Ep. 47: Merendiando with Possibilities Podcast
March 9, 2021
“The majority of the world is not aligned towards us. And yet we’re creating a world that we thrive in.”
– Umang Antariksh Sagar
This week we’re interviewing Umang Antariksh Sagar and Kumari Giles, host/creator and producer/host of Possibilities Podcast!
Possibilities Podcast engages in deep dive conversations with queer and trans, Black, Indigenous, people of colour artists and possibility makers. They seek to be a portal for inspiration and insight, and invite listeners to generate their own infinite possibilities.
Umang Antariksh Sagar, the creator and host, and Kumari Giles, the show’s producer are also multidisciplinary artists – Umang is a filmmaker, writer, visual artist, and Kumari is a dancer, curator, aerialist, and community cook.
In this interview we talked about their podcast meetcute story, how their definition of a ‘possibility’ guides their work, and their insights on what makes a strong collective movement.
A few weeks after the release of this episode, they released an episode featuring our hosts Monica and Camila! Listen to it here.
SHOW NOTES:
- Possibilities Podcast was part of this year’s Hot Docs Podcast Festival, in the Opening Act Program which showcases the next great wave of Canadian podcasts.
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Show and Tell Mobile Homecoming streams every 3rd Sunday of the month!
- Kumari shouted out Ravyn Wngz and Sze-Yang as possibility models in their life. They worked together as part of ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company, and the Bricks and Glitter Festival.
- Umang shouted out Adrienne Maree Brown and Alexis Pauline Gumbs as possibility models in their life.
- Umang mentions a quote from the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathrustra in ancient Persian) who is regarded as the founder of Zoroastrianism.
- Queeriosity, a multiplayer social card game, is the card game we played in this interview!
- Kumari’s merianda: Shin Ramyun (ramen) with added fixings and popcorn on the stove (with coconut oil, salt, smoked paprika, and nutritional yeast)
- Umang’s merienda: Maggi ramen noodles and mangoes! Check out their zine, Juicy Mangos: Conversations Beyond the Binary.
All Merendiando episodes are in Spanglish, English, or Spanish. New episodes of Radio Aluna Theatre are released on Wednesdays. Follow and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Radio Aluna Teatro is produced by Aluna Theatre with support from the Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Metcalf Foundation.
Aluna Theatre is Beatriz Pizano & Trevor Schwellnus, with Sue Balint; Radio Aluna Theatre is produced by Monica Garrido and Camila Diaz-Varela.
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