Full Cadence Podcast

Full Cadence

Full Cadence believes in the power of the Arts to sustain the human spirit. Through sharing stories of young artists in the performing, visual, and literary arts who are making a difference in their communities, we hope to inspire our listeners to examine how they can use their own talents and unique skill sets to do good. We also aim to forge a network of artists dedicated to their craft and to advancing issues of social justice. Coupled with special episodes exploring the vast world of classical music, Full Cadence ultimately seeks to excite hope and joy in our audience.

Episodes

  1. 08/03/2020

    Anya Singh: Art Framers' Intent

    Anya Singh is a freshman attending University of Michigan—Ann Arbor with an intended focus on Biology, Health, and Society and a double minor in Art and Design and in Social Class and Inequality studies. She’s been a practicing visual artist for the past 11 years, most recently under the tutelage of Kriti Taneja. Anya’s work, influenced by social, political and cultural issues, is heavily commentative and reactionary. Believing in the importance of imbuing her work with her political views and biases, her work comes together to provide insight into her perspective. As a artist concerned with social justice, Anya has delved into movements like #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #TimesUp, and more specifically has explored cultural and judicial practices across domestic borders, such as in India regarding child marriage, LGBTQIA+ rights, and female autonomy. As she creates, she seeks to understand narratives, bringing stories to life on paper, canvas, and other media. Specifically in portraiture, she focuses on creating confluences of narrative and representational reality while empowering the underrepresented. As an artist, she has been invited to prestigious programs such as the Instagram Counter-Speech Fellowship, and has been recognized by Scholastic for her work in painting, drawing, mixed media, and political cartoons. In 2019, she won the New York Times Editorial Cartoon Contest and was subsequently published.   You can contact Anya after the show using her email anyas@umich.edu, and her art instagram is @anya_singh_art   Video/Audio edited by Hyuntae Choi  Intro music by Marco Jimenez

  2. 07/27/2020

    Adán Martinez: It Takes a Village

    Samuel “Adán” Martinez is a 20 year old local activist, strings teacher, musician, and a St. Petersburg native to the Tampa Bay area. He currently is a full-time Music Studies Major minoring in Entrepreneurship at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and he plays with the Tampa Bay Symphony. Adán began playing the viola at the age of 11 through the Fine Arts program at his middle school. He didn’t have access to weekly lessons or musical resources and had many different on-and-off lessons with various strings teachers in the area. By his junior year in high school, Adán would play his viola on the street corners in downtown St. Petersburg to earn money for his viola payments, private viola lessons, and overall living expenses. Busking every Friday and Saturday night opened up many different doors for Adán as he met retired musicians with musical connections to members of the Florida Orchestra who eventually would teach him. He went on to receive many local accolades his senior year from winning first place in the Mayor’s Youth Showcase to headling an event with John Legend. Adán believes that “Music was a great outlet for all of the negative aspects of his childhood/reality and opened his eyes as to how he could make a positive impact on other people’s lives through music.” Adán would like to promote the organizations Gathering of Women (you can contact them at thegatheringofwomen2@gmail.com) and The Arts Conservatory for Teens (https://www.actstpete.org/). Audio edited by Hyuntae Choi

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
5 Ratings

About

Full Cadence believes in the power of the Arts to sustain the human spirit. Through sharing stories of young artists in the performing, visual, and literary arts who are making a difference in their communities, we hope to inspire our listeners to examine how they can use their own talents and unique skill sets to do good. We also aim to forge a network of artists dedicated to their craft and to advancing issues of social justice. Coupled with special episodes exploring the vast world of classical music, Full Cadence ultimately seeks to excite hope and joy in our audience.