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Colin Alistair Campbell is an actor, writer, producer and newly minted director. His debut short, “Patricia Says Goodbye,” is a narrative drama that screened as part of the 2023 Inwood Film Festival. His second, most recent short is “Fundamental Shapes,” a gentle romantic comedy. “Fundamental Shapes” is in the middle of its festival run and has garnered the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Film at the Indy Shorts Film Festival in Indianapolis (an Oscar-qualifying festival), and the Jury Award for Best Comedy Short at the Vero Beach Film Festival.

Colin is a founding member of the Kiley Ensemble, a contemporary theater group in New York City, and he draws on his own experience as an actor to help shape his directorial and writing approach. Born in Iceland, Colin enjoyed a rather nomadic childhood and early adulthood, living in countries on four different continents. He currently calls both Virginia and New York City home.

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Chen Drachman is an Israeli-American, award-winning actress and filmmaker based in NYC.

She was a film and TV major in high school in Israel specializing in scriptwriting, producing and editing. She became a permanent resident through an application of excellence in the field of production. Her acting credits include Last Week Tonight, and The Path, starring Aaron Paul. Chen’s first film, The Book of Ruth, starring Tony and Emmy Awards nominee, Tovah Feldshuh, has been in numerous festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including Cinequest, the Chelsea Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival and more. The film won Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, Best Family Short at the Deep in the Heart Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the South Dakota Film Festival, and more. Since it concluded its run at the festival circuit, it had more than 125K views online through Omeleto. Her second film, But I’m a Shoe, starring The Legend of Korra‘s Janet Varney, won Best Script at the SENE Film Festival and is set to premiere in late 2023. www.chendrachman.com

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Brian Morales is a composer who thrives on the communal participation of music and storytelling. He is most widely known for his orchestration of John Doyle’s The Color Purple, which featured Cynthia Erivo. From a young age, Disney’s Fantasia has always inspired Brian: The combination of expressive and extroverted visuals mixed with dynamic, melodramatic music is an element that regularly dominates his creative output. Many have complimented his music for its emotional catharsis and descriptive, film score-like quality.

His chamber ballet, Strangers, was his first serious large-form work for woodwind quintet, percussion and 4 dancers — completed during the pandemic. Brian, being no stranger to orchestral writing, won first place in the Pittsburgh Philharmonic EQT Young Composer Contest and, as both a Talis and Alba Music scholar. He received his M.M. in composition from the Manhattan School of Music and B.M. from California State University Fullerton. Find out more at www.brianmorales.net

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Raun Ruffin has performed on and off Broadway in such productions as The Civil War and The York Theater Company’s Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope. Regional Theater credits include five separate productions of Five Guys Named Moe, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Faust, Some Enchanted Evening, and Dreamgirls. Tours include the European leg of “Sophisticated Ladies” and the North American tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

 

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Jeff Hoppa is a New York-based visual artist. His oil paintings on panel and works on paper celebrate the history of exploration, the natural world, and the metamorphic potential of abstraction. His inspirations run the gamut from rock formations at Joshua Tree National Park, where he was Artist-in-Residence in 2007, to the inner ear bones of narwhals at The American Museum of Natural History. www.jeffhoppa.com

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In this episode, we welcome Natalie Espino and Ryan Pinchot from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

Located on the Audubon Terrace Broadway between 155th and 156th streets, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library was founded by Archer Milton Huntington in 1904, as a free, public museum and library for the study of the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines. HSM&L houses a vast collection of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints and photographs, as well as sculpture and decorative objects dating from the first millennium BCE to the 20th century. The library offers an unparalleled collection of over 300,000 books and periodicals dating from the 11th century to the present.

As HSM&L continues comprehensive renovation of its buildings it has maintained and expanded its public and educational programs both in virtual platforms and in person, including its popular concert series, public lectures, and launching of temporary exhibition spaces. They have reactivated the outdoor space with exhibitions and public programs on Audubon Terrace in partnership with several local artists and community arts organizations. www.hispanicsociety.org

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Lena Kaminsky studied acting at Emerson College and has been working in the theater and film world for over 20 years. As an actor, she has worked in tv, film and regional theaters around the country. She has written two full length plays Salvage and Ursa Major. Little Mouse a short film (written and directed) is her first film and is currently making its way through the festival circuit. In addition to the Inwood Film Festival, it has screened in Los Angeles and NYC (Audience Award) at Dances With Films, Outshine in Miami (Best Short Film Honorable Mention), and upcoming screenings with Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, Vancouver Queer Film Festival and Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. She also has a casting business, Selective Casting that focuses on educational and corporate industrials. She lives with her wife in Inwood. www.lenakaminsky.com

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Jeanne Jalandoni is a painter and textile artist born and based in New York City. Her practice involves personal research, relating family stories to historic Filipino American archives, in order to draw out a mythological narrative that traces the complexities of inheriting two cultures. Jeanne received her BFA in Studio Art from New York University, and has had solo shows with Taymour Grahne Projects, Real Art Ways, the Little Underground Gallery, and the Berkshire Art Museum.

 

She has exhibited in various group shows and in 2019, she curated “Cultural Cousins: a show of Filipinx and Latinx artists” for ChaShaMa, New York, NY. In addition, Jeanne was an artist-in-residence at 36 Chase & Barns Residency, the Textile Arts Center, and ChaNorth Artist Residency, Jeanne has been awarded the 2019 Real Art Award and is a past recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Creative Engagement Grant. Discover her work at www.jeannejalandoni.com

 

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Inwood Art Works celebrates 150 episodes of our On Air podcast with this special podcast. When we hit a milestone, we like to take a moment to recognize it. If you didn’t know it, Inwood Art Works On Air is the only podcast dedicated to profiling the artists that reside in Northern Manhattan.

For this episode we would like to do something a bit different and unique for our listening audience. The interviewer shall becomes the interviewee, as our host, Aaron Simms, is put on the hotseat and will be on the other end of the questions given by none other than his lovely mother, Debby Simms. Enjoy!

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Jeanine McAdam is a long time Northern Manhattan resident that loves our community, and she channeled that love to co-creating and overseeing Heightsites.com, a website and newsletter dedicated to sharing the wonderful artistic and cultural events happening in Washington Heights and Inwood. Heightsites covers cultural events river to river, from 155^th Street to the Northern tip of Manhattan. www.heightsites.com

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