Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is the third in a series taking a look at how our community evolves through immigration. Just finishing up its 2016 program, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack welcomes the graduating class and members of the Advisory Board from the City of St. Cloud’s Jugaad Leadership Program into the studio for a lively discussion about engaging in community, what it means for people of diverse backgrounds to get involved, and what we all can do to make St. Cloud a stronger city.
The Bemidji Community Theater (BCT) has taken on a campaign to give back to the community in one way or another. This time, it’s the Play it Forward Book Drive. They plan to collect 3,000 gently used books ranging in reading levels from kindergarten thru 8th grade. BCT will then give a book to every youth who attends their next play, the Elves and the Shoemaker.
This week on Minnesota Native News, we’re showcasing Isabella Callery, the Minnesota High School senior who recently won a national poetry recitation competition, Poetry Out Loud. She talks about the experience, shows off her poetry skills, and explains the importance of her connections to indigenous poets.
The Jaques Art Center has been bringing visual art experiences to the Aitkin area for 22 years. This weekend kicked off their latest exhibit, Community Canvas, created by people who live in and love the Aitkin area. We spoke with Barden Heft the President of the Jaques Board of Directors. He told us the history of the Jaques Art Center, explained the Community Canvas project and talked about what the Jaques Art Center brings to Aitkin.
Presented by Northern Community Radio and Aaron Brown, The Great Northern Radio Show blends the classic model of a radio variety show with some modern themes and humor through stories, music, interviews, and monologues. We conclude our third season in the first city of Minnesota’s biggest wilderness.
This edition of the Great Northern Radio Show is written by Aaron Brown, Mat Nelson, Nickolia Koivunen, and Britt Amodt. Musical guests for this show are Germaine Gemberling and Rich Mattson, The Surf Monkeys, and Whirled Muse. Guest appearances from Mike Hillman, Any Freeman, Jason Zabokrtsky, Brian and Andrea Strom, Cory and Doris Kolodji. The Great Northern Radio Players include Britt Aamodt, Sara Breeze, Cory Kolodji, Erika Kooda, Matt Nelson, Lynn O’Hara, Jason Scorich. House piano by Nickolai Koivunen. Sound effects by Scott Hanson.
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits and then revisits the Richard C. Wilson St. Cloud Community Outpost, otherwise known as the COP House, on the Southside of St. Cloud. Back in 2017, city officials and community partners held a dedication and open house for the COP House where numerous speeches promised that this innovative program would make a difference is this difficult neighborhood. Two years later, St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis and Officer Dan McClure discuss how those promises appear to have been kept as the city has just been awarded the Justice Anthony L. Sutin Civic Imagination Award by the U.S. Justice Department.
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Great River Regional Library in St. Cloud for their first annual Comic-Con.
This all ages event featured comic book artists and writers, cos-players, D&D, Pokemon, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Magic, and much more. It also welcomed over 500 guests and wrapped up with an inspirational artists’ panel focused on braving the world through the development and creation of art.
Opioid drug use is expanding in rural communities. There is a series of community forums being offered in Itasca, Northern St. Louis, Aitkin and Pine Counties in Minnesota to help find community based solutions to the problem. Host Grant Frashier attended the first meeting held in Keewatin and talked with Kelly Chandler with Itasca County Public Health.
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio’s Great Northern Radio Show.