AS220’s Bert Crenca leads a thriving and always buzzing artist-run organization in Providence, Rhode Island. In this interview, the artistic-director and founder talks about the maturation of AS220 since 1985, the many offerings of the non-profit, and creative placemaking.
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In an interview that will inspire, journalist Michał Janczuk talks about the challenges presented to independent Belarusian journalists and how he will continue to write despite serious threats imposed by the Lukashenko machine.
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Orlando Pardo Lazo continues the dialogue on foreign investment in Cuba with Swedish politician Jasenko Selimovic. Within this interview, Orlando and Mr. Selimovic discuss the new investment deal, the possibility of EU support for Cuban pro-democracy activists, and the potential detriments incurred from the agreement.
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“It took about twelve and a half years to write Family Life, so it wasn’t so much that I prepared for that voice and did it, as if preparing for a role.” In this interview, celebrated author Akhil Sharma discusses his painstaking writing process and the careful construct of his latest novel.
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During this fifth installment of The Freedom Chat, Ukrainian journalist and novelist Andrey Kurkov – who writes for The Guardian, Time Magazine, and The New Statesman – comments on the status of press freedom and Russian propaganda impacting the Ukrainian media.
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Orlando Graves Bolaños, Deputy Director of Education at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, touches on the inspiring educational and art-centered programs available through his organization, which was rooted in San Antonio in 1980.
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In the fifth interview of our series “Cultivating Latino Arts” filmmaker Ray Santisteban talks about the roots of disenfranchisement, the FBI’s history of repression, and how a coalition of some of Chicago’s poorest, least-educated groups changed the future of national politics.
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