What do you do when the world falls apart? What's the play when everyone's livelihood is on the line? How do you advocate for the arts when the arts are closing down?

In this special bonus chat, Jasmine Jiang, the managing director of Pig Iron School , sits down to chat to pauli about the sudden closure of UARTS in Philadelphia and how she's leading the School through this unprecedented time.

A longer interview with Jasmine is coming next week.

To support Pig Iron School's emergency bridge fund, click here.

To directly support the current Pig Iron MFA students most critically affected by the UARTS closure, click here.

To buy tickets to Pig Iron's September Fringe Festival show, Poor Judge, click here.

This program is produced in south west philadelphia, in the unceded neighborhood of the black bottom community and on the ancestral land of the Lenape nation, who remain here in the era of the fourth crow and fight for official recognition by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to this day. You can find out more about the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and how you can support the revitalization of their culture by going to https://lenape-nation.org.

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