Helga
WNYC
Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga, where she talks about the intimate lives of creative people as they share the steps they’ve taken along their path. She draws listeners into these discussions with cultural change-makers, whether already famous or rising talents, whose sensibilities expand our imaginations as we explore what we think we know about each other. The new season of Helga is a co-production of WNYC Studios and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, and Death, Sex & Money. The Brown Arts Institute at Brown University is a new university-wide research enterprise and catalyst for the arts at Brown that creates new work and supports, amplifies, and adds new dimensions to the creative practices of Brown’s arts departments, faculty, students, and community.
Location:
United States
Networks:
WNYC
Description:
Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga, where she talks about the intimate lives of creative people as they share the steps they’ve taken along their path. She draws listeners into these discussions with cultural change-makers, whether already famous or rising talents, whose sensibilities expand our imaginations as we explore what we think we know about each other. The new season of Helga is a co-production of WNYC Studios and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, and Death, Sex & Money. The Brown Arts Institute at Brown University is a new university-wide research enterprise and catalyst for the arts at Brown that creates new work and supports, amplifies, and adds new dimensions to the creative practices of Brown’s arts departments, faculty, students, and community.
Language:
English
Designer Tremaine Emory on Validation in Consumer Culture
Duration:00:58:55
Director Whitney White on Depth and the Magic of Theater
Duration:01:04:52
Singer Brittany Howard on Creative Rebirth and Spirituality
Duration:01:02:00
Helga Returns For A Sixth Season!
Duration:00:01:55
Video artist Arthur Jafa on actualizing Black potential, part 2
Duration:00:33:47
Video artist Arthur Jafa on actualizing Black potential, part 1
Duration:00:46:51
Writer Macarena Gómez-Barris on finding beauty in ambiguity
Duration:00:52:35
Silhouettist Kara Walker on early fame and symbols of Black servitude
Smithsonian director Kevin Young on the power of unexpected transformations
Duration:00:56:45
Sociologist Tricia Rose on hip-hop as a global profit powerhouse
Duration:00:58:10
Visual artist Carrie Mae Weems on grace and inclusion
Duration:00:50:58
Choreographer Bill T. Jones on the violence within seduction
Duration:00:49:28
Jazz vocalist Somi on finding your voice
Duration:00:51:15
Musician Bartees Strange on indie music’s overlooked audiences
Duration:00:55:06
Painter Glenn Ligon on the value of difference
Duration:01:05:59
Poet Claudia Rankine on power and democracy
Duration:00:48:27
Playwright Michael R. Jackson on risk and fearlessness
Duration:01:09:16
Helga Season 5 Trailer
Duration:00:01:10
The Armory Youth Corps
Duration:00:32:49
K. Anthony Jones
Duration:00:34:54