WPKN Archives Archive Feed: learnasprotest Archived radio content http://www.wpkn.org/ Sun, 22 Dec 2024 19:50:21 GMT WPKN Archives Archive Feed: learnasprotest http://www.wpkn.org/ https://archives.wpkn.org//banners/7.png 850 192 Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis replay of Episode 53: protest Readings https://archives.wpkn.org/https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/278063 <p>This month of Live Culture offers an interview with Gallerist <strong>Jeff Bergman </strong>about his ongoing <strong>Learn-As-Protest</strong> project which has people reading out loud to each other at Trump Tower. Popular with artists and writers, this protest has a wide roster of participants and texts and adapts itself as current events unfold. We discuss creative forms of peaceful resistance, share stories about reading in the tower and discuss why even carrying a book into the building is a powerful act. Jeff has been leading this event weekly since 2016 and has been featured in the <strong>Guardian, the New Yorker</strong> and <strong>The New York Times</strong> to name some of the press this action has garnered.</p> <p>More about the project here:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/learnasprotest/">https://www.facebook.com/learnasprotest/</a></p> https://archives.wpkn.org/https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/278063 Sat, 30 Nov 2019 11:00:00 GMT Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis Episode 53: protest Readings https://archives.wpkn.org/https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/267245 <p>&nbsp;This month on Live Culture- an interview with Gallerist Jeff Bergman about his ongoing Learn-As-Protest project which has people reading out loud to each other at Trump Tower. Popular with artists and writers this protest has a wide roster of participants and texts and adapts itself as current events unfold. We discuss creative forms of peaceful resistance, share stories about reading in the tower and discuss why even carrying a book&nbsp; into the building is a powerful act. Jeff has been leading this event weekly since 2016 and has been featured in the Guardian, the New Yorker and The New York Times to name some of the press this action has garnered.&nbsp;</p> https://archives.wpkn.org/https://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/267245 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:00:00 GMT