Listening Events

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On September 24, 2025, we treated our ears and imagination to an evening of live listening to short audio documentaries and sound art on the theme of “resistance.” This public event, held at the historic 15th Street Quaker Meeting House, was like a film screening but without the pictures. We heard inspiring stories of people resisting in surprising ways both big and small.

Opening: Voices from two farmers’ markets

A.D.A. Now! (excerpt 35:24-40:34)
Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Throughline: NPR

Life After Prison (excerpt 11:04 – 15:55)
KalaLea
The New Yorker Radio Hour: WNYC Studios

The Art of Now: Guantanamo (excerpt 0:00-9:30)
Sarah Geis and Falling Tree Productions
BBC Radio 4

What does haka mean today? (excerpt 0:00-5:18)
Sarah Allely
Earshot: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Video: Powerful Maori Haka in New Zealand Parliament (New Zealand Parliament and Waatea News) plus Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke: The Haka Heard Around the World (excerpt), YOUKNOW MEDIA, The Morning Shift

Is Anybody Out There? Rebel radio, part 1 and part 2 (excerpt below)
Louise Morris
Outlook: BBC World Service

Siren Song
Kalli Anderson with melancholydi
Short Cuts: BBC Radio 4

In Between Silence
Talia Augustidis
Audio Flux

Nocturnal Flaneuses (subtitled video excerpt 18:22–25:20)
Stefanie Heim and Vivien Schütz
Deutschlandradio Kultur

4’33” (live performance by Will Coley)
John Cage

Audience Participation:
Sharing messages based on Quaker Worship

Edythe Eyde
Eric Marcus and Sara Burningham
Making Gay History Podcast