IBC recommends: Culture + Travel magazine
Last week, coming off a quiet and cold Easter in Vermont, we hit the art fairs in New York. While the main Armory show left us feeling flat, things picked up Pulse and Volta, two satellite fairs teeming with indie spirit.
Upon leaving Volta, a friend handed us a magazine called Culture + Travel, “in case you need some subway reading material”. Another magazine we’ve never heard of, we thought. (There’s so much content out there.)
But the title and cover photo caught our attention. So we started flipping through C+T (our acronym) on Sunday and were immediately impressed by the quality of writing and photography.
C+T bills itself as “the magazine for people who love the arts and travel with a passion.” The articles are gritty and good: it reads like a more earnest, less jet-setty Monocle (which we also like, although it leaves us feeling dirt poor).
We often think about the role of culture in shifting our worldview and promoting global understanding and reconciliation, and increasingly base our travels around a cultural agenda (see our list of things to do in Amsterdam). Perhaps this is why C+T resonates…
In this vein, here’s an excerpt from C+T’s Editor in Chief, Katie Sekules:
“I spend my life looking for places, metaphorical and literal, that change my outlook. Combining travel and culture is the surest way to finding them.”
We embrace that notion - wanting to update our outlook, or worldview, as a basis for living a more informed, aware and engaged life - more to come.
Before we sign off for the day, it’s worth highlighting Vivien Goldman’s piece in the current issue of C+T (Mar/Apr ‘08), about the urban renewal now underway in a formerly very violent Kingston, Jamaica. The article, aptly titled ‘Redemption Song: Once nearly left for dead, downtown Kingston is jamming again, thanks to a creative band of locals and outsiders’, is a testament to the power of culture, creativity and indie spirit to affect positive change, and brings to mind the grassroots goodwill so evident in Paul Hawken’s important book, Blessed Unrest.
C+T is real and full of hope. We’re inspired.
