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Hosted by The DateKeepers · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 95 episodes
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Welcome to Let’s Have a Renaissance, a podcast about literature and the arts, where where authors, editors, artists, composers, and other creative professionals come together to discuss what it takes to build a sustainable career in the arts in the twenty-first century. If you enjoy the pod, help us keep it going by making a donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=HE5EAYSMNWB34&no_recurring=0&item_name=Thank+you+for+keeping+the+creative+community+strong%21+¤cy_code=USD
The DateKeepers hosts Let's Have a Renaissance: The DateKeepers Podcast with Itto and Mekiya Outini, a arts show with 95 episodes published.
In this special episode, visual artist and filmmaker Matt Marello shares the origins of his creative practice, an inexplicable encounter with an archetypal object from another dimension. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fel
In this episode, we speak with composer Joe Cantrell about anthropomorphism, hoarding, planned obsolescence, the invention of the teenager, and smelly drums. Joe works with objects that are outmoded, cast-off, or broken
In this episode, we speak with poet and philosopher Troy Jollimore about problematic concept creep in philosophy and translation, why so much contemporary philosophy is stilted, and why it’s so hard to write a love poem.
In this episode, we speak with Tampa Bay-area painter Keith Crowley about defamiliarizing the mundane, the creative power of sustained attention, and how his background as a not-completely-gruntled homeschooler has shape
In this episode, we speak with composer Marti Epstein about classical music: what it is, why so many people think they hate it, and how to solve a marketing problem that’s now over a century old. Marti began her career a
In this episode, we speak with poet and journalist Christopher Merrill about being stranded at the US embassy in Kabul, why creativity depends on mortality, a memorable run-in with Gabriel García Márquez, and why you sho
In this episode, we speak with multimedia artist Lesley Dill about the nature and function of language, the enduring power of Emily Dickinson, life in India, the difference between loneliness and isolation, and what it’s
In this episode, we speak with composer Bobby Ge about linguistic and cultural hybridity, how to pass off anything as “American,” and what to do when you see a businessman carrying a Hello Kitty parasol. Bobby’s composit
In this episode, we speak with author Connie Squires about how to balance thematic unity with differentiation in a story collection, the vapidity of middle-class suburban fiction, and what constitutes “gritty realism.” C
In this episode, we speak with composer Ray Lustig and audio engineer Maximilien Hein about the importance of trust, the productive symbiosis of creativity and technical skills, and their latest collaboration, an opera a
In this episode, we speak with painter Julie Heffernan about getting lost in the woods with a baby, the Winchester Mystery House, the hidden wisdom encoded in paintings, flowers, nutmeg, Amitav Ghosh, volcanos, and the s
In this episode, we speak with poet and art writer Dean Rader about the convergence of the visual and verbal arts, what makes a poem, and the fraught relationship of critic to audience. Dean has authored or contributed t
In this episode, we speak with author and MacDowell fellow John Dalton about marketing excellent novels that seem to lack mass appeal, emergent developments in AI writing, and the future of authorship. John is the author
In this episode, we speak with painter Kati Gegenheimer about one of her favorite subjects, luck: what it is, whether it exists at all, and what role—if any—it plays in residency applications. Besides luck, Kati’s work a
In this episode, we speak with Cape Cod artist Sheryl Jaffe about the art of papermaking, the properties and uses of various organic materials, and how to think more productively about invasive species in a mixed-up and
In this episode, we speak with Super Lawyer Elissa D. Hecker, who takes on several common misconceptions about intellectual property, trademark, and copyright law and shares what she thinks every writer and artist needs
In this episode, we speak with oil painter David Molesky about the importance of legitimate alternatives to college, the role of AI in the breakdown of higher education in the West, and the threat potentially posed to vi
In this episode, we speak with composer Anthony Gatto about the evolution of music in the 20th century, imitation vs. innovation, whether the American dream is still alive for immigrant artists, and what he learned from
In this episode, we speak with poet Michele Wolf about rebuilding communities in the wake of the pandemic, the importance of in-person readings, why emerging poets are struggling to publish debuts, and her own latest col
In this episode, we speak with Kamala Sankaram, creator of the world’s first virtual reality opera, about online reading habits, comic books, tree growth, and data mining. A composer, a classically trained sitarist, and
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