to Country.

5. The Giant and the Sea by Trent Jamieson and illustrated by Rovina Cai

    • A giant stands watch over the sea and warns a “brave girl” the sea is rising.
    • The Giant and the Sea doesn’t shy away from the effects of global warming, noting, “There is only so much that bravery can do”.

6. Blueback by Tim Winton

    • For children eight and up Blueback charts the life of Abel from child to adult.
    • It is a fable that explores his deep connection to ocean life and the human pressures on the natural world.
    • In such beautiful prose, Winton shows children the importance of courage and resilience and reminds us all of our collective responsibility for the environment.

Louise Glück honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Eliot in 1948.

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  • Eliot in 1948.
  • But her win was far less surprising to those who know and love her work, and who now mourn her loss.
  • Her lyric voice still reverberates after her death, in part because of how consistently she turned her attention to questions of mortality.

A cruel clarity of vision

    • Before being awarded the Nobel Prize, Glück won the National Book Award for “Faithful and Virtuous Night” in 2014 and the Pulitzer Prize for “Wild Iris” in 1992, among other accolades.
    • It can have an icy abruptness; she often writes speakers who have a cruel clarity of vision.
    • In her poem “Mock Orange” she writes:
      It is not the moon, I tell you.
    • It may be surprising, then, how strongly readers have responded to her still, spare, often quietly devastating work.

Ancient voices speaking to the everyday

    • She brought ancient figures down to a human level by exploring everyday dramas through their voices.
    • She wrote often of families and the ways they fail each other, though slantingly, as when Glück explores strained dynamics between mothers and daughters via the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone.
    • In “Vita Nova,” the way we fail those we love is explored via the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Contact even at a distance

    • A book of poems written after a paralyzing period of writer’s block, it is the voice of flowers, of prayers, of the soul beyond death and of God speaking back through her poems.
    • In the end, it was this carefully crafted, piercing observation of what is core to our human struggle that continues to animate Glück’s work for so many.
    • If ever a poetic voice was honed across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave, it’s Glück’s.

Love Found and Love Freed: New Poetry Collection THE LOVE I FOUND Considers the Painful Choice to Let Go of an On-Again, Off-Again Relationshi

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Having never been in a relationship, Barnes couldn’t fully understand how anyone could suffer in love – but her perspective changed after she fell in love and found herself in a toxic on-again, off-again relationship .

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  • Having never been in a relationship, Barnes couldn’t fully understand how anyone could suffer in love – but her perspective changed after she fell in love and found herself in a toxic on-again, off-again relationship .
  • Seeking to help others avoid harmful relationship patterns, Barnes debuts a new collection of poetry reflecting the highs and lows of falling in and out, and in and out, of love.
  • While not every on-again, off-again relationship is unhealthy, Barnes’ poetic account offers valuable insight on navigating on-and-off relationships .
  • In “The Love I Found,” Barnes revisits her flawed, failed relationship and finds clarity in her choice to let go.

Terence Davies: four films that reveal the pain and poetry of the director's own life

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The Liverpool-born director extended the formal possibilities of film, and had a unique capacity for depicting memory and personal history.

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  • The Liverpool-born director extended the formal possibilities of film, and had a unique capacity for depicting memory and personal history.
  • Here are four films that show the director dealing directly with this history, while also charting the development of his distinctive, very personal style.

1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

    • The director’s breakthrough came in 1988 with the release of Distant Voices, Still Lives, which tells the story of one working class family’s life in post-war Liverpool.
    • The film was originally two short pieces made two years apart, which were later combined.
    • Distant Voices, Still Lives is not only an excellent example of the formal styling that would come to characterise Davies’ work, but also the key role that music plays throughout his films.

2. The Long Day Closes (1992)

    • The film also reflects on Bud’s developing sense of his own homosexuality and the shame that accompanies this realisation.
    • The Long Day Closes is a companion piece to Distant Voices, Still Lives in its focus on family life in Liverpool.

3. The Neon Bible (1995)

    • In this way, The Neon Bible can be understood as an act of deflected autobiography.
    • Davies dismissed The Neon Bible after its release as a creative failure.

4. Of Time and the City (2009)

    • Arguably Davies crowning work, Of Time and the City marked a late career resurgence for the director.
    • Thanks to the film’s critical success, he continued to produce work steadily in the final decade of his life.
    • The film looks back on the Liverpool in which he grew up, and is made from a tapestry of different sounds and images.

The Birthing House - A Woman's Tale of Resilience and the Healing Power of Words

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Friday, October 13, 2023

Spanning two decades, "The Birthing House" explores the life of Clare Muller, a woman whose journey of self-discovery and transformation takes center stage.

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  • Spanning two decades, "The Birthing House" explores the life of Clare Muller, a woman whose journey of self-discovery and transformation takes center stage.
  • The house, once belonging to a midwife, had served as the birthing place for many in the surrounding area.
  • "The Birthing House" is not just a story; it is a testament to the magical power of writing.
  • "The Birthing House" by Kathy Taylor is an ode to the resilience of the human spirit and its capacity for growth and change.

Nicki Micheaux's "Summer of Violence" Takes Center Stage at Heartland International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival and More

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Renowned actress Nicki Micheaux (Lowlife, The Shield, Lincoln Heights) makes her directorial debut with "Summer of Violence," a compelling film depicting the poignant narrative of a young woman's struggle and resilience during the turbulent summer of 1993 in Denver, Colorado. Audiences are in for an impactful viewing experience as the Indiana premiere takes place at the 32nd Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) on Wednesday, October 11th and the Texas premiere takes place at the Austin Film Festival on October 28th and 31st, 2023.

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  • Audiences are in for an impactful viewing experience as the Indiana premiere takes place at the 32nd Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) on Wednesday, October 11th and the Texas premiere takes place at the Austin Film Festival on October 28th and 31st, 2023.
  • The film proudly won the Outstanding First Feature Award at the Tallgrass Film Festival.
  • It was also nominated for the Gordon Parks Black Excellence Award and the Narrative Feature Drama Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival.
  • the film will be screened at several other festivals this year, including a premiere as centerpiece film at the DTLA Film Festival in Los Angeles on Friday, November 3rd.

Phillis In Boston, Play Celebrating African American Poet and Prodigy Phillis Wheatley's Revolutionary Legacy, Opens Nov 3 at the Old South Meeting House

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

BOSTON, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston nonprofit Revolutionary Spaces announces the debut of Phillis in Boston, an original play dramatizing a key moment in the life of both the nation and the celebrated poet Phillis Wheatley, enslaved author of the first known book of poetry in English by an African American woman.

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  • A unique work of place-based theater, Phillis in Boston will be performed as a site-specific play at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, where Wheatley was a congregant.
  • Phillis in Boston illuminates the multiple struggles for freedom underway in Boston shortly after Wheatley returned in 1773 from a whirlwind visit to London, where she was feted as a literary celebrity.
  • Phillis in Boston is a companion piece to Solanke's play Phillis in London, which explores Wheatley's experiences as she moved through Britain's elite literary and abolitionist circles in the summer of 1773.
  • I'm grateful to the entire Boston community who've so generously shared their ancestral 's/heroes' with me."