Although Juneteenth is a relatively new federal holiday, it's been celebrated in Galveston since its beginning. Today, we're joined by Samuel Collins III, a 7th-generation Texan who works to educate people about the holiday and how monuments around the globe can benefit from incorporating Juneteenth's impact into the interpretation of their place-based heritage.

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Host: Noah Price

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

How do monuments in the United States compare to other places of the world. Last summer, Toolkit associates Madeline Bonner and Noah Price traveled to Bergama, Türkiye to conduct sites visits and participate in the ICOMOS University Forum. Sofia Medina, an ICOMOS colleague from Colombia, joined us and shared her perspectives about how Colombian monuments compare to those in Türkiye and the United States. Today, we're recreating that conversation and exploring how each of the landscapes can learn from how others interpret their public spaces.

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Host: Noah Price

Co-Host: Madeline Bonner

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

Last season, we met with the founders of Refusing to Forget to discuss La Matanza and the lack of monuments and memorials that recognize this historic tragedy. Today, we're continuing that conversation by speaking with Elsie Garcia, a descendent of one of the men killed in the Porvenir Massacre, a key event of La Matanza. Elsie's story reminds us of the importance of memorializing these tragedies and remembering how the past continues to impact us today.

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Host: Noah Price

Co-Host: Diana Hernandez & Gilbert Correa

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

In our last episode, we met with Sonja Henderson, who discussed her work on the We Still Here monument as part of Chicago's Monuments Response Project. Today, we're meeting with Sadie Woods, the co-creator of this monument, so that she can tell us how sound and music impacted the narrative their work puts forth. Exploring the ways that music can act as a monument of it's own, Sadie's insights share a powerful and unique way that we can reinterpret oppressive monuments.

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Host: Noah Price

Co-Host: Diana Hernandez

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

Welcome to the 5th season of The Monumental Project! We're excited to kick off this season with a three-part series on Chicago's Monuments Response Project. This project commissioned a handful of artists to create their own monuments in the same space as controversial monuments on the city's lakewalk. In this first part, we meet with Sonja Henderson, co-creator of the We Still Here monument along with Sadie Woods who will be featured in the next episode. Sonja shares with us not only her insights in creating this specific monument in response to the equestrian General Sheridan monument in Chicago, but her overall social practice as she works to help mothers in Chicago understand and work through their grief.

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Host: Noah Price

Co-Host: Madeline Bonner

Production: Noah Price

Music by Epidemic Sound: "Falling Flat" by John Runefelt and "Impossible is Nothin'" Elliot Holmes

What happens when Indigenous researchers respond to a Western museum calling a codex a "living ancestor"? In this season finale and our first episode entirely in Spanish, Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, Mixtec archaeologist and founder of Colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi, and Mtro. Gibránn Becerra Álvarez, archaeologist and member of Voladores de Cuetzalan del Progreso, bring the voices that Part 1 was missing. They speak from their communities about codices as living heritage, rematriation, ongoing colonial processes, and why the definitions of "monument" and "cultural heritage" need to be rethought from the voices of the peoples themselves.
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¿Qué pasa cuando investigadores indígenas responden a un museo occidental que describe un códice como un "ancestro vivo"? En este final de temporada y nuestro primer episodio completamente en español, el Dr. Omar Aguilar Sánchez, arqueólogo mixteco, fundador y director del Colectivo Nchivi Ñuu Savi, y el Mtro. Gibránn Becerra Álvarez, arqueólogo e integrante de Voladores de Cuetzalan del Progreso, traen las voces que faltaban en la Parte 1. Nos hablan desde sus comunidades sobre los códices como patrimonio vivo, la rematriación, procesos coloniales vigentes, y por qué las definiciones de "monumento" y "patrimonio cultural" necesitan ser repensadas desde las voces de los pueblos.

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Host: Diana Hernandez

Interviewer: Diana Hernandez/ Gilbert C. Correa

Production: Noah Price

Song Credits:

Melancholy Lull by Vital

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When does an artifact in a museum reach "monumental" status? In this episode, we're exploring the concept of belongings as monuments, primarily focusing on the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca (or the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer) with Meghan Backhouse from National Museums Liverpool and José Sherwood, an expert on the amoxtli. This will be the first part as the second part will be with Nahua scholars conducted in the spanish language.

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Host: Noah Price

Interviewer: Noah Price, Madeline Bonner

Production: Noah Price

Song Credits:

Melancholy Lull by Vital

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What is creative extremism? Michelle Browder uses this phrase from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to describe her work as both an artist and activist in Montgomery, Alabama. In this episode, Michelle tells us about her company, More Than Tours, as well as the Mothers of Gynecology monument that she created in protest of the J. Marion Sims statue.

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Host: Noah Price

Interviewer: Noah Price

Production: Noah Price

Song Credits:

Melancholy Lull by Vital

Royalty Free Music: Bensound.com/royalty-free-music

License code: GHSG4LYAWYBKBEES