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Steven T. Bramble of Pathos Press: The Beginnings of a Local Independent Publishing House
Angel City Culture Quest - January 30, 2024 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 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 ...
Filmmaker Pamela Torrance In Discussion of Her Pro-Choice Documentary WE’RE NOT GOING BACK!
Angel City Culture Quest - November 09, 2023 18:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 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 ...
Richard Foss & COLLAGE Amplifying the Social Capital of San Pedro and Beyond
Angel City Culture Quest - October 03, 2023 17:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 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 ...
Artist & Writer Jorge Schneider on the Publishing Scene For New Writers, Censorship, Small Press and his recent novel, El año que me fui
Angel City Culture Quest - September 05, 2023 17:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJorge 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 a...
Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra Jr. Artists in both Work & Life.
Angel City Culture Quest - July 31, 2023 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMario 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 ...
Reimagining Safety Movie: A Discussion
Angel City Culture Quest - May 30, 2023 18:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMatthew 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 mo...
Artist Michael Stearns: Living In Color
Angel City Culture Quest - May 03, 2023 17:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBetween 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 paramed...
Chronicling Architecture, Art & Social Justice with Street Archivist Doña Junta from swapmeet_chronicles to the Beyond The Facade Podcast
Angel City Culture Quest - March 28, 2023 17:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLia 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 wh...
Author Ava Homa's Daughters Of Smoke And Fire and its Parallels to the Uprisings in Iran
Angel City Culture Quest - February 14, 2023 18:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDaughters 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 ...
Karina Nistal: An LA Woman As Much As A Houston Woman. Inspired Beats From Her New Release Soulspired.
Angel City Culture Quest - November 29, 2022 18:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat 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 ...
Elana Mann: An Artists' Soundtrack of Activism
Angel City Culture Quest - October 30, 2022 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsElana 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 ...
CalArts Center For New Performance: Scene With Cranes
Angel City Culture Quest - September 27, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 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 wi...
The Business of Art: Going To School With K. Ryan Henisey
Angel City Culture Quest - August 31, 2022 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsK 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 Califor...
Holly M. Crawford; LACMAs Director of Fun, Joy and Creativity
Angel City Culture Quest - July 30, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHello 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, ...
Working Artist: Nancy Lynée Woo
Angel City Culture Quest - May 24, 2022 17:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat 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...
Dark Totem
Angel City Culture Quest - April 26, 2022 16:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJana 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...
Lead Me Home, A Community of Support
Angel City Culture Quest - March 18, 2022 16:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPedro 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 Netf...
Everything Would Break, with Jana Opincariu
Angel City Culture Quest - February 28, 2022 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsToday 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 wo...
Terence Toy: Vanguard of House Music
Angel City Culture Quest - January 28, 2022 18:35 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTerence 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 ...
Dance Camera West, 20th Anniversary Season!
Angel City Culture Quest - December 29, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe 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...
The Spaces In Between: Artist Leah Shane Dixon
Angel City Culture Quest - November 27, 2021 20:26 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLeah 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 Lo...
No Fear: Ann Weber's Art of Mastering Transitions
Angel City Culture Quest - October 26, 2021 16:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGoing 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 s...
A Mature and Humble Society: Jai Hudson
Angel City Culture Quest - September 29, 2021 16:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSo 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 crea...
The Inconvenience and Sanity of Being An Artist
Angel City Culture Quest - August 30, 2021 16:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt'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...
Graceful Warrior: What One Needs To Be And What One Can Be.
Angel City Culture Quest - July 03, 2021 21:34 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMaria 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’...
Angel City Culture Quest, Welcome Episode
Angel City Culture Quest - June 21, 2021 03:17 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAs 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 n...
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