Agustina Woodgate Radio Espacio at HmongTown Marketplace. Interviews.
audio station by the Hmong ABC bookstore, Mondays and Fridays, 12 – 7 p.m.
217 Como Ave, West Building, Suite 108, St. Paul, MN 55103
RADIO ESPACIO is a bilingual and nomad radio project that broadcasts from different cities, with programming bridging global investigations with local interests through interviews, music, sounds and noises. Argentinian artist Agustina Woodgate implemented RADIO ESPACIO into the St. Paul HmongTown Marketplace for one weekend and developed a program together with the Twin Cities Hmong community.
Listen to the program at the Hmong market audio station or
here: Radio Espacio Estácion at the Hmong market. (Languages: English/Hmong, Duration: 4 hrs)
Guests: Kao Kalia Yang, Sonic Rain, market visitors, and Sandra Teitge.
Born in 1980, Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, is the co-founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang also co-hosts a weekly radio program focusing on the Hmong community and has recently released The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees.
Sonic Rain is a Twin-Cities Hmong music artist. Her first single was released in February 2014 and is called “The Lost Dance.”
Sandra Teitge had invited Agustina Woodgate to develop a radio program at the HmongTown Marketplace.
