Ex-Envoy Wants Separate Ministry Of Culture To Promote Arts, Crafts - Leadership News

Former Ambassador of Nigeria to Morocco, Baba Garba, has said for Nigeria’s arts, craft and culture industry to thrive, culture should cease to be under the ministry of information.
He said if it must be affiliated to the ministry of information, there should be a clear dichotomy of functions between the two departments.
Garba spoke at the ongoing maiden edition of the Nigeria Morocco Crafts Exhibition and Morocco Traditional Wedding Festival at the Chida Hotel and Events Centre in Abuja.
At the exhibition, showcasing arts and crafts of Morocco alongside that of Sokoto State, the Moroccan crafts are luxurious, refined and intricately designed: from ceramic crockeries to trinkets, clothing, wooden works, leatherwork accessories to raffia products. They all scream high-end (also expensive) but highly finished, compared to the Nigerian crafts which are definitely unique in their own design but lack the refinement of their counterpart.
This is strange considering that the redskin leather used by Morocco since the 1830s (and much valued in Europe) were initially sourced from Sokoto and via Kano transported by caravans to Fez, Morocco and then to Europe.
Today, Morocco’s Chamber of Arts and Crafts in partnership with the Sokoto State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture to ensure the success of this exhibition, holding from October 24 to 29th.
For the Nigerian Arts and Culture Industry to thrive, Garba said the country must view the industry not as a civil service job where bureaucracies prevail, but one where people take ownership and responsibility of cultural projects, just as Morocco has with its Arts and Crafts Chamber of Commerce which shows the country’s recognition and investment in the sector as an income generator.
 
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Morning Kiss Organic Uses Pedal Power to Craft Organic Smoothies at New York Produce Show - PerishableNews

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Chelsea, MA – Morning Kiss Organic will rely on pedal power to make delicious organic  smoothies at the New York Produce Show November 29-December 2, exhibiting at booth #338. Using a customized smoothie bike, Morning Kiss Organic will blend “Refresher” smoothies featuring fresh fruit and vegetables from their organic line of produce and herbs. 

“Come take an invigorating spin on our smoothie bike and then enjoy the fruits of your labor!” says Nelly Czajkowski of DiSilva Fruit. “Our ‘Refresher’ blend of cucumber, lime, pineapple, mango, and mint will have guests feeling revitalized at the show.” 
Morning Kiss Organic, along with Arrowfarms sister companies DiSilva Fruit and Gold Bell, will promote their full line of organic and conventional produce, including the herb program, the organic melon program, and the expanded and redesigned bagged juice oranges.
Arrowfarms embraces a “Return to Value” ethos that includes lower costs, operational efficiency, reducing food waste, and managing demand. By focusing on private brands and private label opportunities over highly marketing national brands, we can help our partners lower costs. Utilizing just-in-time deliveries allows Arrowfarms companies to operate efficiently, maintaining freshness and optimizing the supply chain. By meeting consumer trends with smaller pack sizes, food waste can be reduced. Arrowfarms aims to manage demand by anticipating and buffering for disruptions within the supply chain and market volatility. 
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A trusted leader in the produce company for over 50 years, Arrowfarms has state of the art production facilities located within the heart of New England’s major food hub. These facilities are used for packaging all varieties of potatoes, onions, citrus, and various other commodities. When a customer or vendor develops a relationship with an Arrowfarms company, they receive the best of what the produce industry has to offer. The company is comprised of dynamic companies, Arrowfarms, Gold Bell Inc., DiSilva Fruit, and Morning Kiss Organic.
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Summer safety tips: 5 things parents should consider this summer - Motherly Inc.

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All of this extra free time in the summer means that parents often have to be even more vigilant when it comes to child safety and protection.
By Tania Haigh July 25, 2022
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With children out of school in the summertime, kids can have much more time on their hands—from family vacations to visiting relatives to summer camps and hanging with neighborhood kids, there can be an uptick of fun, and deviation from your family’s normal routine. 
All of this extra free time in the summer means that parents often have to be even more vigilant when it comes to child safety and protection. This includes water safety, car seat safety when traveling and even stranger danger and internet safety for kids. Here are five summer safety tips to help parents keep their kids safe—without compromising on the fun. 
Summertime brings fun opportunities to travel, which may mean a child could be traveling on a plane solo to visit the other parent or to spend part of the summer with relatives. Being aware that predators can lurk in airports will help moms equip their kids to observe their surroundings and know what to do if they feel they’re in danger. For example, teach your kids about the international Signal for Help; that the child can approach any airport or airline personnel for help; and use his/her device to text family (ensure to have contact information pre-populated in device) to communicate an issue along with having Apple Location Sharing on for you to track your child. In addition, with regard to relatives, it’s important to know that in 90% of instances of child sexual abuse, the predator causing harm is someone the child and family knows. So it’s important for parents to teach their kids to always communicate with them immediately if anyone (stranger, friend, or relative) makes them feel uncomfortable or initiates any exploitative behavior. 
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With school out for summer break, kids can have varied routines or no routine at all. This lack of structure combined with a lot of extra free time can lead to excessive use of devices as well as more time spent online using social media sites like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook or even gaming on Roblox and other gaming sites. During these activities, kids may find comfort in making connections online, the nebulous concept of “online friends.” But sometimes developing these online friendships means your children are interacting with total strangers. These “online friends” work on building trusting relationships that can lead to offline dangers, such as agreeing to meet in person. Unfortunately, there are too many unknowns about the real identities of these online avatars. So, just like it’s important to know what friends are hanging out with your children IRL, monitoring your kids’ online conversations and perhaps eliminating some of their “online friends” is also a significant key to their safety.
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Summer is a great season for outings and social gatherings such as the annual family BBQ, block parties or family reunions. Your children may be exposed to lesser-known people like extended family members or neighbors. Educate and prepare your children for these social events by having a conversation with them about what to watch out for and what it might look like or feel like if an adult or older child/teen makes an inappropriate advance toward them. Also, remind them of your love and protection and that there are no secrets that need to be kept from Mom.
As parents, we often think of the school year as the time to get back in the swing of having key conversations with our kids, but in reality, digital safety is one conversation that should be happening year round. Many kids get access to gaming like Roblox and social media channels like TikTok when they’re far too young—long before parents can explain to their kids how important it is for them to keep certain information private. Remind your kids that maintaining privacy—which also keeps them safe—includes not revealing their real names via avatars or account names, never sharing their address or physical location, and never revealing anything about their bodies by taking, sharing, or uploading inappropriate images.
Related: 6 essential apps that will keep your tween safe online

Keeping your children safe over the summer may mean shifting the talks you have with them from questions like “how was your day at school?” to topics such as “how did it go at your dad’s?” and “who are you gaming with?” and “did anyone make you feel uncomfortable at the pool?” At the end of the day, we want all moms to know that staying involved and engaged in your kids’ lives is the key to keeping them safe.

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Sean Shibe, a shape-shifting artist, redefines the idea of a classical guitarist - NPR

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On his new album, Sean Shibe ditches his nylon-strung classical guitar for a Fender Stratocaster. Iga Gozdowska/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
On his new album, Sean Shibe ditches his nylon-strung classical guitar for a Fender Stratocaster.
The young Scottish classical guitarist Sean Shibe defies expectations. His new album is titled Lost & Found – and one thing he apparently lost was his traditional, nylon-strung classical guitar. What he found instead was a sleek black Mexican Fender Stratocaster.
The album is a fully plugged-in affair, without a trace of the standard Spanish classics or Bach transcriptions many guitarists thrive on. Instead, Shibe artfully gathers over a millennium's worth of compositions, which, on the surface, may seem like odd bedfellows.
And if you think electric guitars are only for shredding and blasting big noise, think again. In Shibe's arrangement of "Peace Piece," by jazz pianist Bill Evans, the textures are gauzy and the colors are muted. I've rarely heard an electric guitar sound so featherlight.
The 30-year-old Edinburgh native, who studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, likes to keep his listeners on their toes. Last year, he released an album of Iberian and French music that glowed with crepuscular introspection. On the cover, Shibe appeared monk-like with a freshly shorn head. The booklet photos showed him, clippers in hand, lopping off his thick locks.
Lost & Found flows with a chameleon-like duality. Shibe's inspiration comes via the enigmatic 18th-century poet and printmaker William Blake, whose metaphysical work plays with opposites and disguise. "A radical searching for the revelatory," is how Shibe sums up Blake in the album booklet. "The illustrations that accompany his writings disregard convention and present a vital auteurship of craft and philosophy," he adds. In that spirit, electric guitars don't sound like themselves on Lost & Found. And Shibe himself, perhaps mirroring some of Blake's paintings, appears androgynous on the album cover, swathed in a pink tulle dress.
Another touchstone of mysticism, represented by two tracks on the album, is the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen, whose piece "O Choruscans Lux Stellarum" gets a megawatt makeover. In place of sacred vocals, Shibe offers a psychedelic swirl of celestial light — a kind of "star-way to heaven."
Shibe thinks of his new album as an "overflowing toy box" of compositions, but actually it unfolds like a clever mixtape. Music by Meredith Monk, Chick Corea and Olivier Messiaen rub elbows with Julius Eastman and Moondog, the Viking-clad composer who, beginning in the 1940s, performed on the streets of Manhattan and slept in doorways. His lighthearted love song "High on a Rocky Ledge," thanks to Shibe's refined strumming, takes on the gravitas of a solemn prayer.
Throughout the album, the guitar substitutes for other instruments by way of Shibe's crafty, and reliably tasteful, arrangements. Yet there is one piece meant to be played on electric guitar — Continuance, music written for Shibe by the rising young British composer Daniel Kidane. Meditative chords that float like clouds are pierced with beams of multi-colored light. The ethereal sounds emanate from the other electric guitar Shibe deploys on the album, a 35th anniversary edition of a PRS Custom 24-08.
Lost & Found is a beguiling album, where music of innocence and experience interlace. And where a masterful, mercurial artist, compels us to question what a "classical guitarist" should sound like in 2022.
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