Caravaggio’s Dagger – A Pursuit of Right Action

Caravaggio - The Beheading of John the Baptist - Detail, with the signature of the artist in the prophet's blood

Do we, then, find ourselves unable to know how to act ethically in our society — a society that glorifies money and global trade to make the rich richer, that deposits the poor at the outermost edges of community, that stands aside as our heritage disintegrates, that funds wars that dislocate peoples and destroy countries, that supports beliefs steeped […]

Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by John Ferguson, Chief Administrative Officer, Municipal County of Annapolis, NS

John Ferguson is the chief administrative officer of the Municipal County of Annapolis, along the Fundy shore of Nova Scotia. Until recently he had been my successor as the chief administrative officer of the Town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, where he had chosen to take on professional municipal life as an appointed official, and […]

Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Kadrush Radogoshi, Distinguished Kosovar Poet, Novelist, and Essayist

I met Kadrush Radogoshi through my own literary activities in Edmonton, and we have spent time together in his acquainting me of his biography, oeuvre, stylistic dispositions and preferences, the awards for and reviews of his work, and the history of his selection of Edmonton as the Canadian city to reside in. Mr. Radogoshi’s work […]

Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Henk Guittart, Founder, Artistic Director, and Violist of the Schoenberg Quartet and the Schoenberg Ensemble

Henk Guittart is well known as the founder, artistic director, and violist of the Schoenberg Quartet and the Schoenberg Ensemble, which performed and recorded internationally from 1976 to 2009. He has also been associated with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Deutsche Bachsolisten, Consortium Classicum, the Stuttgart Piano Trio, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Royal Conservatory […]

Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Dr. James Delgado, Director of Maritime Heritage, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC

Jim Delgado and I met in 1996, when I was appointed Executive Director of the Vancouver Museum, and he the distinguished Executive Director of the neighbouring Vancouver Maritime Museum, a position he held for 15 years. In 2006, he moved to Texas as Executive Director, and later President and CEO, of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology; and, […]

Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Derek Brooks, Executive Director, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB

Derek Brooks and I met in the spring of 2012 when an event of the annual Edmonton Poetry Festival that I participated in was held at Harcourt House. I recall that the reading required the poets to sit on chairs arranged in an oblong, with the convener, Edmonton’s first poet laureate, Alice Major, positioned at […]