Happy Tuesday All, And welcome to the Cultural Reads Newsletter! A bi-weekly book, music, and movie recommendation from different countries all around the world. For previous newsletter editions, check out the archive. In this week’s newsletter: Spotify, Peru, Brazil, Kenya, Czech Republic, The Maya, Podcast 📀 Your Top Songs 2022 Every year, Spotify shares your yearly personal hits….
As we’re getting close to the end of 2022, I want to share the best foreign films I have watched this year. Mainstream movies aren’t just Hollywood blockbusters or the occasional British comedy anymore. With the rise of mass home cinema in the last ten years and the fact that you can get almost anything…
Rosario Olivas Weston is a famous Peruvian author, sommelier, food expert, and professor. She has written 11 books about Peruvian cuisine, won the Spanish National Gastronomy Award, and five Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. How do you get in touch with someone like her? I often ask myself the same question. It all started with an…
Happy Tuesday All, And welcome to the Cultural Reads Newsletter! A bi-weekly book, music, and movie recommendation from different countries all around the world. For previous newsletter editions, check out the archive. In this week’s newsletter: India, Kenya, Colombia, Argentina, Cultural Differences & Music Advent Calendar 🍿 RRR (India) The most expensive film in the history of Indian…
Happy Tuesday All, And welcome to the Cultural Reads Newsletter! A bi-weekly book, music, and movie recommendation from different countries all around the world. For previous newsletter editions, check out the archive. In this week’s newsletter: Peru, Bangladesh, Japan, Colombia & Africa 🐯 Arkan Lushwala – Indigenous Wisdom I mentioned the book The Time of the Black Jaguar in my October newsletter….
Arkan Lushwala is an Andean ceremonial leader from Peru. He speaks and writes about indigenous ways of restoring the world with a leadership style that is humble and open. He runs an organization called the Pachamama Alliance and has written two books. In The Time of the Black Jaguar, he discusses essential and relevant topics,…
Happy Tuesday All, And welcome to the Cultural Reads Newsletter! A bi-weekly book, music, and movie recommendation from different countries all around the world. For previous newsletter editions, check out the archive. In this week’s newsletter: Burkina Faso, South Korea, Chile & China 🎬 The 10 Best Korean Movies of All Time Let’s admit it, Korean movies are…
Korean movies are hot. After the success of Squid Game, Netflix is doubling its investment in Korean films and series. Have you already jumped on the bandwagon? If you haven’t, check out these top 10 Korean movies. If you are already a fan, pick the first movie you haven’t seen yet. I ordered the list…
Happy Tuesday All, And welcome to the Cultural Reads Newsletter! A bi-weekly book, music, and movie recommendation from different countries all around the world. For previous newsletter editions, check out the archive. In this week’s newsletter: Colombia, Altai, Georgia, Peru, Bhutan & Gambia 🎨 How To Connect People Through Art | Andrés Ribón Andrés Ribón is…
One event marked Andrés Ribón’s youth: his parents’ divorce. Andrés had many questions about it until he realized something. Geometry taught him that lines are sequences of points. To continue the line, it needs another point in between. That’s when Ribón became aware of his role in connecting the disconnected. And our interview is no…