Author: nancybeiman

I’m pretty sure that I will be closing down Facebook and instead going with Instagram. You can find me there, as of today, although of course I have not written much. This site will be for posts about my work too…which consists, at this point in time, of trading cups of chocolate chip pudding for… Continue reading Opening Instagram account

I am not sure if this last post went through but I’m delighted to say that ANIMATED PERFORMANCE now has an American edition. It was published in February in the USA, and the copies look lovely, and it is now possible to order the book in the USA or Canada without having them shipped from… Continue reading A New Printing of Animated Performance

I attended a mindfulness retreat for academics held at Brock University in 2013. It turned out to be the last retreat Thich Nhat Hanh ever had. He had a massive stroke in 2014 and is paralyzed and can no longer talk. But he is still alive and enjoying life. He can teach without saying a… Continue reading Studies with a Saint

On April 14, 1912, a ship called the Californian was stopped in an ice field 12 miles or so from the TITANIC. Titanic’s engines were shut down shortly after she hit a large iceberg. Titanic had received eight warnings about the ice field, one of them just minutes before the collision, but no one took… Continue reading The Most Appropriate Visual Metaphor

Do you remember how we used to love to read MAD magazine and see the clever social and political satire and wonderful caricatures by great artists like MOrt Drucker and Jack Davis? Well, MAD gave up the ghost last year. It simply was no longer able to compete with reality. We are living in a… Continue reading Hoax Toasties

I am now on Instagram. I’m going to get off Facebook for good, since I am tired of being bullied because I don’t think that things are going terribly well. Any fool can see that, but apparently the censors there are clearly not just any fools. So, I have to suddenly learn how to navigate… Continue reading Carrying on in spite of it

I’ve bee tossed into Facebook jail for 24 hours for replying to a friend’s post that mentioned a certain world leader who was waving Q tips around.  I replied that people in my home country are ‘sheep’ and that some other countries’ citizens –one with a name that begins with F and is famous forcheese… Continue reading Boo Hoo, Facebook Jail Time

After  one year and two months on the festival circuit, the Short History of Indians in Canada is now online. Its final festival screening was at the Kinofest (Manchester, England) on November 30 and December 2, 2018. I am happy that more people will now see it online. I have also linked to Thomas King’s… Continue reading The Short History goes online