I am Rochelle and I am our community producer here. ROCHELLE VO: Hello, Hello! This is a brand new voice here on Self Evident. Rochelle’s also the Community Producer at Self Evident, where she leads our budding oral history program and helps to grow our listening party program through partnership and collaboration. As a cultural archivist, DJ, and dancer, she works to amplify arts and culture as essential to community resilience and foster intergenerational relationships and dance floors. Bringing together her backgrounds in organizing, history, and music, she trains everyday people to build multigenerational oral history projects and engage with their communities as classrooms. YiuYiu - Kwan, also known as YiuYiu, is a cultural organizer, oral history educator, and DJ based on Lenape land in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. He and his wife run the label from Honolulu. Roger's love for story, sound and design has turned the blog into an independent record label that champions all genres and generations of music from Hawai‘i. Roger Bong - | Bong launched Aloha Got Soul as a blog in 2010 after graduating college with a journalism degree and - more importantly - after hearing DJ Muro's Hawaiian Breaks mix.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, nightclubs, and in the streets. She hosts and produces radio shows on Dublab and NTS, and has produced episodes for KCRW's acclaimed "Lost Notes" podcast series. She is the founder of Discostan, a collaborative decolonial project and record label working with cultural production from South and West Asia and North Africa. She is interested in counterachives and speculative narratives, and is currently exploring themes of embodiment, mysticism, indigenous and localized knowledge within the context of Sufism. and abroad.Īrshia Fatima Haq - | Fatima Haq (born in Hyderabad, India) works through film, visual art, performance, and sound, in feminist modes outside of the Western model. Les has lived in Washington, DC for over 20 years and continues to expand their talents, performing behind the decks in the U.S. This approach is informed by Les’ own story of resilience, liberation and courage as an immigrant, mother and v/s.īorn and raised in Manila, Philippines, Les fell in love with music at a young age, DJing at local clubs and playing in bands. Les The DJ aka Les Talusan is a DJ, photographer, curator, teaching artist and organizer whose practice immerses people in the joy of discovery, empowerment, and community.
Our show is made with support from PRX and the Google Podcasts creator program - and our listener community. Self Evident is a Studio To Be production. Rochelle Kwan)Įdited by James Boo, with help from Sheena Tan Les Talusan), Arshia Fatima Haq, Roger Bong, and YiuYiu (a.k.a.
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