by Pier Marton | Nov 20, 2014 | Art, Books, Care, Dance, France, Ideas, Idées, Music, Now, Peace, Sci/Nat, Women
Another way to be and to think — Une autre manière d’être et de penser Claudie Hunzinger est écrivain et artiste. Elle vit en Alsace dans les montagnes des Vosges depuis 1964. Wikipédia (en Français) ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW Interview sur Hors-Champs (France...
by Pier Marton | May 26, 2014 | Action, Antisemitism, Death, Human Rights, Middle-East, Music, Politics
I am afraid this may be the start of an unfortunate series called “Things are bad in… ” [UPDATE a year after the first demonstrations: A 64-year-old woman, who fell into a coma after inhaling tear gas during another crackdown on protesters in the...
by Pier Marton | May 9, 2014 | Antisemitism, History, Magyar, Music, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women
The city where many of my father’s sculptures are in their Art Museum… In 1941 about 3,400 Jews lived in Szombathely, nearly 10% of the population. Starting in 1942, Jewish men were forced into (Hungarian) labor battalions with very few surviving the...
by Pier Marton | May 5, 2014 | Dance, Education, Hispanic, Music, Youth
Through monkey-see, monkey-do exploitation… It is very nice to have children perform well but performance is a **theatrical** activity. Much in our cultural landscape consists of duplicating (well at times) what has **already** been done. Creativity involves...
by Pier Marton | Mar 11, 2014 | Asia, Cancer, Care, Death, France, Health, Music, Peace, Politics, Sci/Nat, Time, Youth
Every year he saves 100 000 lives – Jährlich rettet er 100 000 Leben – Chaque année il sauve 100 000 vies. Son credo : «développer une médecine de riche pour les pays pauvres»/His credo: «develop rich medicine for poor countries» One more great Arte...
by Pier Marton | Jan 28, 2014 | Death, Human Rights, Jewish, Music, Peace, Poet, Politics, Women, World, Youth
Inscribed on his banjo: “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” “It is better to have struggled and lost, than never to have struggled at all.” Pete Seeger – The New York Times’ Obituary – The author of...