Radio Aula Mundi

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...

In this clip, Shane Parish, a guitarist, composer, and educator,  discusses his favorite children's song and spontaneously arranges a  guitar version of it... Shane Parish devotes much of his time to  developing his singular and expressive voice on the guitar. He is a  self-taught musician who communicates through emotion, unexpected  melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuance...

Dr. Dorothy M. Peteet is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA/Goddard  Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University. She  directs the Paleoecology Division of the New Core Lab at Lamont Doherty  Earth Observatory of Columbia and in collaboration with GISS climate  modelers and LDEO geochemists is studying the Late Pleistocene and  Holocene archives...

DJ Schmolli is a musician from Eastern Austria. He has been in the DJ business for quite a few years years. His poignant shows have been appreciated worldwide. Here, he defines 'mashup', a style of electronic music which first appeared in the early 2000's. --- https://djschmolli.com/the-essential-dj-schmolli/ https://www.mashuptown.com/2006/12/dj_schmolli_has.html ---  At the moment, Radio Au...

In this clip, Roberto Díaz Abraham talks about three different ways of visiting the Underwater Museum in Cancún, Mexico. They  include snorkeling, sightseeing from a tour boat with a glass bottom,  and scuba diving. He also explains the effects of scuba diving and  tourism on the underwater ecosystem especially the coral reefs in the  Caribbean off the coast of Cancún . Roberto...

A chef in a former life, Jeff Miller now researches food and culture  issues as well as traditional food production and preservation methods. Miller,  coordinator of CSU’s Hospitality Management program, spent 20 years as a  professional chef before becoming an award-winning instructor. He  helped found the student-run Aspen Grille in the Lory Student Center on  campus, an...

Dr. Robyn McKenzie, a research fellow at the Centre for Digital  Humanities Research at The Australian National University in Canberra,  has worked closely with the Yolngu community of Yirrkala in North-East  Arnhem Land, and she reconnected them with a collection of 192 mounted  string figures made there in 1948 that is in the Australian Museum in  Sydney. String figures...