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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Today on Stay Human, Aaron Wenger watches ravens falling, in love. Stories and poetry of bearing witness and paying close attention. Carol Hepokoski watches a hawk, Anne Marie Erickson discovers a prayer, Matthew Miltich catches a glimpse of grace, and Scott Stowell reads 21st Century pictographs. With music and poetry to get us through the cold nights, an hour of spirit and courage on Stay Human.
Amara Bedford is a painter with a master’s degree in art therapy . Her Smash Art programs help people lighten their stress load while creating one-of-a-kind works of art. It’s boxing, it’s art, and it’s fun. Hear all about it in this Area Voices.
This week Nanaboozhoo features a celebrity guest panel that stops in to Ikidon Boozhoo or say hello. The guests include Keenu Reeves, Kermit the Frog, the Dalai Lama, Hunter Biden, Dr. Fauci, Paul Stanley from Kiss, the Count from Sesame Street and the ghost of David Bowie.
Rich Mattson and the Northstars released their latest album, Skylights, back in February. In addition to working on his own album, Mattson also found a way to produce other bands safely during the pandemic at his Sparta Sound Studio. We talked about the album and Mattson and Gemberling played some tunes from it when they joined us for a session on July 16, 2021 before playing a show with the whole band at Earth Rider Brewery that evening.
When an Asian American journalist receives a call from a viewer complaining about a her being “very Asian,” anchor Michelle Li didn’t let that get her down. Instead she teamed up with Minnesota’s own Gia Vang to create an entire movement, reclaiming the phrase “very Asian,” even creating hats and t-shirts. But that begs the question – who gets to sport the gear?
Today on Boozhoo Nanaboozhoo we learn about the sucker fish moon which is February or in Ojibwe “Namebini-Giizis.” Nanaboozhoo tells us the story about how the sucker fish sacrifice themselves to save the Anishinaabe from starving to death.
Illustrator Nicholas Jackson lost his ability to draw when nerve damage began creating extreme pain and numbness in his arm after just a few moments of sketching. He was forced to quit his passion altogether… for years.
In December of 2020, Jackson picked up his drawing pencil again. After rehabbing his arm and re-tweaking his process, his new exhibit Through the Darkness: Painted Hope is proof that he’s made it to the other side… The artistic representation of an emotional and creative journey through adversity is chock full of fantasy and wonder and the buoyancy of redemption.
