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  • Culture Matters in Malden - Episode #5 - Karen Krolak | Choreographing Community
    Malden is fortunate to be home to Karen Krolak, a creative spirit who has many ideas about how to increase trust and improve communication as a community. Krolak believes that "we could be more articulate with our bodies and use them for a better benefit if we had more intelligence about the way we were using them." By admission, Karen Krolak is a "free range collaborator," meaning she creates with a variety of people across sectors, artistic disciplines, region, space, and themes.
    Voraciously curious, Krolak follows her creative muse to unique projects in and around Boston and sometimes further: Korea, Morocco, England, or other parts of the globe. She is always up to something interesting; as she says, "you simply never know what will happen next around me."
    With a BA in linguistics and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Krolak draws from many tools, talents, and training to carry out interesting projects most often using dance and choreography. As Founder and Artistic Director of Monkeyhouse, she helps equip society to "move with meaning" and care through innovative applications of choreography.
    More about Karen Krolak: http://karenkrolak.com or http://monkeyhouselovesme.com
    Details about this and other episodes, http://matv.org/culturematters
    Hosts: Papi Xampeux and Ose Schwab
    Producer: Ose Schwab
    Recorded in the Podcast Suite at Urban Media Arts (UMA)
    Date: May 6, 2020
    Recorded: Winter 2019
    51 min
  • Culture Matters in Malden - Episode #4 - Karyn Alzayer - The "Healing Hands" of Art: Virus Free
    “It’s time to pull out all the stops, time for us to do what we do with more ferocity and more purpose than ever before. Time for us to create like our lives depend on it, like someone else’s life depends on it. In times of crisis, the arts rise up out of our collective souls because they are necessary. Like the quarantined singers in Italy, I have no doubt we too will find ways to do the same.”
    Karyn Alzayer, Founder and lead artist of Henna Inspired
    For Henna artist Karyn Alzayer, hands don’t carry germs, they give help, caresses, and play games. Hands are her canvas and the entry point of connection. But, in this pandemic, when there is risk of contagion and physical contact is limited, she offers new ways to connect.
    One of her offerings is a "Healing Hands" project that invites the public to cut out their hand, write a message of hope on it, scan and email it to Karyn, and she will string this body of work together for a public art exhibition after the pandemic is over.
    It is this kind of creativity and comfort artists are so good at believes Karyn. Like many artists in this global moment of pandemic, she is in her own words “pulling out all the stops,” and doing what she can to offer comfort in this difficult time.
    Karyn Alzayer lives in Malden and is the Founder and lead artist of Henna Inspired. She also founded and directs Integral Arts Everett, a nonprofit art organization that facilitates public art projects and programs in Everett. In greater Boston Alzayer is known as the artist who caged Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack. This, an admitted act of arts activism, was her way of addressing the wrongs of detaining immigrants in prison-camp conditions and pointing out how easy it is to right the wrong – as was demonstrated by the mere three hours it took before a city employee released the duck family from their cages.
    Interspersed in this podcast, you will hear excerpts of music from a popular virtual orchestra and chorus recording and a growing collection of #songsofcomfort youtube posts initiated by cellist Yo Yo Ma and shared to comfort us all in our collective time of need. Links to the full video of each excerpt is below (in order of occurrence).
    “Morning Meditation” piano solo written and performed by Kevin S. Foster https://youtu.be/mDAF9P6ffoc
    Say Hello! The Taylor’s (Sweet Caroline parody), created and performed by a family musical group called A Side of Taylors https://youtu.be/zjgLFU9wWdk
    What the World Needs Now – for Virtual Orchestra – Produced, arranged and edited by Shelbie Rassler (The Boston Conservatory at Berklee) Mix Engineer Dan Santiago (Berklee College of Music) https://youtu.be/QagzdvzzHBQ
    Miumiu – I Wish You Love (with Paulo Oliveira and bangryak), Guitar/voice: Miumiu; Guitar: Paulo Oliveira, Violin: bangryak https://youtu.be/QagzdvzzHBQ
    “Just a little something to brighten your day. What started as an idea on my flight home from college ended in a collaboration with some of the most incredible people. I couldn’t be more grateful. Please share to help us promote positivity and optimism while we need it most. 💜”
    Edited, produced, hosted by Ose Schwab
    Recorded on Zoom
    For more info about this and other episodes visit http://matv.org/culturematters
    #CultureMatters #Culture #COVID19 #CoronaVirus #Berklee #BostonConservatory #Bangryak #Mumiu #SongsOfComfort #Henna
    34 min
  • Malden Reads Fahrenheit 451 - Episode 4 - Rev. Otto O'Connor
    "It feels like right now, we're living a dystopian novel," says Rev. Otto O'Connor, minister at First Parish of Malden, a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Host Anne D'Urso-Rose and Rev. Otto discuss how Fahrenheit 451 fits the SciFi genre and the deeper meaning behind the ending of Bradbury's classic work.
    #Literature #MaldenReads #Farenheit451 #Malden #NewBig #MATV #UMA #Podcast #SciFi
    31 min

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