Milwaukee's Story, Past and Future w/ Adam Carr - a podcast by Imagine MKE

This week, we welcome Adam Carr, a freelancer and “Milwaukeeist” that has worked in community organizing, in-depth tours, journalism, public art, history projects, mentoring, filmmaking, photography and dialogue. He has been described him as a “social justice storyteller,” a “connector,” a “public artist,” a “story activator.” 
First, David and Lindsay tackle the intro sans-Mac and celebrate two years of working at Imagine. 
Adam joins the pod at 9:45. Growing up the son of an art therapist (10:56), developing an addiction to the feeling of walking into the story of someone’s life (15:20), Milwaukee’s perceptions of locals and outsiders (17:57), Adam’s experience of going away to college (20:05), Milwaukee’s Asian story and growing up in a multicultural environment (29:00), history of The Oriental Theatre and considering the problem of its reductive nature in 2021 (33:50), comparing The Oriental Theatre to wrestling (47:20), Czar of Arts and Culture (53:10).   
Follow https://www.milwaukeemag.com/meet-adam-carr-milwaukees-story-collector/?fbclid=IwAR1JHLXIzh5t3g_LBpXmyNFIchmveA8ap-bwEnxtGYPkRJBuJQ4FY3-Iwbc (Adam Carr) and read https://milwaukeenns.org/ (Neighborhood News Service). 
Music Transitions: “Milwaukee Strong,” by Shonn Hinton, featuring the Milwaukee All Stars 
307 Ephemera 
https://www.nancywyuen.com/ (Nancy Wang Yuen) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_theatre (Atmospheric Theaters) 
https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/oriental-theatre-spelunking (Oriental Theatre Urban Spelunking)  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimmick_(professional_wrestling) (Gimmicks (Professional Wrestling)) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinsuke_Nakamura (Shinsuke Nakamura) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Day_(professional_wrestling) (The New Day) 
https://satw.org/2021-convention-milwaukee/ (Travel Writers Convention) 

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