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Chiara Luxardo "Print For Crisis"
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04/15/21 • 70 min
Chiara is an Italian visual storyteller based in the UK in London. In her work she explores identities, relationships and gender issues.
She is an active member of Women Photograph, a non-profit launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women* and nonbinary visual journalists.
The roots for her interest in identity and the power of relationships can be traced back to a farm near Milan, I believe, where Chiara grew up. It is a place that has been in her family's hands for many generations and her love for the place finds expression in her ongoing project Family Farm.
The Family Farm is an examination of the visual residue of previous generations in the form of old pictures, juxtaposing the findings with new original visual concepts and, thereby, galvanizing a new interpretive, dialectic space that speaks of history as a living process - never complete in its evaluation and heavily dependent on the viewer's current perspective and emotional state. History, after all, is narrated.
Chiara lived and worked in Myanmar from 2015 to 2019, where she focused on LGBTQI+ projects and the organization of Yangon Pride.
In her project Burma Love, Chiara places gay couples in front of romantic studio backgrounds, heavily borrowing from the aesthetics of Burmese wedding photos, expressing the yearning of gay couples to be accepted into the common standards and rituals of society to be regarded, ultimately, as equals amongst equals.
Her love for Myanmar is still very strong. In the light of the current democratic uprising against the military junta with rising death tolls every day, Chiara and her friend Olga Stefatou, whom you might already know from a previous episode of the Yellow Van, launched the initiative Print For Crisis.
We at Mind the Bump want to support this great idea as much as we can. In this episode, therefore, we want to focus on what it is that made Chiara fall in love with Myanmar, why we should care about what is happening there at the moment, and how help can be as simple as hanging a beautiful photo up on your wall.
SHOW NOTES
Print For Crisis Website
Print For Crisis Facebook
Print For Crisis Instagram
Chiara's Website
Chiara on Instagram
Myanmar
Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi
Get Jim Kroft's Song, "Love In The Face Of Fear"
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Xiao Peng "One Life"
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03/11/21 • 204 min
Xiao graduated in 2005 with honors in chemistry from Caltech and subsequently worked as a research technician at the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT and has an MD-PhD from the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program in New York City.
At the moment, she is finishing up her 4th clinical year at Johns Hopkins University as a combined paediatrics-medical genetics resident. She is going to stay there for a 5th year as a research fellow and genetics chief resident starting in July this year.
As Xiao has an unparalleled thirst for knowledge (and my guess is that she gets easily bored) she also works with a group at the university of Freiburg in Germany on the genetics and genomics of inborn errors of immunity.
Now, Xiao isn’t anyone for name or title dropping, but all of this information is necessary, I believe, to understand that some of the areas we will be covering today are in the hands of an absolute expert - even though Xiao will most probably strongly disagree with me on that.
As if all of this weren’t enough, Xiao and her boyfriend Nicolas have started a wine distribution company - one of Xiao’s great passions in life: wine and the art of wine production. Following this passion, she met my brother, a winemaker himself, and, ultimately, me. Therefore, we can safely claim that our friendship is a by-product of grapes, matured over time and getting better with the years.
The few hours a week she has for recreation, she usually fills with learning something new: like knitting, learning German (God knows why) or pottery - just to name a few. When being with her I feel positively challenged, occasionally stupid, always serving my greater understanding that life is a journey of discovery and learning, with no goal but to grow in the present moment.
SHOW NOTES
Xiao on Facebook
Joe Rogan
"The Man Without Qualities", Robert Musil, 1930-1942
Alexander von Humboldt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Champagne
Joaquin Cortez
Martin Luther King
Phylloxera
Subsistence Agriculture
Frank Cornelissen, Winemaker on Sicily
Yeast
John Oliver on HBO
DNA Vaccine
RNA Vaccine
Victor McKusick
Johns Hopkins University
Neill de Grasse Tyson and Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, 2018
EnLefko Radio, Greece
Kanenas Red Wine
Heinrich Vollmer Vineyard
Get Jim
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Thomas Hinterberger "Saison OFF"
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02/04/21 • 83 min
Thomas Hinterberger is a solo ballet dancer at the Opera National Du Rhin (ONDR) in Mulhouse, France. He got his diploma in ballet dancing from the Academy For Dance and Music in Munich, Germany, in 2001 and he holds a professorship in classic dance and music since 2018.
Born in 1980 in Munich (Germany), he trained as a dancer at the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung in Munich with Konstanze Vernon, Hans-Joachim Mets and Alexander Prokofiev. From 1999 to 2001, he participated in productions with the Bayerisches Staatsballet Munich. He joined the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf in 2001 and he danced Swan Lake, West Side Story, Coppélia et Casse-noisette by Youri Vamos. He joined the Ballet de l'OnR in September 2006.Principal roles: Dichterliebe by Bertrand d'At; Le Marteau sans maître by Maurice Béjart; La Sylphide (Gurn) by August Bournonville version Dinna Bjørn; Immanence by Andonis Foniadakis; Giselle (pas de deux from the grape pickers) Maina Gielgud version, Wedding by Jacopo Godani; Don Quixote by Rui Lopes Graça; Walking Mad and Empty House by Johan Inger; Sinfonietta by Jirí Kylián; Heinz Spoerli's Goldberg Variations; Last Pieces by Anybody and The Nutcracker (Franz) by Jo Strømgren; Pinocchio by Ivan Cavallari; Nó by Deborah Colker,La Strada by Mario Pistoni (Il Matto), Untouched by Aszure Barton, The Rite of Spring by Stephan Thoss, In the Dark Sky, Ed Wubbe, Quintett by William Forsythe (Thomas), Chaplin by Mario Schröder ( Diktator), The Heart of my Heart by Gil Harush, Bless-so-be-IL by Bruno Bouché. And a lot more...
He was appointed soloist in January 2018.
I think, it is safe to say that this was one of the most challenging years in the history of the ONDR as it had to cancel large parts of this year’s season due to the covid pandemic.
The performing arts - and especially dance with its necessity of physical proximity and touch - are quite possibly hit the hardest under the lockdowns and as seats remain empty. How all of this affected the opera, ensemble, and Thomas in particular and what this means for the new year and the new season, we will talk about today.
SHOW NOTES
- Portrait of Choreographer Heinz Spoerli
- Goldberg Variations, Bayerisches Staatsballet
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- "Dance Me To The End Of Love" by Leonard Cohen
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Erik Penny "The Shape Of Cowboy Boots"
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02/11/21 • 132 min
Erik Penny is a US songwriter, musician and painter who has been living in Berlin for more than 12 years.
Erik grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he started his musical career as a bassist at the age of 16. A while later he started a course in painting which he aborted shortly before graduating to go on tour with his band.
This success of the tour led to his decision to go to Los Angeles. Here he recorded several EPs and two studio albums - "Footprints" and "The Linger Kiss". After various visits to Germany, Erik decided to move there for good in 2008. Within a short period of time he made strong connections in the local music scene.
Erik's wonderful album "Bend", published in 2010, written and conceived entirely in Berlin, is a collaboration between many, talented people that comprise the artistic and social hub of this wonderful city, resulting in a flavorful piece of art. Many tours and support tours followed. It is home to one of my favourite songs "Cherry".
After publishing "Live at The Sofa Sessions" in 2011, Erik withdrew from the music scene for 2 years and only returned to the stage in 2013 and played, amongst others, four opening concerts for Joe Cocker.
His album "Heart Bleed Out" came out in 2014 on the Blackbird Music Label, that was produced by Erik himself for the first time together with David Green.
Just recently his new single "The River" was published, a song with a hymnal depth that is juxtaposing a refreshingly positive melody with sinister lyrics. A great song for a world grappling with a pandemic looking for hope.
Erik and I have an overlapping circle of friends and I have been aware of Erik and his work for many years. And nonetheless, for reasons unknown, we never really shared a longer conversation together.
During the second lockdown, when Erik started a painting project on IG and he used one of my images as a reference for a painting, I was so overwhelmed by his art and his positive attitude that I thought: "Boy, have I missed out!
SHOW NOTES
- Erik's Website
- Erik's Instagram
- Erik's Facebook
- "Hamilton", Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- "A Path We Share", Music Video by Erik Penny
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- History of the Cowboy Boot
- "High Fidelity", 2000, film by Stephen Frears
- History Of The XXth Century, Podcast by Mark Painter
- Flula Borg
- Morissey
- Trevor Noah
- Stephen Colbert
- Jimmy Kimmel
- Jimmy Fallon
- German Störtebecker beer
- Texas Margarita, recipe off www.marthastewart.com
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Dafna Rachok & Ivan Shmatko "The Stoic Use of Expletives"
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03/16/23 • 145 min
With us in the Yellow Van this week are Dafna Rachok and Ivan Shmatko.
Dafna Rachok is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research seeks to understand how vulnerable groups in Ukraine respond to existing HIV prevention and treatment programs and how their attitudes to the state shape their desire or reluctance to seek those programs. Ivan Shmatko is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Alberta (Canada). Ivan has been a part of the volunteer movement in Ukraine since February 24. He has done research on policing in Ukraine and the imaginaries that shape how police officers see their work and interact with others. His doctoral research project focuses on the experiences of newly mobilized soldiers in Ukraine. Being on leave from their universities in February 2022, they decided to stay in Ukraine when Russia assaulted their home. Rather than escape to safety across the Atlantic Ocean, they looked for ways and means to support their homeland and their fellow Ukrainians. Join us as we talk about their #volunteering work, the importance of humour in times of darkness and why Ukrainians collectively dislike Elon Musk.
And, as always, a lot more. Thank you, Dafna and Ivan, for joining the Yellow Van.
Your bravery and empathy are an inspiration.
SHOW NOTES
Sociological group "RATING"
International Red Cross and Red Crescent
World Food Programme
Leonid Kuchma
Article by Dafna Rachok: On Trust, Transparency, and Learning from the Experience of the Extraordinary
Article by Ivan Shmatko: A Voracious Beast - Emotional Energy in the Tsunami of Suffering
DONATIONS
Come Back Alive
Hospitaliers
FOLLOW DAFNA AND IVAN
Dafna's Twitter
Dafna's LinkedIn
Ivan's Twitter
Ivan's Facebook
MUSIC
Love In The Face Of Fear, Jim Kroft
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Nick Torzhevskyi "Ukraine Rebirth"
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08/25/22 • 107 min
Nick Torzhevsky is a film director and producer from Kyiv with over 10 years of experience directing and producing broadcast TV series, commercials, and feature films.
Nick's latest project, Ukraine Rebirth, is putting a focus on the rebuilding of Ukraine after the war - something that struck me as extraordinary as the war is still raging on without an end in sight. On the website of Ukraine Rebirth, the project is introduced as follows:
How exactly the idea for the project was born and how Nick is feeding his seemingly inexhaustible optimism is something we will be discussing in today's show. And, as always, a lot more.
SHOW NOTES
Find Nick Here
Ukraine Rebirth
Instagram
Facebook
Ukraine Rebirth Collaborators
LGBTQI+ Story
Stanislav Morozov (director)
Stanislav Medvedev (screenwriter)
Olexiy Gladushevskyi (creative producer)
Evgeniy Usanov (director of photography)
Kyiv Story
Nataliya Torzhevska (screenwriter)
Stanislav Savchenko (director of photography)
Cherson Story
Julia Tribrat (director)
Lana Iermakova (screenwriter)
Support the Kickstarter Campaign here
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ukrainerebirthlgbtq/ukraine-rebirth-lgbtq
MUSIC
Love In The Face Of Fear, Jim Kroft
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Anna Pykhtina "Home's Strong Calling"
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07/21/22 • 98 min
Anna Pykhtina is a communication and PR expert from Kyiv, Ukraine, focusing on Ukrainian NGO work and civic education, currently living in Warsaw, Poland. After the outbreak of the war, Anna and her boyfriend fled Ukraine to Poland, where they are currently living with friends. Anna was the president of AEGEE-Kyiv, Europe's biggest interdisciplinary student organization. She has been travelling extensively in Europe and is, I think it is safe to say, a strong proponent of the European idea. Additionally, she worked for the Free Russia Foundation, which supports civic society and democratic development in Russia, for almost two years and has, therefore, many Russian acquaintances and friends. Anna's work and experience are exceptional and I couldn't be happier to have her on board the Yellow Van today to hear her opinions and perspectives on a variety of topics.
Welcome to the Yellow Van, Anna!
SHOW NOTES
Anna's Reading List
INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT
NGO "Girls"
USCD
Timothy D. Snyder, American historian
Eurotrip, USA 2004, Jeff Schaffer
Free Russia Foundation
Tango of Death, Yuriy Vynnychuk
Tiger Trappers, Ivan Bahriyanyi
Maria Berlinska, Ukrainian film producer
MUSIC
Love In The Face Of Fear, Jim Kroft
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Oleksiy Martsenyuk "The Shifting Of Desires"
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07/28/22 • 125 min
Oleksiy Martsenyuk is the Executive Director of the Center for Defence Strategies in Kiyv, an organisation that helps to monitor defence reforms and develop key government policies that will affect the country's security and defence sector. This certainly needs a little more explanation from you, Oleksiy! And we will get into that in the course of the podcast. Also, he served as a Civilian Deputy Minister in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence for just under a year. Originally, Oleksiy has a business background though. And because of this, Oleksiy's and my relationship actually goes way back. When I studied photography in Gent, Belgium, at the end of my first year all students had to choose a topic and project outside the curriculum, entirely self-sufficient and motivated by our own interests. This is now almost 18 years ago. As a foreigner myself, I chose the topic of migration and opted to take black and white portraits of people far away from home in Belgium. I put it all in book form, presenting them on a double page with their portrait in black and white on one page and the most cherished and valuable photo they brought with them in colour on the other. Oleksiy was introduced to me by my dear friend Apoorva, studying with him at the time. A big shoutout and a big hug to you, Apu, who I don't see or hear nearly often enough! I remember the portrait of Oleksiy still so well after all these years. Standing in his rather modest and empty student cave, but with a big, bright Ukrainian flag on his wall. Leaning in, curiously observing me with a gentle smile while I was trying to create something lasting with the little that I knew at the time. But, in a way, I have; by having him with me today - 18 years after that photo was taken. I am so happy and grateful to have you with us today, Oleksiy, after all this time!
SHOW NOTES
New York Times, The Bodies Lay Dead in the Street
BBC News, Bucha Killings
VOX News, Ukraine Kidnappings
Deutsche Welle, Russia Uses Kidnappings to Intimidate Ukrainians
Golda Meir
Weimar Republic
Friedrich Ebert
Philipp Scheidemann
The Ebert-Groener Pact
Sinking of the Moskwa
Bayraktar Drone
HIMARS
Nord Stream 2
Rheinmetall builds military training center
The Orphanage, Serhiy Zhadan
Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani), Twitter Thread
MUSIC
Love In The Face Of Fear, Jim Kroft
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Amjad Ramadan "Hidden Talent"
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12/17/20 • 139 min
Amjad Ramadan was born in Homs, Syria, in 1995. He left Syria due to the civil war and fled to Turkey in 2012 at the age of 17.
He lived in Kastamonou for 4 years where he enrolled at the local university to study journalism.
Due to Amjad's financial decline, he had to withdraw before any of the courses had even started and without his curiosity having been quenched.
He decided to go to Europe for a better future perspective and arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos in 2016.
Amjad's arrival coincided with the closing of the Balkan route that had until then been among the preliminary transit routes for refugees crossing the Aegean into Greece and, subsequently, traveling on further into Europe.
Like thousands of others, Amjad got stuck at the Greek-North-Macedonian border at Idomeni.
This is where Amjad met Vicky Markolefa, my girlfriend and creative partner, who is also joining us today on the Yellow Van. This podcast was basically Vicky's idea and she put us all in touch. Thank you, my love, for the gift of this episode.
Amjad spent eight months in the make-shift camp of Idomeni, that, at its height, had roughly 15.000 people dwelling in an area that had only had an emergency strategy for 5.000 people.
It was during this time, that I was in Idomeni as well. Only for about six weeks, having Fonsi as a luxury domicile amidst all the cheap tents. Being welcomed, fed, and groomed by our neighbours from Syria, the Ghiran, who shared everything with us - no matter how cold or wet the day would be. And it was very cold, and it was very wet a lot of the days back then when nothing else but summer tents were available, when the mud was ankle-deep, and disease was spreading throughout the camp.
My idea of hospitality is to this day entirely rooted in my experiences there and the virtue of spirit that was heaped upon me.
I only digress here to bear witness to the fact, that eight months in Idomeni are an eternity...but that they can also build a spirit. One of the many reasons, why Amjad says that "being a refugee is a badge one should wear with pride."
Amjad joined the UNHCR Refugee Program and was first taken to a newly opened camp in Evosmos, close to Thessaloniki in the North of Greece.
After roughly two more years, Amjad was accepted as a refugee in Germany where he was allowed to join his older brother in the city of Neuss where he has been living since 2018.
And now, this long, hardy journey has brought him aboard the Yellow Van and I couldn't be happier and prouder to have him here with us today.
Welcome aboard the Yellow Van, Amjad.
SHOW NOTES
Amjad on Facebook
Amjad on Instagram
Urban Gardening
Thessaloniki
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Idomeni
Refugee Retrospective 2016
The Balkan Route
Lesvos
Syrian Civil War
Homs
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Teza Soe "A Female Revolution"
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04/29/21 • 106 min
Teza Soe is a Burmese visual storyteller with a doctorate in photography, who received her PhD with a project focusing on the role of women in Myanmar society.
After reading the preface to her thesis, I felt that it would be a much better introduction than I could ever hope to craft for her. So, just this one time, I took the liberty of copying her own words, rather than write an introduction myself:
We will be talking about the historic role of women in Myanmar, why women are at the forefront of the democratic movement, and why female revolutionary leaders are a reason for hope.
__________
In the face of the current Burmese struggle, please support the initiative Print For Crisis, founded by my friends Chiara Luxardo and Olga Stefatou:
https://www.printforcrisis.org/
On their website, 80 photographers offer their limited edition fine art prints for a very affordable price. All net proceeds from the sales go to journalists, photographers, and artists in Myanmar. Print For Crisis will last another two weeks and prints are selling fast.
Choose from the works of amazing photographers like Chris Steele-Perkins, John Vink, and Nikos Economopoulos - just to name a few. Go get yours now and catch me if you can.
__________
SHOW NOTES
Print For Crisis Website
Print For Crisis Facebook
Print For Crisis Instagram
I Support Myanmar
Teza on Facebook
Thuma Collective
Yangon Photo Festival
Lensational (a collaboration for free photography education for women)
"Disclosure", Netflix, 2020
History Of Myanmar
Get Jim Kroft's Song, "Love In The Face Of Fear"
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FAQ
How many episodes does Yellow Van Stories have?
Yellow Van Stories currently has 34 episodes available.
What topics does Yellow Van Stories cover?
The podcast is about Culture, Crisis, Society & Culture, Change, Society, Interview, Transformation, Podcasts, Arts and Travel.
What is the most popular episode on Yellow Van Stories?
The episode title 'Mykola Kondrashev "Choosing Ukraine"' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Yellow Van Stories?
The average episode length on Yellow Van Stories is 109 minutes.
How often are episodes of Yellow Van Stories released?
Episodes of Yellow Van Stories are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Yellow Van Stories?
The first episode of Yellow Van Stories was released on Jun 1, 2020.
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