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G. Allen Johnson May 5, 2021Updated: May 10, 2021, 1:35 pm San Francisco artist Alicia McCarthy is one of the eight Bay Area artists featured in “Tell Them We Were Here.” Photo: Courtesy BAMPFA The worldview of the new documentary “Tell Them We Were Here,” which profiles eight current Bay Area artists whose work over the decades has not only made an impact but also helped inform the Bay Area’s artistic identity, is expressed by an early voice-over in the film: “Artists ...

Tribeca Film Festival Announces First-Ever Official Podcast Selections Claire Shaffer © Ben Margot/AP The Tribeca Film Festival has added to its 2021 lineup by announcing its first-ever official podcast selections. Along with world premieres of fiction and non-fiction podcast series, the Tribeca Podcasts lineup includes special events with some of the most prominent creators in the field, including live recordings, discussions, and more. Marquee events include Jad Abumrad disc...

Tribeca Festival will feature podcasts for the first time Posted on New York’s Tribeca Festival (formerly the Tribeca Film Festival) will feature podcasting in its annual celebration on June 20. It is the first time podcasts are  included in the agenda, which will also feature films, TV, and gaming. Audible is the Exclusive Audio Entertainment Sponsor of the event. Leah Sarbib, Tribeca’s Manager of Audio Storytelling, has curated the podcast portion of the festival. Featured speakers i...

A Visual Record of Daily Life in San Quentin Prison May 03, 2021 | in Photography Weeks Stabbing in the Gym — 9.24.63 by Rubin Ramirez 2013 Woodside & Noleh Fight / 4.8.66 Divans / 8.2.71 X-Mas Tree / 12.26.75 The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration.  In 2011, Nigel Poor�...

San Francisco kosher baker hires formerly incarcerated employees to give second chances By Lisa Fernandez KTVUs Rob Roth reports. SAN FRANCISCO - An Israeli businessman who operates San Franciscos only kosher bakery has earned another moniker for his shop because of the formerly incarcerated people he now employs. The nickname for Issac Yosefs Frena Bakery is the "Lifer Bakery."  Carlos Flores, who served 23 years in prison on a murder charge, revealed that Yosef hired him when he was rele...

Virtual Join Aperture and The Marshall Project for a conversation between artist Nigel Poor and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, celebrating the launch of the book The San Quentin Project (Aperture, 2021). In 2011, Poor began teaching a history of photography class through the Prison University Project (now called Mount Tamalpais College) at San Quentin State Prison, California. Soon, Poor began incorporating images from thousands of negatives from the prison’s vast archive into her visual studies...

WFSU Local Routes A Conversation with Nigel Poor & Earlonne Woods from Ear Hustle On Thursday, February 4th at 6:00 p.m. join us for a conversation between Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, hosts of Ear Hustle. We are proud to welcome the creators of the internationally acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, the first podcast created and produced in prison, featuring stories of the daily realities of life inside California’s San Quentin State Prison, shared by those living it. Co-founded ...

Date Time FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts announces guest lecture series The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) will host a series of guest lectures that will highlight speakers who utilize diverse approaches to their creative practice and lead discussions that are vital to the arts and the community. Meredith Lynn, MoFA’s assistant curator and director of galleries, said that the museum is thrilled to bring these artists to the FSU community. “Although they work across differe...

Rahsaan Thomas, photographed by Antwan Williams. Courtesy of "Ear Hustle." For Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, success came later in life—and at a cost. After being incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in California, Thomas began to work with organizations and initiatives using creative forces to combat mass incarceration and shift attitudes about prisoners from the inside. He is now the co-host of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast “Ear Hustle,” co-founder of Prison Renaissance (whi...