Konverge Arts

Reposted from @canada.council There’s an increasing amount of research out there that points to how the arts are integral to our wellbeing and make up an essential part of our lives. On countless occasions, arts and culture have demonstrated the benefits and positive effects they can have on the health of human beings. This #WorldHealthDay, we invite you to take a look at our report Canadians’ Art Participation, Health and Well-Being, which provides solid evidence of a stro...ng connection between cultural activities and overall health. We’ve linked it in our bio for you. Image description: a brightly coloured illustration of a human heart blooming with flowers, birds and butterflies. The heart is being hugged by a set of orange arms and there is a blue hand with a heart at its center rising from below the main heart. There are also two whales depicted on either side of the heart. : @mixkit_co

Get a peek into @williamdalrymple 's life as a writer! "I have two different routines depending on whether I'm actually putting pen to paper with a book or not. I write a book once every four-five years, and it normally takes best part of a year to put the thing down on paper: the shortest was nine months for Nine Lives, the longest From the Holy Mountain which took 18 months." - William Dalrymple... #writer #writersofinstagram #southasianstories See more

KONVERGE Presents AUTHOR'S INSIGHTS @anoshirani_writer CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE ARTICLE Linkin Bio... "I do believe that the stories are contained within your own body. They emerge from a place that is deep inside of me. It's not from the mind. The mind just aligns itself to the truth that the body wants to tell." ANOSH IRANI Growing up near Bombay’s red-light district, Anosh Irani was intrigued by its theatricality, which inspired him to write his first full-length play.Premiering in 2003 at the Arts Club,The Matka Kingis a darkly comic tale about a powerful eunuch who operates a brothel. Irani moved to Vancouver in 1998. While attending the UBC Creative Writing Program, he read unsolicited scripts for Arts Club Artistic Director Bill Millerd, who became his playwriting mentor. Five months after the premiere ofThe Matka King, Irani published his debut novel,The Cripple and His Talismans, in which the narrator searches for his severed left arm after awakening in hospital to discover it missing. In his second novel,The Song of Kahunsha, a boy runs away from an orphanage and gets caught up in the violence of communal riots. The book was an international bestseller and a finalist for Canada Reads in 2007. Irani’s 2006 play,Bombay Black, a love story between a blind man and a dancer, received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. Irani’s 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize long listed novelDahanu Roadwas followed in 2016 by his acclaimed novelThe Parcel, which returned to Bombay’s red light district. The story of a retired transgendered sex worker who looks after a young girl who has been trafficked into a brothel, the novel was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. It was chosen as one of the books of the year byThe Globe and Mail, National Post, and Quill & Quire. #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram #lit #literature #southasianstorytellers #indocanadian

Reposted from @canada.council Each year, we distribute payments to nearly 18,000 Canadian authors through the Public Lending Right Program as compensation for free public access to their books in public libraries across Canada. Eligible work includes original writing, translation, illustration, and photography contained in library books. If you’re an author, editor, translator, illustrator, narrator or photographer, find out if you’re eligible and register at publiclendingright.ca by May 1st, 2021. We’ve added the link in our bio. Image description: a variety of colourful books placed on bookshelves in a library.

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