This month at BCE Place in Toronto there is an exhibition of Roger Hooper’s photographs called “Living Planetâ€. Roger Hooper, founder and owner of Hoopers Gallery in London, England, is a dedicated wildlife photographer and supporter of World Wildlife Fund.  The images feature threatened environments from around the globe, including the Arctic, Africa and India. All profits from sales will be donated to support WWF-Canada’s work. The exhibition runs from September 12-29th, so if you’re looking for something to do on a rainy day this month in Toronto check it out and help out a great cause!
Art
Google balancing out?
Google is not perfect, but sometimes they do things that make them look they are trying to be wonderful to all people. Their motto is “don’t be evil.” Even though they are self-censoring in China, unlike Wikipedia (something that all ThingsAreGood readers already know), Google has released banned books.
Now you can read books that have been censored somewhere, as long as they are free of private censorship and are in the public domain.
“To Kill a Mockingbird. Of Mice and Men. The Great Gatsby. 1984. It’s hard to imagine a world without these extraordinary literary classics, but every year there are hundreds of attempts to remove great books from libraries and schools”
(Via /.)
Belated Thanks
I’ve been gone for a week working at a camp in Ontario’s north so I haven’t had a chance to thank everyone for coming out to our GOOD event last week! (Photos to come later) We were able to raise over $300 for Amnesty International!
Thanks to everybody who came out, and thanks to those who showed their good art!
The bands that rocked our socks were:
The Jeff Selver Experience
Terror Lake
Foxes
The artists that made our eyes feel special were:
Vivian Chong, Adi Zeharia, Sarah from The Rage, and Colin Stark, and Vivek from One Spirit Jewelry.
Let’s do it again sometime!
Good! This Saturday
This Saturday ThingsAreGood.com is one-year old, and to celebrate we are throwing a party!
It’s a fundraiser for Amnesty International, a concert of some of Toronto’s best bands, and an art show of some great local artists! All of this for only $5!
Hope to see you there!
You can view our awesome flyer here!
Funny Look at Media Ownership
Mainstream media is owned by only a handful of corporations, and those corporations also own many subsidiaries.Find out who owns what at the Columbia Journalism Review. Lots and lots of people have argued that media conglomeration perpetuates self-censorship of news outlets, therefore depriving people of reason and intellectual analysis of current events.
The folks at Saturday Night Live (owned by NBC, who is owned by General Electric)made a funny animation showing this, the video was never aired after it’s original airing.