Twenty Summers presents Mozelle & Mike Flanagan (featuring Cliff Lechy) LIVE at Truro Vineyards of Cape Cod, Truro, MA, July 16, 2021 – Part 1 of 2 Mozelle Andrulot grew up in Eastham and attended Lesley University where she studied Liberal Arts. Her career has taken her to New York City and London where she performed at the SoHo House in both cities. Here on the Cape, she’s performed at Mahony’s, Tin Pan Alley, The Muse and regularly with Zoë Lewis’s Bootleggers show in Provincetown. She ha...
Sep 14, 2021•36 min•Ep. 65
Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to convene communal dialogue around culture, social issues, and existential questions. At the core of her practice lies a desire to empower and inspire tenderness and healing among communities of color through the arts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Pace University and a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She's bee...
Aug 04, 2021•28 min•Ep. 61
Brian Vines is a Chicagoan by birth and a New Yorker by choice. After completing the Masters Program in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication he fetched coffee for some of the most respected journalists and news figures in the world during his tenure at CNN. After a stint in political communications Brian fell in love with his own reflection and reported for here! networks, NYC-TV, Brooklyn Independent Media, the internationally syndicated VJIAM show, and Broad Ban...
Aug 04, 2021•39 min•Ep. 64
Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a design director at MASS Design Group and a Ford-Mellon Disability Futures fellow, whose work explores the relationships between architecture, landscape, and power. Jeffrey is a recipient of a Graham Foundation grant and a John W. Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress for his work on Architecture of Deafness, which explores how Deaf schools and other Deaf Spaces emerged as sites of cultural resistance. Jeffrey holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Grad...
Aug 04, 2021•41 min•Ep. 59
Shaina Feinberg is a writer/director from New York City. Her book Every Body – a candid look at sex from every angle – came out in January 2021 from Little, Brown. Her bi-weekly column in The New York Times, "Scratch" is an illustrated look at the world of business. Shaina is also a filmmaker who specializes in micro-budget filmmaking. In 2019, she was named by Indiewire as 1 of 25 queer filmmakers to watch. She has directed two original series for Audible: Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, starr...
Aug 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 62
Raymond Antrobus was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and author of ‘The Perseverance’ and 'All The Names Given' both being published in the US this year by Tin House. His first children's picturebook 'Can Bears Ski?' illustrated by Polly Dunbar is published by Candlewick Press. His work has been featured on NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Lit Hub, POETRY Magazine among others. His accolades include a Ted Hughes Award, Sunday Times/University of Warwick ...
Aug 04, 2021•35 min•Ep. 60
Interviewer: Brian Vines Maynard Monrow was born in Hollywood, California and currently lives in New York City. Monrow received his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. His work has been exhibited at numerous institutions and galleries including: The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Gavlak Gallery LA and Palm Beach; Booth Gallery, New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY and ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005). He h...
Aug 04, 2021•38 min•Ep. 63
Join author Claudia Rankine and filmmaker John Lucas for a screening of and Q&A about the latest in their Situations series.
Aug 04, 2021•45 min•Ep. 58
Poets Jaswinder Bolina and Victoria Chang virtually gathered to discuss their latest books — Jaswinder’s first essay collection Of Color (McSweeney’s, 2020) and Victoria’s 2020 National Book Award longlisted Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) — as well as artistic influences and a new generation of poetry. Jaswinder Bolina is an American writer. His first collection of essays Of Color was published by McSweeney’s in June 2020. His most recent collection of poetry The 44th of July was released by O...
Nov 05, 2020•59 min•Ep. 57
Twenty Summers was thrilled to host our first joint-residency with director and photographer Dawit N.M. & writer and photographer Gioncarlo Valentine earlier this October, and to hear them talk about the residency experience, projects they have (and have attempted) to collaborate on, and other projects they have worked on during COVID-19. Dawit N.M. is a director and photographer currently based in New York. Born in 1996 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he later moved to Hampton Roads, Virginia, wi...
Nov 03, 2020•57 min•Ep. 56
Authors Diane Cook and Lydia Kiesling join the first-ever Twenty Summers virtual festival to talk about their recent novels, The New Wilderness (Harper, 2020) and The Golden State (Picador, 2019), respectively, both of which examine motherhood, the state of the world, and glimpses at even darker futures in unique, funny, and sometimes devastating ways. Diane Cook is the author of the novel, The New Wilderness , currently nominated for a Booker Prize, and the story collection, Man V. Nature , whi...
Oct 27, 2020•1 min•Ep. 55
Visual artist and podcaster Elise Peterson talks with author Shayla Lawson about her recent book, This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls & Being Dope , as well as their first Prince concerts, Mariah Carey, Frank Ocean, American Dolls, toxic masculinity, cancel culture, Black girl magic, and so much more. Shayla Lawson is the author of This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls & Being Dope (Harper Perennial, 2020) and three poetry collections: I Think I’m Ready to See Frank O...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 54
Twenty Summers was thrilled to welcome author & journalist Jenna Wortham in residence at the Hawthorne Barn this past September, and to host a virtual conversation with photographer Naima Green. Naima Green’s exhibit Brief & Drenching is on view at Fotografiksa until February 2021, and Jenna Wortham’s Black Futures , co-edited by Kimberly Drew, will be published by Penguin Random House in December 2020. For more virtual arts programming please visit https://www.20summers.org Jenna Wortha...
Oct 20, 2020•59 min•Ep. 53
Alaya Dawn Johnson joins Twenty Summers’ first virtual arts festival from Mexico, where she’ll take us on a walk up a path from the village she now calls home, as well as answer questions about her latest novel, Trouble the Saints (Tor Books, 2020). FROM THE PUBLISHER : “Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story...in a word: awesome.” —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical e...
Oct 16, 2020•24 min•Ep. 52
Francesca Ekwuyasi joins Twenty Summers for our first virtual arts programming to read from her recently released novel Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), an intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. FROM THE PUBLISHER : Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of ...
Oct 15, 2020•45 min•Ep. 51
Immunologist Dr. Carl June, medical oncologist Dr. David Porter, and Loxo Oncology at Lilly CEO Dr. Josh Bilenker gathered virtually early in September to discuss Dr. Porter’s and Dr. June’s groundbreaking immunotherapy work, how work follows them home, and the course of their careers in this lively, moving discussion on what it means to care for those who are running out of hope. Dr. Carl H. June is an American immunologist and oncologist. He is currently the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immun...
Oct 13, 2020•56 min•Ep. 50
Esteemed poets Heid E. Erdrich and Eric Gansworth join visual artist Andrea Carlson in conversation to celebrate the release of Heid E. Erdrich’s latest, Little Big Bully (Penguin Group, 2020), and Eric Gansworth’s Apple: (skin to the Core) (Levine Querido, 2020), both out on October 6th, 2020. The longtime friends talk procrastination, expectations to act as cultural informants, and much more. Interspersed throughout the discussion are readings from Little Big Bully and Apple: (skin to the Core...
Oct 06, 2020•57 min•Ep. 49
Recorded by Twenty Summers on August 18, 2020. All Rights Reserved. Authors Damon Young and Rion Amilcar Scott kick off the first-ever virtual Twenty Summers festival with an epic, sprawling conversation about barbershops, Covid’s impacted on their work, Lovecraft Country , humor in writing, I May Destroy You , Kanye West, Black success, and the perils of white validation. Damon Young is a writer, critic, humorist, satirist, and professional Black person. He's a co-founder and editor in chief of...
Sep 28, 2020•59 min•Ep. 48
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Nov 24, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 47
"Meet Jeremy O. Harris: The Queer Black Savior the Theater World Needs." So read a recent headline in Out magazine; Vogue anointed him “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation." The hype is understandable. Though still in his final semester at Yale Drama School while this conversation was filmed, Harris has had two plays in production Off Broadway before runaway Broadway success with SlavePlay. Daddy, the second, stars Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet. Joining him on our very own sta...
Nov 24, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 45
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on May 31, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 39
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Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 46
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on June 15, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•35 min•Ep. 44
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on May 17, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•33 min•Ep. 43
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on June 7, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•24 min•Ep. 42
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on June 7, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•48 min•Ep. 41
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on May 26, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 38
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on May 25, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•48 min•Ep. 37
Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on May 25, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.
Nov 16, 2019•54 min•Ep. 36
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Nov 16, 2019•30 min•Ep. 35
