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Judith Pereira

@heypereira.bsky.social

Arts/Books editor at The Globe and Mail. I love books, dogs, gardening, birding, cappuccinos, crosswords, puzzles.

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Acid Rain@bearysweet.bsky.social · 13h ago

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

Dr Ella Hawkins@ellamchawk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · 3d ago

Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.

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Barry Hertz@hertzbarry.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Mongrel Media will release Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s NAZA theatrically in Canada starting Oct. 2 at the TIFF Lightbox and Edmonton’s Metro Cinema, with additional cities throughout October.

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Judith Pereira@heypereira.bsky.social · 2w ago

The June, 2024, heist of FACTOR’s funds, by someone who gained access to the non-profit’s Scotiabank account five months earlier, was one of the largest thefts in Canadian cultural history." @joshokane.bsky.social reports on the settlement. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

Scotiabank paid music funder FACTOR $11-million in heist case settlement, documents show

Scotiabank, FACTOR had previously declined to reveal value of settlement stemming from $9.8-million theft from music funder’s account in 2014

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Barry Hertz@hertzbarry.bsky.social · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: In Toronto for launch of TIFF Market, I sat down with Culture Minister Marc Miller to talk about state of C11, the yet-to-be-delivered $600M cultural sector stimulus, and Ottawa’s response to Trump’s federal tax incentive for film production. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Ottawa must be smarter about how it supports Canadian film and TV industry, Miller says

Top of mind for Canadian producers is uncertain state of Online Streaming Act during trade war with U.S.

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Barry Hertz@hertzbarry.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: My deep dive into the state of Quebecois cinema, which thrives inside its own provincial borders, rarely makes a dent outside of them, and has now become crucial to the existential battle for Canadian cultural sovereignty writ large. #TIFF26 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

At TIFF, and in Washington, Quebec’s film industry finds itself in the hot seat

Rarely making a dent outside of the province, it has now become crucial to the existential battle for Canadian cultural sovereignty

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J. Kelly Nestruck@nestruck.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pleasure to chat with Josh Hartnett ahead of the TIFF premiere of the first two episodes of the new Newfoundland-set Netflix Canada thriller Below. (So far, I'm really enjoying it.) And, yeah, it was an eventful shoot... www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Below star Josh Hartnett’s Hollywood comeback accelerates via Newfoundland – and two trips to the hospital

Netflix Canada sea-monster miniseries screened two episodes at TIFF on Thursday night ahead of its Oct. 8 debut

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Judith Pereira@heypereira.bsky.social · 3w ago

“If there’s a second American civil war, it’s not my fault." Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven was prophetic; she's really hoping that her new work is not the same. #pandemic #books #reading #booksky Here's a gift link @harpercollins.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/129d895...

Emily St. John Mandel imagines the bleak counterlife of America in Exit Party

Mandel’s latest novel portrays two unsettlingly plausible trajectories in America’s near future

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Barry Hertz@hertzbarry.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: If TIFF still wants to have a seat at the global industry table, then the success of #TIFF26 feels more weighted with consequence than ever before. My look at the practical and existential challenges facing Canada's biggest cultural institution: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Can TIFF navigate a global film industry facing a ‘turning point’?

The pressure is rising for Toronto to deliver a festival that has real impact

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Barry Hertz@hertzbarry.bsky.social · 3w ago

“I have a great deal of respect for people who are proud to be here, and long before it was culturally or politically convenient”: I caught up with THE STUNT DRIVER’s Jay Baruchel to talk about the movie he’s been working his entire career toward. #TIFF26 www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Jay Baruchel’s fast and furious dream to rocket Canadian film into the stratosphere

Ahead of The Stunt Driver’s TIFF world premiere, the star talks with Barry Hertz about the film he’s been working his entire career toward

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PEN America@penamerica.bsky.social · 3w ago

The wide-scale destruction of books in Ukraine by Russian strikes this year is another example of how culture has been on the frontlines of Russia’s war against Ukraine. We join PEN Ukraine and @peninternational.bsky.social in their condemnation. Read more: pen.org/report/ukrai...

Ukrainian Culture Under Attack

Ukrainian culture is under attack. PEN America's report investigates Russia's extensive campaign to destroy and erase Ukrainian culture.

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PEN International@peninternational.bsky.social · 4w ago

#Ukraine: 12 million books, one-third of Ukraine's annual book production, destroyed in just two months. We join PEN Ukraine in condemning mounting Russian attacks on Ukraine's cultural heritage. Read more: www.pen-international.org/news/ukraine...