ARTSPEAK RADIO presents, Dan Wayne, Ira Harritt, BAM!the Workshop, & Riverfront Reading Series

Filmmaker Dan Wayne talks with Maria via phone. He has spent the last three years criss-crossing North America, following his friend—World Champion taxidermist Ken Walker—as he searched for Bigfoot, researched sightings and, finally, made a life-sized re-creation of the fabled forest creature.

Dan’s film, Big Fur is now in post-production. With a completed rough cut in hand, Dan Wayne has begun submitting Big Fur to film festivals. There is a Kickstarter campaign underway to raise additional funds; money that will be spent on post-production, an original score, music licensing rights, animation and graphics.

Big Fur is a wry, funny portrait of a brilliant, eccentric artist-hero who’s desperate to prove that Bigfoot is real, hopefully before North America’s last real wilderness—Bigfoot’s habitat, if he exists—is destroyed by logging and mining. For now, Ken’s denied a happy ending. What seems like true love proves illusory. But he’s still sure that any day, the existence of Bigfoot will be confirmed. Until then, he’ll keep looking.

Dan Wayne (Director/Co-Producer) studied photography at Kansas University and film at New York University. This is his first feature. He’s also an amateur taxidermist. Dan lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

See the trailer at: www.BigFurMovie.com
PREVIEW:

PATTY at the WTC:

KICKSTARTER:

WEBSITE:
http://www.bigfurmovie.com/#home-2

Ira Harritt discusses poster art produced by students and professional artists responding to militarism, injustice and hope. The poster art exhibit is displayed at five locations throughout Kansas City; Paseo Academy, 4747 Flora Avenue, Plaza Library 4801 Main, Southeast Library 6242 Swope Pkwy, North-East Library, 6000 Wilson Road and Cristo Rey High School 211 W. Linwood Blvd.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) organized the poster project. Ira Harritt coordinates AFSC’s Kansas City program which initiated the youth exhibit to accompany the nationally touring exhibit All of Us or None: Humanize Not Militarize. www.afsc.org/KansasCity

BAM! the Workshop, is a dynamic performance approach to
diversity and inclusion training focused on honest and impactful
conversations about America and blackness. BAM! the Workshop is composed of localized stories and events to develop better inherent and acquired workplace diversity, economic growth and community development. With street dance, music, and visual imagery, it engages the iconography and reality of the “other” living–as–black in Kansas City.
www.Expectbam.com

Randy Ratliff, Eve Ott, and Rhiannon Ross discuss the Riverfront Holiday Open Mic, Sunday Dec.13, 2pm at Prospero’s 1800 W. 39th KCMO. Co-hosted by Riverfront Reading Series and The Writers Place, read a seasonal poem or 2, acoustic musicians welcome. Contact Rhiannon Ross in advance at [email protected]

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