The arts driving change.
Subashini Ganesan is a dancer and choreographer, the founder and Executive Director of New Expressive Works, and Portland, Oregon’s Creative Laureate since 2018. We talked about her role as Creative Laureate, the process of distributing this aid money from the Oregon State Legislature, and about the social justice movement taking place in Portland right now.
Taiko artist and co-director of Unit Souzou Michelle Fujii’s “Constant State of Otherness” was set to tour the country and then was delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. She talks with Douglas Detrick about “otherness” in American culture and what she learned by exploring this concept in a large-scale work for her taiko company. This episode was sponsored by Vanport Mosaic.
As part of The ~virtual~ Vanport Mosaic Festival 2020 – May 8-30 Vanport Mosaic presents: MORE DEVOTEDLY podcast Volume III: […]
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Stephanie McCollough and I talked about climate change through the lens of our own emotional experiences with this global crisis.