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From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 5
In her documentary, Still Dreaming, Jilann Spitzmiller films octogenarian actors taking on a full production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's D...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Rahim AlHaj is quite simply one of the best oud players in the world. In this broadcast, Rahim performs and shares his story of leaving Iraq and c...
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WABE, WMMT, WNJR, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
2001 National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture.
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 4
Ukrainian embroiderer, weaver and bead worker Vera Nakonechny keeps a traditional culture alive.
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Carla Bley is a prolific and agile composer and jazz pianist. She talks about her career--from Birdland to Montreux.
Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
The world legend is thrown around a lot, but saxophonist, flutist and composer Charles Lloyd is the real deal. He's much of a musical innovator tod...
Bought by KPIP-LP, Harford Community Radio, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 4
Sam White loves Detroit and loves Shakespeare. So, she emptied her bank account and started a site-specific professional theater company, Shakespea...
- Added: Mar 30, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary
August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
The NEA's recently retired Director of Folk and Traditional Arts Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and tradition...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission:
Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: :54
- Purchases: 1
Shirley Sneve talks about Native American Public Telecommunications which shares stories of Native American people on television and radio.
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 2
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...
Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.
Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, and WNJR
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes... and goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Broo...
- Added: Oct 17, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
2014 National Heritage Fellow and member of the Odawa Nation, Yvonne Walker Keshick describes the long history of making decorative art from quills.
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 5
For forty years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -
- Added: Sep 26, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
