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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Composer, improviser, sculptor, mask and instrument maker, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, consultant and visionary. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he immigrated to Chicago in 1963, and moved to Minnesota in 1989. He traveled to Japan in 1987 as part of a U.S.-Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, where he studied both modern Japanese culture and the traditional Buddhist shakuhachi flute. He has performed around the world in several ensembles, including the Nyahbingi Drum Choir, the Clarinet Choir, Douglas R. Ewart & Inventions, Douglas R. Ewart & Quasar and Douglas R. Ewart & Stringnets. As an instrument-maker, Ewart creates unique varieties of winds and percussion. He also handcrafts masks that have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and elsewhere. This story was produced by Dixie Treichel.
Through a joy from everyday creativity found in various venues and over fifteen years as the editor-in-chief of Brainerd’s Lake Country Journal, Jodi Schwen’s stories of life in Minnesota will make you want to bust out the flannel and stake out your spot at a 4th of July Parade near you! In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Jodi about her appearance at the Granite City Book Club. Jodi’s book Northern Comfort: The Musings of Jacqueline Pine Savage is a collection of stories that we all live out simply by being here in Minnesota.
Twenty-two years ago, Jacie Knight founded Youth Performance Company to nurture young artists. YPC recently opened its spring production, “School House Rock Live!”, a musical based on the 1970s animated television series. KFAI’s Sabrina Crews spoke to cast members Scarlett Thompson and Dion Grace about the significance of live theater, and serving their community through the arts.
New American operas are rare, and new Midwestern operas more so. Produced in the Twin Cities, “The Ladysmith Story” opera celebrates a turn-of-the-20th-century Wisconsin town poised for change as well as the lives and ambitions of its people.
In this three-part radio documentary, producers e.g. Bailey and Sha Cage explore Liberian history and the growth and development of the community in Minnesota.
Hear conversations with a wide-range of community members, including Wynfred Russell, Abdullai Kiatamba, Piso Tarr, Yeamah Brewer, Mameneh George and others, as well as prominent local figures including State Representative Keith Ellison, history professor Peter Rachleff, and theater director Wendy Knox.
Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineries in Superior, Wisconsin and beyond. In the fifth of Pipeline Stories: A Series on MN’s Natural Resource Economy from Northern Community Radio reporter Britt Aamodt speaks with Enbridge’s Lorraine Little and the Star Tribune’s Dave Shaffer about the need for a pipeline, the route and more.
In this three-part radio documentary, producers e.g. Bailey and Sha Cage explore Liberian history and the growth and development of the community in Minnesota.
Hear conversations with a wide-range of community members, including Wynfred Russell, Abdullai Kiatamba, Piso Tarr, Yeamah Brewer, Mameneh George and others, as well as prominent local figures including State Representative Keith Ellison, history professor Peter Rachleff, and theater director Wendy Knox.
The Northwest Indian Community Development Center in Bemidji provides a wide range of stabilizing supports for the region’s native community. Housing and parenting resources, employment counseling and trainings, youth programming, educational assistance, cultural experiences and community events are all part of the holistic approach to wellness steeped in Ojibwe culture.
In this Area Voices, Executive Director Martin Jennings, Family Services Lead Jennifer Greenleaf, and Youth Programming Assistant Sedrick Hindsley discuss the ways NWIDCD creates pathways for native people. They also discuss a community event The Round Dance happening Friday night at the Bemidji Armory from 4-10pm.
Last month, the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis had a virtual watch party on social media, bringing together viewers to see what community members are saying about sexual health and and related topics, including why it’s difficult to talk about sex.
We’ll hear more about how the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis works with the community to talk about sexual health.
But first… the US Census is well on its way, collecting information from citizens across the country… And, there’s still time to fill out the Census.
The U.S. Census Bureau has extended the 2020 census deadline to September 30th.