Vol. 7 Presenter: Chris Jonas
Presenting
Littleglobe TV, Stories of This Place, For This Place
Summary
Littleglobe TV is a “city cast”—a live streamed patchwork of local resident-sourced DIY, community-generated stories, skits, songs, poems, short documentaries, news reports and random acts of art from across Santa Fe during the COVID-19 crisis. Littleglobe’s multigenerational filmmaking team draws from every corner of Santa Fe to celebrate our town’s creativity, resilience and humor and humanity.
The resulting videos are live-streamed and shared on Facebook and YouTube live in a 45-minute community created show. Each show reaches upwards of 4000 people.
This project helps to create what we hope is a “circular economy” with stories sourced from within the vibrancy of our own intimate complex of histories, perspectives, stories, and creative creations. This turns the traditional notions of our town's external facing image that the tourist sees to one that is inward, sharing stories about the people, cultures, and conversations that make this place vibrant. The intent is that this merges the now two Santa Fes into one—and one where our cultural and tourism-based economy can leverage and serve the everyday lives of our residents. In this way, we move away from an extractive colonial-based economy and replace it with one wherein wealth is built and retained within our town. This helps to make a model for how we as a town foster pride for who we are, spreading the benefits of identity and culture more broadly and equitably across the neighborhoods of this place.
Bio
Chris Jonas is the co-founder of Littleglobe, a multi-generational arts and social engagement non-profit based in Santa Fe. He is a composer, conductor and filmmaker and a Producer/Creative Director for Littleglobe TV, ¡Presente!: Stories of Home, Belonging and Displacement in Santa Fe, and a variety of cross-Santa Fe projects that connect resident storytelling and civic dialog around policymaking. He has long been a filmmaker, facilitator and educator collaboratively producing many multi-arts/collaborative films and projects with community members across New Mexico including the 2013 national PBS feature documentary “Our Time is Now.”
As a composer, instrumentalist and conductor Jonas has performed, recorded and toured internationally with many of today's most adventurous performing artists and composers. Jonas is a United States Artists fellow and a winner of the 2012 Meet the Composer/Commissioning USA award for GARDEN, his ongoing series of live music and transmedia works.
He is Executive Director of the New Mexico arts and social engagement non-profit, Littleglobe, is a Rockwood Arts and Social Engagement fellow and is Vice President of the Tri-Centric Foundation, committed to the work and legacy of Anthony Braxton.