Rebuilding Communities with Andrea Tudhope
Sounds Like Impact: A newsletter for audio and action
Welcome to Sounds Like Impact!
Today, we have a guest curation from Andrea Tudhope, producer and co-host of We Are North Nashville.
This edition is coming out a little early due to the upcoming Thanksgiving U.S. holiday (Canada’s was in October). Speaking of,
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian is having a FREE Native Cinema Shorts Showcase until November 28th. Stream online here.
NYC - Check out Remaining Native at DCTV until November 27th. The film is beautiful, and Ku Stevens—the film’s participant—is a young person that we can all look up to. There are multiple Q&A events, including with Ku and actress Kali Reis (True Detective season 4). Get tickets here and help get this film to the Oscars!
Not in NYC, but still want to watch the film? Host a FREE screening through the Indigenous Impact Alliance, which uses the platform Kinema. Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be a public event; maybe you can screen it with your family and friends this season. There are also four other films you can choose from until December 31st. I hosted a screening for Singing Back the Buffalo last week, and you can check out the Native American Heritage Month resources I sent out after the event.
P.S. If you are a filmmaker, make sure to subscribe to the Substack
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The next time you will see a Sounds Like Impact newsletter in your inbox, it will be the last of the year and will feature our 2025 Best of Impactful Podcasts list! You can check out the previous year lists in anticipation: 2024 | 2023.
ICYMI: Last edition, we had a guest curation from Shilpi Chhotray about people-powered climate movements.
Also, if you missed The State of Social Impact Podcasting webinar, the recording is now up on the SoundPath website.
Giving Tuesday is coming up. Which cause(s) are you supporting?
I would love to know in the comments. Highlight some causes you care about to share with others! Personally, as a board member of the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, I’d love to amplify our organization so you can donate if it resonates. And of course, if you want to support Sounds Like Impact, you can donate here (but we are not a 501c3).
🎧 #AudioForAction Guest Curator: Andrea Tudhope
Rebuilding Communities
Community is an endless weaving. It’s not something we are ever really starting from scratch. We tap into it and shape it. Fostering community means understanding our surroundings, honoring legacy and tradition, but also opening ourselves up to shaping something new, together. These episodes highlight that process beautifully.
–Andrea Tudhope, Producer and Co-host of We Are North Nashville
We Are North Nashville, Repair
This episode centers around a father and son who were hit particularly hard by the aftermath of a highway ripping through their Nashville neighborhood. Overlapping incarcerations kept them apart for four decades. Now, both are leaders in their changing community, rebuilding it and keeping it clean, calling out the systemic harms done to their community as they chart a new way forward.
Movement With Meklit, We Came From the Same Groove
In this episode, host Meklit Hadero talks with Cuban musician Cimafunk about how he found his sound, and it’s a soul-stirring conversation about taking the good where you can get it, and making it into something that’s truly your own. As summed up by this quip: “Choice between tradition and innovation? Nah.”
Ear Hustle, The Bells
This one’s from the peak of COVID-19, a time we’ve kind of memory-holed as a culture, but it’s such a powerful episode about how the pandemic was affecting, and in many cases killing, people incarcerated at San Quentin prison. It’s a great reminder of how tenuous community can be — and how difficult it can be to restore.
Black Women of Amherst College, Activism at Amherst
When we think about communities, we often think about people who share a common origin, or currently occupy a common space. This episode brilliantly reconstructs a community across time, between women who in many cases never met each other but shared experience — across decades — agitating for positive change.
Code Switch, Two Palestinian writers on the right to share their stories
Sometimes, the question of community comes with another question, imposed by outsiders: Are you a community at all? For the Palestinian diaspora, this attempted erasure persists.
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