Radio Aula Mundi

Tim Brookes is a British travel writer and wood carver who lives in  upstate New York and whose work focuses on endangered alphabets and  cultures. One of his many goals and causes is to act as a resource for  indigenous and minority communities work to revitalize their languages,  written and spoken. He has created an online atlas of endangered alphabets and a game called 'Ulu...

Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. They are the author of  Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber  First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work appears in  The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a  Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal  Writers’ Award from the DC Co...

Shakti Howeth is a contemporary artist who has been creating all her  life and is currently employed as a full time artist for Meow Wolf (Santa Fe, NM). She grew up in Southern California and near  Charlottesville, Virginia, before she attended college at San Francisco State University. Shakti speaks to Radio Aula Mundi from her secluded Upper Canyon Road home/studio space in Santa Fe, N...

Etzer Catave is the president of the DuSable Heritage Association whose  mission is to promote the legacy of Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable,  founder of Chicago, through educational and cultural activities.   He is an assistant director of operations at the Office of Sponsored  Research at the University of Illinois Chicago.    https://www.dusableheritage.com/  &nb...

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation)  in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada.    He has had creative and critical work published in the Malahat Review,  Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, and the American Indian Culture and  Research Journal. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous  Bannock, was published thr...

This is an excerpt from an online conversation with Jonathan Balcombe,  who was born in England, raised in New Zealand and Canada, and has lived  in the United States since 1987.  He is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior.   He is the author of four popular science books on the inner lives of  animals, including Pleasurable Kingdom, Second Natu...

This is an excerpt from an online conversation with Daria  Marmaluk-Hajioannou who has been called “an ambassador of song” by US  newspapers. Her live performances include songs and lectures in several  languages, including English, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Zulu, German,  Quechua Indian and Oneida (Iroquois). Here she describes her favorite  Peruvian dish and how to eat it...

This is an audio excerpt from an online conversation with Peregrine  Church and Xack Fischer, two Seattle artists who keep decorating the  streets of their hometown with rainy-day art. The goal: to give people a reason to smile on rainy days.  Nearly every day, people are sharing photos of new rainworks they've  made with the official hashtag: #Rainworks.   https://rain.wo...