DUTCH DAYS RADIO HOUR

on free103point9.org
Curated by Michelle Nagai (treetheater.org)
DATE & TIME: November 15–19, 5–6 pm daily
DESCRIPTION: An online radio show featuring sound art, discussion, environmental recordings, historical readings, interviews, special guests and ghosts, and other sonic ephemera inspired by 17th century New York

Archived Elements

Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost: Dutch Days Radio Hour Day 1
Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost: Dutch Days Radio Hour Day 2
Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost: Dutch Days Radio Hour Day 5

What leaps of imagination did it take for willing immigrants to come in the first place; what cultural and historical realities wove together to allow New Amsterdam to take root and become New York City; what lost riches might once again be nurtured here—PSG doesn't answer any of these questions, but it is inspired by wondering about them. Mostly it is a project about how a place and imaginary places intersect.

The East Village once contained: marsh, Lenape hunters, an annual migration of a billion passenger pigeons, tanneries, the 2nd Avenue Deli, a huge drug trade, PS122 as an operating school, no community gardens. What is and isn't present today is the result of choices and actions directly affecting our daily lives. No fictionalized version of New York City is ever as interesting as the real thing. PSG, hopefully, presents aspects of both past and present 'real things' that might otherwise go unnoticed, and unloved.