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Wednesday MidDay Medley
Wednesday MidDay Medley plays with themes and special events. The show features new releases, local artists, glam, indie, punk, funk, folk, hip hop, classic country, jazz, lo-fi, electronic, soul, latin, broadway, cuban, african, ambient, and live in-studio performances from area musicians, performers, and writers.
Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Rock & Art & Gender
+ Artist Ryan Wilks & Gender Treason + Poet Jen Harris
+ Ryan will paint the radio show!
Mark plays music about Art & Identity from: ANOHNI, Schmeckel, Le1f, Britta Phillips, Ivory Black, Janelle Monáe, Prince, Pieta Brown, Rufus Wainwright, The Stranglers, Sufjan Stevens, Le Tigre, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Lou Reed, John Cale, Herbie Hancock, Leonard Cohen, Mission of Burma, The Velvet Underground, and Talking Heads.
At 10:30 we’ll talk with Kansas City based artist Ryan Wilks who will share information about his upcoming exhibition: “Gender Treason,” opening July 1, at 6:00 PM, at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, in the lower level. “Gender Treason” is a year long project involving the documentation of 12 queer persons living in Kansas City who were interviewed, photographed, recorded, transcribed, and painted in oils. The aspiration of this project is to reshape the perception of queer people in Kansas City in a constructive and powerful way. More information at: www.wilkspainting.com
At 11:00, Poet Jen Harris, joins us to talk about her Kickstarter campaign to support the release of her debut spoken word album, Flaunting Her Mediocrity, (due out Summer 2016), and planning her 2016 solo cross-country tour: Multiple Personalities. Earlier this year her first book of poetry, SLAMMED was published through Prospero’s Books and Spartan Press as part of the POP POETRY series. Jen Harris is co-owner of Createful Studios LLC, & founder of KC’s PoUnd SLAM and is the recipient of the 2015 UMKC Jim Wanser Pride Award for outstanding LGBT community activism in Kansas City. Additionally, she is the recipient of the 2015 & 2014 Pitch Magazine Top 3 Poets in Kansas City award, and the 2009 ACP Kansas Journalist of the Year. More info at: www.facebook.com/poetjenharris.
During the entire live, two-hour broadcast, Ryan Wilks will paint the radio show with oil paints on 36” X 40” canvas. We will post the live streaming of this, on Facebook.
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