The Why

Perkins Center Podcast

English - August 14, 2020 14:00 - 7 minutes - 4.86 MB
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Perkins Center for the Arts brings to listening audiences a variety of podcasts that explore, the role of multi-disciplinary arts, folklife and culture in advocacy, protest, healing, and change.

This initial episode introduces audiences to the reason and the season for Perkins Center podcast with a lead in philosophy on the role of artists in our society by the late great Nina Simone.

This neophyte episode highlights the first series, Upon Our Authority: 100 Years of Women's Empowerment through Oral Tradition and Folk Traditions.