Indigenous Solidarity & Ancestors of Place in Jewish Ancestral Healing
Smita Slowdown Series Episode 6
La Peña Cultural Center's Artist of the Month for April 2013
Ariel Luckey reflects on ancestral harm, Indigenous solidarity, and Jewish practices of teshuvah, or return. In conversation with Leora Cockrell, Ariel also speaks to assimilation, spiritual yearning, and ways he engages these themes through hip-hop and klezmer music.
La Peña Cultural Center highlights the artistic work of Ariel Luckey. Ariel has consistently demonstrated the capacity to create art that questions the common perceptions, as well as, a high sensibility for bringing historical issues into a modern context. All of it within a social justice mindset.