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LETTERS READ

LETTERS READ

By: Nancy Sharon Collins
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LETTERS READ is a series of readings in which local performers interpret letters and documents written by culturally vital individuals from various times and Louisiana communities presented by stationer, Nancy Sharon Collins, and Antenna. 2025 is the ninth consecutive season. Productions are free, open to the public, and presented live and as podcasts.Nancy Sharon Collins Art
Episodes
  • Vision, Voice & Valor
    Oct 30 2025

    Remembering the Legacy of Terri Bartlett.

    In 1984, Terri Bartlett moved to New Orleans to found Planned Parenthood Louisiana. For more than a decade thereafter, Bartlett fought tirelessly for reproductive rights and human dignity in this state.

    This performance endeavors to serve as an inspiring model for grassroots and political activism, justice, and equal rights for all.

    Watch a video of the live event, HERE.

    And, watch this brief story about the event on NOLA NPR with Dave Walker and The Museum Goer.

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    32 mins
  • Sex, Love, Gender, and Trust
    Jun 1 2025

    Welcome to the first, full, 2025 Letters Read episode. This program was recorded in two locations. The overlying structure in a studio. The other in a noisy restaurant near Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, during lunch. You will be able to hear the difference. Thanks to Steve Czyck who engineered it all together.

    In this podcast, we meet Angela Breckenridge, PhD educator and Mr. Tedd Walley, cartoon artist, designer, and educator.

    They were mature adults when they met, fell in love, and married. This is truly a love story. More it is—as the title suggests—about sex and love, gender, and trust through the letters and memories of a cis-gender, normative, monogamous couple in the twenty-first century.

    References to research material can be found HERE and the previous, Incubator podcast can be found HERE.

    Antenna is this project's fiscal sponsor. This project is brought to you with major support from Corner Foundation a our very anonymous donation.




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    20 mins
  • LETTERS READ INCUBATOR XVIII: Lust vs Love
    May 11 2025

    This mini-podcast continues the 2025 season about sex.

    Today’s reading is about love letters. Inspired by documentation of love, two letters in particular.

    Moreover this segment focuses on how love works. Like when two people fall for each other. What’s the motivation? Is it simply physical attraction, raw sex appeal? Or is feeling love something more?

    Listen and learn.

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    8 mins
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