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Jenn speaks to Taiwanese bred New York based composer Shiuan Chang. Born and raised in Taipei, Shiuan his earliest memories composing music was when he was just 7yrs old, his teachers discovered his talent and encouraged him to study composition and thus he went to the New England Music Conservatory in Boston to continue his education. Though he didn't obtain a degree there Shiuan has since built a career composing music that has been performed at many renowned concert halls around the world. Shiuan shares with us some of his failures he has encountered, his search for identity and how that influences the music he creates. (Recorded on November 26, 2024)About Shiuan Chang:Describe as “spiritual, light and comforting.” by  Classic Agenda (FR), Recipient of Asian Cultural Council and Djerassi Foundation, Chang Shiuan's music has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Suntory Hall, Chicago Symphony Center, Moscow Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Hungary Bartok Hall, Taiwan National Concert Hall, Le Phenix Valenciennes, Grafenegg, Weimar Kunstfest, Geneva Archipel Festival, Royaumont, and more. He has been commissioned by and collaborated with Cloudgate Contemporary Dance Company, Tonkunstler Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Taiwan Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, Chicago Civic Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ekmeles Ensemble, Les Métabole,  Princeton Singers, TANA Quartet, Atlas Ensemble, Ensemble Multilaterale, Earplay Ensemble, and Ictus Ensemble.Episode Resources:Website  IG  Spotify Youtube  Miles Davis Autobiography  George Aperghis  Something Like a Autobiography  Bian Zhou Composition  Before Everything Appears

★★★歡迎點此寫電子小紙條給主持人，分享您對節目的感想。在亞洲文化協會（Asian Cultural Council）資助下，2023年9月梅派傳人魏海敏老師獨自赴美，進行為期兩個月的交流訪問，「天后再臨」打開戲箱話匣子，回憶「循梅之旅」這段天后壯遊「京」動北美的各個精彩時刻。

★★★歡迎點此寫電子小紙條給主持人，分享您對節目的感想。在亞洲文化協會（Asian Cultural Council）資助下，2023年9月梅派傳人魏海敏老師獨自赴美，進行為期兩個月的交流訪問，「天后再臨」打開戲箱話匣子，回憶「循梅之旅」這段天后壯遊「京」動北美的各個精彩時刻。

★★★歡迎點此寫電子小紙條給主持人，分享您對節目的感想。這陣子從《水袖與胭脂》主人公楊妃談到《孟小冬》的冬皇，新春期間《打開戲箱說故事》歡欣迎來魏娘娘蒞臨節目，除夕夜陪您邊圍爐吃團圓飯、邊聽伶人故事，今晚「天后再臨」就是要給你最大咖來賓——京劇天后魏海敏。1930年，梅蘭芳不畏美國經濟大蕭條，訪美首演拉開序幕，他在美國的演出轟動劇界，戲劇家、評論家好評不斷。他是最早把中國京劇帶出國門，並進入世界舞臺，深度的藝術交流，成了京劇交流史上不可忽略的篇章，這是梅蘭芳藝術的獨到貢獻。跨越一個世紀，梅派傳人魏海敏老師2023年9月，在亞洲文化協會（Asian Cultural Council）資助下赴美交流訪問，並由中研院院士王德威和加州大學爾灣分校雷碧瑋教授安排於美國、加拿大共19所校園進行巡迴演講，更特別前往當年邀請梅蘭芳大師的華美協進社交流。這一趟「循梅之旅」天后獨身一人踏上為期兩個月的北美壯遊，「沒有翻不過去的火焰山」她究竟如何克服重重挑戰？將旦角藝術的探索經驗與美國友人們分享。邀請您打開戲箱，聆聽京劇天后魏海敏「京」動北美的藝術交流，以《貴妃醉酒》《慾望城國》《樓蘭女》三齣作品的精采段落示範，詮釋京劇表演特色、創作過程，以及她於當地的各式探索與見聞。 魏海敏老師2023/9/11隻身出發前往美國。 魏海敏北美巡迴講座：2023/9/15斯坦頓學院，學生自製海報。 2023/9/18參觀位於曼哈頓的「臉書」FB辦公大樓。 2023/9/28與中研院院士王德威合影。

★★★歡迎點此寫電子小紙條給主持人，分享您對節目的感想。這陣子從《水袖與胭脂》主人公楊妃談到《孟小冬》的冬皇，新春期間《打開戲箱說故事》歡欣迎來魏娘娘蒞臨節目，除夕夜陪您邊圍爐吃團圓飯、邊聽伶人故事，今晚「天后再臨」就是要給你最大咖來賓——京劇天后魏海敏。1930年，梅蘭芳不畏美國經濟大蕭條，訪美首演拉開序幕，他在美國的演出轟動劇界，戲劇家、評論家好評不斷。他是最早把中國京劇帶出國門，並進入世界舞臺，深度的藝術交流，成了京劇交流史上不可忽略的篇章，這是梅蘭芳藝術的獨到貢獻。跨越一個世紀，梅派傳人魏海敏老師2023年9月，在亞洲文化協會（Asian Cultural Council）資助下赴美交流訪問，並由中研院院士王德威和加州大學爾灣分校雷碧瑋教授安排於美國、加拿大共19所校園進行巡迴演講，更特別前往當年邀請梅蘭芳大師的華美協進社交流。這一趟「循梅之旅」天后獨身一人踏上為期兩個月的北美壯遊，「沒有翻不過去的火焰山」她究竟如何克服重重挑戰？將旦角藝術的探索經驗與美國友人們分享。邀請您打開戲箱，聆聽京劇天后魏海敏「京」動北美的藝術交流，以《貴妃醉酒》《慾望城國》《樓蘭女》三齣作品的精采段落示範，詮釋京劇表演特色、創作過程，以及她於當地的各式探索與見聞。 魏海敏老師2023/9/11隻身出發前往美國。 魏海敏北美巡迴講座：2023/9/15斯坦頓學院，學生自製海報。 2023/9/18參觀位於曼哈頓的「臉書」FB辦公大樓。 2023/9/28與中研院院士王德威合影。

Award-winning vocalist, composer, and educator Kavita Shah's latest album, Cape Verdean Blues, is the culmination of a diasporic quest to find a spiritual home. The carefully curated album of traditional Cape Verdean music is also a tribute to the charismatic and unapologetically individual artist Cesária Évora, and a love letter to her breathtaking archipelago and its welcoming people. On Cape Verdean Blues, Shah's ethnographic research on the island of São Vicente, and her bold self-possession have enabled her to achieve a rare feat: creating a world music album that feels like home. At the heart of the 12-song album is “sodade,” an idiomatic word that doesn't have a strict English definition, but connotes a melancholy sense of transience that permeates Cape Verde, its music, and its free-spirited island population. “In this paradise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, I found a sense of home that has eluded me for much of my 37 years,” Shah says. She continues: “When I look back, I realize that upon hearing Cesária's voice nearly a decade ago, she was summoning me down a path I must continue walking in search of sodade.” Shah is a global citizen and cultural interlocutor whose work involves deep engagement with the jazz tradition, while also addressing and advancing its global sensibilities. She is a lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR). Shah speaks 9 languages—she is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French—and incorporates ethnographic research into original music. She has researched traditional music practices in Brazil, West Africa, East Africa, Turkey, and India. To support her work, Shah has earned grants from the Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America, Asian Cultural Council, and New Music USA. Shah holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Harvard, and a Master's in Jazz Voice from Manhattan School of Music. To date, Shah's projects include Visions (2014), co-produced by Lionel Loueke; Folk Songs of Naboréa, which premiered at the Park Avenue Armory in 2017; and Interplay in duo with François Moutin, which was nominated in 2018 for France's Victoires de la Musique for Jazz Album of the Year. Shah regularly performs her music at major concert halls, festivals, and clubs on six continents. 乐团 whose 2020 album “The Adventures of Pie Boy” won Best Instrumental Album, Best Instrumental Recording and Best Arrangement (Bittersweet) at the 32nd Annual Golden Melody Awards and serves as music director for Tia Ray 袁婭維. He has recorded, produced, performed and arranged for dozens of artists across Greater China, including David Tao陶喆, Li Ronghao 李榮浩， Matzka馬斯卡, Leah Dou竇靖童, Maobuyi 毛不易， Karen Mok莫文蔚， A-Lin, Kevin Sun and more. He graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory, where he studied Jazz performance with Robin Eubanks. Hsieh plays Denis Wick mouthpieces and the Adams F5 Flugelhorn. If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to subscribe, follow, rate, and/or review this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, ect. Connect with us on all social media platforms and at www.improvexchange.com

Ben Harburg is a Managing Partner at MSA Capital, a global investment firm with over $2 billion in assets under management. Mr Harburg also leads MSA Novo, the emerging markets focused franchise of MSA. Ben has significant investment and operations experience in the Greater China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. He sits on Boards of Directors of various private and public companies, as well as those of foundations such as the National Committee on US China Relations, the Asian Cultural Council, and the Carnegie Endowment's China Center. He was a Neubauer Scholar at Tufts University (where he studied International Relations), a Fulbright Scholar at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (where he was based in the Department of Islamic Sciences and Oriental Philology), and the first native born American admitted to Tsinghua University Peoples Bank of China School of Finance elite EMBA program. His passion is football and he is a co-owner of Cádiz Club de Fútbol, a team playing in Spain's First Division (La Liga). Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-harburg/ Website: https://benharburg.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geeksofthevalley/support

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Mỗi không gian nghệ thuật đều mang trong mình một câu chuyện mà ở đó người kể chuyện phải cân bằng giữa việc gửi đi một thông điệp cụ thể với việc khuyến khích và trao quyền cho người xem tự do chiêm nghiệm ngay cả khi họ đã rời khỏi tác phẩm. Vậy làm thế nào để  điều hòa rất nhiều cái "tôi" trong một môi trường đề cao cá tính như vậy? Hãy cùng unlock fm trò chuyện cùng giám tuyển Lê Thuận Uyên để hiểu hơn về một lĩnh vực thú vị nhưng vẫn còn rất mới mẻ ở Việt Nam trong tập 31 này.Nội dung tập 31 01:45 Giới thiệu chị Uyên & câu hỏi mở đầu09:36 Công việc của một giám tuyển nghệ thuật (art curator)13:54 Liệu có tồn tại những quy chuẩn đánh giá một tác phẩm nghệ thuật đương đại ?16:46 Thế kỷ 20 - thời kỳ nở rộ của trí thức Việt. Con người văn chương, con người thị giác.22:40 Tips thưởng thức tác phẩm nghệ thuật dành cho người ngoại đạo26:00 Storytelling và những cái “tôi” trong nghệ thuật39:46 Sáng tạo nghệ thuật và hiện thực cuộc sống 51:05 Viết như một dòng suối có những ghềnh đá58:08 The Outpost, vụn thời đại, và những dự định tương lai--------Lê Thuận Uyên là một giám tuyển (curator) sống và làm việc tại Hà Nội, hiện là Giám đốc Nghệ thuật của The Outpost – tổ hợp tư nhân hướng tới việc phát triển văn hoá và nghệ thuật thị giác. Trước khi đến với nghệ thuật, Thuận Uyên theo học ngành chính trị và quan hệ quốc tế tại Anh với ý định ban đầu là trở thành một nhà ngoại giao. Tuy nhiên, chính những năm tháng sống tại UK đã khơi dậy sự tò mò, hứng thú của Uyên với nghệ thuật, thôi thúc chị theo đuổi lĩnh vực này một cách bài bản hơn, bắt đầu bằng việc theo học Master of Arts, Cultural & Creative Industries tại King's College London. Sau thời gian làm việc tại những địa chỉ văn hóa có bề dày lịch sử như British Museum, Barbican Centre, chị Uyên trở về Việt Nam và bắt đầu một hành trình mới. Ở Việt Nam, Thuận Uyên làm việc và hợp tác cùng nhiều không gian nghệ thuật ở các vai trò khác nhau như hỗ trợ về mặt tổ chức hoặc xây dựng chương trình, trong đó bao gồm Nhà Sàn Collective, Sàn Art, The Factory Centre for Contemporary Art, APD (Centre for Art Patronage and Development), Nguyen Art Foundation. Một số triển lãm chị Uyên đã tham gia thực hiện bao gồm: Thân bằng quyến thuộc (Ilham Gallery, KL, 2019); Gang of Five Lạc bước Tân kỳ (Hà Nội, 2017); Sindikat Campursari (Jakarta, 2016); (Những) phương Nam đan xen (Sàn Art, online, 2016); Những chân trời có người bay 3 (Hà Nội, 2015-17); trợ lý cho giám tuyển Trần Lương cho triển lãm Miền Méo Miệng (Umea, 2015). Ngoài ra, Uyên cũng tham gia lưu trú tại Art in General (New York) năm 2017 thông qua học bổng của Asian Cultural Council.--------CreditsIllustration: GydientBiên tập và kịch bản: Vi Anh, Quyền, Khánh VySản xuất hậu kỳ: Quyền, Hạo, Vi AnhSocial media & marketing: Giang Dương, Hạo --------Cảm nghĩ của mọi người về tập này như thế nào? Hãy để lại đánh giá hoặc ⭐️ cho unlockfm ở Spotify hoặc Apple Podcasts nhé!Nếu mọi người có góp ý hoặc ý tưởng về khách mời, chủ để cho các tập sau, hãy nhắn tụi mình qua một trong các kênh dưới đây.☕ Ủng hộ unlock fm: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unlockfm 

"A lot of my choral works get inspiration from Philippine indigenous chants. We have 7000+ islands with different cultures and soundscapes, and that is itself is a very rich jump-off point for a new composition. I contact a tribe, interview them, ask permission to use a folk chant, and recompose it in a manner that is respectful of the original form of the chant but with something new added to it."Trailblazing composer and artist Nilo Alcala is carving a legacy for Philippine Arts internationally. He is the first Philippine-born composer to receive the COPLAND HOUSE Residency Award (2017), as well as to be commissioned by Grammy-winner Los Angeles Master Chorale. He is also the first Filipino-American artist to be featured as Musical America Worldwide's Artist of the Month, and be awarded The American Prize in the Professional Division, Major Choral Works Category. He has received two Ani Ng Dangal (Harvest of Honor) awards from two Philippine Presidents.His commissions include San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, Asia-Europe Foundation; Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival; Korean Ministry of Culture; National Music Competition for Young Artists, Manila Symphony Orchestra, the Filipino-American Symphony Orchestra, and many other ensembles. Other notable performances include the World Youth Choir, Asia Pacific Youth Choir, San Francisco Girls Chorus, the U.P. Symphony Orchestra, the Metro Manila Community Orchestra, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.Alcala's virtuosic choral works have been performed by numerous winning ensembles in prestigious competitions and festivals in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He was member and composer-in-residence of the Philippine Madrigal Singers (UNESCO Artist for Peace). An Asian Cultural Council grantee, Alcala was a Billy Joel Fellow at Syracuse University where he received the Irene L. Crooker Music Award.Alcala was composer-mentor from 2016 to 2019 of Pasadena Master Chorale's “Listening to the Future” program for promising high school composers. In 2022, in cooperation with the Rotary Club University District (Quezon City, Philippines) Alcala has established the Rotary Club University District-Nilo Alcala Arts Scholarships or RCUD-NAAS for student artists. To get in touch with Nilo, you can visit his website, www.niloalcala.com, or you can find him on Instagram or Twitter: @alcalanilo.Email choirfampodcast@gmail.com to contact our hosts.Podcast music from Podcast.coPhoto in episode artwork by Trace Hudson from Pexels

This episode features a conversation with Cecily Cook, former Director of Programs at the Asian Cultural Council in New York. Cecily has had a long career at the intersection of Asia and the arts. Over the course of decades, she has worked in various roles, and at various institutions, in support of the artistic and cultural exchange between different Asian countries and the United States. In addition to serving as Director of Programs for the Asian Cultural Council, she has also worked as a consultant, a curator, and a director for organizations dedicated to the visual and performing arts. In this episode, Cecily discusses her background in folklore and how that led to a career in Asian arts. In so doing, she describes the importance of art and artists, as well as the role of knowledge infrastructure systems—like the Asian Cultural Council—to foster artistic work and make a impact in the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2019. She taught art history, the in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. Ann McCoy' work is included in the following collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Australia, the Roy L. Neuberger Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Ann McCoy has received the following awards: the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian Cultural Council, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award, the Award in the Visual Arts, the Prix de Rome, the National Endowment for the Art, the Berliner Kunstler Program D.A.A.D.. Ann McCoy worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung's heir apparent for twenty-five years in Zurich She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich, and Rome at the Vatican Library. The Death of My Father, 2012, pencil on paper on canvas, 9 by 14 ft. photo credit : Peter Dressler The Wolf Tongue Mill, 2022, 9 by 14 ft. pencil on paper on canvas

In this two-part series with New York Times Bestselling Author Peggy Orenstein we delve into how to talk to our kids about sex, relationships, consent and all the emotions and feelings involved. Orenstein's latest book is Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating the New Masculinity. Her other books include Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Don't Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic SchoolGirls. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and AFAR, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered . She has been featured on, among other programs, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Morning Joe, NPR's Fresh Air and The PBS News Hour. Her TED Talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure,” has been viewed over 5.4 million times. Her work has also been honored by the Commonwealth Club of California, the National Women's Political Caucus of California and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Additionally, she has been awarded fellowships from the United States-Japan Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council and been a grateful resident at Mesa Refuge and the UCross Foundation. For more information on Orenstein, as well as more resources visit peggyorenstein.com

In this two-part series with New York Times Bestselling Author Peggy Orenstein we delve into how to talk to our kids about sex, relationships, consent and all the emotions and feelings involved. Orenstein's latest book is Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating the New Masculinity. Her other books include Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Don't Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic SchoolGirls. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and AFAR, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR's All Things Considered . She has been featured on, among other programs, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Morning Joe, NPR's Fresh Air and The PBS News Hour. Her TED Talk, “What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure,” has been viewed over 5.4 million times. Her work has also been honored by the Commonwealth Club of California, the National Women's Political Caucus of California and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Additionally, she has been awarded fellowships from the United States-Japan Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council and been a grateful resident at Mesa Refuge and the UCross Foundation. For more information on Orenstein, as well as more resources visit peggyorenstein.com

We know it’s not just us. You’ve been through a lot too. Living in a pandemic while the world continued to operate the way it was but now in a peculiar and socially-distanced way have us feeling like we lived a thousand lives at 26. We see you too! Welcome to Feelings, Explained Episode 25. A discussion on how the pandemic affected our relationship with the people around us, the world and inevitably, ourselves. Joining The Plus One Club this week is the great Abner Delina Jr, a Filipino multi-platform storyteller, artist, educator who took us through his stories, to the US where he recently completed his grant as the recipient of Asian Cultural Council fellowship. Connect with Abner Email: abnerdelina@gmail.com Website: https://abnerdelina.wixsite.com/abnerdelina Follow and subscribe! Youtube : Feelings,Explained The Podcast Facebook: Feelings,Explained The Podcast Instagram: @feelingsxplained Twitter: @feelingsxplnd Original Theme Song by Hirokei Studio Support Feelings, Explained by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/feelings-explained Find out more at https://feelings-explained.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Valerie Rockefeller chairs the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. She also co-chairs BankFWD, a network to persuade banks to phase out financing for fossil fuel and to lead on climate. Her professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She began her teaching career at Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, New York, and also taught in Australia. Valerie has a M.Ed. in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and a MAT in secondary Social Studies from Columbia University Teachers College. She majored in International Relations at Stanford University, and worked as a confidential assistant to Secretary Richard Riley at the U.S. Department of Education during the first Clinton administration. She also serves as a trustee of Achievement First, the Asian Cultural Council, Columbia University Teachers College, Greenwich Academy, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She was a trustee of Spelman College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Valerie lives with her daughters Percy and Lucy and her son Davis in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. https://bankfwd.org/ https://nexuspmg.com/

Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000. She has written about artists working with projection including William Kentridge, Tony Oursler, Nalini Malini, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.  Ann McCoy and Kentridge did a conversation at the American Academy in Rome for his Tiber project, “Triumphs and Laments”, which was published in the Brooklyn Rail. Ann McCoy’ work is included in the following collections: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Australia, the Roy L. Neuberger Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Ann McCoy has received the following awards: the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian Cultural Council, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award, the Award in the Visual Arts, the Prix de Rome, the National Endowment for the Art, the Berliner Kunstler Program D.A.A.D., and the New Talent Award of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ann McCoy has exhibited in the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Annual, and has had one-person exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Poland, and Berlin. She is known primarily known for her large format drawings, work with projection, installation, and bronze sculpture. Ann McCoy worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung’s heir apparent for twenty-five years in Zurich. She has a background in Jungian psychology and philosophy. She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich, and Rome at the Vatican Library.  Most of her work is based on her dreams, and their relationship to alchemical texts, and Christian alchemy in particular.  For McCoy, alchemy is a symbolic language of processes dealing with spiritual transformation.  Incarnation of spirit into matter is the key concept of the alchemical practice.  The imagination is the gateway to the gods. Dream of the invisible College  (Size: 9 x 14 ft. ) pencil on appear on canvas (2018) photo credit: Peter Dressel Processional with Resplendor (Size: 19" by 7 ft. 2" by 9 inches) cast bronze with silver crown (installation 2018) photo credit: Peter Dressler

Valerie Rockefeller chairs the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. She also co-chairs BankFWD, a network to persuade banks to phase out financing for fossil fuel and to lead on climate. Her professional background is as a middle school special education teacher for adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She began her teaching career at Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, New York, and also taught in Australia. Valerie has a M.Ed. in Special Education from Bank Street College of Education and a MAT in secondary Social Studies from Columbia University Teachers College. She majored in International Relations at Stanford University, and worked as a confidential assistant to Secretary Richard Riley at the U.S. Department of Education during the first Clinton administration. She also serves as a trustee of Achievement First, the Asian Cultural Council, Columbia University Teachers College, Greenwich Academy, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She was a trustee of Spelman College, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Valerie lives with her daughters Percy and Lucy and her son Davis in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. https://bankfwd.org/ https://nexuspmg.com/

The portrait is R. Yean, Sea forest at Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, ©Norm Phanith, 2017 H.R.H. (His Rebel/Revolt Highness) The Articurizer (Art[ist] Curator, Articulator/Writer, Researcher, and Art Advocate) A native of Battambang, Reaksmey Yean is a self-proclaimed art advocate, an early-career art curator, writer, and researcher. Currently, he is a program director and co-founder of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik, a contemporary art space by YK Art House. He is also a part-time lecturer at Phnom Penh International Institute of the Art (PPIIA). Reaksmey is a research affiliate at Center for Khmer Studies and a Co-Investigator on Phase 2 Large Grant project ‘Contemporary Arts Making and Creative Expression Among Young Cambodians.’ Yean is an Alphawood scholar (SOAS, the University of London for Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art – in Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian Art). He was an exchange scholar at the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Chiang Mai University. He is an inaugural SEAsia Award Scholar (2017) of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, an Asian Cultural Council fellow (2018), and a beneficiary of Dr. Karen Mcleod Adair grant for MA in Asian Art Histories at LASALLE College of the Arts. Yean was a curator for creative programs at Java Creative Café, Phnom Penh. Prior, he served several senior posts, including an Assistant to School of Performing Arts, at Phare Ponleu Selpak, a multi-disciplinary arts center, where he received his early education. He is also a founding father of a defunct collective named Trotchaek Pneik, a cultural and artistic collective based in Battambang. Yean is interested in multi-disciplinary practices (Film, Visual, and Performing Arts). As an Art Advocate, Yean is involved in the promotion of art and culture and their histories within contemporary Cambodia via curatorial practices, art criticism, and cultural pundit. As a scholar, Yean is concerned with Buddhist Arts, Contemporary and Modern Arts, Southeast Asia, Cultural Diplomacy, and Post-colonial theory. The books mentioned in the interview were: Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, Of Grammatology, and The Truth in Painting. Dinh Q. Lê, Splendor and Darkness #32, 2017, Foiling and screen-print on Stonehenge paper, cut, weaved and burned, 221 x330 cm, Courtesy of Reaksmey Yean

Asmudjo Jono Irianto , Curator, Indonesia Pavilion ©farrenkopf Asmudjo Jono Irianto, a lecturer in the Fine Arts Department of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), was executive director and curator of Gallery Soemarja at ITB from 1999 to 2001. An expert in the field of crafts, he was honored by the Asian Cultural Council and visited art museums and craft centers in the US in 2005. In addition to serving as an adviser to the Indonesian Pavilion, he has curated a number of exhibitions over the years; his own art has appeared in solo and group exhibitions. Indonesia Pavilion, ©farrenkopf Indonesia Pavilion, ©farrenkopf

Savona interviews Barbara Pollack, independent curator and critic, who writes regularly about contemporary art for such publications as the New York Times, Artnews, Art and Auction, and Art in America. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai. Since 1994, has covered the development of China's contemporary art scene and its market for publications including Vanity Fair, New York Times, Washington Post, Departures, Art in America, Artnews, Art and Auction, Modern Painters and artnet.com; has written profiles and catalogue essays for many major artists in China including Ai Weiwei, Liu Ye, Zhang Xiaogang, Li Songsong, Zeng Fanzhi, Lin Tianmiao, Wang Qingsong and Yin Xiuzhen; recipient of grants from the Asian Cultural Council and Andy Warhol Foundation; since 2001, Professor, School of Visual Arts. Fellow, MacDowell Colony for the Arts. Author: The Wild, Wild East; An American Art Critic's Adventures in China. Expertise: cultural leaders, art, global art movements in emerging centres, particularly China

Creating Across Cultures is a collection of stories about visionary women in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan who defied cultural and social expectations to become leaders in the arts. Working in the literary, visual and performing arts, these women journeyed outside their cultures, engaging with the international artistic community. Their personal histories open windows onto the larger, historical trajectory of China over three generations, while their artwork delves into social realities and challenges of the day. The stories, based on personal interviews and professional archives, were written by a team of arts specialists, journalists, and academics who have made these accounts available in English for the first time. In bringing these 16 women’s stories together in one book, editor Michelle Vosper illuminates the value of the exchange of arts and ideas across borders and cultures, while offering inspiring role models for women aspiring to careers in the arts. Ms. Vosper joined the National Committee on June 26, 2017, to discuss her book, the women whose stories it details, and her own experience fostering cross-cultural artistic exchanges, in a conversation moderated by National Committee Vice President Jan Berris. For more information about Creating Across Cultures and profiles of the artists: https://www.ncuscr.org/sites/default/.... Michelle Vosper served as the first director of the Asian Cultural Council’s (ACC) program in Hong Kong for twenty-five years (1986-2012), supporting and organizing exchanges of artists from the United States and Asia. Ms. Vosper’s career began in 1978 when she became the first assistant director of the Center for US-China Arts Exchange established at Columbia University. During the early period that followed normalization of diplomatic relations, she worked with prominent artists on programs such as Isaac Stern’s film From Mao to Mozart and Arthur Miller’s Chinese-language production of Death of a Salesman in Beijing. She also travelled frequently in China as interpreter and coordinator for cultural figures including Susan Sontag, Howard Gardner, Alwin Nikolais and Jacques d’Amboise. In 1980 Michelle co-translated Cao Yu’s play Peking Man for its New York premiere.  

Creating Across Cultures is a collection of stories about visionary women in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan who defied cultural and social expectations to become leaders in the arts. Working in the literary, visual and performing arts, these women journeyed outside their cultures, engaging with the international artistic community. Their personal histories open windows onto the larger, historical trajectory of China over three generations, while their artwork delves into social realities and challenges of the day. The stories, based on personal interviews and professional archives, were written by a team of arts specialists, journalists, and academics who have made these accounts available in English for the first time. In bringing these 16 women’s stories together in one book, editor Michelle Vosper illuminates the value of the exchange of arts and ideas across borders and cultures, while offering inspiring role models for women aspiring to careers in the arts. Ms. Vosper joined the National Committee on June 26, 2017, to discuss her book, the women whose stories it details, and her own experience fostering cross-cultural artistic exchanges, in a conversation moderated by National Committee Vice President Jan Berris. For more information about Creating Across Cultures and profiles of the artists: https://www.ncuscr.org/sites/default/.... Michelle Vosper served as the first director of the Asian Cultural Council’s (ACC) program in Hong Kong for twenty-five years (1986-2012), supporting and organizing exchanges of artists from the United States and Asia. Ms. Vosper’s career began in 1978 when she became the first assistant director of the Center for US-China Arts Exchange established at Columbia University. During the early period that followed normalization of diplomatic relations, she worked with prominent artists on programs such as Isaac Stern’s film From Mao to Mozart and Arthur Miller’s Chinese-language production of Death of a Salesman in Beijing. She also travelled frequently in China as interpreter and coordinator for cultural figures including Susan Sontag, Howard Gardner, Alwin Nikolais and Jacques d’Amboise. In 1980 Michelle co-translated Cao Yu’s play Peking Man for its New York premiere.

Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic, School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Elle, Time, Mother Jones, Slate, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered and the PBS Newshour Her articles have been anthologized multiple times, including in The Best American Science Writing. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous colleges and conferences and has been featured on, among other programs, Nightline, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition and CBC’s As It Happens. In 2012, The Columbia Journalism Review named Peggy one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years.” She has been recognized for her Outstanding Coverage of Family Diversity, by the Council on Contemporary Families and received a Books For A Better Life Award for Waiting for Daisy. Her work has also been honored by the Commonwealth Club of California, the National Women’s Political Caucus of California and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Additionally, she has been awarded fellowships from the United States-Japan Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council. - See more at: http://kboo.fm/media/56419-girls-and-sex-interview-peggy-orenstein#sthash.Lw8U4ooH.dpuf

Strange Cargo Nine alumni of the PEN Center USA's Emerging Voices fellowship who have been published in the Emerging Voices anthology Strange Cargo will read from their selected pieces. Janet Fitch (White Oleander), who wrote the anthology's introduction, will introduce the event! PEN Center USA's Emerging Voices is a literary fellowship program that aims to provide new writers, who lack access, with the tools they will need to launch a professional writing career.  Over the course of the year, each Emerging Voices fellow participates in a professional mentorship hosted Q&A evenings with prominent local authors, a series of Master classes focused on genre, and two public readings. Janet Fitch is the author of the novels White Oleander and Paint It Black.  Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and journals such as Los Angeles Noir, Black Clock, Room of One's Own, and Black Warrior Review. She teaches creative writing in the MPW program at USC, and is writing a novel set during the Russian Revolution. Natashia Deón is a 2010 Bread Loaf Scholarship recipient, PEN Emerging Voice Fellow, Highlights Foundation Scholarship recipient, and award-winning screenwriter. She is penning her debut novel, The Spinning Wheel, a dark journey of three outcast women who, on the eve of the Civil War, are fighting the battle of their lives. Deón is a California native, practicing attorney and the first generation of her family to be born outside of East Tallassee, Alabama, since American slavery. Cara Chow was a 2001 Emerging Voices Fellow. "Fall Dance" will appear in the novel Bitter Melon in Spring 2011, published by Egmont USA. A native of Hong Kong, Cara grew up in the Richmond District of San Francisco, where this story is set. She currently resides in the Los Angeles area with her husband and son. Davin Malasarn is a writer and microbiologist from Sherman Oaks, California. In 2008, he was an Emerging Voices Fellow, a finalist in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest, and first runner-up in Opium Magazine's 500-Word Memoir Contest. Two of his stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. His fiction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Rosebud, Night Train and other literary journals, and he is a staff editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Pireeni Sundaralingam was born in Sri Lanka and is co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (U. Arkansas Press, 2010).  Her own poetry has appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, World Literature Today and The Progressive, as well as anthologies such as W.W. Norton's Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (2008). It has been translated into 5 languages and been published in Sweden, Ireland, England, and the U.S. A cognitive scientist, Pireeni has given papers on the connections between the human brain and poetry at MOMA (New York), the Exploratorium (San Francisco) and Studio Olafur Eliasson (Berlin). She was a PEN Emerging Voice Fellow in 2003. Monica Carter lives in Los Angeles, California, and is a 2010 Emerging Voices Fellow. Her work will appear in the forthcoming issue of Pale House II. She is the owner and curator of her own website dedicated to international literature, Salonica World Lit. Ms. Carter is working on Eating the Apple, a psychological novel set in Manhattan in the 1930s. Marytza Rubio is a writer from Santa Ana, California. She was a 2008 Emerging Voices Fellow and received a Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in 2010. She writes about Latinas, voodoo and animals. http://www.marytzakrubio.com/ Sylvia Sukop writes about art, faith, community and other good causes. Her memoir, Difficult Light, is framed by the death of her youngest brother, Alex, within an intentional community of organic farmers in eastern Washington. The memoir grew out of an extensive series of photographs documenting Alex's life and is in part a meditation on the role of photography in intimacy, loss and memory. A first-generation American raised in rural Pennsylvania, Sylvia is a graduate of Bucknell University and of NYU/International Center of Photography, and a grateful recipient of the 2009 Emerging Voices Fellowship. She co-founded MMIX Los Angeles Writers with her EV cohort in 2009, and is a contributing writer to Flaunt and Exposure magazines and the political blog The Huffington Post. Denise Uyehara is an award-winning performance artist, writer and playwright whose work has been presented in London, Tokyo, Helsinki, Vancouver and across the United States. She is the recipient of numerous recognitions of excellence which include a mid-career COLA Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and funding from the Asian Cultural Council. She was also a Poets & Writers "Writer on Site" at Beyond Baroque and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her book Maps of City and Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara (Kaya Press) documents her recent works. Uyehara is a frequent lecturer at the University of California, Irvine and a founding member of the Sacred Naked Nature Girls. She was a PEN Emerging Voice Fellow in 1999. http://www.deniseuyehara.com/. Mehnaz Turner was born in Pakistan and raised in southern California. She was a 2009 Emerging Voices Fellow.  Her poems have appeared in: The Journal of Pakistan Studies, Cahoots Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, Asia Writes and An Anthology of California Poets. She is currently at work on her first poetry collection, Tongue-tied: A Memoir in Poems. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS SEPTEMBER 12, 2010.

Nguyễn Thị Minh Ngọc. Sanh năm 1953 tại Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, đã sống qua Long Xuyên, Phan Thiết, Pleiku, Huế, Sài Gòn, Bismarck, Austin (US). Họ nội gốc Bình Ðịnh, ông nội làm quan ở Huế. Ông ngoại gốc Quảng Nam, vào Phan Thiết, sáng lập Quảng Nam Ðồng Châu Hội tại đây. Cha là Huấn Sự Thú Y. Mẹ ở tù Khám Lớn và căn Bà Rá, Tân Uyên, Sông Bé thời Pháp thuộc. Cả hai đã mất. Học tiểu học tại Pleiku, học trung học tại Phan Thiết, học Đại học tại Huế, Sài Gòn. Trước 1975 viết cho các tuần san, tạp chí: Tuổi Ngọc, Văn, Phổ Thông, Nhà Văn, Thời Tập… Tốt nghiệp đạo diễn sân khấu năm 1980, từng bán thuốc lá, thuốc tây vĩa hè, viết kịch bản cho sân khấu và điện ảnh, dạy Kỹ Thuật Biểu Diễn, Biên Kịch, Lý Luận Kịch và Lịch Sử Sân Khấu Việt Nam tại một số trường Cao Ðẳng và Ðại Học, đồng sáng lập CLB Ðạo Diễn Thể Nghiệm (1985) nay là Nhà Hát 5B. đã dựng trên 30 vở và viết trên 70 vở truyền thống và đương đại cho sân khấu, viết trên 30 kịch bản cho điện ảnh, viết hàng trăm tập phim cho truyền hình, vài công trình nghiên cứu về sân khấu và cải lương, đã dự nhiều liên hoan, hội thảo, sáng tác và nghiên cứu về sân khấu-giáo dục cùng vai trò phụ nữ trong sân khấu ở trong nước cùng các nước Úc, Anh, Pháp, Ðức, Tanzania, Na Uy, Thụy Ðiển, Philippines, Jordan, Mỹ, Indonesia.. đã in gần 20 đầu sách trong đó có hai cuốn cho thiếu nhi, Biên Khảo: Một trăm câu hỏi đáp về sân khấu cải lương Nam Bộ- Sài Gòn, tiểu thuyết Ký Sự Người đàn bà bị chồng bỏ. Tâm nguyện: Cố viết cho những người không nói được. Là một trong 20 nhà văn tiêu biểu của TPHCM do Hội Nhà Văn TP HCM bình chọn. Là nhân vật sân khấu năm 2004 do Truyền hình Việt Nam bình chọn. Được Liên Hoan Film Quốc Tế về Người Việt (VIFF) tại Mỹ chọn làm tâm điểm (2007). Là phụ nữ Việt đầu tiên đưa tác phẩm Việt Nam vào sân khấu off-off Broadway tại New York với ba vai trò: tác giả, đạo diễn và diễn viên trong hai vở “Người Đàn Bà Thất Lạc- The Missing Woman"(2008) và “Chúng Tôi Là- We are…” (2011)   Có nhiều giải thưởng trong nước về Văn học, Sân khấu, Ðiện ảnh. @Đã dựng các tác phẩm có tiếng vang như: Hồn Xuân Thu (nhóm tác giả trẻ của Trung Quốc) Người Hảo Tâm Thành Tứ Xuyên (của Bertolt Brecht) “Sông của Nhiều Bến Bờ -River of many sides” (cùng ba nghệ sĩ đương đại của Mỹ) tại Chicago, US (2004) “Con Rồng Cháu Tiên” - “Dragons and Fairies” diễn tại Bảo Tàng Trẻ Em tại New York, US. (2011)               @Đã viết những tác phẩm có tiếng vang như Trái Khổ Qua, Trăng Huyết, Quốc Lộ, Dọn Nhà, Quán Trọ, Sắc, Đám Cưới, Chờ Duyên, Gói Cẩm Lệ, Hải Nguyệt, Năm Đêm với bé Su Kịch bản sân khấu: Một nửa của tôi đâu?,  Thương hoài ngàn năm, Cô Đào Hát, Nắng Chiều, Vàng Hay Bạc Nhái, Lũ Rừng, Giưã hai bờ sương khói, Hãy Yêu Nhau Đi, Hãy Khóc Đi Em, Trái Tim Nhảy Múa, Tía ơi…Má Dìa! , Tiên Nga (cùng với Năm Châu, Nguyễn Hồng Dung) Kịch bản film: Yêu một người Sài Gòn, Hải Nguyệt, Sống trong sợ hãi (cùng với Bùi Thạc Chuyện) Ngọc Viễn Đông, Hương Ga, Song Lang (cùng với Leon Le) Kịch bản phim tài liệu: Ma túy SOS, Thành Tôn - Người nghệ sĩ, Thời gian & Vĩnh cửu. @ Đã đào tạo các diễn viên như Hồng Đào, Quang Minh, Hữu Châu, Hữu Nghĩa, Hòa Hiệp, Hữu Quốc, Mỹ Hằng, Tâm Tâm   @ Nhận chương trình cư trú của Asian Cultural Council tại New York, US (2003) @ Nhận trợ cấp của University Massachusetts Boston, US (2004-2005) để nghiên cứu về "Những Vấn Đề Sân Khấu Việt Nam Đương Đại"   Định cư ở Mỹ từ 2005, viết, dựng và diễn cho một số sân khấu của cộng đồng Việt Nam và cả của Mỹ tại California, Bismarck (US), Vancouver (Canada), Đã tham gia các dự án của Unesco, British Council tại Việt Nam về: đưa sân khấu truyền thống vào biểu diễn trong nhà tù (trại cai nghiện)- 2010 dùng sân khấu học đường giúp học sinh cấp 1 và cấp 2 ý thức bảo vệ động vật quý hiếm.- 2014 Tư vấn cho chương trình Lịch sử Cải Lương Truyền Khẩu -2018. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy