Peace of Mind Nannies founder Tiesha Sinouthasy discusses the needs of neurodivergent and disabled children.

Jamala talks about filming in the Kyiv mountains and desert, Crimean tatar music, and about her Crimean great grandmother who was forced with her five children onto a train in 1944,

Heather Blume's work is in permanent collections at the British Museum in London and the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden in Stockholm. Her work is in collections locally at the Provincetown Art Gallery Association, the Cape Cod Museum of Art Cahoon Museum of American Art. Her next show, EYE TO I: PERSONAL EXCHANGES BY HEATHER BLUME, begins October 15th 2-5pm at the Provincetown Commons Reception. She shares the show with 8mm by Jody Johnson and Persisters by Jo Hay. The show ends October 27th.

Trumpet Player, Pianist Composer Mark Bornfield and Broadway Vocalist D'jamin Bartlett will perform Sunday at 4pm at the Academy Playhouse, a fundraiser for the Atwood Music Concert Series. Doors open at 3:30pm. Tickets available at chathamhistoricalsociety.org

Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and longtime therapist releases her first solo music.

Actor Ahmed Moneka was at a film festival in Canada when he got a call from his dad, saying his family was receiving death threats due to his new film The Society being released. He was a TV personality, the first black Iraqi TV presenter, and his new film drew attention to the violence being experienced by the LGBT community. Ahmed stayed in Canada and soon became at refugee while his family fled to Turkey. Stuck in Canada with no command of English, he fell back on his musical training, and connected with a Balkan musician to create a duo, The Mosquito Bar.

Ahmed began his musical journey fusing genres. His new album Kankafula features a blend of soul, funk, and rock blended with Afro-Iraqi Sufi music. Here he shares about the spiritual traditions of his family. In the 8th century his ancestors brought the East African influences to Basra, where the tradition of ecstatic dance music and lively ceremonies led by healing priests and priestesses who use music, herbs and ceremonies for healing.