What kind of art inspires you?

On the next Your Call, we'll speak with a variety of artists about the healing and empowering aspects of art and creativity. The late historian Howard Zinn said the role of the artist is to transcend the world of the establishment and to escape what is handed down by the government and the media. How does art help you cope with our chaotic and unjust world? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What have you seen lately that's inspired you? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jo Kreiter, artistic director of Flyaway Productions

Meklit Hadero, Ethiopian-born singer, musician, and cultural activist

Josef Norris, founder and director of Kid Serve

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Your Call 121808 Starving Arts Budgets

As public arts budgets shrink, what should we save? On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about funding of the Arts during the economic downturn. San Francisco and Oakland are among many cities across the country proposing massive cuts to Arts budgets, and also threaten many cultural and artistic institutions with closure. How are the cuts going to impact the vibrant and diverse arts and cultural scene of the Bay Area? And what should be done to support the Arts? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Marco Barricelli, Artistic Director Shakespeare in Santa Cruz

Nancy Gonchar, Deputy Director San Francisco Arts Commission

Thomas DeCaigny, Executive Director of Performing Arts Workshop

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Your Call 081408 BAN 5

What is the Bay Area's arts community chewing on these days? On the next Your Call we'll speak with the curator of and some of the featured artists in Bay Area Now 5. BAN 5, now on display Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, is the most expansive survey of contemporary art created in the San Francisco Bay Area. When you give nearly three dozen artists free reign to envision the Bay Area, what do they see? What do you? It's Your Call at 11 a.m. with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Kate Eilertsen in San Francisco
Acting director of visual arts for YBCA and one of the curators of Bay Area Now 5.

Ala Ebtekar
Iranian American painter. His work is as influenced by the mythology and folklore of his Iranian heritage as he is by the legends and lore of hip-hop culture. Ebtekar holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University.

Elaine Bucholtz
Lighting and visual designer. Her most recent work utilizes video and light in relation to sculptural forms, digital prints, and preexisting sites in architecture and nature. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Art and Art History departments at Stanford University.

Taraneh Hemami
Guest-curator of a special exhibition at BAN 5, Theory of Survival, an exploration of the Iranian and Iranian-American diaspora community. Hemami is a Bay Area artist who finds the common ground between collective and participatory art projects and community leadership.

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