Zan Berry is the organizer of the festival and one of the performers. We talked with Zan and cellist Laura Cetilia about what makes the cello special and how they were inspired to move beyond the traditional sound of classical cello.
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Peek Behind The Curtains, Climb Into The Booth, And Learn The Ropes At PPAC This Saturday
Providence Performing Arts Center is holding an open house event on Saturday, February 1st. Visitors will be able to walk on stage, visit the projection booth, and see how PPAC works.
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Dorothy Day Combined Traditional Catholicism And Radical Politics
“Revolution of the Heart – The Dorothy Day Story” is a new documentary about the woman who helped create the Catholic Worker Movement. Her activism spanned the women’s suffrage movement, the great depression, the cold war and the Vietnam war. We talked with filmmaker Martin Doblmeier.
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Ep. 30: Immigration, Industrialization And The American Dream
Americans often look back on the Industrial Revolution as a time of opportunity, when immigrants came to America with nothing and quickly climbed the economic ladder. But the truth is the 19th and early 20th Centuries were a hard time for many immigrants who faced discrimination and, often, tough odds.
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Ep. 29: The Last Jewish Bakery In Rhode Island
Murray Kaplan learned how to bake from his father, who learned how to bake from his father, who started the family bakery in 1917 after coming over from Russia. Now that he’s close to retirement, Murray faces a choice: continue the tradition of Jewish bakeries in Rhode Island, or hang up his apron strings for good.
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Ep. 28: The Big Immigration Story Behind A Small Berry
For generations, Cape Verdean-Americans have farmed on the cranberry bogs of Southeastern Massachusetts. Despite the challenges, one family in the town of Carver is keeping that tradition alive.
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Ep. 27 America, The Beautiful And Lonely
When Hernan leaves Argentina, he doesn’t know where he’s going or if he’ll be back. He travels from one end of the world to the other, but it’s not until he falls in love that he finds a home, for now.
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Ep. 26: More Than A Game
Saleh, an immigrant from Senegal, came to America thinking it’s the land of Michael Jordan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Olympic runners. Then he found out that’s partly true, but it’s also a whole lot more.
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Ep. 25: Conroy’s Recipe For Success
Decades after immigrating, Jamaican chef Conroy tells his story through Jamaican patties.
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Ep. 24: Think Bob Dylan Was Newport’s First Headliner? Think Again
More than 100 years before the founding of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals, an immigrant orchestra from Berlin helped put Newport music on the map.
