Radio Aula Mundi

Andrea Martinez is the owner and manager of 'Next Evolution', an  indigenous coffeeshop in Schurz, Nevada. Out of her own experience and  journey of healing, she has created a coffeeshop mostly serving Native  foods and drinks, with contemporary creations, all based on natural  ingredients. --- https://www.nextevolutioncoffeeshop.com/ https://www.facebook.com/nextevolutioncoffe...

Doctor Dorene Wiese is the president of the American Indian  Association of Illinois (AIAI), which is located in Chicago, her  hometown. The focus of her work is social justice through education,  especially by learning traditional indigenous cultural practices and  stories. As an Ojibwe woman who grew up witnessing stereotypes,  racism, and poverty in Minneapolis, she bel...

Jhane Myers belongs to the Blackfeet Nation and to the Penetuckah  (sugar eater) and Yaparucah (root eater) bands of the Comanche Nation.  With a background in fashion design, she makes authentic jewelry,  traditional dolls, beadwork, and dance regalia, among others... She was raised in a traditional way by her grandparents. Jhane  was a Sundance/ Time Warner Storyteller Fellow...

Benjamin Dittbrenner is an aquatic ecologist at Northeastern  University in Boston. He and a team of scientists relocated beavers from  lowland areas upstream, into the mountainous region of the Skykomish  river, in the state of Washington. Largely thanks to the construction of  dams by most of the animals, water temperatures cooled by about 2.3°  Celsius, even during the...

Delbert Anderson is a Diné (Navajo) Jazz musician and trumpet player. With  his band, the Delbert Anderson Trio, he keeps fusing traditional and  contemporary styles. One of his projects, by the name of DDAT, combines  Jazz with spoken word performances and Rap. This conversation took place  in two sessions, right before and the day after a studio session for a  new record...

Harold Blacksmith is a Dakota elder and storyteller. Thanks to  his grandparents, who raised him and kept him out of the residential  school system, he grew up speaking Dakota, a close relative to the  Lakota language. Dakota is a highly endangered indigenous language  in North America.  As a  cultural activist, Harold Blacksmith tries to revive and revitalize the &nb...

DJ Adrian Washika is one of Africa's most legendary and iconic DJ's. He performs at all kinds of events and has worked as a community leader and teacher. He has performed internationally in many places, including Chicago. He  currently lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya, where he is speaking one  of his native languages, Swahili, before answering a question with a  splendid idea... -...

Miriam Sagan is an award-winning poet, memoirist, novelist, teacher,  and text installation artist. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New  Mexico, where she has launched several projects recently in the fields  of community development, text installation art, and a haiku trail. She is currently working on a new novel and keeps developing public poetry projects. --- https://redmountai...

Warren is a musician from Belize and belongs to the Lebeha Drumming  Center, a collective that combines traditional music, education, and  cuisine to preserve and practice Garifuna, an endangered indigenous  language in Central America. Here, Warren responds to a rhythmic  succession generally used as part of foreign language teaching for  younger children by creating a rh...

In this clip Eli Neztsosie introduces himself in Navajo, his mother  tongue, mentioning his ancestral lineage in a traditional way. He then  completes an old Native American story, originally from the Pacific  Northwest, the beginning of which is given to him here, in his own way,  referring to the land of his Diné ancestors. “As a rancher growing  up in the rugged northea...

Rilie Tane Zumbrennen is a versatile contemporary artist based in  Billings, Montana. Her work includes woodburning and mural painting and  almost always starts with a drawing on paper. She was recently  commissioned to do a giant mural painting as part of a public arts  project in Billings, her hometown. Generally, her motives focus on  the scenery, flora and fauna of Wes...

Chloe Orwell and Brad Elvis are the founding members of The  Handcuffs, a Chicago-based rock band. They are currently scheduled to  play several shows to promote their new album, ‘Burn The Rails’, which  is out now on Pravda Records. --- https://thehandcuffs.bandcamp.com/album/burn-the-rails https://thehandcuffs.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/4X2v6urEZf8eMavL6HzpWl https://www...

Jeanine Leane is an aboriginal writer, teacher, storyteller, and poet. She  belongs to the Wiradjuri nation of Southeastern Australia and dedicates  her work to the preservation of the indigenous language of her  ancestors which she is learning to speak. --- https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/australian-first-nations-philosophy-poetry https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/782583...

Michael Toya is a self-taught artist of Jemez Pueblo descent. His  artwork combines various mediums, including acrylic on canvas and  intricate freehand mat cut designs. As an indigenous artist, he likes to weave designs of spiritual symbolism into every single piece. --- https://nmartisanmarket.com/project/michael-toya/ https://www.nativolodge.com/stay/artist_room_michael_toya/ https://...

Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson belongs to the Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe  and Pokanoket Nation. He is the director of the Eastern Medicine  Singers, an Eastern Algonquin language drum group whose musical  performances are meant to combine healing with art, language  preservation, and community. Daryl prides himself in being the 11th  generation grandson of an indigenous leader w...

Hadiibah John is a Dîné artist and painter who likes to blend  traditional Navajo culture with modern art forms such as Japanese anime.   She is a fluent Navajo speaker and traditional sheep herder. She  lives in Kayenta, on the Navajo Reservation, in the Southwestern United  States. Her recent artwork focuses on the depiction of women as warriors  symbolizing their strong...

Jeffrey Wolin is an art photographer whose work focuses on the stories of people from all walks of life. His  publications include what he calls story books portraying Holocaust  Survivors, Vietnam War Veterans, and, most recently, the homeless in  Chicago and Los Angeles. Among others, his work has been shown at  the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney M...

Amanda Anastasi is a multiple award-winning poet who mainly focuses  on climate change in her work. She's originally from Melbourne which is  where she has worked in residency at MONASH, and the climate hub of the  University of Melbourne, for three years. Her job is to translate  scientific research and jargon into poetry in order to raise awareness  of climate change. Sh...

Tone is the guitarist and singer of the two-piece California band  'Little Hurricane' which he formed with his wife in San Diego,  California, in 2010. The couple currently resides in Lake Tahoe,  California, where they raise two little children and are recording and  producing music. Their upcoming album entitled 'Life Is But A Dream' might be released in October 2022. It &nbs...

Sophie Waechter-Cass: “What’s the story behind the Maya Milpa tradition and the First Acre Program?” Sophie Waechter-Cass grew up on a family farm in rural Nebraska. She  currently works with a company and organization by the name of Green  Cover Seeds, which promotes biodiversity as a business reconciling  ecology and education with the economy. Sophie spent a year as an  exch...

Wilko Johnson is one of the most iconic British rock and roll legends known for his unique guitar playing. He is one of the founding members of the British cult band Doctor Feelgood. He  has been quoted as a major influence by rock and roll stars such as  Paul Weller, the Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer of the Clash, and Roger  Daltrey of the Who. This clip is excerpted from a 90-minute i...

Fraser Hollins: "Jazz is generally regarded as urban music, what about trees and rocks, lakes and forests, ice and snow?"  --- Fraser  Hollins is one of Canada's most prominent and prolific contemporary  jazz bassists. Born in Ottawa, he now lives in Montreal where he also  teaches music at McGill University... --- https://fraserhollins.bandcamp.com/ https://fraserhollins.ca/ h...

Annette Frost is the director of the Favorite Poem Project, an  organization in Boston that promotes poetry as an educational tool for  Americans. She teaches creative writing at Boston University. As a  poet, she is working on a collection about immigration as a central  theme. --- https://www.favoritepoem.org/ https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/tag/annette-frost/ http://stran...

Hoda Khamosh is a writer, journalist, poet, and activist. She  was born in Iran, but moved back to Afghanistan with her parents where  she lived until August, 2021, when she had to flee her home country  shortly after the Taliban had taken over. Here, she speaks in Persian to Radio Aula Mundi from her host country, Norway. Due  to her activism for women’s rights, Hoda Khamosh w...

Steve Delisi and Gabe Palomo, of the Thin Cherries, discuss their  most recent and upcoming experiences hanging out at some of their  favorite spots and cultural venues in Chicago. The Thin Cherries is a  Chicago psychedelic rock band founded by Steven Delisi (formerly of  Phenomenal Cat) and Mark Lofgren (of The Luck of Eden Hall). They are  joined by Darren Shepherd (var...