Introducing the Miami Moves Me Podcast
Welcome to Miami Moves Me, a podcast brought to you by a team of University of Miami students enrolled in AMS 350, Mapping Miami’s Cultural Landscape. During Spring semester 2020, plans for field expeditions came to an abrupt halt when classes went online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than a few Miami Moves Me stories incorporate this new perspective as students produce a set of eighteen episodes between April 7 and May 7.
Student Creators: Diana Borras, Gretchell Cano, Luz Estrella Cruz, Kurt Gessler, Melissa Huberman, Kristian Kranz, Reese McMichael, Jonathan Raskauskas, Ben Vinarski
A Look Behind the Scenes
Day One: Trying out the new medium inside the station at WVUM 90.5.
Melissa 
Kris 
Luz 
Gretchell 
Jon 
Reese 
Inside WVUM Radio station
Recording on campus, reactions to The Cold Snap of Jan 2020.
Melissa 
Kurt 
Diana
Exploring Miami history inside the Broadmoor Hotel with Juggerknot Theater and Miami Motel Stories North Beach.
outside the Broadmoor 
Ben and Reese with Tanya 
Inside the Honeymooners’ hotel room 
Co-Director of Miami Motel Stories, North Beach 
Maggie Maxwell, local actress 
Doorway to the Past
Taking public transit to meet a tribal queen at the Miami Circle in Brickell. Walking across the business district to discover culture makers inside an abandoned mall Downtown.
Waiting for the Metro Mover 
Meeting Catherine Hummingbird Ramirez 
Miami Circle, a dog park? 
Brickell 
Inside the 777 Mall 
Meeting David McCauley, Void Projects
Inside the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, furthest foray north from UM.
Gretchell inside Edouard Duval-Carrié’s studio 
Meeting Edouard 
Reese records with Carl Juste
After classes went online, we meet weekly in our Zoom Room.
Miami Moves Me Stories
The first episode introduces the Miami Moves Me team—the voices you’ll in a set of eighteen episodes that document what they discovered in the City’s cultural landscape. Out in the field, students explore immersive theater in North Beach, meet the creative community converging inside an empty mall Downtown, learn the history behind a sacred Native American space at the heart of the business district known as Brickell, and discover the vibrant culture zone known as Little Haiti. Online, they meet an urban planner who envisions a revitalized Little Havana, a team from the Bass Museum of Art, and a news editor from WLRN.
The students’ independent projects investigate Miami’s art scene (before and after COVID-19), Third Horizon’s 2020 Caribbean film festival, Jai Alai’s 2019 publication Making Good Time, and the vital role of street art in the urban landscape. Highly relevant in this moment, two student producers contemplate how to survive and thrive when faced with a global pandemic and a climate crisis.
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Photos courtesy Melissa Huberman, Diana Borras and Fresh Art INTL
Miami Moves Me signature sound: Melissa Huberman
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