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Bell Media Partners with DAIS on Creative Hub and Artist Incubator

Bell Media and renowned Canadian artist and creative powerhouse Sol Guy today announced their partnership on the creative hub and artist incubator, DAIS. A launchpad for the development, production, and distribution of landmark content, DAIS’s key pillars are short-form web series, music, and radio.

“We are very excited to partner with Sol and strengthen our relationship with content creators,” said Randy Lennox, President, Broadcasting and Content, Bell Media. “We’re thrilled with what we’ve seen so far and look forward to leveraging the Bell Media megaphone to help take select projects to the next level.”

“The opportunity to partner with Bell Media and develop world-class projects is extremely exciting. Their platform ecosystem is unparalleled, like a sandbox of creative possibilities, and we intend to bring the best artists in the world there to work, collaborate, and play,” said Sol Guy, founder of DAIS. “Randy Lennox has always believed in artist development being the key to long-term success. These are changing times and Bell Media’s commitment to adapting by supporting the artists who will shape our future is extremely inspiring.”

DAIS’s mandate is to develop projects in Canada that can be brought to the world stage while expanding Bell Media’s millennial audience. DAIS has already forged several strategic partnerships and is working with creators across multiple cultural sectors. Examples include:

  • a development partnership with rising star Ezra Miller (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them);
  • a four-part series, Movement Art Is (M.A.I.), to be co-produced with CNN-backed short-form content production house Great Big Story, based on “Color of Reality,” which marries dance with visual art and socially relevant narratives;
  • a partnership with recording label and artist management group Pirates Blend/Sony Music Canada and also with Cadence/Universal Music Group to co-develop musical talent;
  • a four-part music-video series with Canadian electronic group A Tribe Called Red to be broadcast on MUCH, W5, and iHeartRadio Canada;
  • a partnership with award-winning incubator The Remix Project to collaborate on video production in support of democratizing education in the creative industries;
  • a DAIS-branded digital radio station on iHeartRadio Canada, which debuts later this year, showcasing the best in Hip-Hop, R&B, Soca, and Afro Beat.

DAIS provides a safe space for creators to grow, network and produce. Based in Toronto’s artistic Queen Street West neighbourhood, DAIS has transformed a four-storey townhouse into a multi-functional, vibrant space designed to support the creative process. DAIS provides infrastructure support, inspiration, and a foundation for artists from ideation to production to delivery including: a music studio, digital production facilities, radio/podcast suite, 4K edit room, multi-purpose working suites, and a street-level gallery and performance space.

Additional DAIS projects and collaborations will be announced in 2017.

You can watch Earth’s history play out on a football field

Grant Ernhart works with the U.S. Biathlon Team, so he spends a lot of time among snow-capped mountains. From the Canadian Rockies, he lobbed a question to Skunk Bear, NPR’s science YouTube channel.

“I’m standing next to some mountains that are millions of years old,” Ernhart said, “and the Earth is itself 4.5 billion years old. How do I even wrap my mind around that length of time?”

It’s a tough question. A human life is so short compared to the life of the planet. But wethey decided the perfect place to tackle this problem of perspective was out on a football field.

Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md., let us take over its stadium one fall afternoon before practice, and they used the gridiron as a giant timeline. The distance between the end zones – 100 yards – would represent Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history.

Watch President Obama Give Medal Of Freedom To Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford and Bruce Springsteen

President Obama is finishing out his second term by honoring some superstars from the worlds of film, TV, sports and music. Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford and Bruce Springsteen are among the big names who’ll receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Nov. 22 at the White House. Cicely Tyson, Diana Ross, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan are also among the 21 medal recipients, as are Bill and Melinda Gates, sports broadcaster Vin Scully, and “Saturday Night Live” creator and producer Lorne Michaels.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to people who have “made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

Haim Goes Back to Their High School to Thank Their Teacher

Haim teamed up with the California Lottery, as part of their mission for education, to go back to the start and #ThankATeacher. Because with the right funding, the right support, and the right teacher, any student can imagine their possibilities. Watch how one history teacher, Mr. Freedman, impacted these three sisters at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

“I remember him starting some of the lessons with us listening to music. He got us all newspapers, and we’d talk about current events. He would always bring it back to history, and really opened our eyes to what was going on in the world.”

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Netflix Released Trailer To Barry, About President Barack Obama’s College Years in New York City

A young Barack Obama, known to his friends as “Barry,” arrives in New York City in the fall of 1981 to begin his junior year at Columbia University. In a crime-ridden and racially charged environment, Barry finds himself pulled between various social spheres and struggles to maintain a series of increasingly strained relationships with his Kansas-born mother, his estranged Kenyan father, and his classmates.Barry is the story of a young man grappling with those same issues that his country, and arguably the world, are still coming to terms with 35 years later. The series premieres on December 16, 2016.

This whole island is solar-powered thanks to Tesla, and it only took a year

The island of Ta’u in American Samoa, located more than 4,000 miles from the West Coast of the United States, now hosts a solar power and battery storage-enabled microgrid that can supply nearly 100 percent of the island’s power needs from renewable energy, thanks to Tesla and SolarCity. This provides a cost-saving alternative to diesel, removing the hazards of power intermittency and making outages a thing of the past.

Bruce Cockburn to host 2017 JUNO Songwriters’ Circle in Ottawa

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today that Ottawa native, 12-time JUNO Award winner, Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee, and music legend Bruce Cockburn will host and perform at the 2017 JUNO Songwriters’ Circle, to be held in the NAC Theatre at the National Arts Centre on Sunday, April 2, 2017 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST.

JUNO Songwriters’ Circle is an intimate and interactive concert benefiting MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity associated with CARAS that works to keep music alive in schools and communities across Canada. Co-presented by SOCAN (The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers) and Yamaha Canada Music, in association with the Canadian Music Publishers Association, this event is considered the “jewel of JUNO Week,” and will feature some of Canada’s most talented songwriters, performing their songs and sharing the stories behind them.

Tickets to the 2017 JUNO Songwriters’ Circle go on sale on November 24 at 10 a.m. EST at www.ticketmaster.ca, the National Arts Centre Box Office or by phone at 1-888-991-2787. Tickets are available for $49.50 and $59.50 (plus taxes and service fees), with proceeds supporting MusiCounts.

“I’m honoured to have been asked to host the Songwriters’ Circle during JUNO Week 2017 in Ottawa. This one-of-a-kind showcase will offer people a unique look into the raw emotions and art of storytelling that come with songwriting,” said Cockburn. “I’m also pleased to participate in an event that supports MusiCounts and the work they do for school music programs across the country. These programs have a huge impact on fostering our future artists and developing a creative youth within Canada.”

JUNO Songwriters’ Circle will be available for streaming through CBCMusic.ca and will also be broadcast on CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2. Dates to be announced in the new year.

British guitar buyers could be paying more for their instruments, thanks to Brexit

British guitar buyers could soon be playing the Brexit blues as price rises caused by the slump in the value of the pound feed through to music stores.

Prices are increasing by double digits as top US brands such as Gibson and Fender increase list prices to make up for the weaker purchasing power of sterling.

Anthony Macari, co-owner of Macari’s on London’s Denmark Street, said: “We are seeing increases of 10-15%, not just on American guitars but on guitars coming in from Europe and China. Everyone is catching up.”

He said increases were noticeable because guitar prices have barely risen in recent years. The full effect will be felt after Christmas, he said.

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Death Metal Cover of John Cage’s 4′ 33” Will Crush You

Death-metal band Dead Territory covers John Cage’s 4′ 33”better than most. It won’t be the last cover of the song attemtped, but the spirit is perfect.

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