Action
Speaks!
Marc Levitt is the Host/Creative Director of the nationally award
winning, 12 year old radio show, "Action Speaks", a topic driven
panel based radio show taped at Providence's AS
220 and broadcast on the local NPR affiliate, WRNI.
The goal of Action Speaks is to use less appreciated moments in United
States history as points of departure for discussions around their context
and contemporary implications. Another goal for Action Speaks is to make
these cross-disciplinary discussions available to a general public.
Program
of Action Speaks! 2009, April 29, May 6, 13, 20
Slideshow of Action
Speaks! October 1, 2008, AS220, Providence
An American prelude to Hitler or to the Human Genome Project...perhaps
both? Panelists: Lundy Braun, Wendy Kline, Diane B. Paul.
Slideshow
of Action Speaks! October 15, 2008, AS220, Providence
Hollywood race films and the production of African American cinematic
images. Featured Guests: Charles Musser, Terri Francis, Don Mays.
Slideshow of Action
Speaks! October 22, 2008, AS220, Providence
What's
Black? What's White? What's Italian? What's Jewish? Are race and ethnicity
a dance anyone can learn? Featured Guests: Joe Beats, John Gennari, Greg
Tate.
Slideshow
of Action Speaks! October 29, 2008, AS220 Providence
2000
- The U.S. Census allows individuals to identify themselves as mixed-race
Featured Guests: Teja Arboleda,Noel Igantiev, Kimberly McClain DaCosta,
Maureen T. Reddy. Host: Marc Levitt
Action Speaks! topics for 2007
October 10; Cassius
Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali
October 17; Introduction of Prozac
October 24; Duchamp submits 'fountain'
October 31; Farmers Drive Tractors into Washington
Taping begins at 5:30 pm, AS 220, Providence.
Action
Speaks! 2006
Click here for information
about last year's series or browse the photographs
from October 4, 2006 (1918, The Flu Epidemic),
October 11, 2006 (1933, Roosevelt’s
Good Neighbor Policy),
October 18, 2006 (1979, Three Mile Island),
and October 25, 2006 (1968,
Whole Earth Catalogue).
Action Speaks topics have included:
The introduction of Dasani Water by Coca-Cola and the
privatization of water. Origin of the Credit Card. 1965 Immigration Act.
The first World Series game broadcast over a national radio network. The
American Occupation of Japan. The 1999 Anti-Globalization march in Seattle,
Washington. Birth of the Christian Coalition
The Sugar Hill Gang and the mainstreaming of Hip Hop. The 1918 Flu. The
Stonewall Riot. Zoot Suit Rebellion. Publication of ‘Our Bodies
Ourselves’. The San Francisco General Strike of 1934. The ‘Checkers’
Speech of Richard Nixon. The Loving Case and the legality of ‘inter-racial’
marriage. The 1913 Armory Show that introduced European modern art to
audiences in the United States.
Panel members have included:
New
York Times Editor; Gail Collins
Bread and Puppet Theater’s
Director; Peter Schuman
Author; Tom Frank
UNITE HERE; Director Bruce Raynor
Former baseball player; Bill Lee
Author;
Marshall Berman
Performance Artist; Reverend Billy
Author;
Jackson Lears
Film Director; Godfrey Reggio
Former Seattle Police Chief; Norm
Stamper
Author; Jane Holtz Kay
Providence Mayor; ‘Buddy Cianci
Author;
Dolores Hayden
The New England Chowda’ Hour
Between 1985 and 1993, Mr. Levitt was the writer/director/producer
for New England’s only radio variety show; the New England Chowda’
Hour. The Chowda’ Hour, with a cast that included up to fifteen
actors and musicians, was broadcast weekly on radio stations that at various
times included stations in Providence, Rhode Island, Boston and Worcester,
Massachusetts and Westport, Connecticut. The show combined satirical sketches
and music and at its height drew audiences of four hundred people to its
tapings.
writer | storyteller | educator | radio host | filmmaker | contact marc
