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Artspeak Radio
ARTSPEAK RADIO is a live radio program on KKFI that airs every Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Host Maria Vasquez Boyd serves up information about the visual and literary arts community including live interviews with artists, writers, and performers.
Maria talks with photographer Suzanne Gunther, writers Judith Towse Roberts, Sharon Eiker, Kevin King, & Cheryl Kimmi live from the KKFI studio located in mid-town KC.
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In January of 2016, over a period of three days, Photographer Suzanne Günther photographed and interviewed 83 local Kansas Citians. The portait project will map out the connections between these many and varied artists, creatives, musicians, craftspeople and longtime locals Using cradle mounted, resin cast, black and white photo portraits, over 5,000 feet of fiber optic cables, and audio interviews Suzanne Günther is weaving the people, their lives, and stories of experiences in Kansas City in a dramatic visual and audio installation piece.
CONCATENATION- Friday July 29, 9pm to July 30 12am
The Source FINE ART 2201 Lexington KCMO 64124
Suzanne Günther was born in Wichita; Kansas, lived in and traveled extensively throughout the United States, but Kansas City and the people she came to know while living here continue to inform and inspire her art. She currently lives and works in Germany.
Jump Start Art is a non profit foundation organized to assist emerging artists by connecting them to community resources in theater, visual arts, literary art, spoken word, music and dance. We accomplish this through classes in these arts as well as recording demos and publishing written works. We are an organization made up of artists, poets, actors, dancers, musicians and lovers of art who have benefited from the generosity of others and choose to give back some of what we have been given. We do this to build up the community we live in, reduce violence, enrich our cultural lives and to fill in some of the void left by reduced funding of the arts in the public schools. We are a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization.
Sharon Eiker is a founder of the non-profit KC organization, Jump Start Art is sponsoring two, FREE summer youth poetry camps. Judith Towse Roberts is the program coordinator for the two, FREE Jump Start Art Summer Youth Poetry Camps (grades 7-12, ages 12-18)
First Session (one day): Friday, July 15, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Northeast Library (capacity: 20), 6000 Wilson Road, KCMO
Second Session (three days): Monday – Wednesday, July 18-20, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m., Lucile H. Bluford Library (capacity: 50), 3050 Prospect Ave., KCMO
For more information: www.jumpstartartkc.org
Kevin King & Cheryl Kimmi discuss Kansas City Fringe Festival Performances dates July 21-31.
Mimi Dafoe: Confessions of an Aging Starlet – written by Kevin King, Directed by Tara Varney, starring Bonita Hanson, Devon Barnes, and Laura Jacobs.
A dark comedy examining the cult of personality and what happens when you try to make a documentary about an actress who refuses to be on stage. Produced by Whim Productions
The Toymaker by Jesse Ray Metcalf, starring Alisa Lynn, J.Will Fritz, and R.H. Wilhoit
Prudence doesn’t need a lot. She knows the things that make us all truly happy; like the gleam in the eye of a brand new toy. Loneliness only happens if you let it and Prudence is never alone in her toy store. There’s fun to be had when you let your imagination go a little bonkers. Jesse Ray Metcalf’s “The Toymaker” is a sinister ride of one woman’s quest to fill the world with the beauty she sees in her mind. Come on down to the toy store; everyone’s dying to play.
Reader – Rasheedat ‘Ras’ Badejo
Young Black Victorian by Rasheedat ‘Ras’ Badejo
Directed by Heidi Van
Orphaned by tribal warfare and saved from human sacrifice, one little girl from West Africa became the adopted goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Lady Sara Forbes Bonetta, named by the captain who rescued her, and after the ship that took her to England, impressed Queen Victoria with her intelligence. Straddling two cultures, Lady Sara spent her life between the British Royal household and her homeland in Africa. Fishtank Resident Artist Ras Badejo brings her story to life this year at the KC Fringe Festival.
Reader – Hilary Metzger, Vicoria Mueller
Second Ladies – Created and Directed by Heidi Van
When 2 gift shop employees start talking the night before Hillary Clinton’s inauguration, the role of Bill – and what his title will be comes up. In the ensuing conversation, puppet shows and historical reenactments – sex, policitcs, wives, mistresses and cigars are discussed.
www.kcfringe.org
