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KPFA - APEX ExpressAPEX Express – August 14, 2025A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.
In this two-part series of Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s “Let’s Talk” podcast Eastside Arts Alliance is featured. Elena Serrano and Susanne Takehara, two of the founders of Eastside Arts Alliance, and staff member Aubrey Pandori will discuss the history that led to the formation of Eastside and their deep work around multi-racial solidarity.
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2025-08-1459 min
Eyes On WhitenessEyes on whiteness with Dohee LeeDohee Lee (She/Her) is an artist, Ritualist and Educator. She was born on Jeju Island in South Korea, now, living in Huichin unceded Ohlone territory Oakland, CA as a 1st generation immigrant. Her creative vision comes from traditional Korean music, singing, drumming and dance which is rooted in Korean indigenous ritual. Since her arrival in the US she has been a vital contributor to both the traditional and contemporary arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She utilizes art to heal fractured relationships in the urban environment – relationships between humans and the land, histories and sto...
2022-10-2553 min
Beyond the CouchThe Art of Authentic Dating with Samuel ShinThis week, Diana and Samuel Shin talk about healthy and fulfilling ways to embrace one’s masculinity/femininity, sexuality, self-confidence, and dating. They explore the challenges and hurdles that men, in particular, often face when it comes to dating and relationships, overcoming attachment issues, and connecting with their authentic selves. They also delve into the specific challenges that many Asian-American men confront, such as attuning to their emotions, open communication, and building up the self while existing in a collective culture; as well as the importance of establishing self-confidence to connect genuinely with others.Samuel (he/him) is...
2022-09-2828 min
Prints UneditedSeason 2, Episode 7: Alec LichtenbergAlec Lichtenberg is an embodied storyteller, educator, and youth advocate based in New York City (Lenapehoking). He comes from German Jewish and Irish Catholic ancestry and aims to forward racial equity and social justice through his work. Growing in a loving home, Alec was medicated against his will for ADHD as a child. Later, he found tools of self-connection and repair by studying dance/storytelling, particularly forms of the African Diaspora, with master teachers Chris Walker, Dohee Lee, Anna Halprin, and Reverend Nafisa Sharriff.As an artist/researcher, Alec is interested in exploring perspectives on the intelligence...
2021-11-1240 min
DanceOutsideDanceDohee Lee in conversation with Laura ColombanRecorded in July 2020, in the midst of the first wave of pandemic lockdown, between Italy and California, Laura and Dohee talk about the power of intention and vibrating materials in relationship with community work, equality and immigration. They talk about the capitalistic sense of time and matriarchal rhythm, and voice as a medium and doorway to purge, land, call and response to past and present times. They discuss how facilitators have now the responsibility to enhance the participants responsiveness and responsibility to become active, and how to create healthy collaborative leadership programs. Real collaboration requires time for listening....
2021-05-051h 03
Raw MaterialOtherworld Episode 2: The CeremonyA folk musician conducts an ayahuasca ceremony, a performance artist describes her shamanic rituals, and a pioneer of conceptual art communes with animals and inhabits his own unconscious.
Image: Joseph Beuys, I Like America And America Likes Me, 1974.
Artists featured in this episode: Santiparro, Dohee Lee, Joseph Beuys.
2016-10-1720 minRaw MaterialOtherworld Episode 2: The CeremonyA folk musician conducts an ayahuasca ceremony, a performance artist describes her shamanic rituals, and a pioneer of conceptual art communes with animals and inhabits his own unconscious.
Image: Joseph Beuys, I Like America And America Likes Me, 1974.
Artists featured in this episode: Santiparro, Dohee Lee, Joseph Beuys.
2016-10-1720 min
Raw MaterialOtherworld Episode 1: The VesselA performance artist, a philosopher, a violinist, and a new age composer make art by harnessing unknown forces, deities, and interdimensional beings. An artist at the turn of the twentieth century holds a séance with spirits and gives birth to abstract painting.
Photo of Dohee Lee by Pak Han.
2016-10-0320 minRaw MaterialOtherworld Episode 1: The VesselA performance artist, a philosopher, a violinist, and a new age composer make art by harnessing unknown forces, deities, and interdimensional beings. An artist at the turn of the twentieth century holds a séance with spirits and gives birth to abstract painting.
Photo of Dohee Lee by Pak Han.
2016-10-0320 min
KPFA - The Hear and NowThe Hear & Now – April 8, 2010Berkeley saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs (http://www.ochs.cc/) of Rova Saxophone Quartet drops by to preview a new CD by his band Kihnoua, with Korean vocalist Dohee Lee and drummer Scott Amendola. He talks with Derk Richardson about the project (which includes guest performances by Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Carla Kihlstedt, and others) and about what's in store for the Kihnoua concert this Saturday, April 10, at the Jazz School in Berkeley.
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2010-04-0917 min