Anna contributes biweekly audio stories covering arts & culture for Radio K’s Real College Podcast
She is currently the host & managing editor.
“From Lebanon to Palestine: Arab Cinema in the Spotlight”
When Real College Podcast covered the 2025 Arab Film Festival at St. Anthony Main Cinema, Anna Adamson spoke with award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas about creating art under constraint— and why Palestinian stories deserve a global audience.
more stories:
“Preserving pysanka”
Alex Ingrassia, a Ukrainian American student, makes traditional pysanky eggs. Ingrassia and her family continue to make and sell pysanka at local grocery stores to raise money for Ukrainian refugee families.
Listen to the full episode here
“A night of speed dating”
The story of what happened when two women started a company, Stassi, Land of 10,000 Dates, to organize speed dating events for singles.
[5:56 – 15:03]
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“A critical love letter to Austria”
When Real College Podcast covered the Black European Film Festival at St. Anthony Main Cinema, Anna spoke with Austrian director Anna Gaberscik [pictured above] about the realities people of color face in Austria. Drawing symbolism from Austria’s national flower and “The Sound of Music,” Gaberscik referred to her documentary, “EDELWEISS,” as “a critical love letter to Austria.”
[18:02 – 24:37]
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