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  • Lynette Grey Bull: "Where's your sense of humor?"

    Lynette Grey Bull is Northern Arapaho and Hunkpapa Lakota. In 2020,  she became the first Native person to run for Congress in the state of  Wyoming.

    Lynnette Grey Bull has been an active advocate for Indian  Country for over 10 years. Ms. Grey Bull is the founder and director of  Not Our Native Daughters, an organization that focuses on the work and  education of Human Trafficking and the Missing, Murdered Indigenous  Women & Girls. 

    https://www.notournativedaughters.org/ 

    3 min
  • Enrique Villasis reads his poem "White Birds Dark Shadows, 1962"...

    Enrique Villasis is an award-winning poet and screenwriter from the  Philippines. He lives in Quezon City and currently writes television  shows for ABS-CBN.

    His first book of poems, Agua, was a finalist for  a National Book Awards. He is currently working on his second  collection of poems that are based on Vicente S. Manansala’s paintings.

    https://enriquevillasis.com/
    https://poets.org/poet/enrique-villasis

    This poem, entitled "White Birds Dark Shadows, 1962", was translated into English by Bernard Capinpin... 

    "This is the moment of destruction: 
    light against light in an apocalyptic flame, 
    Incinerating the calm outline of morning. 
    It’s easy to say burning even 
    The wildfire. 

    The lesson of the chameleon vivifies—in times of bewilderment 
    All color changes: the blue sky yellows. 
    This instance, 
    A bouquet of birds snatches their shadows like soldiers 
    Evacuating the flag in the face of defeat. 
    They know they will be left as silhouettes In the mountainside 
    if they do not flee the labyrinth of the first petroglyphs: 
    Sketches of a once free spirit. 

    Watch: the resolve of their flapping 
    As it soars in the dissolving brightness: 
    the thinning feathers and fury appear like 
    Petals of jasmine wisping after being plucked by the wind. 
    Fervor Is learned first by those who want to live, 
    however their flight muscles boil, 

    The destination fading from view. 
    I wish to believe that paradise is there 
    But words have disdained me. 
    They have nothing to lighten the blast, 
    Perhaps, silence. 
    The silence after every prayer; 
    the silence after 
    The torn singing of migratory birds—reviving our devastated world."

    5 min
  • Peter Joly, songwriter from Chicago, reads a poem by Carl Sandburg

    Singer/Songwriter Peter Joly's most recent album is entitled 'Easy Has Never Been The Way'.

    It aptly combines elements of Folk, Blues, and Americana. 

    'Easy Has Never Been The Way' demonstrates masterful songwriting.


    https://peterjoly.bandcamp.com/album/easy-has-never-been-the-way
    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=241371797184626 

    2 min
  • Rap Against Junta about cultural minority groups in Myanmar...

    This clip is taken from an online interview with a member of the  collective 'Rap Against Junta' whose main purpose is to use art and  music as a form of protest and resistance against the military  dictatorship in Myanmar. For security reasons, only pseudonyms are used,  no location is disclosed, and this video clip has been edited without  images to avoid recognition by anyone sympathetic with the military  rulers in Myanmar. Only logos expressing public resistance against the  current leaders in Myanmar are shown.


    Rap Against Junta is an  collective composed of of MCs, producers, Djs, sound engineers,  promoters, organizers and graffiti artists. They use hip-hop in all its  forms and shapes to reject military coup in Myanmar in 2021.

    https://rapagainstjunta.org/
    https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dsXZ4FjkX5zUEg5NhX5iu
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOzJfnHcaMDf3WHXvIIetg 

    2 min
  • Rodrigo Quiñones Reyes: "Alguna pregunta?" ("Any questions?")

    In this clip, Rodrigo Quiñones Reyes addresses the audience directly (in Spanish), asking about their state of happiness...


    Rodrigo  Quiñones Reyes is a contemporary artist from Mexico. His artwork has  been exhibited in Mexico City, Prague, New York and Barcelona. As a  curator, he has worked with the Institute of Culture of Yucatán, with  the Museum of Contemporary Art Ateneo de Yucatán and Marista University.  

    He is one of the five artists whose underwater sculptures are exhibited at the Cancún Underwater Museum in Mexico.

    https://www.instagram.com/rodrigo.reefdesign/?utm_medium=copy_link&fbclid=IwAR0xXj9BxwHO_gdvFvzAQ7h2ySZ-GlHIVr0fZRgX2gDT2XLt4C1qjJAoBqo  
    https://www.instagram.com/lets_talk_about_sets_/?utm_medium=copy_link&fbclid=IwAR1kqq6r_SReTrGz4DV1v_hELM6lCRXuhWtGR1WTZNvOedwnfehsia3JU6k  
    https://www.instagram.com/daburngallery/?utm_medium=copy_link&fbclid=IwAR306lQn2BCQXPRSDHKpnEfETZVVhhh1cOVzdYjd5euVGTo5KIj7_6cv8nk  https://musamexico.org/es/ 

    2 min
  • Claire Smith, Australian archaeologist, about the coolest sound she has heard recently...

    Claire Smith is an Australian archaeologist specializing in  indigenous archaeology, symbolic communication and rock art. Her fields  of research include social archaeology, archaeological theory,  indigenous peoples, social justice, rock art and gender.

    She is a  former Fulbright scholar with American University and the Smithsonian  Institution’s National Museum for Natural History and American  University, Washington, D.C.
    She has held visiting teaching or  research appointments at Kyushu University, Japan; the University of  Newcastle, Australia; and Columbia University, New York.
    In addition  to that, she decodes patterns in human behaviors to interpret the past,  understand the present and envisage the future.

    https://theconversation.com/they-should-have-a-roadblock-why-the-nt-must-delay-opening-its-border-to-protect-first-nations-people-171734  
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Smith_(archaeologist) 

    1 min
  • A postcard from India...

    Anandi Mishra is a Delhi-based writer and communications  professional. She has worked as a reporter for The Times Of India and  The Hindu. She writes essays and poetry.


    Her writing has been  published in the Harvard Review, The Atlantic, Virginia Quarterly  Review, Popula, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere.

    https://twitter.com/anandi010
    https://anandimishra.contently.com/
    https://anandim.substack.com/ 

    3 min
  • Lorenzo Raplili reads an extract from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" and comments...

    Lorenzo Raplili is one of the very few Pacific Islanders who were  able to travel to Glasgow and attend the 26th United Nations Climate  Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. After a  two-week quarantine following his return to his home country, Vanuatu,  and two mandatory Covid tests, both of which were negative, he was able  to speak by phone to Radio Aula Mundi about the effects of climate  change on his home country, the pandemic, and the beauty of the Pacific  Ocean, the so-called 'South Sea', as it is portrayed in the great  literary classic he reads an excerpt from in English...


    https://www.pican.org/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu 

    3 min
  • Antony Lacanaud, director of the 'Musée Aquatique' Underwater Museum of Marseille, France...

    The 'Musée Aquatique', Marseille's Underwater Museum is a museum  where some monumental and majestic sculptures have been placed at a  depth of 5 meters (16 feet).

    The purpose of the museum is to raise  public awareness of environmental issues, marine biology and to awaken  people to the world of art and water sports (snorkeling, diving).
    The  exhibited sculptures create an artificial reef. Here, the museum’s  founder, Antony Lacanaud, reads an excerpt from Jules Verne's "20,000  Leagues Under The Sea", discusses his experience as a diver, and answers  a question put to him by Christine De Luca, a Scottish poet from the  Shetland Islands.

    https://www.musee-subaquatique.com/fr/ 

    5 min
  • Christine De Luca discusses her poem 'Discontinuity' in English before performing it in Shetlandic

    Christine De Luca is a Scottish poet and writer from the Shetland  islands. She writes in both English and Shetlandic. Her poetry has been  translated into many languages.

    She was appointed Edinburgh's Makar,  or poet laureate from 2014 to 2017. De Luca is a global advocate for  the Shetland dialect and literature of the Northern Isles of Scotland.
    Her recent work includes an exhibition of the paintings and poems from her collection 'Another Time, Another Place' in 2021.

    https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/christine-de-luca/ 

    3 min

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