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Radio Aula Mundi — 263 episodes
Bridging the gap # 63: between Chris Neville, musician, and Jim Bachor, artist...
Bridging the gap # 62: between Viola Waghiyi, Yupik, and Rebecca Jim, Cherokee …
Josh Chicoine, musician, and singer-songwriter: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
Bridging the gap # 61: between Todd Kessler, a singer-songwriter, and Daisychain, a rock band…
Michael Hanna, musician, and singer-songwriter: “Why bother?”
Bridging the gap # 60: between David Carlson, a bookstore clerk, and Sepultura, a heavy metal band…
Question for several Americans: "How free do you feel?"
Bridging the gap # 59: between David Koepsell, a philosopher, and Karen Harryman, a poet…
Robert Madden, author and archaeologist: “What was your favorite children’s game?”
Vi Waghiyi: “What kind of a grandmother are you?”
Todd Kessler: “How do you deal with the blue note?”
Question for: Joanna Hopson: “What has been your most recent athletic performance?”
Michael Yellow Bird: “Where do you draw the line between science and spirituality?”
Devon Mihesuah reads an excerpt from ‘Blood Relay’, one of her most recent novels…
Kiliii Yüyan: “Please, close your eyes, and take a picture of what you see…”
Chad L Yellowjohn, an indigenous artist, discusses two of his paintings…
Chris Neville, Chicago musician: “How much Chicago would listeners recognize in your music?”
Michael Gebert, food writer, critic, and author: “Why bother?”
Joey Clift, an indigenous comedy writer, discusses his cultural roots…
Dominic A. Pacyga, historian: “When you are writing a story, what are you thinking?”
Hannah Frank: "Why bother?"
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve: “Please tell us something we might not know about your ancestors…”
Bridging the gap # 58: between Karen Harryman, a poet, and Hannah Frank, a Chicago-based musician…
Bridging The Gap # 57: between Sondra Segundo, Haida, and Esther Belin, Navajo...
Bridging The Gap # 56: between Daniel H. Wilson and Preston Singletary...
Bridging The Gap # 55: between Sunburnt Stone, a Navajo rock band, and Karen Harryman, a poet...
Bridging The Gap # 54: Felicia Pichette answers a question coming from Nicaela León...
Bridging The Gap # 53: Terry White answers a question coming from Carol C...
Question for 4 Americans: "What are your two most opposite influences?"
Roberta Noell Tom: "Why bother?"
Terry White: “Why bother?”
Bridging The Gap # 52: Jerod Tate answers a question from Karen Harryman...
Bridging The Gap # 51: Hattie Lee Mendoza, a Cherokee artist, answers a question asked by Jim Bachor
Bridging The Gap # 50: Chris Valillo answers a question coming from William A Rodriguez...
Daniel H. Wilson: “What's your cultural heritage like?”
Estevan Rael-Gálvez: “Why bother?”
Sondra Segundo: “What was your favorite children’s song or nursery rhyme?”
Bridging The Gap # 49: Sunburnt Stone answer a question coming from Daniel Gunderson...
Felicia Pichette: “What do you call yourselves in your language?”
Dennis Dewa: “How do you define beauty?”
Bridging The Gap # 48: Steph Littlebird answers a question coming from Esther Belin...
Mily Treviño-Sauceda reacts to a Woody Guthrie song performed by the author…
Jerod Tate: “What’s the coolest sound you’ve heard recently…?”
Question for Hatalii: “Why bother?”
Bridging The Gap # 47: Preston Singletary, answers a question by Omar Turcios...
Bridging The Gap # 46: Daisychain, a Chicago-based band, answers a question by Karen Harryman...
Américo Mendoza Mori, a Peruvian researcher and teacher, introduces himself in Quechua…
Ellen Jones, a British translator based in Mexico City, has a question for four indigenous women…
Atilio Gonzales, a Yanesha craftsman and artist, mentions several Yanesha words…
A Yanesha elder sings a traditional lullaby in her native language…
Steph Littlebird about her upcoming children’s book…
Russ Diabo about the beginning of his activism as an indigenous community leader…
Question for Marcie Carter: “In the beginning, the mountains thought they were people… How does the story go on from there?”
Question for Daisychain: “How does it feel to be on the road?”
Chris Vallillo: “Why bother?”
Question for Calvin Crosby: “What book or books would you recommend?”
Question for Kevin Schultz: “How free do you feel?”
Laura Hollingsworth: “Why bother?”
Bridging The Gap # 44: Esther Belin answers a question asked by Tacey Atsitty...
Bridging The Gap # 43: Claire Bubb answers a question asked by Tacey Atsitty...
Bridging The Gap # 42: Nicholas Bimibatoo Mishtadim DeShaw answers a question asked by Tall Paul...
William A Rodriguez plays a self-made Chincha flute from Ancient Peru…
Question for Esther Belin: “What is your favorite Navajo word or expression these days?”
Question for Betty Osceola… What is an indigenous language?
Question for Francisco Molina: "What kind of a language is your mother tongue?"
Bridging The Gap # 41: Floyd Favel answers a question asked by Teresa Peterson...
Bridging The Gap # 40: Hataałii answers a question asked by Pete Sands...
Question for Gabriela Salas Cabrera: "What languages do you speak?"
Bridging The Gap # 39: Melissa Greene-Blye answers a question asked by Amy Juan...
Question for Claire Bubb: "Why bother?"
Cecilia Tuyuc Us: "What concepts of time, weather, seasons, and so on do you have in your language?"
Question for Roberta Noell Tom: "What is the recipe for your favorite Navajo dish?"
Question for Mark Sheehy: "Why bother?"
Question for Mark Sheehy: "Why bother?"
Bridging The Gap # 38: Chuck Copenace answers a question asked by Tacey Atsitty...
Question for Hataałii: "What’s your first musical memory?"
Question for Johnnie Jae: "How does the story go on from there?"
Bridging The Gap # 37: Preston Singletary
Floyd Favel explains symbols in the Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL) and Cree…
Rebecca Jim: “Why bother?”
Bridging The Gap # 36: Pete Sands
Bridging The Gap # 35: Conrad Merced
Bridging The Gap # 23: Question for Dorianne Laux, a multiple award-winning American poet…
Bridging The Gap # 22: Question for Vincent Schilling, an Akwesasne Mohawk author and journalist…
Bridging The Gap # 21: Question for Arielle Vakni, a vocalist, songwriter, and music teacher…
Bridging the gap # 20: Question for Pete Sands, a Diné (Navajo) performer, artist, musician, filmmaker, and activist...
Bridging the gap # 19: Question for Thea Hopkins, an award-winning indigenous songwriter…
Question for Sheryl Youngblood: “How visual is your music?”
Question for Margo Robbins: “What traditional ways of making barbecue do you guys have over there?”
Question for Pressure Drop: “What’s the special occasion?”
Question for Sunburnt Stone: “How indigenous is your music?”
Pete Sands: “What have the last 48 hours been like for you?”
Martin Williams: “Where do you draw the line between science and storytelling?”
Bridging the gap # 18: Question for Tacey M. Atsitty, an award-winning Diné (Navajo) poet...
Sharon Shorty: “How fluent a speaker are you?”
Nicholas DeShaw explains colors and their concept in the Ojibwe language…
Louise BigEagle: “What is your favorite Nakota word or expression these days?”
Denise Low reads “Walking With My Delaware Grandfather”…
Hattie Lee Mendoza: “What are you working on right now?”
Bridging the gap # 17: Question for Jon Langford, a Chicago-based Welsh rock musician and artist...
Bridging the gap # 16: Question for Jessica Pamonicutt, an indigenous chef in Chicago...
Tacey M. Atsitty reads one of her unpublished poems...
Lucky Salway: “What are you working on right now?”
Crisosto Apache, an award-winning Native American poet, reads and comments on one of his works...
Bridging the gap # 15: Question for James McMurtry, singer, songwriter, musician, and actor...
Bridging the gap # 14: Question for Amy Juan, a Tohono O'odham cultural activist...
Bridging the gap # 13: Question for Denise Lajimodiere, an Ojibwe poet...
Vincent Schilling: “Which languages do you speak?”
Danny Layan: “What was your favorite children's game?”
Nicaela Leon has two questions in Quechua for anyone, anywhere in the world…
Brock Stonefish: “Eagle, it's raining, where will you go?”
Bridging the gap # 12: Question for James McMurtry, singer, songwriter, musician, and actor...
Amy Juan, a Tohono O'odham cultural activist, introduces herself in English and O'odham...
John Hodian reads an excerpt from a poem written by Mkrtich Naghash, a medieval Armenian poet...
Bridging the gap # 11: Question for Jon Langford, a Chicago-based Welsh rock musician and artist...
Question for Peter Bywaters, founder and leader of Peter and the Test Tube Babies...
Bridging the gap # 9: Question for Zahra Baker, a Chicago vocalist, storyteller, and teaching artist...
Corina, Arely, and Karen about their favorite word in the Black Seminole language...
Esther Allen: “How lost in translation do you get sometimes?”
Ítalo Sifuentes Alemán about some milestones in Peruvian history...
Bridging the gap # 8: Question for Maref, a Kurdish court interpreter and musician…
Salikoko Mufwene: “Which languages are you able to dream in?”
Denise Lajmodiere: “How do you make a poem?”
Bridging the gap # 6: Question for Eric Garcia, a multidisciplinary artist and political activist…
Bridging the gap # 6: Question for Eric Garcia, a multidisciplinary artist and political activist…
Question for Adele Nicholas, a civil rights lawyer, songwriter, and musician from Chicago...
Question for Adele Nicholas, a civil rights lawyer, songwriter, and musician from Chicago...
Bridging the gap # 5: Question for Ann-Margaret Lim, a Jamaican poet…
Question for Rebecca Webster, an Oneida teacher, author, and food activist…
Rebecca Webster, please tell us the story of the corn that's behind you...
Rebecca Webster, please tell us the story of the corn that's behind you...
Question for Mark Panick, founder of the bands Black Friars Social Club and Razorhouse…
Question for Mark Panick, founder of the bands Black Friars Social Club and Razorhouse…
Question for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive…
Question for Mike Vinopal, co-founder of the band Local Motive…
Karen Harryman, a Los Angeles poet originally from Kentucky, has a question for Daniel Gunderson, a Chicago musician…
Karen Harryman, a Los Angeles poet, has a question for Daniel Gunderson, a Chicago musician…
Karen Harryman: “Where does the "Girls' Book of Knots" come from?”
Karen Harryman: “Where does the "Girls' Book of Knots" come from?”
David Koepsell: “What is happiness?”
David Koepsell: “What is happiness?”
Omar Cadena: “What is your culinary heritage like?” & “Cómo te identificas entonces, como gringo o latino?”
Omar Cadena: “What is your culinary heritage like?” & “Cómo te identificas entonces, como gringo o latino?”
Sherri Shorting: “How musical do you feel today?”
Sherri Shorting: “How musical do you feel today?”
John Primer: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
John Primer: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
Derek Wu: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
Derek Wu: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
Anatoly Liberman reads an excerpt from “Take My Word For It; A Dictionary of English Idioms”
Anatoly Liberman reads an excerpt from “Take My Word For It; A Dictionary of English Idioms”
Carol C: “What's your cultural heritage like?”
Christina Jarvis: “2 B R 0 2 B, what kind of question is that?”
Aimee Suzara: “What kinds of emotions make you wanna dance?”
Jessica Pamonicutt describes one of her indigenous Deluxe Menus
Question for Sukrit Sen: “What song of yours do you feel like sharing with the world today?”
Gasper Nali introduces himself by phone from Malawi and mentions the languages he speaks...
Marie Bertineau introduces herself in Ojibwe and English and reads an excerpt from “The Mason House”
Tall Paul: “What advice would you have for a student in your field?”
Nedra Darling: “What are you working on right now?”
Velma Kee Craig: “How inspired do you feel today?”
Margaret Noodin: “How important is silence to you and what you do?”
Two questions for Shelly Ruzicka, communications and development director of Arise Chicago...
Grant Troyer and Jake Prine: “Please define 'Tagged'...”
Joe Policastro: “Which music of yours would best fit this poem?”
Question for Asher George: “So what's the story of your name?”
Question for Brian 'Fast' Leiser, of the Fun Lovin' Criminals: “Which generation do you belong to?”
Kim Campbell and Darcy Whitecrow: “How much of a horse whisperer are you?”
Question for Quinquis: “The history of music is long and rich. How do you consider your own contribution to it?”
Américo Mendoza Mori: “Where does the word 'jerky' come from?”
Topher White: “What makes rainforests so special?”
Question for Dorianne Laux: "Which household items of yours would you want to write a poem about?"
Jim Bachor: “So, tell me, what's the story?”
Question for Nico Albert, Cherokee chef: “How much mystery is there in what you do?”
Question for Michal, founder and singer of 'The Other Place': "How mysterious is your music?"
Ellen Jones: “Which part does translation play in your work as a writer?”
Daniela De Paulis: “Where do you draw the line between science and art?”
Yungchen Lhamo introduces herself in Tibetan and English and then performs a prayer chant for the world...
Rosa Vasquez: "How would you explain a microbe to an indigenous person deep in the Peruvian Amazon?"
Al Rose: “How much of a storyteller are you?”
Question for Andrea Martinez: “So, what’s your story?”
Doctor Dorene Wiese about Native culture in Chicago in the past and today...
“Jhane Myers, please tell us a story we might not know about your ancestors...”
Benjamin Dittbrenner: “What advice would you have for a student in your field?”
Delbert Anderson: “What are you working on right now?”
Harold Blacksmith: “What was your favorite children’s song or nursery rhyme?”
Question for DJ Adrian: “How could you sell one of your artistic creations to a deaf person?”
Miriam Sagan: “Could you define text installation, please?”
Question for Warren, Garifuna drummer: "1, 2 3, 4, Hold, how does the story go on from there?"
Eli Neztsosie: "'In the beginning, the mountains thought they were people', how does the story go on from there?”
Rilie Tane Zumbrennen: “Please draw me a sheep…”
Question for The Handcuffs: “Which part of you is Chicago?”
Jeanine Leane; "What was your favorite children’s game?"
Michael Toya: “At the moment, what is your favorite spiritual symbol, and how could you translate it into art right now?”
Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson: “Which languages do you speak?”
Hadiibah John: “What do you do, actually?”
Jeffrey Wolin: “When you close your eyes, what do you see?”
Amanda Anastasi: “How could you perform one of your own favorite poems at the moment right now?”
Question for Tone, of the California band 'Little Hurricane': “What are you working on right now?”
Sophie Waechter-Cass: “What’s the story behind the Maya Milpa tradition and the First Acre Program?”
Wilko Johnson: “ Which generation do you belong to?”
Fraser Hollins: "Jazz is generally regarded as urban music, what about trees and rocks, lakes and forests, ice and snow?"
Annette Frost: “What sort of advice would you have for a student in your field?”
Hoda Kharmoush: If you wrote a letter to the Supreme Court of the United States, what would be in it? (answer in Persina, summary in English in the shownotes below...)
Question for The Thin Cherries: "What's going on in Chicago right now?"
Shane Parish: "What was your favorite children's song or nursery rhyme?"
Dorothy Peteet, researcher at NASA and Columbia University, about climate change and climate shifts
DJ Schmolli: "Please define mashup..."
Roberto DÍaz Abraham: "Pues, cómo podría yo visitar el museo?"
Jeff Miller: "What would you make with this avocado?"
Robyn McKenzie, researcher at the National University of Australia, about the purpose of museums...
Ysenia Prieto: "What about light and sound?"
Greg Jacobs: "Which part of you is Chicago?"
KC Trommer; "How practical is your artwork?"
Marta Sánchez, jazz pianist and composer, about spring in Spain...
Phil Freeman, author of 'Ugly Beauty, Jazz In The 21st Century', reads a Langston Hughes poem...
Angie Trudell Vasquez recites one of her anti-war poems, in honor of the people of Ukraine...
Hrvoje Tkalčić, geophysicist, about what's going on deep inside the planet Earth...
Carol Gokee reads a poem written by Leonard Peltier and answers a follow-up question...
Mark Vickery: "What's your favorite hangout like?"
Pura Fé: "What's your favorite tool?"
Anna Ploszajski: "How much Greek, Latin, or Math do you need or use on a daily basis?"
Annabelle Lever reads 'Democracy', by Langston Hughes
Lori Maguire: "What's the state of your cultural consciousness?"
Hadas Lahav: "What do you have to say to the world today?"
Robert Hicks: "How political is your work?"
Lomo Saltado & Chicha Morada (in Spanish)
Lynette Grey Bull: "Where's your sense of humor?"
Enrique Villasis reads his poem "White Birds Dark Shadows, 1962"...
Peter Joly, songwriter from Chicago, reads a poem by Carl Sandburg
Rap Against Junta about cultural minority groups in Myanmar...
Rodrigo Quiñones Reyes: "Alguna pregunta?" ("Any questions?")
Claire Smith, Australian archaeologist, about the coolest sound she has heard recently...
A postcard from India...
Lorenzo Raplili reads an extract from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" and comments...
Antony Lacanaud, director of the 'Musée Aquatique' Underwater Museum of Marseille, France...
Christine De Luca discusses her poem 'Discontinuity' in English before performing it in Shetlandic
Anne Elizabeth Moore about Chicago, the Catskill Mountains and Scenery
Stephan Hilpert reads a poem in German and discusses his documentary 'Congo Calling' in English...
Vishani Ragobeer, a 22-year old journalist from Guyana about vaccine inequality and its consequences
Kyle Sumatzkuku & Duane Humeyestewa introduce themselves in a traditional Hopi way...
Heather Yule: "How can you and your stories save the world?"
Sadik Shahadu intoduces himself in Dagbani and Hausa...
Ben Harkins: "Which part of you is Portland?"
Joshua Sperling: "'H2O', how does the story go on from there?"
Shara McCallum: "What's the coolest sound you've heard recently?"
Jonathan Scott: "How can you and your music save the world?"
Inés Rodríguez: How important is your hometown or home region to you and what you do? (in Spanish)
Kayden Phoenix: What are you up to now?
Jazz Money, artist, storyteller, poet, and film maker of aboriginal descent: "Any questions?"
Sean Brown announces the upcoming release of his latest movie, "Christmas Freak"
Askhat Akhmedyarov: "What are you working on right now?"
Ulisis Santiago: Who's the personality you'd like to chat with now or have dinner with later today?
Ulisis Santiago: Cuál es la personalidad con la que le gustaría hablar ahora o cenar más tarde hoy?
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington: What are you reading right now?
Tim Brookes: What are you working on right now?
Taylor Johnson: What is your cultural heritage?
Shakti Howeth about dancing
Etzer Cantave delivers a trilingual message to Radio Aula Mundi and its audience...
Dallas Hunt, author, poet, and college professor introduces himself in Cree and English...
Jonathan Balcombe: "Are you afraid of the future?"
Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou: "What is the recipe for favorite Peruvian dish?"
Peregrine Church reads an untitled poem by e.e. cummings