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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Eurovision,Canada,Americas,Europe,World news,Television & radio,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Organizers announced that Canada will join the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027, becoming the first new entrant since Australia in 2015.Participation is not limited to geographical countries in Europe, but is open to all members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which Canada joined last week. Australia Affiliate Member.The European Broadcasting Union and Canadian public broadcaster CBC announced Wednesday that Canada will send an act to the 2027 competition, which will be held in Bulgaria in May. The announcement…

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,Sculpture,Ai Weiwei 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HThe story has been repeated throughout Ai Weiwei's massive monumental sculpture exhibition in Manchester. Flags of long-lost nations hang from the ceiling, bronzes plundered by dead empires have been recast and reclaimed, and crumbling ancient ruins have been rebuilt. Everywhere you look here, you will find death, exploitation, greed and suffering throughout human history, brought to life and painfully displayed. The first thing you see is a black glass chandelier made of skeletons – The Human Comedy – and…

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Village People,Music,Culture,Disco 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Victor Willis, lead singer of the band Village People, has died at the age of 74. The group shared the news in a statement: “Victor passed away on Monday, June 30, 2026 due to a short but aggressive illness,” they said. "Privacy is required."Willis, the writer of what were widely accepted as gay YMCA anthems and a macho man — who also performed in costumes of hyper-masculine stereotypes — refuted the idea that the YMCA was a gay anthem and threatened…

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Russell Tovey,Donmar Warehouse,Chloe Moss,Film ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TDonmar has had mixed results adapting left-wing films like Force Majeure and The Fear of 13. But this production, based on the 2018 Danish film Den Skyldige (by Gustav Müller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen), is a fantastical theatrical experience, part crime thriller, part ghost story.At 70 minutes, it's shorter than the film, but arguably more devastating, with the kind of suspense that fills you with dread and leaves you palpitating. As a critic who takes copious notes, I walked…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,West End,London,Stage,Culture,UK news,Tom Stoppard,Sonia Friedman 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Duke of York Theater in the West End is set to become the Tom Stoppard Theater in tribute to the playwright who died in November.The theater is currently showing Carrie Cracknell's revival of Stoppard's 1993 masterpiece Arcadia and the same play was produced there in 2009. The playwright's wife, Sabrina Stoppard, said: "Tom was in his element whenever he had a play in the West End, so I'm thrilled that this theater will be named after him.…