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  1. Downtown #VictoriaBC will be filled with music, colour and tradition on April 11 as the Victoria #BengaliCulturalSociety hosts its first outdoor celebration of #PohelaBoishakh - the #Bengali #NewYear. The #FreeEvent, set for #CentennialSquare at noon, marks a milestone for the local Bengali community, bringing one of its most recognized #cultural traditions into the public square. For the first time in Victoria, organizers will stage the #MongolShobhajatra -a “parade of well-being” recognized by #UNESCO. The procession will feature large, handcrafted masks and vibrant artistic structures, accompanied by drumming and music symbolizing #peace and #unity.

    The parade is expected to begin around 1 p.m. The celebration will also include live Bengali music and dance performances, a food fair showcasing #SouthAsian cuisine, and vendor stalls offering traditional clothing and handmade goods. Organizers say the event is meant to highlight the #diversity of #cultures on #VancouverIsland while offering residents a chance to engage with Bengali traditions.

    vbcscanada.com/
    saanichnews.com/2026/04/05/vic

    #CommunityEvent #CommunityBuilding #CulturalConnecting #SouthEastAsians #AsianMastodon #CulturalEvent #FamilyFriendly #YYJEvents #CulturalFood #CulturalMusic #GlobalSouthDiaspora #AsianDiaspora #VanIsle #ArtsAndCulture #CommunityDiversity

  2. You know why the #West makes such a song and dance about #nonviolence, because when your entire #empire is built on #systemic extermination of living #cultures and #communities, it really helps if you simultaneously propagate a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil, this way you can criminalize the very thought of #revolution, not only legally, but also #morally.

    Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

    #quote #quotes

  3. Here's my bio for the crazy's who'll read it all the way through💖💖.
    Bio: Woops, you found me, huh?
    Well then, welcome to my tiny den, tucked in a faraway corner of the internet.
    Note:
    I swear, and this account would probably be best for someone who's 16+ at least xoxo.
    Who am I?
    My name is Lauren, but if we're close friends, you know me as Aurelina🩰.
    My mind is:
    🐚Dream-core, introspective, and intuitive🐚.
    My heart is:
    📜Tattooing whimsy on ephemeral wings🦋.
    ✨Lil chaos gremlin who likes to be cozy, curled up with a good book and surrounded by soft stuff🧸.
    Trying to be in my softgirl era without the tough exterior😮‍💨.
    Not quite sure how that's working out right now, but hey, I'm trying, right?
    What I love:
    #History, I'm a history girly to my core.
    #Documentaries. Animal ones are my fav🐾.
    #Leopards, I've always loved them🐆💖.
    #Stardew. Stardew valley just gets me🫐.
    🩷Blind baddie👩🏼‍🦯 trying her best to serve coquette🩷🎀, but currently serving confusion🤷🏼‍♀️.
    💖Quote💖:
    "I know where I am in my life, and the future is up from here😊.
    🫧My mind is a sponge🫧, soking up all the knowledge it can, while it can.
    I love learning about:
    #Cultures📔.
    #Makeup💄.
    #Mythology👑.
    #AstrologyNerd💫.
    #Linguistics📖.
    #Neurodiversity🧠✨.
    #BeyondTheBinary🧍🏼.
    #DreamInterpretation💭.
    #TarotHistory♥️.
    #MythicalCreatures🧚🏼.
    #QueerHistory🏳️‍🌈.
    Now that you know a little about me, why not follow for some chaos gremlin fuckery, and an occasional sappy post?
    #Taken by 💗@x0💖and @nightwind2022💗.

  4. Primitive Asgard Cells:

    #Asgard #archaea are now among the most coveted organisms in science, and for good reason. To many evolutionary biologists, their discovery and subsequent studies justify revising the textbook pictures of the tree of life to situate us — and every other creature built from #eukaryotic cells — as mere offshoots of the Asgard group

    Studies of Asgard genomes, meanwhile, have brought badly needed data to the question of how eukaryotes evolved, an epochal event in Earth’s history that inspires contentious debates.

    Most of the studies to date have had to rely on indirect genetic probes of the Asgard group, which don’t offer the same opportunities as prodding living microbes in a lab, the gold standard in microbiology since the days of Louis Pasteur.

    Now a high-stakes, slow-motion race is on as labs around the world attempt to #grow their own #Asgard #cultures. Samples aren’t shared; growth strategies are tightly guarded secrets.

    “We were honestly shocked” when the Schleper team’s results came out, wrote Hiroyuki Imachi, the microbiologist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology who, after a grueling 12-year effort, isolated the #first and currently #only other Asgard archaea sample.

    They aren’t the only ones. Thijs Ettema, an evolutionary microbiologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, hinted that his lab had made progress toward enriching Asgard cultures too, and he guessed that at least 10 other labs had similar projects underway. “They wouldn’t be telling me,” he said.
    quantamagazine.org/primitive-a

  5. It's a small world when #OnlineLearning expert Curt Bonk of Indiana University presents a Webinar based in Canada and recommends #podcasting by my Indian colleague in Tashkent and my Japancasting channel.
    Curt's tour de force "How to Use Shared Online Videos, Podcasts and Webcasts to Engage Online Learners" is reported at teachonline.ca/webinar/how-use
    Japancasting topics so far: #Japanese #legends & #religions, society & #education, and #Asian #cultures
    See details about #Japancasting #podcasts, related articles, and videos at japanned.hcommons.org/multimed

    This content is redone, because server trouble lost the toot and most of my followers. Therefore, please confirm that you are following me if desired. Thank you!

    #EdTech #openedtech #openeducation #OpenAccess #OER #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #LanguageEducation #EducationalTechnology @edutooters @religidons @religion

  6. It's a small world when #OnlineLearning expert Curt Bonk of Indiana University presents a Webinar based in Canada and recommends #podcasting by my Indian colleague in Tashkent and my Japancasting channel.
    Curt's tour de force "How to Use Shared Online Videos, Podcasts and Webcasts to Engage Online Learners" is reported at teachonline.ca/webinar/how-use
    Japancasting topics so far: #Japanese #legends & #religions, society & #education, and #Asian #cultures
    See details about #Japancasting #podcasts, related articles, and videos at japanned.hcommons.org/multimed

    This content is redone, because server trouble lost the toot and most of my followers. Therefore, please confirm that you are following me if desired. Thank you!

    #EdTech #openedtech #openeducation #OpenAccess #OER #DistanceEducation #OnlineEducation #LanguageEducation #EducationalTechnology @edutooters @religidons @religion

  7. Fun with slides. This week we're discussing #geeks and subcultural scenes in #China by using texts from chaoyang.substack.com/ to explore different #publics, #counterpublics, #cultures, #subcultures, and #affectivepublics. I appreciate when books have malleable and distinctive covers to play with -journal articles need better art (see again, Chaoyang Trap).

    #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Lecturing #ChinaStudies