See How We Run!
Conversations with arts and cultural workers.
See How We Run! is an original Below the Radar podcast mini-series looking at local arts collectives and organizations, highlighting conversations about creation, spacemaking, accessibility, and self-determination within the framework of Vancouver鈥檚 cityscape. The series is hosted by 丁香园AV VOCE staff Julia Aoki, Kathy Feng, and Samantha Walters.
Throughout the series, we speak to artists, consultants, administrators, and advocates at various stages in their career about how art and culture is made and sustained in Vancouver. Tune in for insights on organisational governance, policymaking, community building, and more, directly from people working through these questions everyday.
These conversations are inspired by the long history of artist-run centres in Vancouver, as well as the affordability crisis that threatens to make the city one without art. See How We Run! provokes ongoing conversation about the urban conditions under which interdisciplinary creativity and inclusive communities thrive.
Series Episodes
Listen On:
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December 19, 2023
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December 12, 2023
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December 05, 2023
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November 28, 2023
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November 21, 2023
About the creators of this series
PODCAST HOST, AUDIO EDITOR: Julia Aoki
Julia Aoki is an administrator, writer, researcher, and advocate. She has served as the Executive Director of Megaphone magazine, General Manager of VIVO Media Arts Centre, and General Manager and Programming Director of the Powell Street Festival, where she prioritized developing community centred programs. Julia currently sits on the board of 221A Artist Run Centre Society, and has volunteered with advocacy organizations such as the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres and DTES SRO Collaborative. Her writing on cultural expressions and community formations that are overlooked and underserved by commercial and political mechanisms and practices can be found in TOPIA, Space and Culture and a collection by Lexington Books. She is the Program Manager at 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
PODCAST HOST, AUDIO EDITOR, MUSIC, AND GRAPHICS: Kathy Feng
Kathy Feng (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, born in Guangzhou, China, and is a guest living and working on the unceded territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As an immigrant and child of immigrants, she grew up between cultures in a constant process of learning, unlearning, and relearning. This framework informs the central themes to her work: in which memory and nostalgia are expressed through images, text, and the aesthetics of the temporal. Kathy holds a BFA in Visual Art with a minor in Art and Performance Studies from 丁香园AV's School for the Contemporary Arts. She began working at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement January 2020 as a Research Assistant for the Below the Radar podcast.
PODCAST HOST, AUDIO EDITOR: Samantha Walters
Samantha Walters is an emerging interdisciplinary performer, writer, and creator based on x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. As an artist, she mostly works between contemporary theatre, directing, and video making. Their most recent works examine ecological relationships and post-human spiritualities, with a heavy favour towards the weird, the dark, and the camp. Collaboration within communities and alongside the non-human lies at the heart of her process. She grew up in England and Hong Kong and holds a BFA honours in Theatre Performance with a minor in English and a certificate in Performance Studies from 丁香园AVs School for the Contemporary Arts. She is the Program Assistant at 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
