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  • Anne Elizabeth Moore about Chicago, the Catskill Mountains and Scenery

    Anne Elizabeth Moore is a writer and cultural critic. She was born in South Dakota before spending 30 years in Chicago.

    Now she lives in the Catskills, in upstate New York, where she continues to write.
    Her  new book, "Gentrifier: A Memoir", has come out from Catapult Books in  October and has just received the NPR (National Public Radio, in the  United States) Award for the Best Book of 2021. It deals with the ethics  of owning and selling property as a white woman in Detroit, a majority  Black city, and 'Banglatown', a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood in the  city.

    https://anneelizabethmoore.com/gentrifier-a-memoir/ 

    4 min
  • Stephan Hilpert reads a poem in German and discusses his documentary 'Congo Calling' in English...

    Stephan Hilpert is a multiple award-winning film director based in  Berlin, Germany, and London, UK. In his latest documentary, 'Congo  Calling', three European development aid workers are forced to question  what it means to help in crisis-ridden eastern Congo.

    The UK premiere will stream live all over the world at the Global Health Film Festival Friday, November 26, 2021.

    https://www.globalhealthfilm.org/resources/congo-calling-2019
    https://www.stephanhilpert.com/portfolio/congo-calling
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9621050/ 

    5 min
  • Vishani Ragobeer, a 22-year old journalist from Guyana about vaccine inequality and its consequences

    Vishani Ragobeer is an award-winning journalist from Guyana with a  special interest in science journalism (focusing on health and climate  change).

    Among others, she works as a journalist at the News Room  (Guyana) and as a columnist at the Guyana Chronicle. Simultaneously, she  currently studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St.  Augustine Campus.

    https://www.immunizationadvocates.org/experts/vishani-ragobeer
    https://climatetracker.org/author/vishaniragobeer/
    https://guyanachronicle.com/2021/11/07/its-the-caribbean-leaders-at-cop26-for-me/
    https://newsroom.gy/2021/10/28/the-best-of-both-worlds-guyana-wants-to-be-a-low-carbon-oil-producer/ 

    4 min
  • Kyle Sumatzkuku & Duane Humeyestewa introduce themselves in a traditional Hopi way...

    Kyle Sumatzkuku is a young endurance runner practicing long-standing  Hopi traditions of running as a spiritual practice to connect with the  land and surroundings.

    His dream has always been to run at the  Boston Marathon, which was previously scheduled for April 2020 and was  postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    To help pay for the trip  to Boston, Sumatzkuku has launched a GoFundMe campaign, with the hope  of raising funds to cover the 2,550 mile trip from Moenkopi, Arizona, to  Boston, Massachusetts.
    Hopi filmmaker Duane Humeyestewa is tracking  Sumatzkuku on his journey to Boston with a documentary project. He is  currently based in Austin, Texas.
    To make a donation, please visit:
    https://gofund.me/ad7260f1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHkhEa9tnlg 

    2 min
  • Heather Yule: "How can you and your stories save the world?"

    Traditional Scottish folktales and Traveller tales form the basis of Heather Yule’s repertoire. 

    A fine musician, her storytelling is often enriched by music from the clarsach (Scottish traditional harp).

    She has performed and led workshops all over Scotland and abroad, including Iceland, Norway and the USA.

    https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/heather-yule/ 

    3 min
  • Sadik Shahadu intoduces himself in Dagbani and Hausa...

    Sadik Shahadu is from Northern Ghana.

    He is currently serving as a  regional ambassador for indigenous communities at Art + Feminism, a  Mozilla Open Leaders X fellow, a digital activist and a member of the  Project Management Institute (PMI).
    He is also a researcher, Dagbani  language translator and a certified Nonprofit Technology Professional  with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. In  addition to that, he is a board member of UNESCO ‘Open Education for A  Better World’.

    https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shahadusadik

    https://sadik.goifnetwork.org/?fbclid=IwAR13Bkg0ciG6bbYV5uRY7Bjd_Q9YhovXCJvHscpp9hVFrLHM5y52BujwTrw

    https://dagbaniwikimedians.org/?fbclid=IwAR216fncA3ENVsRF88CBmvY2ngf8cEA-X3gHAfe7T_54MJ-e0KVd8af0e5c 

    2 min
  • Ben Harkins: "Which part of you is Portland?"

    A Portland resident since 2012, Ben Harkins has become a regular on  the open-mic circuit. He is a permanent fixture in the Portland comedy  scene.


    Ben Harkins for Men' is a parody of self-help shows whose three episodes still stream on YouTube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOwfUIDZNI
    https://www.instagram.com/thebenharkins/
    https://www.facebook.com/ben.harkins 

    1 min
  • Joshua Sperling: "'H2O', how does the story go on from there?"

    Joshua Sperling teaches courses on documentary, Hollywood, Latin  American cinema, contemporary auteurism, and narrative at Oberlin  College and Conservatory, in Ohio.


    His interests focus on 20th and 21st century aesthetics, the interplay of culture and politics, and the history of cinema.

    https://www.oberlin.edu/joshua-sperling 

    3 min
  • Shara McCallum: "What's the coolest sound you've heard recently?"

    Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica to an African Jamaican father and  a Venezuelan mother and moved to the United States with her family when  she was nine. She earned a BA from the University of Miami, an MFA from  the University of Maryland, and a PhD from Binghamton University. Her  collections of poetry, published in the US and UK, include No Ruined  Stone (2021). McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals,  anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America,  Europe, and Israel.


    In addition to Spanish, her poems have been  translated into Italian, French, Romanian, Turkish, and Dutch and have  been set to music by composers Marta Gentilucci and Gity Razaz.

    She  is a Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State University and,  from 2003-17, served as the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at  Bucknell University. McCallum has received a poetry fellowship from the  National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Award from the  Library of Congress, and other distinctions. In 2018, she was awarded  the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry.

    https://sharamccallum.com/ 

    2 min
  • Jonathan Scott: "How can you and your music save the world?"

    Jonathan Scott is a Chicago-based musician, singer-songwriter, and  leader of two iconic rock bands, the Doleful Lions and Cinco de Gatos.  The Doleful Lions have been described as 'one the great lost bands of  modern times'. Currently, it is one of Jonathan Scott's solo projects.


    https://dolefullions.bandcamp.com/

    Cinco  de Gatos is a ressurrection of mid-90s ghosts with a mission to play  punk rock in the 21st century. The band is composed of Jason  Dummeldinger (bass), Jerry King (drums), Jonathan Scott (guitar and  vocals), and Robert Scott (guitar).

    https://cincodegatos.bandcamp.com/ 

    3 min

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