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Milne is happy that they’re live again, but she also notes, “There were some great benefits to doing it virtually the last couple years. We got to work with artists who have moved away from Chicago. Literally from across the nation and across the globe we had participants, which is what you can do virtually. And then people were also able to see it across the globe.”
For Gomez, who was born in Guatemala, the stories of 80 Minutes Around the World are even more vital given the rise in xenophobia in the U.S. during the Trump years. Even if the artists in the collective aren’t consciously aiming to be political, Gomez notes, “Our stories are usually political because, as a person of color, you cannot help . . . being political. I’ve been told here in Chicago to go back to where I came from. It’s going to a store, it’s walking on the street.
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