Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU English Professor Mike Dando about a recently published paper from him and some of his colleagues called “Am I Real?: Hybridity, Strategic Multiplicity, and Self-Actualization in Star Trek: Picard.” The paper offers an explanation of what it means to be inclusive, but it uses the age-old premise of science fiction that the best way to talk about something real is to use something unreal to do it.
For a chance to hear an extended interview between Mike and Jeff as they seriously go full nerd on the topic as well as to get a preview of other upcoming papers from Dando and the “Khan Lang Writing Collective” you can find it on our website at KVSC.org under the podcasts and Untold Stories of Central Minnesota tab.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with visiting lecturer Dr. Corey Yeager, Team Psychologist from the Detroit Pistons.
Yeager will be in town on Thursday, September 9 speaking at 11:00 in SCUS’s Atwood Center as part of the Smithsonian exhibit “The Bias Inside Us.” We all have biases, and sometimes they are useful while at other times they really hold us back. Yeager and The Bias Inside Us are here to show us the difference and give us the tools to handle them appropriately.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack delves into a rather seedy aspect of the Minnesota State Fair with State Auditor Julie Blaha. With previous blue ribbons for State Fair “crop art” under her belt, Blaha talks about how blending math and art helps in the political arena and how participation in local government is the glue that holds the mosaic of our society together, all through the canvas of this uniquely Minnesotan art form.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with a variety of Minnesota State Fair exhibitors as the fair kicks off Thursday, August 26.
Normally, KVSC along with AMPERS, the Association of Minnesota Public and Educational Radio Stations, would be broadcasting live from the Fair, but due to concerns over COVID and the Delta Variant, we will not be at the Fair this year. However, the folks Jeff talks with today will be, and they are all excited to see what this very different year at the Fair brings!
There are discussions about Princess Kay and the passing of the butter knife after a 50 year tradition, a new sensory building supported by Fraser to help with those who are a little overwhelmed by everything at the Fair, innovative research from the University of Minnesota’s Driven to Discover, the MPCA’s Eco Experience has brought an 18,000 lb ice cube, and the Common Table explores how our food and eating habits are changing and what we can do to stay healthy.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we travel by bicycle to the east from St. Cloud to Portland, Maine. Quentin Super is an SCSU graduate who, along with a friend, biked 1,800 miles over seven weeks to the east coast, and then wrote a book about it called The Long Road East. Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with the author about the trials and trails of that life changing experience.
In today’s FULL and EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club presentation of Dr. Annette Atkins, professor emeritus from the College of St. Benedict St. John’s University.
Following the death of George Floyd, Dr. Atkins began developing a program called “Missing Pieces” that detailed the racial makeup and development of the St. Cloud area so that we might all have a better idea of where we came from in order to be able to move into a better future.
