Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Three members of the strings section of the Minnesota Orchestra stopped by the KBXE studio in Bemidji Wednesday. They are traveling rural Minnesota with the orchestra’s Common Chord Initiative which takes orchestra members out into communities playing their music and connecting with people through musical experiences. Katja Linfield, Sam Berman and Sarah Grimes played two musical arrangements in studio and discussed the Common Chord program, life as a professional orchestral musician, and the process of trying out for a spot in the orchestra.
Gary Boelhower is Duluth’s poet laureate, a long-time teacher of ethics … and a grampa.
So it’s no surprise that he’s been spending a lot of time thinking about “the common good.”
So when those thoughts manifested themselves as a book for children, he put another of his core beliefs into action: “the best things happen when there’s more than one mind and heart workin’ at something.
The Twin Cities is a hotbed of comic art. Since the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is one of the nation’s only accredited schools to offer a comic art degree, dozens of comic book artists and graphic novelists call Minneapolis and St. Paul home. KFAI’s Britt Aamodt talked to new talent, Mitch Gerads, about his book, “The Activity.”
WTIP’s Deb Benedict spoke with community change expert Rich Harwood recently. Rich is president and founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, which recently announced a plan to train 5,000 new public innovators by 2016. He talked with about innovation, change, and community radio’s role.
Death has always been patient. For some it comes after a long and full life with boats and vacations and mortgages and big weddings and handshakes and Christmas cards from bankers. It comes with friendly nods and gentle warnings for driving a few miles above the speed limit.
For others it comes randomly with agony and pain and humiliation for a twenty dollar mistake.
On this episode of “Art Beat”, we travel to St. Paul MN for “Something Tribal This Way Comes”. The festival offers workshops in American Tribal Belly Dance (also knowns as ATS), as well as other forms such as fusion, old school egyptian and american cabaret. Today we speak with the founder of the festival who is also the owner and operator of the Kamala Chaand Dance Company – which is the Twin Cities only American Tribal Style performance Troupe, and MN ATS leader as the state premier Fat Chance Belly Dance Sister Studio. Today we will learn how this unique performer became involved with dance, and how she turned it into her life’s passion. We’ll also learn a little bit about what ATS style dance is, how it started and more. I’m Teri Tenseth with part one of our coverage of “Something Tribal This Way Comes” on “Art Beat”.
A conversation with Beth Swanson and Gail Otteson from the Northern Lights Community School. They are involved in a fashion show that will be held at the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids, Saturday, April 30th, highlighting native culture and clothing design.
The Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir had its first performance in 1990 at which it won award for quality. From that point, it assumed an important role in the Twin Cities Gospel music Community. Its mission is to move audiences spiritually as it educates about African American Gospel. Artistic Director David Hurst talked about the work of the choir with Phil Nusbaum.