Yard Tales Icy Grape
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- Society & Culture
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We tell tales of the train and bus yard, the tenement yard and the prison yard. We detail close calls and chase stories. We dig into larger conversations about crossing boundaries, the other side of the tracks, borders, and forbidden space. Whether to make big life changes, to forward the artistic or professional practice, to escape peril—or just for the sheer thrill of it. With first-person storytellers including trans-disciplinary artist Lupe Maravilla, musician/producer Scott Harding ("Scotty Hard"), drug-user activist and award-winning radio documentarian Garth Mullins (from the Crackdown podcast), graffiti artist and fashion designer Claudia Gold ("Claw Money"), pioneering painter and graffiti artist Chris "Freedom" Pape, and many more.
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Ryan McMahon: John Wayne Is Dead
Ryan McMahon; groundbreaking Anishinaabe comedian, writer, producer, and creator of compelling media confronts the borders he has faced throughout his entire career. Borders that he was able to kick down in an effort to create a new space for a new narrative about Indigenous presence in today's popular culture as we know it.
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Airto Morales: Behind The Wall
Multigenerational trauma and a life of violence led to many of Airto Morales' early years being incarcerated, ultimately landing him with a long prison sentence. But even after getting out from behind the wall, Airto never did leave the prison system. Airto is now an advocate and consultant at the Haywood Burns Institute in Oakland, where he continues to work with community to abolish carceral systems across the nation, targeting structural racism and supplanting it with structural wellbeing.
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Chris Pape: Freedom Tunnel
First generation NYC graffiti writer, author, documentarian, archivist, and historian Chris Pape, AKA FREEDOM, tells his own surreptitious stories around the Upper West Side Manhattan train tunnel that was ultimately named after him. His decision to live on the streets and paint in the "Freedom" tunnel propelled him toward a career that he never could have imagined.
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Claw Money: Key To The City
World renowned graffiti writer, fashion designer, and cultural icon Claw Money recounts the many borders she had to cross in order to land in the space that she calls Claw & Co. When life puts a fence in your way, you climb it. When it puts a second one, you rip your pants.
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Bennington: Ghost Stories
Bennington alumni spanning four generations come together to share first person paranormal experiences and encounters they had on the small campus in Southern Vermont. As the stories unfold, striking parallels are drawn that prompt deep questions about space, who owns it, and who is not welcome to occupy it.
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Scotty Hard: The Hard Way
Musician, producer, and engineer Scott Harding tells a life-changing story about a fateful night in Brooklyn in 2008. The line that Scotty crossed that night was a line that he never asked to cross.
Customer Reviews
Wow amazing!
These stories are so emotional and powerful it will keep you locked into each episode from beginning to end. Great messages on how to persevere through some of life’s hardest challenges! Moving, intense, descriptive, entertaining and I giving! All the qualities of a must add to your playlist!
Eye opening and important to our existence
This show is made for us empaths who recognize the experience of others as valid without judgment. You’ll learn about individuals who live or feel life much“differently” than the majority of folk who falsely think that inherent privilege is something we can all have. I want to know what other humans go through and experience no matter what socioeconomic class or race and this show provides that glimpse.
Very interesting stories of real experiences
I found these tales of each individuals yard tales extremely interesting because they relate to current topics going on in todays world. They tell their stories in a very interesting and detailed way. I look forward to hearing more yard tales, keep them coming