ARTSPEAK RADIO with Mishka Shubaly, Alex Martinez, InterUrban Arthouse, & Julia Vering

Wednesday May 23
Noon -1PM CST

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Mishka Shubaly, Alex Martinez, Julia Vering, & Wolfe Bracke with InterUrban Arthouse.

Mishka Shubaly bio: About Mishka Shubaly: After receiving an expensive MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in 2002, Mishka Shubaly promptly realized he was more interested in playing music in dive bars than writing. He moved into a Toyota minivan and toured non-stop. After some lean, hard years and a couple hundred thousand miles, he’s become a cult favorite, opening nationally for comedy iconoclast Doug Stanhope, penning the soundtrack for The Unbookables documentary, headlining the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour and appearing on Warped Tour. He has shared the stage with artists like The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Decemberists among others. In 2011, Shubaly began publishing a series of mini-memoirs via Amazon Kindle Singles (six #1 bestsellers, more than 200,000 copies sold in five different languages). Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote the foreword for his collection. His account of getting shipwrecked for The Moth was broadcast nationally on NPR and around the world. Shubaly’s full-length memoir I Swear I’ll Make it Up to You (Hachette) was published in 2016 and has garnered praise from The Guardian, Publisher’s Weekly, GQ, Men’s Journal, and Brooklyn Magazine. His roadwork— 145 shows in 5 countries last year— has won him accolades from Portland, OR to New York to the UK. His writing workshop at Yale has been hailed by students as ‘transformative.’ He provides the theme music for the Doug Stanhope Podcast which goes out to more than 1.5 million listeners. Actor Adrian Grenier played drums for a single off the new record “When We Were Animals.” In 2017, he achieved his highest honor: he was a clue on Jeopardy!

Alex Martinez is poet and author living in the Kansas City, Missouri. Born in Mexico, Alex migrated to the US at a young age as an undocumented and unaccompanied minor. He often writes about the trauma of this experience and other social issues that affect him and his community. His poem “Daddy” will be published in an upcoming chapbook from the Hawaii Review this fall. Alex is artist in resident at Charlotte Street Foundation, working on a community arts pilot program from funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town grant. His first book Disclosure: Confessions of a Queer in Crisis was release in April 30, 2018.

Alex performs with Resistencia, a brown & queer group of poets. He is also an organizer for Brown Voices. Brown Pulse: a LGBTQ POC group working to create a safe and welcoming space for queer folk of color. Alex is a DACA recipient and he is the current Director of the Kansas/Missouri Dream Alliance (KSMODA), a pro-immigrant group seeking equal opportunities for undocumented youth and their families. Alex Martinez is unapologetically brown, queer, and unafraid and his community work and poetry reflects that.

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Book: https://www.amazon.com/Alex-Martinez/e/B07CRDLDZ1/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

Wolf Brack, Curator InterUrban ArtHouse
McKenzie Adkins

Illuminating the Queer Experience.
The InterUrban ArtHouse of Overland Park, Kansas is featuring an exhibit of works and accompanying programs to illuminate the experiences and perspectives of LGBTQIA artists from all over the Kansas City area and provide a welcoming platform to share their stories with those in and outside of the queer community.
The opening reception will be Friday, June 15th, 5-9pm with work from 20 local LGBTQ artists and literary readings and spoken word performances happening from 7:30-8:30. The Closing Reception will be Friday, July 20th, 5-8pm, with live music from multiple queer musicians.

Contact information: Wolfe Brack, 913.283.7091, [email protected] InterUrban ArtHouse, [email protected], 8001 Newton Street, Overland Park, KS 66204

Julia Vering (Unicorns in the Snow) is a performance artist, musician, animator and licensed social worker. She began her involvement with the Kansas City DIY/punk scene as a teenager taking photographs and creating zines about obsolete local amusement parks and punk bands. She attended Evergreen State College where she earned a B.A. in liberal arts studying electronic music, experimental animation and social work. While in Washington state, she formed and toured with the all female conceptual art band Muñeca Chueca, volunteered at a senior center, recorded oral histories, and facilitated music recording workshops for incarcerated youth. After graduation, she moved back to Kansas City and began working at a nursing home where she facilitated art and music therapy and began an experimental drama program. She studied electro-acoustical composition and gerontology at the University of Missouri Kansas City. In 2008, she earned a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Kansas. She designed a recreational therapy program for the inpatient geriatric psychiatric unit at the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and worked as a licensed social worker at Kansas City Presbyterian Manor facilitating a drama club, harmonica band and talent shows. She currently works for Compassus Hospice as a social worker and bereavement coordinator.

Vering seeks to balance her propensity for advocating for the rights of others and building strong interpersonal relationships with the hospice patients and families she works with professionally with the need to create intensely personal introverted work to share with the public; to reconcile her aptitude for listening to and fostering a sense of being understood in others with the longing to be understood herself. Her work explores mortality, loneliness, absurdity and empathy, seeking to monumentalize the ostensibly mundane and forgotten through sound, performance and visual art. Vering received a Rocket Grant in 2011 to produce You Live Here Too , a multimedia performance utilizing video, stop-motion animation, an original score, and local senior citizens as actors and oral historians. Her current project, Motherhood, is a psychedelic multimedia performance piece about perception, which utilizes processed accordion, field recordings of her children, stop motion animation of mink stoles and cameos from her own mother. She is touring this project in June 2018 with former collaborator Angela Saylor of Mint Hill. Vering continues to work within the DIY ethos recording her own music, filming, editing her own videos and writing her own scripts at her home studio in Overland Park, Kansas.
www.unicornsinthesnow.com

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