Hello everyone! Some quick shoutouts today in the beginning of our show. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Documentary we’ve all been waiting for RBG is now online! We will be grabbing clips from the movie and playing them on our show in the future, so excited for this! You can watch it at home here. Shana is also again reminding us to make sure we are registered to vote, and for all questions voting related you can go to Vote Save America, fast and easy website to help you get ready for our upcoming elections.
Our first guest, Tani Ikeda, is an Emmy winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Sundance’s 2018 intensive screenwriting lab’s fellows and was also named one of Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers as a Project: Involve Directors Fellow. Tani was an Executive Producer and Director on the Blackpills Documentary TV Series “Resist” with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the fight against LA County’s 3.5 billion dollar jail plan, and she’s a co-founder of the nonprofit, imMEDIAte Justice, a nonprofit that fosters the talents of young women artists working in virtual reality. She is going to be apart of the O+ Festival here in Kingston NY this weekend leading a workshop on Sunday morning at 10am as a part of her #survivorloveletter project which began from a love letter she’d written herself on the anniversary of her own sexual assault. She felt it was important to confront the shame, silence and secrecy and give voice not only to herself but to also hold space for other women to write love letters to themselves. You can read and explore the love letters here and send your own love letters to be shared online. As further means of celebrating survivors, Tani is working with muralists Jess X. Snow and Layqa Nuna Yawar to create a large scale image of a survivor with accompanied augmented reality showing the transformation and resilience of survivors along with survivor love letters from the collective.
Our second guest, Kate Steciw, is an artist who works in sculpture, photography, video and image manipulation who explores the collision between representation and materialization. Born in Bethlehem, PA, she went to Smith College to study quantitative group behavior via sociology and political science, but after taking a photography course in her Junior year, something shifted for her. She fell in love with art and continued on to grad school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kate shares about her experience discovering the nuance of the “image” and delving into the differences between commercial art versus creative art…is there a difference? Her journey is greatly about communicating through images both as an art consumer and an art producer.
Self care…just turn on some music if the news is getting to tough for you. It’s OK to take a BREAK! And tune into the New Moon on Monday…if you’re seeing patterns in your life, now is the time to listen for ways to break the patterns. OH, and Shana says, it’s Fall, eat apple crisp with vanilla ice cream, and take epsom salt baths with clary sage.
RBG Documentary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biIRlcQqmOc ,
WATCH IT NOW: http://www.magpictures.com/rbg/watch-at-home/
**Tani Ikeda:**http://www.taniikeda.com/
Immediate Justice Productions: http://immediatejusticeproductions.org/
**O+ Festival: **https://opositivefestival.org/kingston/
Kate Steciw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Steciw
Galerie Gaillard: http://galeriegaillard.com/en/artistes/oeuvres/8232/kate-steciw
Today’s show was engineered by Manuel Blas of Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org.
We heard music from Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/, and audio from the film, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com
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