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Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
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Pao Houa Her is a photographer dedicated to producing art about Minnesota's Hmong community. Her thought-provoking work highlights the lives of war...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)
The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Caption: Giant Robot at OCMA
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone , Credit: ElJay A. on microphone
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
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The most popular exhibit and biggest money-maker at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was the "Philippine Reservation." 1,000 Filipinos lived in thi...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 1
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In a related episode of Culture Clique, we heard from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori on her encounter with the atomic bomb which occurred in Hiroshima on Aug...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 22:50
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at various music styles across India

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
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A feature on the Canadian-Pakistani pop band JoSH.

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 04:42
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Turntablists create new soundtracks to Kung-Fu movies...live!

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 26, 2006
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2