Art and Literature

In regards to Art and Literature we know that Naismith wrote the first thirteen rules to the game of basketball that consisted of double-dribbling( picking- up your dribble and dribbling again), travelling( moving with the ball without dribbling) are just a couple of rules in the form of violations that the game has as a part of its structure. The Heritage minutes dedicated to James Naismith for the invention of Basketball is one piece of Art commerating him that is attached to my Canadian cultural tradtion which is the ‘ Naismith Cup’. There is a statute at the basketball hall of fame in Springfield Massachusetts of Naismith holding the iconic peach basket. ‘With unprecedented access to the Naismith archives and documents, Rains and Carpenter chronicle how Naismith developed the 13 rules of basketball, coached the game at the University of Kansas—establishing college basketball in the process—and was honored for his work at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin.’ In the biography of James Naismith ‘ The Man who Invented Basketball.’

Connection to readings–

In “Death by Landscape.” Margret Atwood highlights the fears that come with the notion of Nordicity and that the one thing aside from people that will make us or break us is our landscape and the lengths of disconnect we have with the land in defining us as ‘ Canadian.’ In linda Jessups piece about the famous group of seven some would like to call them infamous for downplaying modernity in the name of art and a peculiar type of Canadian Nationalism.

In a way the fate of the Vancouver Grizzlies was dependont on Market interest based on audiences and also location. Geographically we naturally shift to locations were there is usually something of interest to us or we beleive there is at least. And this was the case of the lost Vancouver Grizzlies amounting to the loss of and disappearance of the ‘Naismith Cup’