We spoke with Leah Dixon, an artist and founder of Beverly's, an artist-run bar and exhibition space which recently relocated to 297 Grand Street. Beverly's is an art world favorite that has been in the Lower East Side neighborhood...
Host Traven Rice talked with legendary street photographers Martha Cooper and Clayton Patterson at a live recording of The Lo-Down Culture Cast at their exhibition, Concrete Chronicles, at City Lore.
It was a full house at the City Lore gallery (56 E. 1st St.). The...
Here's a special episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast, recorded live at Catalyst Records in Essex Market.
Pianist & composer Grant Richards and drummer Roberto Giaquinto joined host Traven Rice to talk about the hustle of being a jazz musician...
Ali Rosa-Salas is a curator whose approach is rooted in the belief that curatorial practice must serve the public good. She talked with host Traven Rice about the history of the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement and...
Dora Grossman-Weir speaks with Culture Cast host Traven Rice about making wine fun and accessible at two new delicious spots in the neighborhood.
https://youtu.be/OrGo2DBJvzs
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Dora Grossman-Weir is a hospitality professional with a focus on...
Lower East Side artist and activist Laura Nova spoke with The Lo-Down Culture Cast host Traven Rice about creating inter-generational projects with a wide array of people from the Lower East Side neighborhood.
Nova is an artist, educator, and...
On the latest episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast, photographer Whitney Browne talks with Host Traven Rice about her debut Book, "Candy Store - A Behind-the-Counter Look at Ray’s Candy Store, One of NYC’s Most Beloved Sweets Slinging Stalwarts."...
Host Traven Rice talked with Immanual Oni and Debra Jeffreys-Glass about the Chrystie Street African Burial Ground's new memorial installation, HALO. The work is located at the entrance to the M'Finda Kalunga Garden, on Rivington Street, between Forsythe and...
Host Traven Rice spoke with Lower East Side artist Marja Samsom. Samsom is an international artist and filmmaker, whose work confronts and exposes cultural issues with elegant wit. Poised within 1970’s international avant-garde, her early works are experiments in...
Host Traven Rice spoke with founder Mark DeGarmo of Mark DeGarmo Dance, who has been based on the Lower East Side for over 30 years.
https://youtu.be/-AVpJxpAFdA?si=hh1pkJp42a54r9ml
As an artist and scholar, his work investigates embodied imagination, improvisational composition, and nonverbal/non-discursive ways...
