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Showing videos filed under: performance
Karen Finley: The Reality Shows
April 2, 2011"We should be asking that question--we should be looking at how we are going to fund culture..." says performance artist Karen Finley, whose lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts made her into a national icon against her will after her grant was denied on the basis of the subject matter of her art. In her new book, The Reality Shows, and in her performances, Finley takes on different personae to explore traumas, and teaches people to get in touch with their own experiences.Karen Finley, My Perestroika, and Lee Camp
April 1, 2011"I think that we're in a society where art still is threatening, but at some point I think that we can look at when art is still being questioned or being sanctioned or being funded, then we need to look at that work that is being deliberated over because it's speaking to something that is happening in culture," says performance artist Karen Finley, whose lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts made her into a national icon against her will after her grant was denied on the basis of the subject matter of her art. In her new book, The Reality Shows, and in her performances, Finley takes on different personae to explore traumas, and teaches people to get in touch with their own experiences.All Ages Movement
February 18, 2010Many music clubs and performance venues are 21 and over, shutting young people out of creating and performing as well as enjoying the community created by music. The All Ages Movement aims to create a network of all-ages spaces for kids around the country to be able to perform and experience live music, and they could use your help to win a $50,000 grant. You can vote for them here.Vaccines and Choice, Rodney Leon, and Kate Clinton
February 17, 2010A new bill is making its way through the New York state legislature that would give minors the ability to consent to vaccinations for sexually transmitted infections, like Gardasil, the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. But parents are unhappy with the bill because it would allow children as young as nine to receive the immunization.A Performance by Poet Remi Kanazi
January 15, 2010Poet Remi Kanazi, editor of Poets For Palestine, performs "Israel/America: A Rambling Poem." For more on Remi's work, check out Poetic Injustice.Ganessa James and Mary McBride: Music for the Holidays
December 25, 2009Ganessa James and Mary McBride both stopped by our studio recently to perform for us. To help celebrate, we bring you additional songs they recorded just for us.Week in Review: The People Speak with John Legend
December 13, 2009Tonight at 8 PM Eastern time, the History Channel will air Howard Zinn's The People Speak. The film includes performances by many actors and artists you know and love, like this segment with John Legend and Benjamin Bratt.Climate Change: Local Leaders Ahead of the World
December 8, 2009The Copenhagen climate conference this week focuses on creating a new global pact as a successor to the Kyoto Accord. But the U.S. never ratified the treaty, and Congress is still lagging behind on passing legislation to deal with global warming.Mary McBride: Love and Music
December 8, 2009To lighten things up a little, we have Mary McBride, whose voice you may recognize from her song "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" from Ang Lee's film Brokeback Mountain. Mary has a new holiday album out, Every Day Is a Holiday, and she talks songwriting, Brokeback, and being out of the closet as a musician with a very mixed audience.Local Climate Solutions, Mary McBride, and Honduras Fraud
December 7, 2009As the Copenhagen conference on climate change begins this week, 56 newspapes in 45 countries carried one editorial that called for common action around the world, for governments of countries rich and poor, developed and developing to work together for solutions.
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