Facilitating A“We Live Here” Podcast Community Meeting with St. Louis Public Radio - This Thursday, October 10, 2024
Anyone that is going to be in the St. Louis area this Thursday can come to a set of small group discussions about racial, gender, and socio-economic issues that have long plagued the St. Louis area with the goal of making the region a better place.
I’m going to take part in this discussion by being one of the facilitators so that the station can record the thoughts and discussions of community members so that the station can be more informed about the state of where things stand in the region on these important topics.
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Upcoming Panel Discussion: "A Taxi Driver" Post Film Screening
I’ve been invited to speak after a screening of the 2017 South Korean film “A Taxi Driver” by the Gateway Korea Foundation on Thursday, May 19, 2022. In this movie based on a true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens revolting. I’ve been told that my contribution would be to talk about my experience of "bearing witness" to the events that I’ve covered as a journalist and documentarian.
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Upcoming Panel Discussion: Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées) @ Webster University
I’ve been invited by the Alliance Française de St. Louis and the Centre Francophone at Webster University to be part of a panel discussion entitled, “Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées): Saint Louis” on the main campus of Webster University. The subject of the discussion is “Where is the Lou Headed: Between the Pandemic and the War”. I’ll be one of at least 11 people of various professional backgrounds trying to wrestle this subject as we give our views from our given perspectives.
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