Writing from the Levant (in Istanbul en route to Tel Aviv), trying to understand what happened in the BC provincial election.
Did the pollsters just get the numbers terribly wrong, or did Christy Clark's relentlessly negative campaign work on a gullible electorate?
Four more years of that woman and her Cheshire grin: it makes one despair for the arts, for education, for the environment, for everything I thought I was supporting in casting my ballot early.
P.
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A blog about the local/global interfaces of audience and event.
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- Peter Dickinson
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- I live in Vancouver and teach in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. I am also the Director of SFU's Institute for Performance Studies. My academic interests include theatre, dance and performance studies, film studies, and gender studies. I am actively interested in the relationship between art and politics, and especially what the performing arts can teach us about our relationships with the places we live, and with the world more generally. Hence this blog.
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3 comments:
Hi, Peter,
It's the latter -- negative campaigning, use of fear...and convincing folks that more or less unbridled development will serve their basic interests, i.e., protect their pocketbooks. All that stuff.... Very sad...and worrisome. I predict civil strife relating to the environment.
Hope your time in Turkey is great!
Rick
Peter,
I see, on more careful reading, that you're on your way to Israel.
I'm curious about your time there -- would love to know your experience.
I enjoy your blog and its very thoughtful commentary....
With good wishes,
Rick Marcuse
Thanks for your comments, Rick. On the election front, I guess one can take solace in the fact that the candidate in my riding of Vancouver-Fairview, Goerge Heyman, defeated incumbent Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid. And, of course, David Eby unseated Premier Christy herself. Not that that will stop her from asking one of her duly elected MLAs from stepping aside.
As for Isarel, expect at least one post about the Batsheva Dance Company, whom we're seeing in performance this Saturday.
Peter
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