About the piece

This piece was one that speaks to a tender time in my almost about to become a teenager years. When the prompt was summer, I reflected on a summer that felt transformational to me. A summer that I go to again, and again in my imagination and in my heart. I hope it holds you and warmth and tenderness as you live within the winter cold

About Junauda

is an abolitionist, writer, filmmaker, and performance artist of Black Trinidadian and Crucian descent, born on Turtle Island, Dakota/Anishinaabe land (Minneapolis). Her work fuses ancestral dreaming, poetics, and radical imagination to envision Black liberation and sweetness. She is the 2025–2026 poet laureate of Minneapolis and author of The Stars and The Blackness Between Them (Coretta Scott King Honor), and Can We Please Give The Police Department to the Grandmothers?

About the piece:

This recording is of the kinds of recordings I love to stumble on when navigating a neighborhood, a park, city life, recreation, community, especially when you're new somewhere and figuring what this place really is, what it says it is, what and who are there in plain sight or baked in, and where you fit. And you can find this out actually in all those funny, almost uncanny, helpless and unhelpful, hopelessly naive, accidentally candid, professional and confessional service messages you hit anytime you call a place for any kind of information or administration. You want to know about some free activity or some local history and the website's confusing and the number goes straight to voicemail or you're on hold forever and so maybe just take a walk down there and see for yourself. I did a lot of that here for a few seasons, when moving back to the states from Canada over a decade ago, not knowing a soul--a lot of time to search, call. There is so much about Powderhorn/parks/Minneapolis/Mni Sóta/USA/USA/USA to glean from a long walk, diverse layers of place and experience and power (mostly the sweet mundane municipal kind) that break and surface onto each other like geology, like rappers do, as you pass and cross people and paths. Walk and stay / on hold / with me.

About Mohab

Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest. His debut poetry collection HOMES explores nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion/borderland. Moheb's work has been recognized and supported by diverse institutions, residencies, and awards, among which particularly impactful favorites are the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, The Momentary, Red Eye and Pillsbury House, Minnesota Book Awards and MSAB. He is the executive editor and literary program director at Mizna.

About Douglas

Perhaps best known as a composer, improviser, sculptor and maker of masks and instruments, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, arts organization consultant and all around visionary. In projects done in diverse media throughout an award-winning and widely-acclaimed 40-year career, Mr. Ewart has woven his remarkably broad gifts into a single sensibility that encourages and celebrates--as an antidote to the divisions and compartmentalization afflicting modern life-the wholeness of individuals in culturally active communities.

About this project

One of the qualifications of a sound designer is to listen closely and hear deeply. It's a genuine joy to carry out those duties when your collaborators are Junauda Petrus, Moheb Soliman and Douglas Ewart. Headphones: on. Bunches of gratitude to Diver and Miré for the art and community they so lovingly fuse. 

About Dan

Dan Dukich is a composer, songwriter, musician and sound designer who works interchangeably across theater, film, dance, TV, and podcasts. Locally, he's had the pleasure of working with Drag Story Hour MN, Jungle Theater, Frank Theatre, Open Eye Theatre, and many more. Dan is the recipient of a 2020 Next Step grant, has been recognized by The Kennedy Center with a Distinguished Achievement in Sound Design Award and supported by Nautilus Music-Theatre's Composer-Librettist Studio.