Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox 2016 Tour
Genre-busting Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox announced a run of North American tour dates. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 22 at 10am local. Visit for more info.
Postmodern Jukebox, an ongoing musical project spearheaded by pianist and arranger Scott Bradlee, takes contemporary pop and rock tunes and fashions new arrangements for them that cast them in an unpredictable variety of musical styles from the past.
The tour follows PMJ’s current 75-date almost completely sold-out international run, which wraps this June. In 2015, the group's sold-out tours of Australia and the United States prompted the Buffalo News to proclaim, “Postmodern Jukebox is literally a postmodern success, extending its reach from the virtual to the real world, touring and performing around the globe for an ever-growing fan base.”
Created by Bradlee, the rotating collective of Postmodern Jukebox has spent the past few years amassing more than 450 million YouTube views and 1.9 million subscribers, performed on “Good Morning America,” topped iTunes and Billboard charts and played hundreds of shows to packed-house crowds around the world. As NPR put it, they’ve done this by “taking current Top 40 hits and re-imagining them as coming from older eras of popular music.” In one such remake, Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox turned Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” into a doo-wop ditty that’s garnered over 15.4 million views. Last year, they envisioned Radiohead’s alt-rock hit “Creep” as a torch-like ballad that’s racked up over 16.9 million views and was named one of the “9 Best Viral Cover Videos of 2015” by People magazine. Multi-Grammy winning artist Lorde praised Postmodern Jukebox’s vintage take on her hit single, “Royals,” which has been viewed over 15.3 million times, as her “favorite.” They recently performed a ‘30s jazz remake of Elle King’s “Ex’s & Oh’s” for MTV UK.
Bradlee, the mastermind behind the group, has turned Postmodern Jukebox into a juggernaut by building an incredible grassroots movement around the act. He continues to pick the songs, create the arrangements and shows, and puts together the performers - which includes some notable names alongside phenomenal undiscovered talent. The group releases a new video every week, each one shot in the casual environment of Bradlee’s living room where he can often be seen playing piano in the background.
Don’t miss your chance to catch Postmodern Jukebox live in 2016. Dates are as follows:
Sept 29- Providence, RI- The VETS
Sept 30 - Albany, NY- Palace Theatre
Oct 1- Hartford, CT- The Bushnell
Oct 3- Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre
Oct 4- Baltimore, MD- The Lyric
Oct 5- Red Bank, NJ- Count Basie Theatre
Oct 6- Boston, MA- Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
Oct 7- New York, NY- Radio City Music Hall
Oct 8- Montreal, QC- Place des Arts
Oct 11- Toronto, ON- Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
Oct 13- Washington, DC- DAR Constitution Hall
Oct 14- Raleigh, NC- Duke Energy Center
Oct 15- Atlanta, GA- Fox Theatre
Oct 16- Jacksonville, FL- Florida Theatre
Oct 18- Orlando, FL- Dr. Phillips Center For The Performing Arts
Oct 21- Clearwater, FL- Ruth Eckerd Hall
Oct 22- Birmingham, AL- Alabama Theatre
Oct 23- New Orleans, LA- Orpheum Theater
Oct 25- Nashville, TN- Andrew Jackson Hall
Oct 26- Louisville, KY- The Louisville Palace Theatre
Oct 27- Detroit, MI- Masonic Temple Theatre
Oct 28- Indianapolis, IN- Clowes Memorial Hall
Oct 29- Rosemont, IL- Rosemont Theatre
Oct 30- Milwaukee, WI- Riverside Theater
Nov 1- Minneapolis, MN- Northrop
Nov 2- Kansas City, MO- Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
Nov 3- St. Louis, MO- Peabody Opera House
Nov 5-Grand Prairie, TX- Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
Nov 6- Austin, TX- Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater
Nov 7- Austin, TX- Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater
Nov 8- San Antonio, TX- Tobin Center For The Performing Arts
Nov 9- Houston, TX- Sarofim Hall
Nov 12- Broomfield, CO- 1STBANK Center
Nov 14- Salt Lake City, UT- Capitol Theatre
Nov 15- Boise, ID- Morrison Center For The Performing Arts
Nov 16- Spokane, WA- Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox
Nov 17- Portland, OR- Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center
Nov 18- Seattle, WA- Paramount Theatre
Nov 22- Santa Rosa, CA- Luther Burbank Center for the Arts ** (a 12pm public onsale)
Nov 23- San Jose, CA- Event Center at San Jose State University
Nov 25- Los Angeles, CA- Microsoft Theater
Nov 26- Las Vegas, NV- The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Nov 27- Mesa, AZ- Mesa Arts Center
National Council on the Arts March 2018 Webcast Archive
The 193rd public meeting of the National Council on the Arts took place on March 29, 2018, at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, DC. The meeting included agency business as well as presentations by Arena Stage, Opera America, and League of American Orchestras.
Seattle, Washington | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:53 1 History
00:04:02 1.1 Founding
00:05:13 1.2 Duwamps 1852–1853
00:06:19 1.3 Incorporations
00:07:20 1.4 Timber town
00:09:05 1.5 Gold Rush, World War I, and the Great Depression
00:14:24 1.6 Post-war years: aircraft and software
00:19:06 2 Geography
00:20:07 2.1 Cityscape
00:20:16 2.2 Topography
00:24:40 2.3 Climate
00:37:50 3 Demographics
00:45:44 4 Economy
00:50:40 5 Culture
00:50:55 5.1 Nicknames
00:51:57 5.2 Performing arts
00:56:14 5.3 Tourism
01:00:07 6 Professional sports
01:06:33 7 Parks and recreation
01:08:12 8 Government and politics
01:13:25 9 Education
01:16:05 10 Media
01:19:07 11 Infrastructure
01:19:16 11.1 Health systems
01:21:05 11.2 Transportation
01:26:31 11.3 Utilities
01:27:23 12 Notable people
01:27:33 13 Sister cities
01:27:45 14 See also
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- Socrates
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 744,955 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area's population stands at 3.94 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, African, and Asian Americans, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks 6th in the United States for population.Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines is based in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000. Owing largely to its rapidly increasing population in the 21st century, Seattle and the state of Washington have some of the highest minimum wages in the country, at $15 per hour for smaller businesses and $16 for the city's largest employers.Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed al ...
The USAF Band Holiday Flash Mob at the National Air and Space Museum 2013
ATTENTION BAND/ORCHESTRA/CHORAL DIRECTORS! The score and parts to SMSgt Bob Thurston's extraordinary Holiday Flash Mob arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Joy to the World are available as FREE downloads through the following links. Please share and enjoy with your own ensembles!
Score:
Individual Parts:
Special thanks to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum for supporting this endeavor.
Also thanks to The United States Air Force Honor Guard who assisted with the unveiling of our flash mob.
Mac Miller - Self Care
Directed by Christian Weber
SWIMMING is available now.
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Oskar Eustis: Theater and Democracy
Oskar Eustis has served as artistic director of The Public Theater in New York City since 2005. In the past four years, Eustis has produced two Tony Award-winning productions in the category of best musical (Fun Home and Hamilton), as well as two productions that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton and Sweat). Prior to his role at The Public, Eustis enjoyed a storied career that began at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco (1986–1989), where he commissioned Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. At The Public, Eustis directed the New York premieres of Rinne Groff’s Compulsion and The Ruby Sunrise; Larry Wright’s The Human Scale; Julius Caesar; Public Works Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park; and Suzan-Lori Parks’ White Noise. Additionally, he has founded numerous groundbreaking programs at The Public, including Public Works, Public Forum, the Emerging Writers Group, and the Mobile Unit. Over the course of his career, Eustis has directed the world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado, among many others.
This Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is co-presented with University Musical Society (UMS).
Seattle | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 730,000 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area’s population stands at 3.87 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the Top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the contiguous United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.
Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines was founded in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000.
Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District to the Central District. The jazz scene nurtured the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, as well as the origin of the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters and the alternative rock movement grunge.
First Lady Honors Honors National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Recipients
Twelve exemplary after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities program are honored by FIrst Lady Michelle Obama as recipients of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards. November 19, 2012.
Space Was the Place: An Abbreviated History of Washington, DC Arts Venues
Ray Barker, archivist of special collections, DC Public Library, with Andrew White, jazz/R&B multi-instrumentalist, musicologist, and publisher
Washington, DC, is known for its museums, which collectively bring millions of visitors to the city from around the world. Yet Washington also has a rich history of local art spaces that have showcased art made here in the city; several of them also staged concerts to support Washington’s many jazz and punk bands. Unfortunately, most of these local institutions no longer exist, but the DC Public Library is archiving as much as it can of this precious history. On June 30, 2019, at the National Gallery of Art, Ray Barker, archivist of special collections at the DC Public Library, gave a lecture introducing three key examples: d.c. space, the Maya Gallery, and the Museum of Temporary Art. Local music legend Andrew White, who had been featured at d.c. space, joined Barker with a short performance.
Graduate Honors Convocation
SF State celebrates the achievements and accomplishments of the graduate class of 2017. The deans of each department recognize the academic excellence, intellectual rigor, creative ingenuity, and community service of their respective students, congratulating them and presenting them with their certificates. The event was held May 23 in McKenna Theatre at San Francisco State University. #sfsu #gatorgreat
12:03 - College of Business
15:54 - Graduate College of Education
32:23 - College of Ethnic Studies
37:46 - College of Health & Social Sciences
52:37 - College of Liberal & Creative Arts
1:14:36 - College of Science & Engineering
1:36:31 - Closing Remarks by Provost Summit
Playwright and Director (Working In The Theatre #203)
The panelists - playwright/director Edward Albee (Marriage Play), director Arvin Brown (The Twilight of the Golds), agent Joyce Ketay, playwright Tony Kushner (Angels In America), playwright Timothy Mason (The Fiery Furnace), and playwright Jonathan Tolins (The Twilight of the Golds) - talk about playwrights directing their own work, how directors and playwrights collaborate, gauging audience response, and the evolution of their respective productions.
Originally taped - September, 1993
An acclaimed fixture on New York television and in the theatre community for 30 years, the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre offers an unprecedented forum for the meeting of theatrical minds.
American Theatre Wing’s Working in the Theatre documentary series features the most fascinating people on the stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience. From Tony Awards® and Obie Awards® winning artists to the next generation of theatre makers, we capture theatre’s inner-workings, industry luminaries, and unique stories that surround important work.
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Conversation #2 Training: Symposium on the Suzuki Method with SITI Company—Fri, June 2 2017
The SITI Company in Saratoga Springs, New York presents Transformation through Training: a Symposium on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training from Skidmore College livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Thursday, June 1 to Saturday, June 3, 2017.
SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training of young theater artists, and a commitment to international collaboration. SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration.
A link to these livestreams, along with more information about the Symposium, is available here.
About the Suzuki Company of Toga
To launch SITI's 25th anniversary season, Tadashi Suzuki and the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) will return to Saratoga Springs for the first time since the founding of SITI Company. To mark this anniversary and to celebrate SCOT’s legacy, SITI has planned the Symposium on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.
Conversation #2: Training
Friday, June 2: 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT (New York) / 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 13:30 - 15:00 UTC / 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. BST (London) / 15:30 - 17:00 CEST (Berlin).
Panelists Akiko Aizawa, Will Bond, Mark Corkins, and Jeffrey Fracé discuss the impact of the Suzuki Method of Actor Training on their artistic work and career trajectories. The conversation is moderated by J.Ed Araiza.
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ACRI Prime Ministers Series: Keating and China
On 30 August 2016 the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney presented the fourth instalment of their 'Prime Ministers Series': devoted to the China policies of former Australian Prime Ministers. The Hon Paul Keating, Prime Minister from December 1991 until March 1996, discussed his time in office dealing with China and Australia's relationship with China today with eminent broadcast journalist Kerry O’Brien.
State of Democracy: Sidney Tarrow
Making and Opposing War in Peacetime: American Democracy after 9/11
Seattle | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Seattle
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 730,000 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area’s population stands at 3.87 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the Top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the contiguous United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.
Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines was founded in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000.
Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District to the Central District. The jazz scene nurtured the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, as well as the origin of the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters and the alternative rock movement grunge.
Zakir Hussain | Talks at Google
Ustad Zakir Hussain is a world-renowned tabla virtuoso, producer, film actor and composer. He’s a two-time Grammy winner and a pioneer of world music. In this talk hosted by VP Vinod Marur, Ustad shares his views on technology, collaboration with other artists, grooming the next generation of artists and bringing tabla to the global stage.
Ping Chong: All Islands Connect Under Water
Ping Chong is an internationally acclaimed director, playwright, and pioneer in the use of media in the theater. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a USA Artist Fellowship, two BESSIE awards, two OBIE awards, and the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and has created over 100 productions for the stage which have been presented at major festivals and theaters around the world. Recent projects include Throne of Blood (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, BAM), Cathay: Three Tales of China (Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Kennedy Center), Collidescope: Further Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America (University of Maryland), and PUSH: Real Athletes, Real Stories, Real Theatre (2015 ParaPanAmGames, Toronto). Since 1992, he has created over 40 works in the Undesirable Elements project, a series of oral-history theater works exploring issues of race, culture, and identity in the lives of individuals in specific communities.
Ping Chong + Company’s Beyond Sacred, a UMS performance, takes place at the Power Center on Saturday, February 18 at 8 pm.
Supported by the University Musical Society, the University of Michigan Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, University of Michigan Islamic Studies Program, and the University of Michigan International Institute.
Playing & Talking about Baseball Across the Pacific
A panel of experts discussed how American baseball has influenced and been influenced by Japanese culture since the 19th century.
- Chandra Manning is a professor of U.S. history teaching the history of baseball course at Georgetown University and author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War The book won the Avery O. Craven Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians, earned Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize and the Virginia Literary Awards for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Jefferson Davis Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. Manning is the author of Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War.
- Bill Staples Jr. is the author of Kenichi Zenimura: Japanese American Baseball Pioneer.
- Robert K. Fitts is the author of several books on Japanese baseball including Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball, Banzai Babe Ruth, and Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer.
- William W. Kelly is a professor of sociocultural anthropology at Yale University, a noted authority on the social and historical anthropology of Japan and the author of forthcoming The Sports World of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan.
For transcript and more information, visit
Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women – 7 Discussion with the Speakers
Marking Women’s History Month, this symposium draws attention to the pervasive issue of violence against Native women, who suffer disproportionately high levels of rape, domestic violence, and attacks. In this segment, the symposium speakers return to the stage to discuss questions asked by moderator and audience members. The speakers include Sarah Deer, University of Kansas; Mary Kathryn Nagle, Pipestem Law, P.C.; Jaime Black, artist; Cherrah Giles, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center; and Marita Growing Thunder, student, University of Montana. After the Q & A period, symposium moderator, Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post, concludes the symposium with a summary of the speakers' presentations.
The symposium was webcast and recorded in the Rasumuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on March 21, 2019.
Earth Democracy with Vandana Shiva, PhD
Naropa University's Radical Compassion Symposium Presents Vandana Shiva, PhD. Earth Democracy: Living as Earth Community by Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned Indian environmental and anti-globalization activist who received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She is the author of more than twenty books, including Making Peace with the Earth; Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace; and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. More at naropa.edu.