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Sharjah Biennial - with Hoor Al Qasimi
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Sharjah Art Foundation Director Hoor Al Qasimi was 22 years old when she met Okwui Enwezor and experienced his non-western curatorial model at docu...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 16:02
The State of Blackness—with Andrea Fatona
From: Cathy Byrd
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Toronto-based curator and scholar Andrea Fatona has been addressing institutionalized racism on her own terms since the 1990s. Our conversations ac...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 16:17
The Changemaker’s Playbook
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Former Obama campaign Chief Operating Officer Henry De Sio, Jr., shares his insights on how to approach the unique challenges and opportunities of ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Public Water—with Mary Mattingly
From: Cathy Byrd
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With American-born artist Mary Mattingly, we delve into her collaborative environmental interventions over time.

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 11:23
I Wish to Say—with Sheryl Oring
From: Cathy Byrd
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Artist Sheryl Oring began "I Wish to Say" in 2004. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office—complete with a manual typewriter—and i...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 13:44
Diaspora Art from the Creole City—with Rosie Gordon-Wallace
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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From Jamaica, Rosie Gordon-Wallace is a globally recognized curator, arts advocate, and community leader based in Miami, Florida, since the 1970s. ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 19:01
Leadership the Super Bowl and the Vaccine Rollout
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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From the Super Bowl to the Vaccination roll out we have seen great examples of leadership. In the Super Bowl we saw Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat one...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:10
How Afterschool Programs Empower Parents
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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Afterschool programs can provide students with additional education opportunities. But a Duke University researcher says these programs can also u...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Reciprocity (episode 5)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old
Explore the role that trees play in human health and urban climate resilience, particularly amid a pandemic. Talk with City of Seattle urban forest...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 32:31
  • Purchases: 2
International Street Food: Breaking Bread, Building Bridges
From: Emily Chow
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Rose Previte is an award-winning restaurateur based in Washington, D.C., and the owner of Compass Rose and Maydan. Ali joined her in Compass Rose’s...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 25:26
Artist Playlist: Eddie Arroyo Listens to The Art of Capitalism
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today’s episode is part of our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Friends And Running Medicine
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Running Medicine kids in the studio
We learn the outcome of the Wild Friends of New Mexico's legislative effort, and we talk with kids from Running Medicine

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, and WCNY


  • Added: Apr 08, 2019
  • Length: 56:50
  • Purchases: 4
Where Art Meets Sand and Social Behaviour
From: Cathy Byrd
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What does it mean to make art collectively? How does art speak to our shared destiny? Where does sand intersect with art and community? In the stu...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 49:51
Black in America
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 56:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Capitalism
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:36
Where Art Meets Activism
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: FreshArtINTL Live Radio
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Activism has long been a way for artists and curators, writers and filmmakers to engage with global flashpoints, inspiring new perspectives on visi...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 39:14
Revolutions in Leadership and Economics: Conversations with Linda Kohanov and Anthony Flaccavento
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Anthony Flaccavento and Linda Kohanov
Learning Leadership from Master Herders and Building the Economy from the Bottom Up.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Frozen River Film Fest 2018, Making Noise: The Story of a Skatepark
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, Logan Erickson takes us to the Frozen River Film Festival to speak with filmmaker Cecilia Cornejo on her new documenta...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 06, 2018
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
Avoiding Thought Traps: Frances Moore Lappé #210
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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We need to change the way we think if we want to extend the shelf-life of our civilization, according to Frances Moore Lappé, author of EcoMind: Ch...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Sustainability in the St. Cloud Area Begins Now
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us multiple perspectives abou...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:20
  • Purchases: 1
01-13: Regeneration: Wisdom of the Wild, Generosity of the Heart, 12/31/2014
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Paul Hawken
“For the first time in history, a civilization -- its people, companies and governments -- is trying to arrest the downspin and understand how to l...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:31
Program III: Topical and Protest Songs
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
Caption: Pete Seeger
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...

Bought by KUNM, KGLP, WOWD, KWMR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 21
"Killing Me Slowly" - The Paul Ryan Ballad
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The new single "Killing Me Slowly," lovingly dedicated to Paul Ryan.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
Program I: Origins
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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Program I: Origins How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:40
  • Purchases: 27
The Obama Speech Suite [Obama 2008 Speech and Music Mix-28:00]
From: Paul Ingles
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Clips from Barack Obama's2008 victory speech are mixed with Obama campaign trail song favorites and others that underline his remarks.

Bought by PRX PromCom, WGBH Radio Boston, and WKMS


  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 3