On The Land: Black Belt Eagle Scout

Conversation and live music with Indigenous music artist Black Belt Eagle Scout aka Katherine Paul and BBES live drummer Camas Logue live from KP's ancestral homelands in Swinomish territory.

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Katherine Paul or KP is a Swinomish and Iñupiat musician and visual artist creating under the name Black Belt Eagle Scout. KP writes the foundation of her music on guitar, adding other instrumentation such as drums, bass, vocals, keys and percussion when recording and has put out two records thus far under the moniker of Black Belt Eagle Scout.

Camas Logue as a Klamath/Modoc/Yahooskin & Irish interdisciplinary artist who plays drums and guitar in Black Belt Eagle Scout’s live band. Camas has toured in the band internationally, playing live and in radio performances Camas has collaborated with BBES in the Loss and Relax 7” album, in which his painting, Swinomish Stinta, is the focal piece on the cover. He has also collaborated on various BBES merch designs including an intaglio print turned t-shirt design and line drawn sticker designs.

Featured on this broadcast are two live acoustic songs performed for this broadcast by BBES:
At The Party from the album At The Party With My Brown Friends
Soft Stud for the album Mother of My Children

Music featured at the end of the conversation by BBES:
My Heart Dreams from the album At The Party of My Brown Friends

This episode first aired May 10, 2021 for Broken Boxes on Radio Coyote, a project initiated by Raven Chacon and CCA Wattis Institute, on the occasion of Chacon's 2020-21 Capp Street Artist-in-Residency. Radio Coyote is currently produced by Atomic Culture and will transition to new programming on July 16, 2021. www.radiocoyote.org

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This conversation was hosted by Ginger Dunnill of Broken Boxes Podcast

Anti-Racist Resource: Interview with Ann Lewis

Conversation with feminist activist artist and white accomplice Ann Lewis.

Introduction audio by Activist and educator Joseph Capehart explaining the difference between reforming, defunding, and abolishing the police — and why it’s important.

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Ann Lewis is a Detroit-based multidisciplinary artist who uses public space and participatory performances to respond to current social and political issues. As an interdisciplinary activist artist, she incorporates painting, installation, sculpture, and participatory means to explore themes related to American identity, power structures, and justice. Ann's work often includes repetition through graphic elements, and a limited color palette while conveying messages around intersectional social justice issues such as gentrification, women's rights, and police brutality. Her work is informed by engaging affected communities and reflects relevant scientific data through intuitive use of concept-specific materials. Through community organizing, participatory performance events, public art, and gallery installations, she continues her dialog of mindful and social evolution.

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Long Con: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ep 1

Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century.

The conversation takes us into the beginning of Harjo’s relationship to Native art rom childhood, through experiences within the Native art market with his peers and into Harjo’s experience in meeting up with Luger in Plymouth, UK to film. We also hear about Harjo’s poetic and visionary approach to the choices he made for Love & Fury’s aesthetic and storyline and Harjo talks about his upcoming exciting TV series with Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs. Sterlin is an incredible storyteller and we are grateful to share his perspective with you here.

We hope you enjoy listening in to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it. More info: www.sttlmnt.org/projects/love-and-fury

About the film Love & Fury:

Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces of their own identity as Native artists, as well as, advancing Native art into a post-colonial world.

DIRECTORS NOTE: “The film is a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for a long time. Native art has been shackled to history by a false vision of what Native people are through the settler gaze of our current reality. I wanted to make something bold and in your face, directly putting up a finger to the shackles of the art world and historic representation of our people. We are diverse, we are dark, we are beautiful and so is our artwork. We are human beings.” - Sterlin Harjo

LOVE & FURY
DIRECTOR  - Sterlin Harjo 
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Robin Ballenger  
RUNTIME - 93 minutes
MORE INFO - www.loveandfuryfilm.com

This conversation was hosted by Cannupa Hanska Luger of Broken Boxes Podcast

On Location: Ancestral Ink PART II - Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions

Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions brought together Indigenous tattoo practitioners and cultural bearers from the Pacific and North America who are the forerunners in the revival of traditional cultural practises and celebrated the resurgence and resilience of Indigenous peoples and traditional tattooing practices.

Part 2 of this rebroadcasting, we hear from tattoo practitioner Marjorie Tahbone, (Inupiaq from Nome, Alaska) followed by a panel discussion of Native California cultural bearers who have been part of the renewal and reawakening of their tattoo traditions including - Loren Bommelyn (Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation), Lena Bommelyn (Karuk), L Frank Manriquez (Tongva-Acjachemen), Sage La Peña (NomtipomWintu) and Tiffany Adams. We end the program with Corey Kamehanaokal Holt Taum (Native Hawaiian or Kanaka Maoli) who introduces Master tattoo practitioner, Keone Nunes (Native Hawaiian or Kanaka Maoli). 

More information/show notes:

Ancestral Ink, a Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions took place on Tewa/Tewa ancestral lands of what is now known as Santa Fe New Mexico on August 18th 2019. This Symposium brought together Indigenous tattoo practitioners and cultural bearers from the Pacific and North America who are the forerunners in the revival of traditional, cultural tattoo practises, This event provided space and time for an informative, engaging and inspiring forum that celebrated the resurgence and resilience of Indigenous peoples and traditional tattooing practices. 

Ancestral Ink is produced collaboratively by Kua’aina Associates and Broken Boxes Podcast, and was hosted and supported by the Santa Fe Art Institute.

This episode is now streaming on iTunes & Spotify
Learn more about the Ancestral Ink program HERE

On Location: Ancestral Ink PART I - Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions

Ancestral Ink: A Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions brought together Indigenous tattoo practitioners and cultural bearers from the Pacific and North America who are the forerunners in the revival of traditional cultural practises and celebrated the resurgence and resilience of Indigenous peoples and traditional tattooing practices.

In this first part of rebroadcasting the symposium, we hear a brief introductions and cultural bearer L Frank Manriquez (Tongva-Acjachemen)  introduces tattoo practitioner Dion Kaszas, Nlaka’pamux or Thomposon Indian from British Columbia, Canada, followed by Te Rangitu Netana of the Ngapuhi, Ngati Wai & Te Arawa tribes of Aotearoa. Between presenters we hear video excerpts from the documentary series Skindigenous.

More information/show notes:

Ancestral Ink, a Symposium Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions took place on Tewa/Tewa ancestral lands of what is now known as Santa Fe New Mexico on August 18th 2019. This Symposium brought together Indigenous tattoo practitioners and cultural bearers from the Pacific and North America who are the forerunners in the revival of traditional, cultural tattoo practises, This event provided space and time for an informative, engaging and inspiring forum that celebrated the resurgence and resilience of Indigenous peoples and traditional tattooing practices.

Ancestral Ink is produced collaboratively by Kua’aina Associates and Broken Boxes Podcast, and was hosted and supported by the Santa Fe Art Institute.

This episode is now streaming on iTunes & Spotify
Learn more about the Ancestral Ink program HERE