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Angel City Culture Quest

26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings

Angel City Culture Quest is an interview based show about artists and their work, additionally, issues surrounding social justice and the environment will inform many of our discussions.

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Steven T. Bramble of Pathos Press: The Beginnings of a Local Independent Publishing House

January 30, 2024 18:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB

 In this episode, Steven noted what Pathos Press can offer LA authors who might think to query them, along with some (not all) indie publishers: "Small publishing houses tend to be much more willing to consider challenging or experimental works, especially by new authors without an established reputation. Some indie publishers assign editors to their authors in order to ensure the quality of the final text of the book. With larger publishing houses, it is sometimes the case that editors ser...

Filmmaker Pamela Torrance In Discussion of Her Pro-Choice Documentary WE’RE NOT GOING BACK!

November 09, 2023 18:30 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB

In May, 2022, when the SCOTUS leak threatened to overturn Roe v Wade and strip half the country of their reproductive right protections, Pamela quit her corporate sales job and embarked from her California bubble to Red states to capture the harrowing and mundane stories of American women. The resulting documentary, WE’RE NOT GOING BACK! won the Grand Jury award for Emerging Filmmaker when it premiered at The Awareness Film Festival in 2022.  Since then, Pamela continues her pro-choice acti...

Richard Foss & COLLAGE Amplifying the Social Capital of San Pedro and Beyond

October 03, 2023 17:30 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

In this episode, hear about why COLLAGE became a nonprofit as opposed to simply a venue and the good work its doing to help students in the Los Angeles region.         "I have a sense that music can give people a reason to live, a reason to stay alive. So, rather than just run shows, I want to do something more than that," — Richard Foss. COLLAGE is a beautiful venue, built in the 1930's, featuring  art deco styling both original and recreated by George Wytovich. It’s intimate and relaxed,...

Artist & Writer Jorge Schneider on the Publishing Scene For New Writers, Censorship, Small Press and his recent novel, El año que me fui

September 05, 2023 17:30 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MB

Jorge posits that publishing houses used to be vanguards. But now, they instead follow the trends that the social landscape we live in wants them to.   Listen in as we discuss this, Jorges new book and his creative process, advice for young writers and the beauty of the small press. Jorge is also co-owner. along with his wife Alejandra Menduina, of Menduina Schneider Gallery in San Pedro, California. Look for Jorge's book "El año que me fui," wherever your favorite place is to buy books. ...

Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra Jr. Artists in both Work & Life.

July 31, 2023 17:30 - 1 hour - 73.2 MB

Mario Ybarra Jr. is a Mexican-American, a conceptual artist born and raised in Los Angeles. His artwork operates as examinations of excluded social norms, often examining complete environments, histories, and narratives. He received an MFA from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. He has been featured in many local, national, and international exhibitions/fairs Karla Diaz is a writer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist who engages in painting...

Reimagining Safety Movie: A Discussion

May 30, 2023 18:30 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

Matthew was born and raised in Los Angeles and has been in the entertainment business for most of his adult life — first in music and then as an award-winning writer/director. During the pandemic, he returned to school to obtain a Master's degree in Public Administration so that he could have more of an impact in helping to create communities that work for everyone. His course of study involved a deep dive into understanding policing, the carceral system, and public safety. Now, his work inv...

Artist Michael Stearns: Living In Color

May 03, 2023 17:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

Between 1964 and 1966, Stearns served in Vietnam and Japan as a photographer while on active duty in the U.S. Navy. Following his time in the service, he was a partner in a ceramics studio, Opus ll, where he taught ceramics as well as drawing and painting. Stearns was a fire captain and paramedic with the Los Angeles County Fire Department from 1967 to 1988 and was a consultant on the television show Emergency! Michael studied at California State University at Los Angeles In 2002 he opene...

Chronicling Architecture, Art & Social Justice with Street Archivist Doña Junta from swapmeet_chronicles to the Beyond The Facade Podcast

March 28, 2023 17:30 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

Lia also known as "Doña Junta" is a former graffiti artist turned street archivist. Doña Junta runs the social media page swapmeet_chronicles which started off as an idea to highlight every day cultural happenings growing up in a Mexican household. The concept developed into a blog in 2007 in which Doña Junta documented the streets of Los Angeles from graffiti, personal stories, events, abandoned places AND MORE. Today, swapmeet_chronicles (with nearly 4,000 followers) evolved into research ...

Author Ava Homa's Daughters Of Smoke And Fire and its Parallels to the Uprisings in Iran

February 14, 2023 18:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB

Daughters Of Smoke And Fire gives voice to human struggles and issues of justice and inequity that we’re seeing with increased frequency across the globe. Ava's message is, "a victory for women in Iran is really a victory for women everywhere.'" This message is expressed in an essay Ava wrote in December 2022 for, “Journal of Critical Race Inquiry” an open-access electronic journal that advances scholarship on race and racialization in Canadian and international contexts. Her piece is titl...

Karina Nistal: An LA Woman As Much As A Houston Woman. Inspired Beats From Her New Release Soulspired.

November 29, 2022 18:00 - 25 minutes - 5.86 MB

What is remarkable about Karina is her independent spirit, which has served as her guide both in her career decisions and in how she relates to and emboldens those around her. Soulspired, released in September, is inspired by COVID times, grief, love and new beginnings. Karina has said her aim is to share a message of renewal and hope — and to remind her listeners how important our lives are, how much our time matters. and how much we can make a difference when we are inspired by our soul. ...

Elana Mann: An Artists' Soundtrack of Activism

October 30, 2022 17:00 - 52 minutes - 12.1 MB

Elana Mann has presented her work in museums, galleries, and public spaces in the U.S. and globally.  She has received numerous awards, including an International Artist-In-Residence at Artpace San Antonio, the California Community Foundation Artist Fellowship, the Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship, and she was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Pitzer College's ceramics department. Elana received her B.F.A. with honors from Washington Universit...

CalArts Center For New Performance: Scene With Cranes

September 27, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 9.56 MB

In celebration of its 20th anniversary season, we'll look at the ways CalArts Center for New Performance - or CNP - has been an incubator for testing, developing and producing artistic projects, and what Travis calls a truly different paradigm for creating professional work.  And We'll speak with Octavio about Scene With Cranes and his process in writing it, including  the varied symbols that cranes represent and even an unexpected master class from one of the leads in this production. Cal...

The Business of Art: Going To School With K. Ryan Henisey

August 31, 2022 17:30 - 1 hour - 14.5 MB

K Ryan Henisey brings years of experience in the arts and premium/luxury retail to fine art management and curation with Artlounge Collective. Ryan is an award-winning artist and recent recipient of a public arts grant from the city of West Hollywood. His fine art has appeared throughout California and in locations that include international galleries and museums. Ryan previously worked for major cruise lines, overseeing product management and publication for a half-billion dollar segment of...

Holly M. Crawford; LACMAs Director of Fun, Joy and Creativity

July 30, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes - 11 MB

Hello everybody and welcome to ACCQ. Today we have an exciting show. We’re speaking with Holly M. Crawford, who is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Director of Adult Public Programs, Education & Public Programs    — But you will quickly discover why I call Holly M. LACMAs Director of Fun, Joy and Creativity. Today, we will discuss the projects Holly M. brings to the public at LACMA, in terms of education and programming, and connecting those programs to the diverse Los Angeles audienc...

Working Artist: Nancy Lynée Woo

May 24, 2022 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB

     What is the definition of a working artist?       Nancy is a poet, educator, and community organizer. She has co-founded a handful of arts organizations, including the Long Beach Literary Arts Center and briefly ran a social justice-based literary press.  As an organizer, she has produced innumerable arts events, including writing workshops, public readings and arts festivals. She is also the creator of Surprise the Line, a community poetry workshop. Writing from an eco-feminist pers...

Dark Totem

April 26, 2022 16:30 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB

     Jana Opincariu is an award winning artist with paintings recognized across the southwest and paintings that have found their home around the globe. She creates surreal and fantastical images of human bodies, objects and animals. As a painter, she strives to exemplify what it means to become vulnerable and romanticize it. She does this by creating hyper-realistic portraits of people, creatures and bodies, illustrating lucid dreams and making delicate surreal images that demonstrate the l...

Lead Me Home, A Community of Support

March 18, 2022 16:30 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

Pedro Kos  Co-Director His latest documentary feature film, REBEL HEARTS, which he directed, wrote and edited premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide by Discovery+ in summer of 2021.  Prior to that he wrote and produced a Netflix Original Documentary THE GREAT HACK by Jehane Noujaim  and Karim Amer which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA award.  His feature directorial debut BENDIN...

Everything Would Break, with Jana Opincariu

February 28, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

Today we are speaking with artist Jana Opincariu, who lives in San Pedro. I was introduced to Jana’s work in June of 2020, at her solo exhibition, Meditations in Solidarity, a collection of paintings created during the pandemic at Hellada Gallery in Long Beach. A striking exhibit, it featured works from Jana’s Black Series, her Beautiful Grotesque series and other works — all of which demanded unremitting attention. Hyper-realistic is just one way to describe this young artist's work. Jana ...

Terence Toy: Vanguard of House Music

January 28, 2022 18:35 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB

Terence Toy started spinning house tracks in the early 80s, back when the genre was progressing through major east coast cities with velocity. The late New York house DJ David Bryant was a mentor to Terence and turned him on to the deep, funky sound of the underground scene. Bryant’s perceptive advice to Terence was, “to be really successful in this business, these are the grooves to play.” Terence never looked back. To the benefit of his audience, Terence brings to his turntables his exper...

Dance Camera West, 20th Anniversary Season!

December 29, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB

The Dance Camera West Programming Committee is led by Cati Jean. The festival is produced by Amber Adams. The DCW Board of Directors is George Lugg (president), Lionel Popkin, David Rousseve, Sophie Robertson and Lynn Tejada.   Trailers:   DCWFF 2022 20th Anniversary Promo Trailer DCWFF 2022 TRAILER (Version 1)   Tickets and Program Information now available at dancecamerawest.org and on venue websites. Please follow the links below to find out more and purchase tickets. Buy individua...

The Spaces In Between: Artist Leah Shane Dixon

November 27, 2021 20:26 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

Leah Shane Dixon, The Spaces In Between Shane Dixon is an artist in multiple media, whose diverse body of work explores fusion of oppositional polarities, transcendental themes, abstract symbolism, and humankind's unique role within the natural world.   A graduate of Pratt Institute and the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, Shane draws from their bi-coastal life experience, informed by the rich tapestry of artistic, historic, cultural, literary, musical and filmic trends of both...

No Fear: Ann Weber's Art of Mastering Transitions

October 26, 2021 16:30 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB

Going back to 1991, when Ann Weber first started working in cardboard, she had been experimenting with many different materials because, after graduating from CA. College of Arts and Crafts, [now CA. College of the Arts] she said knew she wasn’t going to continue working in clay.  Ann came to school as a production potter, from the craft world. For 15 years she had a pottery studio/store in upstate New York in Ithaca. Later, in New York City, she made pottery that she sold in pottery stores...

A Mature and Humble Society: Jai Hudson

September 29, 2021 16:30 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

So you can get to know Jai Hudson better, I’m going to share a few of his accomplishments. Jai was involved in studying philosophy under Professor Grimes at the Noetic Society He helped with Occupy LB, Occupy L.A. and Irvine and helped establish Black Lives Matter Long Beach.  He was the creative director for Community Consciousness.  He created an art collective called Of Royalty He created an anti-racist movement called Carry On.  And just last year, during the pandemic, Jai travelle...

The Inconvenience and Sanity of Being An Artist

August 30, 2021 16:30 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MB

It's not really about the medium for Karena, she likes to work with different mixed media. But always resourceful, Karena says the best form of what she does is recycling - and the best form of recycling is reuse. "It's hard not to be impacted by the environment," Karena said.  One of her most recent works is titled Spoken Ice, linked below, a video project for soundpedro: an ear-oriented multi-sensory arts festival, held annually at Angels Gate Cultural Center, in San Pedro, CA.  For the ...

Graceful Warrior: What One Needs To Be And What One Can Be.

July 03, 2021 21:34 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB

Maria Kriya has been practicing yoga for 19 years. For her, yoga was a transformational tool for mental health and resilience. She began her career as a special needs teacher. Soon after, at 29, she started practicing yoga. Then she began to teach it, first to children and then adults. She didn’t have formal yoga training but she had been practicing for five years. Maria says that when she discovered yoga, she realized that combining yoga tools for kids with special needs would be a great sk...

Angel City Culture Quest, Welcome Episode

June 21, 2021 03:17 - 3 minutes - 3.02 MB

 As an arts journalist primarily, I connect communities to cultural events in their neighborhoods. Being a journalist requires a broad view and within that context, I have also written about subjects ranging from the environment and social justice to politics. We who are nourished by the arts need to take ourselves on regular culture quests. Each time I do, it grounds me and it opens my mind. AGCC is my way to bring this joy to you.  However we experience it, art conceives what is possible...

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