The Great Northern Podcast

Jothsna Harris is a climate and cultural strategist and the principal consultant of Change Narrative LLC. With nearly a decade of experience building capacity for the climate justice movement, Jothsna has designed and implemented award-winning climate change programs. She coaches people to find compelling narratives as an advocacy tool for solutions. For this episode, Jothsna paired up with Tabitha Montgomery, Executive Director of the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association. Tabitha has cra...

In this episode of The Great Northern Podcast, we get to sit in on a conversation between Ashwini Ramaswamy and Yia Vang. Ashwini is a celebrated choreographer, dancer, and artist who has spent years steeped in south Indian classical dance, while also creating her own personal vision of South Asian women’s representation within the performing arts. Chef Yia Vang was born in a Thai refugee camp where he lived until his family resettled in central Wisconsin. Yia uses food to tell a story ...

For this episode, we drop into a conversation between Anthony Taylor and Kari Leibowitz. Anthony Taylor is the Senior Vice President of Equity in the Outdoors for the YMCA of the North, a leading non-profit dedicated to strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Kari Leibowitz is a health psychologist, speaker, and writer. Her research, writing, speaking, and teaching aims to help us understand and harness the power of our mindsets to improv...

In this episode, composer Molly Joyce talks about her practice, and specifically her new project Perspective, which is a part of The Great Northern this year. The work features words and stories of disabled interviewees, set within a complimentary soundscape. Perspective is on view at Second Shift Studio Space, opening January 28. More information is at The Great Northern Festival. We hope you enjoy learning about Molly’s process.

Join Dream the Combine and Issac Gale in a follow up conversation to our first episode. They share their finished audio project from their collaborative process TRACKING: A Polyrhythm of Winter.https://thegreatnorthernfestival.com/allevents/dream-the-combine-trackingMixed by Ryan Olson

In the final weekend of The Great Northern Festival, we are excited to share a conversation that looks ahead to 2022. Artists Andy Ducett and Jovan Speller share their process for a sculptural installation in development for next years festival. To support this project and all the work of The Great Northern, make a donation here.Thanks so much for listening to the 2021 Season podcast. We'll see you next year.

Enjoy this conversation with The Sioux Chef’s Sean Sherman and VILD MAD’s Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen“For Sherman, the revitalization of Indigenous food systems is not only a way to address health and financial disparities within Native American communities and to start healing after centuries of trauma, but it's also a way forward to a healthier, more sustainable world.” —Food & Wine “Foraging is a way to engage with nature to better understand and appreciate it. We’ve created a program dedicat...

We have a special bonus episode featuring Winter Kill by J. Drew Lanham. Poet, teacher, birder and conservationist J. Drew Lanham is author of The Home Place—Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature (Milkweed Editions). This episode includes Hoyt Schemerhorn by Aorta. Music by Christopher Cerrone, Performed by Vicky Chow.The Great Northern has partnered with On Being with Krista Tippett for her interview with J. Drew Lanham. That podcast episode is released Thursday Jan 28 with a ra...

Dig into a conversation between Gabriel Cabezas, Gabriella Smith, and Nadia Sirota for their new collaboration: Lost CoastAnd, register here for a free online event:Music preview, video premiere by Darian Donovan Thomas and q&aIn partnership with Bedroom CommunityWith support from Anne Carayon and Dan PennieTuesday, February 2 at 7:30pm CST Composer Gabriella Smith, whose music has been described as “high-voltage and wildly imaginative” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and “the coolest,...

Listen in to a conversation between two centerpieces of the Twin Cities art scene, Alec Soth & Dave King for their new project The PalmsPurchase tickets to the exclusive livestream, commissioned by The Great NorthernTickets: $15 at thegreatnorthernfestival.veeps.comSaturday, January 30, 20218:00 PM 9:00 PMWith support from Weinstein Hammons Gallery*, Dr. Tom von Sternberg and Eve ParkerIn partnership with Street Factory MediaVirtual event, Parkway TheaterThe sound of a slide d...