Conversations about engaging diverse perspectives, collaboration, and complex problem solving in higher education—on campus, online, in local communities, and abroad.
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Life is jazz: unexpected poems for those who think they don't like poetry. Sometimes you'll hear the poetry of music, theater, story. Unexpected guests in unexpected times. Always original! Often premieres. Your host: Magdalena Gómez, Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA
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A Podcast by Jim & Pat Byrne about everything related to Glasgow West End. Interviews, what's on, reviews, guests and anything else you can think of.
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What is racial justice in the arts? How can artists, performers, and producers inspire new possibilities? Through deep conversations with guests, Race/Remix shapes the creative landscape of racial justice. Spanning topics in media, culture, healthcare, justice systems, immigration, and education, Season 1 offers critical insights by pairing creators and thinkers across disciplines and ideas. Share in the provocations. We invite you to join the conversation. Our first season launches this Dec ...
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Dr Elisa Segnini and Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez chat to Pat about the exhibition ‘Masks We Wear’
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Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 101Dr Elisa Segnini and Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez chat to Pat about the exhibition ‘Masks We Wear’ Today Pat chats to Dr Elisa Segnini from the University of Glasgow and Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez from Hyndland Secondary School’s, Art Department. Elisa and Rodrigo talk about their exhibition ‘Masks We Wear’ - …
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Episode 6 Making the Story Speak: Reid Gómez
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Can language practices break down the separation between “us” and “them”? Reid Gómez, a native speaker of Black vernacular English and Navlish (Navajo-English), shares her multi-lingual writing practice. To “make the story speak,” she criss-crosses the boundaries between languages, embracing various linguistic structures and vocabularies simultaneo…
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Episode 5 Everything Goes Back to an Immigrant: Anike Tourse
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What is it like to navigate a world where “no papers” means no identity and no public recognition? For immigrants traversing such a world, are human connections even possible when faced with forced family separation and deportation? Anike Tourse's filmmaking brings audiences into the human dimension of navigating the complexities of US immigration.…
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Episode 4 Artists Reworking the Ruins of Racism: Aaron Coleman & Lizz Denneau
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Visual artists are skilled at taking ordinary materials and transforming them into something new and thought-provoking. Their work goes beyond aesthetics; it unearths histories, challenges perceptions, and sparks crucial conversations. In the US where racism is endemic—structured into the everyday existence of individuals and institutions so as to …
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Lesley Riddoch chats with Jim about her new film, Denmark - the State of Happiness
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Lesley Riddoch chats with Jim about her new film, Denmark - the State of HappinessJim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 100 Welcome to Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat. Remarkably, this is episode 100. Hurrah! Well done to us. :-) This is the second half of my chat with the esteemed broadcaster, podcaster, journalist and filmmaker Lesley Rid…
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Episode 3 Restaging Classical Music for Social Relevance: Monica Ellis and Toyin Spellman-Diaz of Imani Winds
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How are classical musicians speaking to the times in which they live? Band kids turned classical virtuosas, Monica Ellis and Toyin Spellman-Diaz have performed with Imani Winds since its founding more than 25 years ago. True to its beginnings, this predominantly people of color woodwind ensemble continues to break new ground with their socially rel…
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Lesley Riddoch talks to Jim Byrne about, ‘Denmark - the State of Happiness’. And more. Part 1 of 2
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Lesley Riddoch talks to Jim Byrne about, ‘Denmark - the State of Happiness’. And more. Part 1 of 2Episode 99 of Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat Lesley Riddoch is a tour de force. She is a political activist, pioneering publisher, writer, podcaster, independence and land-reform campaigner and, last but not least, a role model for women in Scotland…
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Episode 2 A Typeface For Change: Silas Munro
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What do iconic movements like women's suffrage, Civil Rights, queer liberation, and the Vietnam war resistance have in common? They tapped into the power of words and images to convey messages of protest that changed the collective imagination and direction of history. For LA-based designer and educator Silas Munro, there is “no shortage of opportu…
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Episode 1 When Justice Goes Viral: Ruha Benjamin
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How can we “act selfishly for our own humanity”? How might we recalibrate institutions so they reflect how our individual futures are intertwined? Explore these questions and more in a timely discussion with sociologist Ruha Benjamin. She takes on racism in education, healthcare, the arts and beyond in this riveting conversation. Currently, Dr. Ben…
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Listen to highlights of Race/Remix conversations between scholars, writers, visual and performing artists at the intersection of racial justice and the arts. Launching in December 2023, Season 1 captures the stories and provocations of innovators building new knowledge and critical spaces, shifting the status quo one conversation at a time.…
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Writer and writing tutor Dave Manderson Chats to Pat
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Writer and writing tutor Dave Manderson Chats to Pat Welcome to episode 98 of Jim and Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat. Today Pat will be chatting to writer and former creative writing tutor Dave Manderson. Dave works with literary organisations such as Scottish PEN, he organises and runs literary events and has presented illustrated talks on a range of…
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Donella Campbell chatting to Pat about her book, The Girl Who Invented Dusty Springfield
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Donella Campbell chatting to Pat about her book, The Girl Who Invented Dusty SpringfieldJim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 97 We have another great guest. Pat will be chatting with Glasgow West End’s own, Donella Campbell. Donella is the writer of the book, ‘The Girl Who Invented Dusty Springfield’. Dusty Springfield, certainly one of my f…
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Jeane Freeman, former Scottish Government Health & Sports Minister chats with Pat
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Episode 96 - Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End ChatPat chats with Jeane Freeman OBE We are thrilled to have Jeane Freeman OBE, former politician and SNP member, as our guest on the Podcast. Jeane is truly one of the good people in this world. You will know her best from the daily Covid briefings - at the height of the pandemic - as she put her heart and…
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Johnny Smillie and Monica Queen of Tenement & Temple chat with Jim - Part two
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Episode 95 of Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat - Johnny Smillie and Monica Queen of Tenement & Temple - part two The second part of my chat with Glasgow’s own music legends Monica Queen and Johnny Smillie - of the band Tenement and Temple. Johnny is known for his accomplished guitar playing, songwriting and as an in-demand music producer and Monic…
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Johnny Smillie and Monica Queen of Tenement & Temple chat with Jim about life and music
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Episode 94 of Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End ChatJohnny Smillie and Monica Queen of Tenement & Temple chat with Jim - part one In this episode I was delighted to chat to Glasgow’s own music legends Monica Queen and Johnny Smillie - of the band Tenement and Temple. Johnny is known for his accomplished guitar playing, songwriting and as an in-demand mu…
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In this episode Pat chats to Carla Woodburn
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Episode 93 Carla is a poet, she is the poetry editor at the Scots Language Centre, she’s an author, events organiser, and the host of the show 'Express Yourself' on Sunny Govan Radio. The Express Yourself show features poets and music and as it says in the blurb, "The chat is minimal, but the banter maximum". Carla lives in Glasgow but originally s…
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Jazz Ready. E. 229. S.3 Living Jazz Legend, Baomi Butts
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This is an extended legacy episode with a bonus track of Baomi Butts, who has toured with Dizzy Gillespie and Harry Belafonte, sharing about her life in music. Royal Hartigan on Percussion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 228. S3. World Premiere of EP "Song for the Ocean" (& another beautiful surprise) TapRoots and Matthew King
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TapRoots will make you want to dance, be grateful and share the love! This premiere is special for Jazz Ready listeners! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Billy Kay - writer, broadcaster, linguist and champion of the Scots language chats to Jim Byrne
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I was delighted and excited to chat to Billy Kay: writer, broadcaster, multi-linguist, and champion of the Scots language - most notably through his book 'The Mither Tongue', which is quite rightly regarded as a classic of contemporary Scottish culture. Billy is a much-honored individual but, for many people, he came to prominence recently for his …
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Jazz Ready. Episode 227. S3 Writer, Richard Wayne Horton. A Short Story: A Hand Outstretched.
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Jazz Ready. Episode 226. S3. Nejma Nefertiti, Hip-Hop Queen. Jayne Wayne The Villain!
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Jazz Ready. Episode 225. S.3 Lloyd Schwartz, Poet Laureate of Somerville, MA
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Award winning poet and scholar, Lloyd Schwartz, shares a reading of his original work. He is an Academy of American Poets, Poets Laureate Fellow. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 224. S3. Brian Sonia-Wallace. Poet, Activist, Author, Organizer. "The Poetry of Strangers"
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Jazz Ready. Episode 223. S3. Award Winning Poet, Dancer, Diviner, Monica Mody.
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Jazz Ready Episode 222. S3. Lyrical Faith. Award Winning Poet. Activist. Educator. Bronx in the House!!
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From the Bronx to Harlem and around the world - a poet who works to make the world better for us all. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Episode 221. S3. Media Illiteracy. A shoutout to TYPEHOUSE Literary Magazine and a Little Birthday Something.
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Jazz Ready Episode 220. S3. Writer and Boat Builder, George Goodwin, Reads His Latest Work: "Solace"
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Maine Elder and Scholar in the House! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. 219. S3. Voces Del Silencio - Festina Lente - Colombia, ¡Presente!
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Episodio en español. No se lo pierdan y compartan el link! Hip-Hop de sonido muy original. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready Episode 218. Season 3. Phil Fried. Composer. Educator. Collaborator. His Motto: "No sonic prejudice."
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Writer Alan Gillespie chats to Pat about his first novel, The Mash House
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Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 91 In this episode the writer Alan Gillespie talks about his first novel, The Mash House; it is a novel of isolation and fear set in an isolated Highland village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Alan Gillespie is a writer and teacher from Fife. He has studied at the University of Stirling, Glasgow and Strat…
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Jazz Ready. Episode 217. S3. Jean Saunders Duling. Poet. Visual Artist. Educator.
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Jazz Ready. Episodio 216. S.3 Boda en el Bosque
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Dedicado a E y A y todos los abecedarios del mundo. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Brendon McIlroy, the director of Halo Arts, chats to Pat about new festivals & gala day events
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Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 90 In this episode Pat chats to Brendon McIlroy, the founder and Artistic Director of Glasgow based production company Halo Arts. Halo Arts is an innovative production company, delivering inclusive projects, productions and events. As well as his work with Halo, Brendon is West End Festival’s Senior Event…
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Jazz Ready. Episode 215. S3. Genesis Fermin. Singer. Songwriter. Musician. New Album. (I encourage listening while spinning in a chair - joy will be yours!)
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Genesis Fermin shares an intimate moment and a cut from their new album that will lift your heart! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 214. S.3: Rashaud Colbert. Athlete. Scholar. Attending to Mental Health in Sports.
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A recent graduate of Clarke University, Rashaud helps us close out Mental Health Awareness Month, with some wise advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 213. S.3. For Palestine, with Love. A Poem by La Sirena Magdalena. "The Occupation of Bread" Soundscapes by La Sirena.
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I dedicate this episode the the people of Palestine and all who walk in solidarity beside them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 212. Doctora Xingona, aka Diana Alvarez, Singer. Songwriter. New Album, New Song: "Relentless Humanity" from "Ser Artista"
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Bob McDevitt, programmer of Glasgow's Aye Write festival chats with Pat
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Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 89 In this episode, Pat chats with Bob McDevitt, programmer of Glasgow's Aye Write festival; which I'm sure you know, is Glasgow’s Book Festival. Among many other things, Pat gets the lowdown on this year's programme; how it will work online and how that presents both challenges and opportunities for new …
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Jazz Ready. Episode 211. S3. Anja Lee. Actor. Playwright. Educator. A New Play Preview.
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Elspeth King, a curator, writer and social historian chats with Pat.
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Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 88 In this episode Pat is chatting to Elspeth King, a curator, writer and social historian. As curator of social history at the People's Palace Museum, Elspeth and her team saw the small local history museum blossom to become an award winning, significant cultural attraction, held in great affection by th…
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Jazz Ready. Episode 210. S.3 Luqman Brown with Dope Sagittarius. NYC-based Rock-Punk-Funk Fusion. I Can Feel Their Grammy Now!!!
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Check out two cuts from their new album: SACRED PLACES. After you give a listen here, give a view to their videos! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 209. S.3 Nina Lydia Olff Poet. Visual Artist. Researcher. Luminescence. Many Tribes, Many Nations.
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Jazz Ready. Episode 208. S3. Easthampton Poets Laureate. Artists. Activists. Jason R. Montgomery and Alexandra Woolner.
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Jazz Ready. Episode 207. S3. Afro Yaqui Music Collective Returns with a New Album - "Maroon Futures" Revolutionary Love on Fire!!!! Episodio Bilingüe
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Duende y Machete! The Revolutionary A Team Here for Our Jazz Ready Global Community. Bilingüal Episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Jazz Ready. Episode 206. S3. Doctora Xingona. Singer Songwriter. First Listen Debut Single: "Charlie on a Boat" from "Ser Artista" - New Album!
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Jazz Ready. Episode 205. S3. For All Women: The Holiness of NO! And: A Call for Poets!
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Episode 204. S3. Nina Kennedy Back Again! Concert Pianist. Award Winning Author. Reads from Her New Memoir and Ignites the Piano!
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A great way to celebrate Spring and all new creations and re-creations. Reclaiming being alive! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/magdalena-gomez/message
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Episode 203. S3. Rethabile Masilo. Poet. Professor. Scholar. Lesotho in the House!
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