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Life After Telling the Truth on Yourself (Live with Amanda Palmer at Rubin Museum)

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Welcome back to another live episode of Podcast Noor!
We went into this conversation with the intention of talking about “telling the truth on yourself” - vague, but also specific. Everyone has their own experience with what that means.
Throughout the conversation, Amanda and I zoomed in and out of the personal and the collective with what it means to tell the Truth, to tell Your Truth, and the barriers to doing so. 
This candid conversation is a series of confessions, catharsis, community, and an important reminder inspired by the memory of the late great Sinead O’Connor to: “stop treating women like shit while they’re alive.” 
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Produced and filmed at the Rubin Museum of Art; hosted by Tim McHenry.
For more information about the Rubin, please visit rubinmuseum.org.
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Breaking Barriers Through Movement: Live Panel Conversation in Partnership with On

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Hello beautiful community, welcome back to Podcast Noor. This episode is a special live panel conversation. We recorded this podcast panel a few days before the 2023 New York City Marathon as one part of a partnership with the sportswear brand ON (www.on-running.com), and their social impact arm called Right To Run. On has been my go-to, for walking, running, working, out, and they just feel like clouds on my feet.

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This conversation is about democratizing movement and what it really looks like to make movement and exercise accessible for all people. Our three panelists come from different experiences, Gaby Alcala being indigenous and an immigrant, Derek Drescher navigating addiction and homelessness, and Senn van Beek finding or rather creating safe spaces for folks. You'll hear me introduce them fully in the episode.

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We are in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the On store in their upstairs community space. Before people were able to enter, they were greeted by my Mama and the Founder of ISeeYou Foundation (www.isyfoundation.org), where every attendee made an ISeeYou care package for people experiencing homelessness in New York City.

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Around 50 of us gathered upstairs with pizza and the delightful On team, and we got into our bodies and got vulnerable about obstacles that we find in our way.

My favorite part of this event was how engaged community members were. This is a very full conversation, voices from all over the world. The energy in the room is of collective healing and collective winning. Everyone is rooting for the other even when fear is present. And you'll hear my own experience when I share my fears around running and an audience member stops me in my tracks.

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We are so excited to share more from our project with On's Right To Run. For now, enjoy this storytelling session on breaking barriers to movement. I'm Noor, At Your Service.

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(This is an upload from Ep 10 of our 2022 Webby-Nominated Investigation: REP: A Story About The Stories We Tell)

Listen at ⁠www.ays.media/rep⁠

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Politics, Pop Culture, and Public Opinion. We call them the 3Ps; and they are at play in the stories that define our world and shape our beliefs.

Featuring an exclusive interview with Bella Hadid, we consider how the dehumanization of Palestinian People has shaped America. To examine how Public Opinion determines what we think and feel, we focus on Palestine, not as an issue, but as a people.

Story Guides include: Bella Hadid, Aymann Ismail, Dr. James Zogby, Nadine Naber, Peter Beinart, and Dalia Mogahed.

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37. What Goes Into A Sarah Bahbah Vision? On Thinking in Subtitles, Reclaiming Her Arab Culture, Unlearning Shame Through Art, and More.

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Welcome to the Season Two Finale of Podcast Noor: the dreamy world of one of our generation's most prolific artists. 

Sarah Bahbah is a Palestinian-Jordanian artist, and director born and raised in Australia now living in Los Angeles. Sarah‘s photographs are the stuff dreams are made of: color, luxury, romance, heartache, endless curated food spreads and almost always, paired with a perfectly curated subtitle. Her photograph series often feel like films, and when she's in director mode sometimes they actually do become dreamy films.

Photography, film and writing are mediums Sarah uses to process her feelings into art. Sarah also comes from the ad world; she founded her creative agency Possy in 2016 and has worked with brands like Gucci, Conde Nast, Capital Records, Sony Music and GQ.

Early 2023, Sarah  self-published her first book, the fine art book titled, "Dear Love" featuring a decade of her work, as well as raw and vulnerable life stories. She opens up Intimately about her experience with childhood sexual abuse, and even interviews her father about his experience of being forced to leave his homeland of Palestine, and never really feeling at home anywhere else.

And of course as someone who relates to the experience of growing up in an Arab household, I really dig into asking about Sarah‘s relationship with her parents and how they feel about her work, and Sarah so graciously shares very openly. 

This is such a loving final episode of the season, Sarah does not hold back and I really think you guys are going to enjoy this conversation. 

Welcome to the Season Two Finale of Podcast Noor. 

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🎶 Theme Music: "Thunderdome (W.T.A)" by Portugal. The Man / @portugaltheman 

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Some Questions Asked in This Episode:

What goes into a Sarah Bahbah vision? 

How did art find you?

How did you approach interviewing your father? 

What did you find in your journey of belonging?

How do you define love and ego today? 

What was your process of reclaiming your culture?

Are there any women in your family who engaged with art?

Walk us through your choice to self-publish a 500 page fine art photography book with beautiful words.

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Seun Kuti on his Father Fela’s Legacy, Matriarchy in His Family, What it Means to be a Pan-African Revolutionary, Racism in North Africa, and More.

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3, 2, 1…

Live from the iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem, our next storyteller hails from Lagos, Nigeria. Seun Kuti is an artist and the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. He has spent most of his life preserving and extending his father's political and musical legacy as the leader of his father's former band, Egypt 80.

Since his father’s passing, Seun has revived The Movement of the People. M.O.P is a Nigerian left-wing pan-African political movement started by Fela and thanks to Seun’s grassroots efforts, it’s been making a come back. 

We sat down at the Apollo Theater shortly before he and his band perform their show “Africa Now!”

In this episode, we talk about how Fela’s legacy has been misinterpreted and celebrated, the role of matriarchy in the Kuti family and how this was the foundation of their anti-colonial work. We dig into the pan-African revolution, the trap of being a rebel without a cause, addressing North African racism and more.

PS: Remember the artist Mumu Fresh, who scored our “REP” investigation? She has some questions for Seun, artist to artist, and so we passed those along too. 

Welcome back to Podcast Noor.

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Transcripts + Listening: ⁠⁠www.ays.media/podcastnoor/seunkuti⁠

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🎶 Theme Music: "Thunderdome (W.T.A)" by Portugal. The Man / @portugaltheman 

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Some Questions Asked in This Episode:

How did matriarchy in your family shape your worldview?

What is your personal relationship with religion and spirituality and how it has been weaponized in your life?

When in your life did you realize how radical and different your father Fela Kuti was?

Did you feel pressure in continuing your father’s legacy? 

Do you remember the questions that you were asking in your head when you lost your father Fela?

How are you choosing to use music as a tool to relay the message of Pan-Africanism and the Movement of The People?

How do future generations avoid these states of oppression?

How do younger generations make work towar⁠ds those connections so that they can protect the future?

How do we actually create this space to not only support the younger generations so that they have what they need and the resources they need to make those better connections to aim for that sense of unity and peace and thriving versus what we're doing to them today?

What do you believe are the impacts of Afro-Pop being elevated on a global stage?

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