FOR REAL is a podcast on human dignity, made by Resonate Productions.
In this episode: feeling invisible - hope & humiliation of refugees - dressing like a woman - the collapse of the Soviet Union - combining children and a career.
Recorded on 2 March 2024 at De Balie, Amsterdam, 8pm.
(02:00) Tori [°1960 - Peoria, Illinois, USA] on feeling invisible and what it takes to be noticed.
(05:30) Halleh [°1962 - Tehran, Iran] on activism, hope & humiliation of refugees.
(08:45) Eva [°1985 - Amsterdam, NL] on yielding power to make more power.
(11:35) Ruud [°1992 - Helmond, NL] on having women make his summaries at university.
(14:28) Luke [°1990 - England] on being assaulted when dressing like a woman, and the fear that came with it.
(17:00) Marlies [°1982 - Utrecht, NL] on the struggle to be taken seriously as a bigger woman on stage, and as an expert in another language and culture.
(22:04) Tasha & Nadja on the life of Tasha’s mother in Belarus after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how Tasha has come to appreciate her mothers efforts.
(27:55) Nadja on having to juggle and give up much of her career as a musician after becoming a mother.
(31:35) Martina [°1976 - NW-Mediterranean] thanks her mother, who always worked, as an answer to Nadja’s struggle.
(34:12) “What do you deserve?” Freedom, a new era of emotions and time, free of obligations.
For each episode of FOR REAL, we get together with a group of people in a theater, to look into what it means to matter as a person. All interviews are carried by improvised music, made by George Dumitriu (viola, guitar), Sarah Jeffery (recorders) and Andrea Voets (harp).
Made by Resonate Productions -creating musical journalism-
Music & interviews: Andrea Voets, Sarah Jeffery, George Dumitriu
Sound engineer: Hayden Hook
Funded by: AFK, FPK, BNG, Cultuurfonds, Dioraphte
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