2023 California 'Genius' Grantees On Art, Community, and Place

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Manuel Muñoz is the son of immigrant farm laborers from California’s Central Valley whose four works of fiction center the lives of Mexican-American communities in the region. Patrick Makuakane is a native Hawaiian and San Francisco-based kumu hula, or master teacher, who created a unique form of hula that blends traditional movements with contemporary music. They’re among five Californians who have been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship this year. We talk to them about what the award means to them and their communities and how themes of love, class, sexuality and identity suffuse their art. Guests: Patrick Makuakane, A kumu hula, or master hula teacher; director of Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wakiu, a San Francisco-based dance company blending modern music and themes with traditional Hula Movements. Manuel Munoz, fiction writer and creative writing professor, University of Arizona. He writes about California's Central Valley where he was born and raised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.
1:16.8	Coming up on forum, we meet two California winners of the MacArthur Fellowship,
1:21.1	who the master Patrick Makua Kane and writer Manuel Munoz both learned in October they were being honored with an $800,000 stipend for
1:28.8	their work. Makua Kane's innovative and transformative hula has pushed cultural boundaries,
1:34.1	and Munoz's fictional short stories draw from his experience growing up in California's
1:38.3	Central Valley. We'll talk to them about how themes of love, class, and sexual identity suffuse
1:43.9	their art, and what being
1:45.7	recognized as a MacArthur genius means to them. Join us.
2:00.0	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
2:03.1	Manuel Punoz is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, who grew up in a family of farmworkers in California's Central Valley.
2:11.2	His forworks of fiction center the lives of Mexican Americans in the region.
2:15.5	Patrick Makua Kane is a native Hawaiian and San Francisco-based Kumu Hula, or Master
2:20.2	Teacher, whose unique form of Hula blends traditional movements with contemporary music
2:25.3	at the school and company he leads called Nale Hulu Ika Wakeu.
2:30.1	Munoz and Makua Kane are among five Californians who have been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship this year.
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