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The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Originally aired on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Who is Bruce? Well, we’re still not sure--but he has his own biennial. Peter Brock speaks with Legacy Russell of The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Sarah Chacich of BHQFU and Allison Weisberg of Recess Art Space about the Foundation and their alternative biennial, The BRUCENNIAL.

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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sam Miller

Hosted by Pete McCabe

Originally aired Friday, January 7th, 2011

A talk with the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council about the history and purpose of the council, how it works with scores of Manhattan's art organizations, and the many grants they issue to arts organizations and individuals.

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The Respect Sextet & Greenwich House Music School

Hosted by David Weinstein

Originally aired Friday, October 15th, 2010

Host David Weinstein welcomes members of The Respect Sextet: trumpeter Eli Asher, drummer Ted Poor, and keyboardist Red Wierenga, along with the energetic director of Greenwich House Music School.

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Banana Bag & Bodice Theatre Co., BEOWULF - A Thousand Years of Baggage

Originally aired Friday, August 20th, 2010

Host Jeannie Hopper speaks with Jessica Jelliffe, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Banana Bag & Bodice Theatre Co. about the organization and its most recently lauded production, BEOWULF - A Thousand Years of Baggage.

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Waterwell and Bambï, Goodbar

Originally aired Friday, August 13th, 2010

Goodbar is a live concept album inspired by Judith Rossner's 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar and its 1977 film adaptation. The work is the result of a collaboration between avant-garde theatre company...
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Toffer Christenson, The Beach Concerts

Originally aired Friday, July 9th, 2010

AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with Toffer Christenson, whose work with The Beach Concerts, through its myriad partnerships with the likes of The Bowery Presents, Water Taxi Beach and The Highline Ballroom, has led to some...
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Generator Sound Art Gallery

Originally aired Friday, July 9th, 2010

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The Underground Rebel Bingo Club

Originally aired Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Jeannie Hopper interviews James Flames, one of the founders of The Underground Rebel Bingo Club, which has taken first England, and now the world, by storm since 2008. Rebel Bingo started in a church when various Bingo...
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Danni Gee & Freedome Bradley, SummerStage

Hosted by Beatrice Johnson , Jeannie Hopper

Originally aired Friday, May 28th, 2010

SummerStage 2010's Danni Gee and Freedome Bradley discuss the SummerStage's 25th anniversary, the City Parks Foundation public programs, and the event series' Dance and Theater program highlights.

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Community~Word Project: Writing Our Future 2010

Originally aired Friday, May 14th, 2010

The Community~Word Project offers arts-in-education classes to students at New York City public schools, seeking to help young people to express themselves and their views of the world creatively and critically. It was...
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James Burke, SummerStage

Originally aired Friday, May 14th, 2010

AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with James Burke, Director of the Arts and Cultural Programs for City Parks Foundation, which produces Central Park SummerStage, among other cultural events throughout the city's five...
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Originally aired Friday, May 7th, 2010

Aaron Friedman, president and founder of Make Music New York, speaks with AIR's Jeannie Hopper about the history of the organization, which has its roots in the establishment, in 1982, of a musical holiday in France...
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Linda S. Chapman, New York Theatre Workshop

Hosted by Will Corwin

Originally aired Friday, April 30th, 2010

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Matthew Higgs, White Columns

Originally aired Friday, April 30th, 2010

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Charles Mee & Anne Bogart, SITI Company

Originally aired Friday, April 16th, 2010

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Originally aired Friday, April 9th, 2010

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Originally aired Friday, April 2nd, 2010

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Hosted by Jeannie Hopper

Originally aired Friday, April 2nd, 2010

AIR's Jeannie Hopper speaks with Michelle Bogre, Associate Professor in the School of Art, Media and Society at Parsons and founder of The Copyright Corner.

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Originally aired Friday, March 26th, 2010

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Originally aired Friday, March 26th, 2010

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Originally aired Friday, March 12th, 2010

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Originally aired Friday, February 5th, 2010

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Hosted by Will Corwin

Originally aired Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Pursuant to an AIR, Art International Radio's field trip the night before to Queens' Silent Barn, Joe Ahearn, one of the venue's organizers, comes in to talk to Will Corwin about what exactly he's doing out there in the...
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