Hosted by Bryce Tolpen · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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Public Spaces chronicles two suburban émigrés' encounters with city people creating different kinds of local, public life. www.polidevo.com
Bryce Tolpen hosts Public Spaces, a society show with 16 episodes published.
One day I’ll write about my journey to a loving Black church in southern Middle Tennessee, but not today. My only preliminary today involves what a white man is doing in the pulpit of an otherwise Black church. When I st
Arabic is Nashville’s third most-spoken language, and around 80% of its speakers are Coptic Christians. Unlike members of almost every other U.S. Coptic community, most of Nashville’s Copts are working-class people. Yet
The genuine article, and with the video. — Bryce Coptic Christians who have moved from their Egyptian homeland to the United States face an unusual quandary. Since 2015, they have become for many American politicians and
You live in a neighborhood that’s been overlooked and oppressed for years. Neighbors are turning against neighbors, refusing to lend money or otherwise help one another out. Your neighborhood is a joke to the larger comm
Wes Tank of Milwaukee and Dewey Tron of Arlington, Virginia have left traditional, corporate video directing behind in favor of showcasing their cities’ neighborhoods. As government funding for traditional public media a
(18-min. podcast episode.) Several American cities have done rails to trails projects. In many ways, Milwaukee’s Beerline Trail is like most of the projects. Train service through Milwaukee’s Northeast industrial corrido
The Columbia Pike Documentary Project invites us to encounter one of the most diverse communities in the world. With people speaking over a hundred languages living together with little in the way of ethnic enclaves, Col
20-minute podcast episode. Our neighborhoods are most often like America’s Third Coast, a flyover region on our way to home or work. What would it take for our neighborhoods — urban, suburban, rural, small-town — to beco
11-minute podcast episode. What could liturgy and mutual aid have in common? Both are actions that, when done creatively, give all parties the freedom to respond in life-giving ways and to discover themselves in communit
26-minute podcast episode. Most Arlington teachers can’t afford to live in Arlington. While Victoria and I were teaching there, we met teachers and other school staff members who were fortunate to find affordable housing
Last year, two of my classes remixed prominent public messages in Arlington to critique them. Their model was Zaq Landsberg’s sculpture Reclining Liberty, a remix of the Statue of Liberty that has found her new site-spec
20-minute episode. In 2007, three recent college grads had no intention of starting Casa Chirilagua. But it happened. Casa now serves more than 100 families with after-school programs, mentorships, adult classes, and lea
Two days ago, Victoria and I visited the pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University. Because the District of Columbia isn’t willing at this point to take down the encampment, it’s one of the few encampmen
Meet Adam Henry, who creates both art and public spaces. The combination led to Adam’s appointment in January as Amazon HQ2’s first artist in residence. On our podcast, Adam shares his approaches—his literal approaches—t
In this more personal podcast episode, I speak with three envoys from our public God: * Bethany and I ride the bus and discuss interior design, urban planning, and her installation art. * A local paper objects to free bu
Bryce and Victoria move from the suburbs to the city. Bryce sells his car and tries out the bus service by heading to StudioPAUSE. There he meets Sushmita Mazumdar, an artist and a poet, whose stories and curated objects
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Public Spaces is hosted by Bryce Tolpen. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 16 episodes.
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