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Media & Storytelling
Podcasts and digital storytelling led by BIPOC creatives centering culture, healing, resistance, and justice.
SUPPORTED FILMS
Caught Out There, written by Tahira Mahdi, PhD: A witty comedy written by Dr. Tahira Mahdi about Heartly and Malik, star-crossed singles who join a Zodiac-based matchmaking service. Things get complicated when they discover extraterrestrials in the dating pool.
The Rosemead Incident, produced by Zoe Tamara: A short sci-fi narrative film that tells the story of Kevin Chen, an immigrant who believes he is a bona fide alien.
When he convinces a documentary crew to film his reunion with his long-lost extraterrestrial family, a decades-old conspiracy theory is put to the test as he attempts to prove once and for all that he really is an alien on Earth. The film explores themes of immigration, family, and the stories we tell ourselves to cope with isolation.
Helmed by Mexican-American director Cesar Cervantes and produced by filmmaker Zoe Tamara, the film went into production at a time when ICE raids began to plague Los Angeles, making it a timely reflection on the immigrant experience and what it means to belong.
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BUILDING OUR OWN TABLES PODCAST
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A sonic journey of liberation: weaving together stories, music, and wisdom from global majority voices, as we build tables of justice, healing, and love for our collective future.
"Hear from other founders who have built their own tables for their communities and for the world in this evolutionary time on earth."
- Yura Sapi, podcast host and producer, CEO of LiberArte.
We supports leaders along their journeys of creation for our collective liberation. Knowing we are all one. Healing. Transforming. Medicine for those who are building our own, creating our own spaces that are healing, decolonizing, and leading from love
The experience is a combination of words, music, poetry, body-breath practices, meditations and visualizations, folks sharing their specific stories, science, history, and rituals.
We center voices of the global majority—Black, Brown, African, Indigenous, Native, Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, Mestiza and dual or multi-race creators—as a solidarity and honoring of our unique cultural wisdoms as we work to build racial, social, and climate justice worldwide.
This podcast stems from Yura Sapi’s experience as a multi-disciplinary theatre artist, creator and facilitator of initiatives, collectives, practices and organizations expanding beyond borders. Years ago, they were hearing about efforts for marginalized folks to “get a seat at the table” in decision making at arts organizations in the United States and decided they would rather build their own table. Knowing they were not alone, they looked to the community building and oral history recording of the podcast medium, and with the support of HowlRound, the Building Our Own Tables Podcast was born
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