Election Updates, 'Where We Belong,' 2022 Debuts, Full Bio: Chuck Berry, Queens Jazz
WNYC's City Hall and politics reporter Brigid Bergin shares updates on major races the day after election day.
This month, as part of National Native American Heritage Month, the one-person play, "Where We Belong," is at The Public Theater. Written by Mohegan artist Madeline Sayet and directed by Mei Ann Teo, the play also stars Sayet performing as an indigenous theater-maker who moves to England in 2015 to study Shakespeare, where she finds comparisons between the colonialist legacies of both the UK and the United States. Sayet joins to discuss her play, which is showing until November 27.
In our latest installment of 2022 Debuts, we talk to Ryan Lee Wong, the administrative director of the Brooklyn Zen Center and now a novelist. He joins us to discuss his debut novel, Which Side Are You On, which tells the story of a young Asian man who wants to drop out of school to dedicate himself to the Black Lives Matter movement, and his mother, who has different opinions about activism and organizing.
For this month's Full Bio, we are discussing the life of music legend Chuck Berry, who some consider to be one of the architects of Rock n' Roll, with RJ Smith, author of the new biography Chuck Berry: An American Life.
We discuss the thriving jazz scene in Flushing, Queens, with jazz producer Clyde Bullard and saxophonist Camille Thurman ahead of the NEA Jazz Masters concert at Flushing Town Hall on Nov. 12.
