#join this club now no talkback

[kuyanh]

Everyone n everything, ladies n gentleman greetings...a NEW FVCKING CLUUUB!!>:D

i already promote this tho but btw...

in this club we accept everyone who loves dark lord or maybe defender or a hc maker! A place where u can go wild w ur hc or js post smth abt dark lord! N for some nsfw shipper plz make some disclaimer cuz not everyone love nsfw, other than that ur free to burn this place, be nice n tolerance!

Uhh i have nothing to say anymore tho so heres the club >>> ALAMAK

this club made by: @curryvo-fandom (thx 4 making me a club•⁠ᴗ⁠• last time ive tried to make one but failed:v)

[kuyanh]

Will u join it?

Pstt!

I have smth for ya'

>>>>>💌

enjoy!😉

okay

[squideo]

Have You Considered... Clubhouse?

In the last installation of Have You Considered, we expounded the benefits of Spotify in helping a business standout amongst an oversaturated social media market. Adding an audio component to your marketing strategy, alongside face-to-face outreach and video, creates a multisensory campaign which helps engage different customer segments.

Spotify helps humanise a brand and introduces creativity to your marketing plan. If you’re operating as a Business to Business (B2B) however, there is a more business-focused platform you could use to accomplish this: Clubhouse.

Clubhouse had its fifteen minutes of fame in 2020 when it first launched amidst a changing business landscape. It spiked in popularity and, while it may have fallen slightly off the radar since, Clubhouse remains an innovative platform. It offers businesses an opportunity to not only engage customers but also conduct valuable market research.

What is Clubhouse?

Clubhouse is like an always-on dinner party where you can hang out with friends, meet new ones and talk about anything. When you're on Clubhouse, it's not about posting content, but joining a community of friends-of-friends who come together to meet, talk, and share ideas. We built Clubhouse for people who value rich friendships and conversation, care about experiences, memories and being in the moment.

Clubhouse has been described as a hybrid of conference calls, talkback radio and a house party. Originally run as an invite-only platform, Clubhouse is now freely available to anyone who downloads the app. When you sign up, you’ll be prompted to follow people or choose topics of interest. The app then recommends ‘rooms’. Rooms are topic-orientated spaces, where Clubhouse members can go to talk to other members or listen to discourse.

Clubhouse grew from over 3.5 million global downloads to 8.1 million in February 2021, at the peak of its popularity. This explosion in followers was attributed to high-profile celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerburg joining the app.

While the rate of new membership has dropped since the height of its hype, in 2022 Clubhouse maintained around 10 million users from around the world.

How Can Clubhouse Help Businesses?

Clubhouse is ideal for B2Bs and small businesses. With a relatively small userbase when compared to major platforms like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, it’s easier to be heard (figuratively and literally) above the noise.

Learn from others. There is a significant number of business owners and leaders on Clubhouse, who are in rooms and clubs ready to have a conversation. Search for events and rooms that are relevant to your industry to forge useful connections. Once you find people who have succeeded in something similar to what you are doing, take the opportunity of Clubhouse’s format to ask them questions and listen to what they’re willing to share.

Find investors. Focus on creating a digital space for your business, promoting what you’re doing, and forging connections by joining lots of different rooms. If you spend time on the Clubhouse app, there is an opportunity to make valuable connections with potential investors. Keep an eye open for relevant networking events, rooms and clubs.

Host virtual events. Clubhouse members don’t only join rooms, they can also create them. These rooms are a great way to gain followers and engage with connections and potential customers. Attract new members to your room by hosting a virtual event, perhaps to celebrate the launch of a new product or for fundraising.

Gain followers. To get the followers you need to make your Clubhouse account a success, invest time in the app and join plenty of rooms and clubs. Finding a following on Clubhouse can boost your following on other social media platforms as people want to learn more about your business after talking to you or hearing you speak.

Research the market. Clubhouse doesn’t only link you to an audience, it also allows you to have meaningful conversations with them. By engaging with your market on this intimate scale, you can find out what your customers want, identify areas for development in your business and marketing plans, and improve customer service and aftercare.

You can also test marketing strategies before implementing them on larger social media platforms, like new branding or perhaps sharing an amazing explainer video…

How to Utilise Clubhouse

One of the best ways to utilise Clubhouse is to host rooms and clubs. To do this, you need to build your room around a topic. This can be as generalised or niche as you want. There are five types of rooms you can create or participate in on Clubhouse:

Welcome Rooms. Welcome Rooms are created when new users sign up. If someone in your phone contacts joins Clubhouse, you may get a notification to join a Welcome Room—a private room where you and other contacts of the new user can help orient them to Clubhouse. You can also open the room to the public. If you see Welcome Rooms in your feed, feel free to jump in and say hello. Clubhouse promotes an informal environment, and you never know what useful contacts you might end up making!

Open Rooms. Anyone can join an Open Room. They're popular for hosting public conversations, shows, or meeting lots of new people. This is the default setting for rooms on Clubhouse.

Social Rooms. Social Rooms are only for the people in your Clubhouse circle. So that's your followers and the followers of any of the speakers. To expand the list of people who can be invited, add one of your followers as a moderator, and they'll be able to invite the people in their circles to the room.

Club Rooms. A new function added by Clubhouse in 2022, you can now open a room within a Club so members can join you to discuss relevant topics. You can always open the room to anyone on Clubhouse, which is a great way to expand club membership.

Closed Rooms. Also called Private Rooms, are only for people you invite. We hope that Closed Rooms will be helpful when you are looking to have more private conversations, or want to talk with a smaller group but haven't yet set up a club for it. When you start a Closed Room, you can always ping in more people or open it up to either a Social or Open Room.

As well as rooms, there are also events. These are scheduled conversations with optional co-hosts to help with moderation. Once an event is created, it’s added to Clubhouse’s bulletin to attract followers. The bulletin displays upcoming scheduled events and allows users to set notifications to remind them when it’s coming up.

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Speaking of standing out, check out our portfolio! And, if you want to discuss how animated explainer videos can benefit your business, get in touch with the Squideo team today.

[just-a-broadway-girl]

My Favorite Parts of the Perky’s Buds/Abstinence Camp Talkback

JAY DRESSING AS KUZCO FOR HALLOWEEN I CAN’T 

Joey fully willing to keep up the bird shtick for the entire talkback

Nick: “My dad’s calling.” Lauren: “PUT HIM ON”

“We gotta lotta Daddies this season.”

Mariah and Angela joining together 😭

Honestly Mariah and Angela just losing their shit together the entire time

“We hate that bird.”

CURT AND KIM IN THEIR COSTUMES OMG

“Batman directed this video??” “Yes.”

Everyone thinking Jon was a pilgrim

“Hello I’m Jon Matteson, I’m he/him, I played Boy Jerry, and I’m a little witch.”

Everyone yelling at Corey to get into the meeting

“I played Counselor number something and Camper number something else”

Everyone shut the fuck up Bryce is a Gryffindor

“Paul did you get my texts.”

MATT ALWAYS DOING THE SMOKE CLUB THING

No James I’m literally gonna cry

NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE IS STILL ON BITCHES 🙌🙌🙌

“Boy Joey??” IM LOSING MY MIND

“Let’s put it in there, let’s make it canon!” NICK PLEASE

IM LIKE 90% SURE COREY AND NICK JUST MADE BILL CANONICALLY IN LOVE WITH TED PLSSSS

(Bill and Ted... motherfucker.)

“Well, you’re welcome.”

NOT JAE SLIDING INTO NICK’S DMS JESUS CHRIST

Seriously tho that story is so cute I’m gonna cry

Joey saying “Paul, there is a right answer” and then Paul literally saying “Ted” and Joey’s face afterward

“This is such a good day for me! Thank you!”

That Lumberaxe puppet is TERRIFYING

“So foul...” “Oh my god...” “Yeah, nasty...” “Hot.” 

“Lauren did you just say hot?” “He’s fucking hot.”

“Where did you get those teeth? Asking for a friend.”

“My favorite part about filming my three lines...” BRYCE LMAO IM DEAD

ANGELA BEING SO ADAMANT ABOUT CARPOOL IM CRYING

Corey and Bryce meeting for the first time ON THE MEETING😭

everyone doing the smoke club thing 😂

I’m pretty sure it’s now canon that Ziggs founded the Smoke Club

“To make me look thicc.” - Curt Mega, 2021

Everyone making fun of the contrast between Curt’s and Lauren’s music videos

“Was that the lens they used for Marriage Story?” “It was thank you so much for noticing that.”

“We actually got the cinematographer from Roma”

“Also, I had to do a headstand, and I am bad at that.” - Jon Matteson, 2021

Wait these all take place in the same reality what the fuck

Wait is that the answer it’s different realities????

Why is no one talking about this????

Mariah and Corey joking about playing Father-Daughter duos 😭🥺

NOT NICK MAKING THE “Have you always been that jacked???” JOKE

“Oh so the awesome stoner friendship wasn’t ENOUGH?!”

everyone absolutely going apeshit after Angela says she’s Italian

MARIAH AND ANGELA’S FACES AFTER SOMEONE ASKED IF GRACE AND STEPH ARE GONNA GET TOGETHER

Jeff sounding so offended when he said “I wouldn’t do that on WORK time!”

everyone fangirling over Jeff and his musical prowess

“He’s the SAX man.” (”This week’s ‘craft class’”)

all of them going “Aww...🥺🥰” while talking about Bill dating again

COREY REITERATING THAT BILL WANTS TO DATE TED OH MY GOD

new info on workin boys?? 👀

MAKE THE FANART THEY ASK FOR YOU COWARDS

Everyone plugging their favorite fan artists 🥺

“PROMO CODE MEAT-A-BALLS”

Alright who’s gonna make the Hatchetfield video game 😡

Oh they are just teasing Bryce’s big role in Killer Track and I’m LIVING for it

“Go get spooky everybody!” - Nick Lang, 2021

“Happy Hatchetween!”

“Nick can we talk about these recordings?” “NOT ON CAMERA, COREY”

Anyways stan Starkid and get your tickets for episodes 3 and 4

[getseriouser]

20 THOUGHTS: Trade Radio Ga Ga (’is this real life or just a fantasy?’)

WHAT a stupid year. 

The losers of the NRL Grand Final are paid out as winners by bookmakers, and not because of a silly betting promotion but because the code and its officials are as relevant and effective in their jobs as contraception to Irish catholic newlyweds on their honeymoon.

Where Donald Trump himself is evidence our species might now be regressing, the fact endless hours of Trade Radio always have talkback callers is the proof in that devolution pudding.

And in a year where all the conservatives and right-wingers in this country should be as excited as a Beagle on full lipstick following ScoMo’s Steven Bradbury effort in May, they’re got their pantyhose and pressed slacks in a twist because of what some Volvo factory-worker’s teenage daughter has to say about the inclement weather conditions.

There was chaos and anarchy on Swan Street for the second time in three years last month but Hold Kong locals asked Richmond fans if they could hold their beer. We lost Polly and Spud, and said vale, gone too soon, to Saturday Night Rove. Five clubs let go of their coaches, Pope Francis delisted one of his cardinals, and a ginger from Christchurch defeated his own country by the virtue of most boundaries.

But at least we retained the Ashes in England.

  1.       Let’s start with the footy, trades season is almost done. Hutchy to his credit was a genius for seeing revenue opportunity in this trade period, with an ‘insert sponsor here’ open line and hours and hours of coverage, its been a windfall and then some for his business. But I reckon we’re only a year or so away from the unwashed realising there’s no relevance in any of it until the final day. There’s only so many Terry Wallace orations on the merits of list analysis before your average punter switches off. Know when to hold them, know when to fold them, Craig.

2.       The biggest name out there with a day to go is Joe Daniher. Was that meeting with Tom Harley a personal one or an actual, official Swans’ approach? Soft tacos, hard tacos, why not both? Now we have Essendon playing hardball and who knows if it gets done. Chances are it does, Geelong last year with Tim Kelly was more exception than example, if the Swans want him bad enough, they’ll lump up the pieces, especially if they fear as I do that Bud’s barely got ten more games in him in a market that requires a star.

3.       St Kilda has a lot on. Jack Steven and Josh Bruce are two big losses, but getting in Dougal Howard, Bradley Hill, Zak Jones, Paddy Ryder and Dan Butler are some nice pieces. If Ratten can indeed coach, and as an ex-Clarko assistant he should be just fine, next year looks properly solid down at Moorabbin.

4.       Whats the thinking with the Dogs? Aaron Naughton looks like a key forward gun, and Josh Schache was just starting to show something as a footballer without being a star. Yet they’re throwing all the cash at Josh Bruce for a go at a third flag? I do know he was free to a good home because the Saints were hellbent Max King’s twin at the Gold Coast would head home next year – not now after that re-signing yesterday. Couple big mistakes there for mine.

5.       Tom Papley worth pick nine? Righto. And the Masked Singer will be popular on Australian television too, right?..... Yep, pick nine sounds about right then, forgive me.

6.       Jack Martin though, to Carlton, that’s the steal of the whole thing. Martin is a freak, who has gone underappreciated playing in the ghost town that is Gold Coast, for a horribly weak side, in a club that can’t develop anyone not named Tom Lynch. But has talent to burn and could easily become one of Carlton’s top 10 players next year, in fact based on the player he can become, he should. Think 2019 Michael Walters. Seriously. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

7.       Collingwood have cap issues? Really? Firstly who really knows, unlike North American sports where contracts are public, only each club really knows how much room they’ve got and how that ever would be divulged puzzles me. And yes they have to pay Grundy, De Goey and Moore next year, although the latter won’t be all that much given his hamstrings are like an Uber driver with turrets, unreliable and could snap at any time. But given the Pies were offering Tom Lynch the same financial terms as Richmond this time last year, with Scott Pendlebury out of contract next year and coming down in salary, with less stars to pay than West Coast, how is this a thing? It isn’t. Chris Mayne is overpaid, sure, but that’s it. Wells has retired, Beams took a cut, and unless George Calombaris oversaw their player payments and there’s backpay to cover off, I think it’s a total beat-up. But sure, let James Aish being wanted by his former backs coach at Freo to fuel that fable.

8.       Crows hired Matthew Nicks. Reckon that’s got fail all over it. Adelaide’s list is in a heap, the review basically said their post Grand-Final plans two years ago totally wiped the place out like a broken toilet on a buck’s weekend, and not seeing to the damage since has only exacerbated the crap spilling out all over the shop. Good half dozen or so quality players leaving this offseason, Walker and Sloane are the wrong side of 30 and they’ve got only a few good kids, most clubs around them have better youth and are more rapidly improving. Either Nicks can’t coach at the level or he can but the Crows will be a bad side regardless, either way it doesn’t see him making a new contract beyond whats given out today.

9.       NRL. Definiton of a pub league. Your local Wednesday night basketball is better run. And with better officiating. That Six Again controversy was the most befitting thing you’ll ever see to a sport, a sport where 13 of its 16 clubs run insolvent, but that’s ok because all their giant pokies-infested leagues club venues write them all a cheque to cover the losses each year. Absolute pub league.

10.   If an umpire or referee makes a bad call, it’s only made worse by changing that decision midstream. If a player marks the ball, but then the umpire overrules saying no, it was touched, its no mark, and because you’ve claimed it and made no attempt to get rid of it its now holding the ball, you just can’t do that. Kids are taught to play to the whistle. Except in rugby league then. Because chances are what the ref just said isn’t what he is about to mean in a couple seconds time, just be patient. That referee shouldn’t be crucified for what’s essentially just one error, but in the grand scheme of things, he needs witness protection. Or better yet, stay off the roster for trips to Canberra next season.

11.   It was mentioned in the preamble but no wonder SportsBet paid out all Canberra to win bets. The Raiders had all the momentum, it was 8-all, and it was near the Roosters tryline. They were no guarantee to score off that play, at best they might have got a repeat set. But if there was anyone more likely to break that deadlock given who was playing better but also, more importantly, the territory battle, it was the Green Machine. This isn’t SportsBet just being philanthropic, the result is just that shady.

12.   Speaking of Sportsbet – Western United. Made their A-League debut on the weekend, won one-nil in front of some fans at Wellington. But it was midweek that we saw their announcement which said “we are proud to announce SportsBet has joined the club as its exclusive sports wagering partner”. Firstly, poor form, in a city where all the AFL clubs are quite publicly backing out of gambling revenue, to be going the other way stinks big time. But secondly, what does that even mean? That if I go into a TAB all Western United games are unavailable to bet on. Coz that’s just not even close to true. Dumb and stupid in all of the ways, that.

13.   So the new boys have their home opener this weekend down at Geelong, even though they’re a team based out of Tarneit. Melbourne Victory when they’ve ventured down to Sleepy Hollow attract 14,000 or so, who knows how many turn up for the novelty first time around this Saturday. But going forward, given Melbourne City don’t exceed 10,000 and they play in town, if they’re getting anymore than 5,000-6,000 in what’s otherwise a 36,000 AFL venue, its going to look oh so pretty on television. What’s the opposite of the eggplant emoji?

14.   Few more on the A-League, firstly, why have your opening round smack bang in the middle of an international window? They were so hyper vigilant to schedule their opening round after the AFL and NRL had ended they failed to recognise all of the good Aussie players will be off winning 28-nil against Chinese Taipei or Christmas Island or whoever it was. Its like Victoria Police planning a social function on New Year’s Eve. No-one’s going to be able to make it you morons.

15.   And you open up with the Melbourne Derby. Lucky Victory is a terrifically run club with a strong, loyal fanbase. But only 33,000, with zero promotion? These should be nudging 50,000.

16.   Lastly, you know they’re going really well when the free-to-air partner this season is the ABC. Even the VFL got a commercial broadcaster, yet the country’s premier round ball competition shares a channel with Gardening Australia and Four Corners. And the cherry on the top is when it comes to finals, and I’ll quote the ABC press release on this one, where “one A-League match per round broadcast live on ABC TV and iView around the country… and a selection of A-League finals on delay, including the grand final.” Delay?! Remember those days? You can’t make this stuff up.

17.   Darren Weir got done for using jiggers. Rest of racing stays dead quiet. Right. Now is that because Darren is their mate and despite the heinous crimes blood is thicker than water in the industry and they have some empathy for him? Or is it a case of if he can get caught, then maybe some of the others equally as guilty could so easily as well, and staying mum is step one of avoiding such scrutiny? I wonder.

18.   So, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge broke the two-hour barrier for running a marathon. Phenomenal achievement, just ridiculous to even comprehend the feat. Amazing. But it won’t count as a world record. Why? Well it wasn’t a race. Old mate contrived the event with a couple dozen pacers to help him do it and that’s it. It’s like if me and some mates hire lane eight down Altona Pool Thursday morning, and fresh off a high-protein breakfast and a quick hit of flakka happen to break 20 seconds for one-lap of freestyle – you think FINA will recognise it? You think Kieran Perkins will shout me free Light Start for life off the back of it? As a milk crusader I could only dream of such a reward but yeah nah. Nice stunt Eliud, you’re a freak of a human. But we’re in the same boat brother.

19.   Tough one, not just for boxing because its bigger than that, but Patrick Day is in real bother and sincere optimism about his recovery to one side, so is his sport. Day was knocked out in the tenth round in a bout with Charles Conwell in Chicago in the weekend, which in itself is not unusual. But the consequences of the blow are such that Day is in a coma and in an “extremely critical condition”. Again, nothing but positive wishes about his eventual recovery first and foremost, but in an era where concussion in the football codes is as alarming as ever, combat spots’ existence, like boxing, could/would/should be on borrowed time with cases like this.

20.   TV ratings worry the pants off me. By far the most important and major revenue source for all the sport we love to watch, it helps grow the professionalism and the standards, and the access really. But as TV viewership declines, so does the viewership with live sport. And we all waited with bated breath for the NRL Grand Final numbers in the hope maybe they would be good, and it wasn’t just sport in general in trouble, that maybe rugby league was still on an upward trajectory and its just everyone else.

Nope, it was down too. Usually something that rates at times near 3m nationally, it was around 1.8m. The AFL Grand Final, with an engaged Sydney audience, has been on a trajectory over 3.5m, topping 4m occasionally, it was under 3m for the first time in years. Australia Open primetime slots were down, cricket was good but still down, be it the summer on Seven or The Ashes mid-year on Nine.

What does this mean? It means less people are watching live sport. And when advertisers hear that, they’ll be paying less to the networks for the privilege of putting 30 seconds of their product in front of the eyeballs of footy fans. And that then means TV networks will hand over less cash, subsequently, to the sporting bodies for the rights to broadcast their fixtures.

It doesn’t mean that we’re all destined to see the days of the 1980s return where players need a job outside of footy and only one game is broadcast a week and all that nostalgia. But the idea that salaries will keep going up and up is gone, the idea the game can grow at the same rate looks doomed. So unless someone makes Foxtel honest (nudge nudge Amazon Prime) or this is only a lull, and once we get over Fortnite and Korean boy-bands we will all fall back in love with Friday night in front of the telly watching footy, it’s a big, big concern. 

[kuyanh]

HELL YEAH. DARK U BETTER JOIN THIS CLUB!!!

join the TDL simp club >:O

(I'm sorry I had to lol)

HELL YEAH THERES CLUBS OUT THERE IN MY NAME!! SUCK IT CHOSEN!! PEOPLE LIKE ME!!!

but uh

whats a simp

[cubaverdad]

The Cuban Music You Haven’t Heard - ‘Forbidden Shore’ at Havana Film Festival New York

The Cuban Music You Haven't Heard: 'Forbidden Shore' at Havana Film Festival New York by SANDRA GUZMAN If there is one film that can serve as a metaphor for how little the world knows about Cuba, Latin America, and the rest of the region, it's "The Forbidden Shore," a marvelous documentary that introduces the world to forty Cuban artists. It's one of thirty-seven films being shown at the Havana Film Festival New York, the longest running festival featuring the work of Cuban and Latin American filmmakers, now in its 18th year. The film's director, Canadian-born Ron Chapman, said that when he first visited Cuba eight years ago, "I was overwhelmed at what I didn't know. I was amazed at the diversity of its music and how very little Cuban music is known or played internationally other than The Buena Vista Social Club." The same could be said of the rest of the region, but that has been changing, partly due to the work of today's Latino and Latina filmmakers, as evidenced in this festival. "We wanted to show a snapshot of the work that is being produced today," said Diana Vargas, the festival's artistic director for the past seventeen years. "Cinema coming out of the area is fresh and innovative and artists of the region are eager to tell stories that correct many misconceptions of Latin America," Vargas said. This year the festival is paying tribute to two film masters: Cuba's Juan Padrón, whose iconic Vampiros en la Habana (Vampires in Havana) is a hilariously funny animation classic that was produced decades before "Twilight," as well as the work of the late Argentine Eliseo Subiela, whose brilliant film, El Lado Oscuro del Corazón (The Dark Side of the Heart), paved the way for Argentina's film boom. In addition, twenty directors are traveling to New York to participate in talkbacks during the nine-day festival. We spoke to The Forbidden Shore's Ron Chapman about his film, which closes the festival on April 7. What inspired you to make this film? I am a Canadian and we have an open relationship with Cuba that continued uninterrupted through and after the revolution in 1959, in spite of considerable pressure from the United States to join the embargo; more Canadian tourists visit Cuba every year than from any other destination in the world. In Cuba I learned about rumba to rap and everything in-between. I wanted to make a film that would be able to cross borders and restrictions imposed by the difficulty of travel and restrictions imposed by the US embargo. I made a film that helps to overcome some of the myths about Cuba and the Cuban people that showcases their great diversity of musical talent and shares with the unique creative collaborative relationship the artists have with each other and their unusual and very pure passion for art. [It's] the creative process that is uniquely not affected or informed by the necessity of creating for an international market or any market that requires making music or art for profit. I stopped shooting this film on the day Obama said publicly in his famous speech that it was time to end the embargo. What is unique about Cuban music? Cuban music's main influences come from Africa and Europe, mostly Spain, so it is based on an interesting mix. Up until the Cuban Revolution, Cuban music and artists traveled freely throughout the world, and there was a connection and dialogue between artists of the world. After the Cuban Revolution, there was no longer the same ability for Cuban artists to travel, meet, play and be influenced by contact with foreign artists. Also, all multinational record companies connected with the U.S. could not sign an artist from the island because of the embargo, making it difficult to export the art form. As a result, the island developed a musical community and identity that was not based on appealing to the tastes of the international community. The music was created really solely for the Cuban population; it is much more insular and a reflection of the Cuban people, their culture, society politics and life. This music is beyond the Buena Vista Social Club. What are some of the lesser known genres and artists that you want the world to meet? My working title for the film for years was "This Ain't the Buena Vista Social Club." The world knows their music, and they are great musicians and there are some Cuban groups living on the island that have followings in some countries around the world, especially in Spanish-speaking countries, like Los Van Van, or Chucho Valdez. But it's fair to say that most of the artists in the film, which have some of the greatest artists and talents in Cuba, are not well known in the world. I included forty artists in my film, and I still had to leave artists and music on the cutting room floor, not because they were not as good, or as talented, only because of the time limitations. Even some of the greatest artists in Cuba now are unknown to the world, such as X Alfonso, Haydee Milanés, Kelvis Ochoa, Roberto Fonseca, Aldo López Galvan and Harold López Nusa, Telmary, Charanga Habanera, Danay Suarez, Roberto Podermo, Djoy de Cuba and Polito Ibáñez. There are so many artists, and so many different genres which is why I found it necessary to "take a snapshot" of the music of Cuba today, and present the incredible diversity of artists that are creating on the island and make this film to share this music with the world. You mentioned that there are 33 unique musical genres in Cuba. Why do you think this island has given birth to such distinct music? Part of why the island has given birth to so much distinct music has been the isolation. Cuba, the country, has been very much like a petri dish, everyone influencing each other, but not really having the opportunity to go outside the country and mingle with other artists. They could for the most part only interact with artists who came to Cuba for short periods of time, and also, whatever music made it into the country that they could find. There were no radio stations from outside the country available, or television stations, newspapers or magazines or Internet connection available to the majority of the population. It was a matter of what came in, what they found some exposure to, and then they would take elements from these musical styles and integrate aspects of them into their core music, so their music would grow, expand, but always be anchored by its Cuban roots. What is your hope with this film? I wanted to educate the public. I realized how little the people of the world, and, in the case of this New York premiere, how little the people of the United States actually know or understand about the music of Cuba, the people of Cuba, their artistic process, the effects of the embargo (good and bad) and how they then overcame or worked around these difficulties. I was greatly moved by some of the things that impacted their careers, lives and creative output, in a good way, and as well, in a bad way. All these contribute to the creative spirit, soul and the creative outcome and process. Hopefully, this film will encourage viewers to search them out and find their music, and introduce audiences to new styles of music, to encourage them to visit Cuba, to know Cuba better through their music, and in the case of the U.S. to better understand the effects of the embargo on the population, on the people of Cuba, and to encourage them to actively encourage their leaders to end this political situation and stalemate that has caused so much damage to the people of Cuba in so many ways, and kept the people of the U.S. from knowing or having any real relationship or understanding of the people or the country. The New York Havana Film Festival runs from March 30th thru April 7th. For a full calendar check out www.HFFny.com Source: The Cuban Music You Haven't Heard: 'Forbidden Shore' at Havana Film Festival New York - NBC News - http://ift.tt/2nqEbcG via Blogger http://ift.tt/2mYTf5R

[footyplusau]

AFL women may have ‘no name’ medals for years

The most coveted prizes in the AFL women’s league may remain unnamed for years with the code resolving trailblazer footballers in the new competition, starting Friday, should inform the major decisions by writing their own history.

On the cusp of profound evolution for the code AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan made a point of underlining the league’s long-term commitment to female football; well beyond the more than $10 million invested in the competition set-up and pathway programs.

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Explainer: Women’s AFL

The inaugural women’s AFL competition kicks off in February. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the first bounce.

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Explainer: Women’s AFL

The inaugural women’s AFL competition kicks off in February. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the first bounce.

Two days before Carlton host Collingwood in the inaugural AFLW game a unique premiership cup was unveiled and eight AFL club captains unlike the league has seen before assembled for the official competition launch in Melbourne.

McLachlan used the occasion to tell fans: “I’d like to remind everyone this is year one … I will ask today that we give them time and space to grow into the elite footballers that we know they can be.

The inaugural AFLW captains, from left: Daisy Pearce, Kara Donnellan, Lauren Arnell, Chelsea Randall, Emma Zielke, Steph Chiocci, Amanda Farrugia and Katie Brennan. Photo: Getty Images

“We are here for the long haul … I can guarantee you the AFLW in three years will be vastly different to year one.”

To the players McLachlan said: “you can play with confidence. The AFL is here to back you in for the long term.”

The message resonated with Daisy Pearce, widely regarded as the best current female Australian rules footballer and Melbourne’s captain. She told Fairfax Media after the launch: “I think for a long time we’ve played with the responsibility that the way we go about things, the style in which we play, is integral to getting this competition off the ground. So we have worn that responsibility, for right or wrong, for a long time.”

Support – come what may – from the AFL like McLachlan articulated provides an assurance.

Even wrapped in a feel-good frenzy in the countdown to the first AFLW round the footballers anticipate criticism. They can almost hear the talkback radio calls complaining about low-scoring games and know social media, particularly, threatens to be a cruel minefield as every AFLW game is televised and women’s footy receives unprecedented exposure.

Greater Western Sydney captain Amanda Farrugia said the AFL had assured footballers of the league’s genuine support through “teething” problems, but that McLachlan saying it publicly was a powerful statement.

“It’s not just the AFL. The board of the Giants tell us: ‘you guys are going to make mistakes, there will be some issues that take place on the field, maybe outside of the game, and we’re willing to back you. It’s okay that you make these teething mistakes because we have not been geared to play professional sport all our lives like some of the men have…this whole experience, this whole environment, is new to us so we’re not always going to get it right the first time but we’ll do our best.

“We don’t have to be perfect,” Farrugia said.

Susan Alberti, the Western Bulldogs vice-president who helped prop up the old Victorian Women’s Football League financially, is the inaugural ambassador for the AFLW premiership cup; a more bulbous trophy than the men’s silverware but with identical engraving style.

In something of a surprise however the equivalent prizes of the men’s Brownlow, Norm Smith, Ron Evans and Coleman medals – for best and fairest player, best on ground in the grand final, the season rising star and leading goalkicker – may not be named for years.

Fairfax has been told it is “probable” the women’s awards could still be unnamed two years from now. The AFL Commission resolved not to rush naming the medals at a meeting in December.

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20 THOUGHTS: Bald-headed flog

CARLTON are on the winners list.

A rare victory last week and all of a sudden the aroma of optimism reeks again down at Princes Park.

But to those who could see, despite the roof being open, it appeared they were playing Fitzroy. The Roys haven’t won a game in 20 years so I don’t want to read too much into it for the Blues.

Although, on a serious note, how good was that jumper – and we’ll touch on that shortly.

Let’s go.

1.       Let’s not get bogged down in the umpire abuse-fan eviction on Saturday. If we had endless instances of similar incidents, sure, but it’ll be a one-off stuff up with an overly power-tripped security guard, and for anyone whose been out after dark the last 100 years we know that situation all too well. Nothing to see here. It’s just fodder for talkback radio.

2.       Speaking of crowds though, lets address booing. Firstly, Cricket World Cup, Steve Smith and David Warner will cop it, especially in 12 days time when the Aussies have England, let alone the Ashes in two months, I wouldn’t have thought it was an issue, but how good was Virat Kohli? Walks over, mid-innings, to the Indian fans giving Smith shit on the boundary, and requests they 180 their behaviour to clap the former-Aussie captian instead. That’s massive class. Virat Kohli – a Buy.

3.       And given it will not go away up until and then after Channel Ten airs it probably around August – the Adam Goodes doco. Apparently its very confronting and its nothing but evoking total remorse and guilt from those who watch and feel somewhat responsible. And no question, its horrible someone felt that way about the end of a stellar career.

 However, the Sunday Footy Show, a reasonably conservative, knockabout program who are happy to have strong onfield opinion but very rarely venture outside of that, were unanimous in their view on the infamous booing. Billy Brownless suggested some of the booing might have been racist, but the majority wasn’t. The rest of the panel agreed. So either that’s properly racist television or there’s massive divide this doco will create and not unity.

 Disappointing.

 4.       We mentioned Fitzroy, bloody hell that’s a sharp jumper. We like that Brisbane decided to wear Fitzroy colours for Melbourne games, and that on the day of the Hall of Fame dinner they donned a one-off Roys replica. But why can’t there be an annual ‘Fitzroy’ game at worst, that if you’re going to call all old-school Fitzroy folk to a game once a year, that’s the game, and really Fitzroy it up, make sure you acknowledge what until 1996 was a properly historical, important and beloved inner-Melbourne club…. Up the Roys!

5.       And same for Sydney. For example, they play Essendon Saturday the 6th of July at the MCG. Wear an old South jumper that day and engage the huge Melbourne-based Bloods supporter base and get some good back in the footy. Crowds and booing will be less an issue if there’s good stuff like that going on. Bloody hell.

6.       As for other stuff we don’t like – the score review. Now, the NRL has its bunker, the NHL has its centralised room in Toronto, a lot of leagues have these sorts of systems. But the technology and process is only as good as the organic organisms watching the vision. There was nothing wrong with the technology at the Collingwood-Freo game, nor on the weekend gone with Richmond-Geelong. It was the moron entrusted with and then pressing the buttons. If the bunker prevents the morons, I’m in, otherwise solve that issue first Gillon.

7.       Luke Shuey, Elliott Yeo and Shannon Hurn. Unless all three blokes are playing, and are unencumbered, the Eagles can win flags. But if they miss any or if someone’s got the hard tag on one of them – they’re trash. Look at their losses this year, utter dogs breakfasts. In hindsight Sydney were morals on the weekend given Hurn and Yeo missed, and whilst Shuey looked brilliant he was a lone hand with about 21 passenger mates. Kennedy is no good if Yeo doesn’t play. Gaff looks like a waste of time if Hurn isn’t playing. And so on. The underbelly is ripe for the taking with the reigning premier, don’t get sucked in.

8.       Called Patrick Naish last week and in a crap game for the Tigers he looked pretty good. He is an absolute keeper for that footy club, the father-son once again a brilliant innovation this league can be proud of.

9.       Gotta mention Ash Barty in the first half of this column, surely. I know, I went with Chris Naish’s boy first but don’t get bogged down in the detail. Yes, a softish draw, only copped one seed the whole way or something, but other than Serena or maybe world no.1 Naomi Osaka there’s probably no-one better than her at the moment, which is fantastic. And her best surface is grass – if only there’s a Grand Slam upcoming that would suit…. Well done Ash, bloody good on you!

10.   Whilst we’re hijacking the middle of this with tennis – Roger Federer. Now he is seen as the GOAT. However, there’s a bloke whose won 24 of 39 head to head contests with Fed, won 10 of 13 times they’ve met in a Grand Slam and six of nine times in Grand Slam finals, is four years younger and only two Grand Slam titles behind. So if Federer is the greatest of all time, and Rafa Nadal is better than him, then……?

11.   Back to footy – Patrick Cripps. I’ve said Nat Fyfe is the best player in the comp, but gee, I can barely get the burnt matchstick between those two, both big-bodied country boys from regional WA. Cripps won that game for Carlton on the weekend basically on his own, credit to Sam Walsh for his impact too. But it was essentially Cripps v Brisbane and the former got up, an absolute gem.

12.   Chuck in Charlie Curnow who’s as good a centre-half-forward under 23 we’ve seen for a while, this footy club will win plenty more in good time. So any heat on SOS’s position, that he should feel the squeeze, no thanks, he has done as good a job as most in his role.

13.   How are the Dees fans with 6-6-6 right now? How’s the irony in that, the devil’s number itself is pretty much the main reason for the Demons shit season after a Prelim last year. Melbourne was strong in starting extra men in defence and running through, and now with teams holding their structure longer they’re re-working from scratch what made them good last year.

14.   Jake Lever and Steven May make the footy side look so much better though, but their impact is far too late for it to bear fruit in 2019. So that’s a bit of bad luck and it needs to soften the fallout for Melbourne come the end of the season. This is all not doom and gloom, the team that won two finals last year hasn’t fallen in a complete heap – you don’t call this year a write off, sure, but it’s not a totally accurate reflection of where they’re at.

15.   Geelong, wow, could not be going any better. One loss to the third best team in the comp aside it’s a blemish-free first half of the season. But the 2007 Cats, who reigned supreme like few other sides, even they had some stumbles that year so for the 2019 edition this team will have some hiccups along the way no question. The query is will it be soon enough or have they gone too hot too early, clubs can work them out and by the Spring they haven’t the time or personnel to adjust?

16.   Good news at St Kilda. Jack Steven is back and is training. Jake Carlisle, yes, remember  him, he trained too and he will play VFL this weekend for Sandy. He will join Dan Hannebery and Max King who both are finding touch and both are likely to debut for the Saints after the bye. It’s all looking much better all of a sudden down at Moorabbin.

17.   Good news too at West Coast – Nic Naitanui looks like playing WAFL next weekend, so his return isn’t far away and his impact upon doing so is the catalyst for the Eagles back-to-back prospects.

18.   Brayden Sier is one of the most important mids down at Collingwood and his return was timely. This was becoming a team that wasn’t winning enough of the tough ball and starting to suffer at clearances, despite having the game’s number one ruckman. The kid had four clearances but critically laid a game-high nine tackles and had too a game-high seven inside 50s from his 23 touches. Adam Treloar was best on ground, but Brayden Sier was more important.

19.   State of Origin, the best prime time TV all year Wednesday last week. Shame the next one is in Perth, and it’ll be rugby league players on show and not Fyfe and Cripps and Franklin and Naitunui and Tom Mitchell and….. you get the picture.

20.   And lets finish with ice hockey – today the St Louis Blues won the city’s first Stanley Cup defeating the Boston Bruins in the winner-takes-all Game 7. And the message here for Carlton fans is clear, not only do they share a moniker with the new NHL champions, but the optimism for resurgence is there for all to see. The Blues, of the hockey variety, were dead last in the competition on January 3, roughly halfway through the season. 31st of 31. But got going late January, made inroads, shot up the standings and created an irresistible momentum into the playoffs. From there, as the form team, they were hard to beat. Great comeback story.