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Luciannys Camacho is a Dominican filmmaker, illustrator and sequential artist based in the NYC with a passion for comics, storytelling, and all things colorful. She is continuing her journey through comics and is currently pitching her first graphic novel based on her short film “Check Yes!” called Heroes Circle. She has done work for clients like IDW, Hasbro, Tapas Media, and Wacom. She currently holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 3D Animation and Visual Effects. Connect with her on ...

Enjoy this special Live N' Local concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing “Mostly French” – a chamber concert, featuring the arrangements of Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean, recorded live at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood NYC on June 4, 2023. Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture Claude Debussy - Petite Suite · En bateau · Cortege · Menuet · Ballet Gabriel Pierne - Concertstuck for Harp and Orchestra. Featured performance by Vi...

This is our 2023 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 1. It’s where we take a pause at this midway point, look back at the first part of 2023, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcat that has appeared throughout the first half of the fourth season of our On Air podcast. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick. A curated mixtape of clashing styles and diverse forms with one thing in common – they all hail from the music...

Recording live from the Inwood Film Festival in Inwood in NYC on May 25, 2023, welcome to this very special edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live! Inwood Art Works Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms had the pleasure of speaking with local Inwood resident, playwright, and screen writer of the "The Whale", Samuel D. Hunter. We recorded the podcast on location for the first time in front of a live audience who have just finished screening the award winning film to kick off the 6th annu...

Recording live from the Inwood Film Festival in Inwood in NYC on May 25, 2023, welcome to this very special edition of Inwood Art Works On Air Live! Inwood Art Works Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms had the pleasure of speaking with the man who made “the run” - Inwood’s own John “Chick” Donohue, and producer of “THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER”, Andrew Muscato. We recorded the podcast on location in front of a live audience, who have just finished watching the Inwood-based true-life tale...

A Montreal native, Jason Huza and his wife Denise moved to the city simply to live amidst great theater. Shortly thereafter, he tried his hand at writing a play. Then a musical. Then they had twins. Then they had one more. And several years of chaos later, he wrote the book and lyrics for the new musicals: It Happened in Key West is set for US Premier in January 2024 at the Fulton Opera House, The Last Match is just off a series of sold-out events at White Eagle Hall, and The Crossing, which was...

Ruth Cunningham is a classically trained musician, a sound healing practitioner, and a founding member of Anonymous 4. She combines these skills to improvise music that connects people to the healing and spiritual power of music. She specializes in improvisational sacred music from varied spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings. Her solo program Light and Shadow encompasses a mixture of music including several traditional chants from Western and Eastern traditions as well as...

Jeanine McAdam is a long time Northern Manhattan resident that loves our community, and she channeled that love to co-creating and overseeing Heightsites.com, a website and newsletter dedicated to sharing the wonderful artistic and cultural events happening in Washington Heights and Inwood. Heightsites covers cultural events river to river, from 155th Street to the Northern tip of Manhattan. www.heightsites.com

Inwood Art Works celebrates 150 episodes of our On Air podcast with this special podcast. When we hit a milestone, we like to take a moment to recognize it. If you didn’t know it, Inwood Art Works On Air is the only podcast dedicated to profiling the artists that reside in Northern Manhattan. For this episode we would like to do something a bit different and unique for our listening audience. The interviewer shall becomes the interviewee, as our host, Aaron Simms, is put on the hotseat and will ...

Jeanne Jalandoni is a painter and textile artist born and based in New York City. Her practice involves personal research, relating family stories to historic Filipino American archives, in order to draw out a mythological narrative that traces the complexities of inheriting two cultures. Jeanne received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University, and has had solo shows with Taymour Grahne Projects, Real Art Ways, the Little Underground Gallery, and the Berkshire Art Museum. She has exhibit...

Lena Kaminsky studied acting at Emerson College and has been working in the theater and film world for over 20 years. As an actor, she has worked in tv, film and regional theaters around the country. She has written two full length plays Salvage and Ursa Major. Little Mouse a short film (written and directed) is her first film and is currently making its way through the festival circuit. In addition to the Inwood Film Festival, it has screened in Los Angeles and NYC (Audience Award) at Dances Wi...

In this episode, we welcome Natalie Espino and Ryan Pinchot from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. Located on the Audubon Terrace Broadway between 155th and 156th streets, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library was founded by Archer Milton Huntington in 1904, as a free, public museum and library for the study of the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines. HSM&L houses a vast collection of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and photographs, as well as sc...

Jeff Hoppa is a New York-based visual artist. His oil paintings on panel and works on paper celebrate the history of exploration, the natural world, and the metamorphic potential of abstraction. His inspirations run the gamut from rock formations at Joshua Tree National Park, where he was Artist-in-Residence in 2007, to the inner ear bones of narwhals at The American Museum of Natural History. www.jeffhoppa.com

Raun Ruffin has performed on and off Broadway in such productions as The Civil War and The York Theater Company’s Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope. Regional Theater credits include five separate productions of Five Guys Named Moe, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Faust, Some Enchanted Evening, and Dreamgirls. Tours include the European leg of “Sophisticated Ladies” and the North American tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Brian Morales is a composer who thrives on the communal participation of music and storytelling. He is most widely known for his orchestration of John Doyle’s The Color Purple, which featured Cynthia Erivo. From a young age, Disney’s Fantasia has always inspired Brian: The combination of expressive and extroverted visuals mixed with dynamic, melodramatic music is an element that regularly dominates his creative output. Many have complimented his music for its emotional catharsis and descriptive,...

Chen Drachman is an Israeli-American, award-winning actress and filmmaker based in NYC. She was a film and TV major in high school in Israel specializing in scriptwriting, producing and editing. She became a permanent resident through an application of excellence in the field of production. Her acting credits include Last Week Tonight, and The Path, starring Aaron Paul. Chen's first film, The Book of Ruth, starring Tony and Emmy Awards nominee, Tovah Feldshuh, has been in numerous festivals in ...

Colin Alistair Campbell is an actor, writer, producer and newly minted director. His debut short, "Patricia Says Goodbye," is a narrative drama that screened as part of the 2023 Inwood Film Festival. His second, most recent short is "Fundamental Shapes," a gentle romantic comedy. "Fundamental Shapes" is in the middle of its festival run and has garnered the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Film at the Indy Shorts Film Festival in Indianapolis (an Oscar-qualifying festival), and the Jury ...

Gabrielle Lamb is a choreographer and 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is based in NYC, where she directs Pigeonwing Dance, described by The New Yorker as “eccentric…playful…curious”. Her work has also been presented by the American Ballet Theatre Incubator, the New York Choreographic Institute, the MIT Museum, BalletX, the Juilliard School, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ballet Collective, Whim W’HIM, Jacob’s Pillow, and Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center. She has won fellowships and competitions at Hubbard ...

Xianix Barrera is a Bessie award nominated flamenco dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in New York City. Female empowerment, sexual identity and social justice color her choreographic work and create the focal point for the company she founded in 2012; Xianix Barrera Flamenco Company. With a background in dance and percussive studies, Xianix has dedicated herself to the lifelong study of flamenco with the masters of the art form in both New York and Spain. Throughout her career she has wor...

Mike Fitelson passions have charted him through many careers. From teaching underserved 5th grade students in a Harlem classroom, to helping build community as Photographer, Reporter, Editor, Associate Publisher the bilingual community newspaper, The Manhattan Times, to helping reestablish The United Palace as a historic theatre and destination for the metropolitan area. www.unitedpalace.org

Pedro H. da Silva is a multicultural composer, equally at home writing for orchestra, for film, a Middle Eastern ensemble, and his rock band Tritone King. He’s also an innovator of the Portuguese guitar, classical guitar, and other plucked string instruments. Pedro has performed and recorded his own works as a soloist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the London Metropolitan Orchestra, and Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris, among others. The José Limón Dance Company commissioned Pedro to ...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert featuring an introduction to the instruments of the wind quintet in arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. We shameless titled the concert The Mighty Winds in tribute to the instruments, and it was recorded live on September 10, 2023 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood, NYC. Program: Georges Bizet - Suite from Carmen Giacomo Puccini - Un Bel Di from Madame...

Welcome to a special concert edition of our On Air podcast featuring the Double Entendre Music Ensemble performing a Holiday Concert Featuring a performance of highlights from George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker arranged by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. The concert was recorded live on December 3, 2023 at Good Shepherd Auditorium in Inwood, NYC. Holiday Concert Program: Excerpts from The Nutcracker - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Overture Miniature ...

This is our 2023 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 2. It’s where we take a pause at this end of the season, look back at the second part of 2023, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcasts that has appeared throughout the second half of the fourth season of Inwood Art Works On Air. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick. A curated mixtape of clashing styles and diverse forms with one thing in common – they all hail ...