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- 3 days ago33 min
Steven Seidenberg: Radically Liminal
For me, I think it's where my eye is drawn to subjects that are radically liminal. I understand the camera is a thing that as a medium and a form and a photographic technology as a method to bring attention through all kinds of mechanisms, but would otherwise remain outside of the possibility, but even if it's in the possibility of notice often overlooked -- even by those who are interacting with the phenomenon. ~Steven Seidenberg Steven Seidenberg is a poet, artist, and philosopher, whose literary work––most recently, Coda––probes the interstices between poetic, philosophical, and narrative discursive timbres.
- Sep 28, 202637 min
Tom Tresser: Creative Superpowers
Are you a leader? Yes or No? Do you have stuff, your creative Superpowers -- the thing that made you successful in your creative life, whatever that does, whatever that is that we need in our public life? And I say, "Hell, Yes!" ~Tom Tresser Tom Tresser is a Chicago based civic educator, creativity champion, and public defender with over 50 years grassroots democracy experience.
- Aug 26, 202629 min
Jessica DuLong: All Hands On Deck
Many people have the understanding and the misunderstanding that this was initiated by the U.S. Coast Guard. That they called for all available boats and that's when the boats started. This was happening for two hours before that calling out, and individual mariners made that choice. The choice that the highest-ranking officer who was then Lt. Mike Day, he made this absolutely tremendous decision not to come in and take over, but to come in a facilitate with the knowledge about the harbor, its information from the Sandy Hook pilots with all of this with resources to help support and grant permission to keep doing the thing that's going so well. The reason why he felt empowered to be able to do that it had everything to do with READL leadership. TRUE leadership which is so lacking right now. It's just such a dire moment. ~Jessica DuLong Jessica DuLong is a Brooklyn-based author, independent historian, journalist, editor, and NYT-bestselling book collaborator/writing coach. She lectures internationally on the craft of narrative and has appeared on/in HBO, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, the TODAY show, and CBS Sunday Morning.
- Jun 29, 202637 min
Diana Romero: One Woman Wonder
What I hope to do with this show is to talk about my life...about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a wheelchair user because you're going to stand out in any kind of way. I hope with audiences what comes out is a partnership which is the theme. Let me tell you what I'm talking about, what you won't know unless you're a wheelchair user. I want people not to feel like I'm preaching at them. I'm coming to tell you what it's like and that's my goal --to have humor in it, to have advocacy in it, but to have people in the end feel like they're a team with me or like their allies...not to feel ashamed or embarrassed. This is not a victim story by any means. ~ Diana RomeroDiana Romero is an award-winning writer, producer, and storyteller whose work focuses on overlooked lives and the complexity of being seen.
- Jun 25, 202638 min
Diana Romero: One Woman Wonder
What I hope to do with this show is to talk about my life...about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a wheelchair user because you're going to stand out in any kind of way. I hope with audiences what comes out is a partnership which is the theme. Let me tell you what I'm talking about, what you won't know unless you're a wheelchair user. I want people not to feel like I'm preaching at them. I'm coming to tell you what it's like and that's my goal --to have humor in it, to have advocacy in it, but to have people in the end feel like they're a team with me or like their allies...not to feel ashamed or embarrassed. This is not a victim story by any means. ~ Diana RomeroDiana Romero Writer - Producer - Performer - Activist. I’m an award-winning writer/producer based in Los Angeles, specializing in detective procedurals, true crime, and family dramas. As a former social worker, I supported at-risk youth, which sparked my passion for social justice. My experiences led to Niña Quebrada, an award-winning film on sex trafficking, which screened at festivals and conferences internationally.
- Jun 19, 202638 min
Diana Romero: Disability Belongs
What I hope to do with this show was to talk about my life, about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a wheelchair user because you're going to stand out in any kind of way - not fit in being a wheelchair user. I hope with audiences what comes out with me is a partnership which is the theme. Let me tell you what I'm talking about, what I'm realizing you won't know unless you're a wheelchair user. I wanted people not to feel like I'm preaching at them. I'm coming to tell you what it's like -- to have humor in it, to have advocacy in it, but to have people in the end feel like they're a team with me, or like their allies, or to feel ashamed or embarrassed. This is not a victim story by any means. ~ Diana Romero Diana Romero is an award-winning writer/producer/performer based in Los Angeles, specializing in detective procedurals, true crime, and family dramas.
- Jun 1, 202631 min
Svetlana Satchkova: Speak Up, America!
The choices we have here in America are different than the choices in Russia. Let's start with choices we have here in America. First of all, the most important choice that we have is VOTING. That is the most important right that has not been taken away. In Putin's Russia elections have not been free for decades. And opposition candidates were barred from running and even then, the results were always manipulated to deliver for Putin a staggering victory. So, this is what I can tell my American listeners: VOTE. ~Svetlana Satchkova Svetlana Satchkova is a Russian-born journalist and novelist who immigrated to the United States in 2016. She covers culture and politics, with bylines in the Rumpus, Newsweek, LARB, the Independent, and others. Currently a research fellow at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, she holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn. Svetlana has published three novels in Russian; The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia, is her English-language debut.
- Apr 20, 202630 min
Pat Ceasar: Truth Teller
When you're running for office be your authentic self and tell the truth. You have to tell everybody what you have done for them and what you want to do. You have to listen to them. You shouldn't be scripted. Shoot from the hip; talk from the heart. And you can tell them how you can't get things done without having the House and Senate, but this is what I would like to do. What makes sense for all Americans. But you have to point out the opponent -- things are hurting them. Ask them not to be a one issue voter; you're not voting for perfect but for Good. ~Pat CeasarPat Ceasar, Pat Is a Comic/Actor/Writer/ Director/DP and an Artist & Storyteller. After attending the Art Institute of Boston at Leslie College she started her career working on Political advertising in Boston as an Art Director. Then Pat moved to NYC and switched her career to consumer advertising.
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