Wednesday February 20, 2019 noon – 1pm Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes comedian Byron Stamps, artist Laura Pensar, Studios Inc, & Doug Peete with Jazz For Good Foundation. Byron Stamps is a Mississippi native whose laid-back delivery about tales of …

Wednesday February 13, 2019 noon to 1PM CST Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes a plethora of artists; Kiki Serna, Anthony Oropeza, Linda Lighton, and Bernadette Torres. AQUETZALI (KIKI) SERNA is a Mexican visual artist living in Kansas City, Missouri. Kiki works within performance, painting, digital mixed media, and collage based practices. Since her time at the Kansas City Art Institute, she has worked on telling her, and her family’s immigration story – deciphering it for herself, and sharing it with others. Once undocumented, now part of the DACA program, Kiki craves to find healing, catharsis, and a voice through her creative art practice. Her pieces develop from her inner feelings of alienation, confusion, and fragmentation as an immigrant. Kiki combats these thoughts by using color to celebrate the empowering aspects of her immigrant history and experience. Using color as her ally, she relives bi-curiously through the passages she once walked as a child – The brightly colored buildings, the sweet tastes of fruit outside her great grandfather’s home, and the lively, populated streets. Due to her immigration status, Kiki can’t return to Mexico, so she uses specific tools to guide her research; Stories from her parents, conversations with her family…

ARTSPEAK RADIO is entering its' 7th year!!! If you tune in weekly, download podcasts, listen online, if you learn of new opportunities and information happening in the creative community, enjoy listening to one of the many guests featured weekly on ARTSPEAK RADIO then call 888-931-0901 to pledge your support. Online pledges are simple, just go to www.kkfi.org and show us your support for YOUR community radio station. It's time for YOU to support this on air arts program that serves local/national artists, poets, writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, arts educators, museums, arts organizations, and so many more the opportunity to discuss their art, chapbooks, events, openings, performances, innovations, receptions, submissions, and perform live from the KKFI studio. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR 90.1FM KKFI KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY RADIO !!! Call 888-931-0901 or pledge online www.kkfi.org Producer/Host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist/poet Hugh Merrill, artist Teresa Dirks, gallery director Vanessa Lacy, and Johnson County Youth Services Librarian Abbey Ludlow and teen editor Amanda Pendley to the program. HUGH MERRILL -Dog Alley is a full color book of poems and drawings by the internationally renowned artist and educator Hugh Merrill. The poems are an intimate look at memory, aging, loss, privilege and sexuality all…

Wednesday January 30, 2019, noon - 1PM, 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes ceramic artist/educator Bernadette Torres, artist Ruben Castillo, designer Sarah Walsh, and musician/singer/songwriter Kian Byrnes. Bernadette Esperanza Torres-As a storyteller I communicate with my hands translating stories into clay. My sculptures are autobiographical narratives with animal imagery, such as Java Sparrow Finch birds as symbols of humanity, facets of myself or of others. My birds are both cheerleaders and naysayers to me. My sculptures serve as spirit guides that manifest intentions, relieve anxieties, and whisper secrets.

As a daughter of a florist, flowers are intrinsic to my sculptures they create a dialogue internal to my work. Flowers are always present and dying at monumental life changing ceremonies. Currently I am working on a Blooming series of soft slab hand built female nude figures with ceramic flowers and another series called Fragrance of Memory. Each wheel thrown large wall mounted platter is a memory that multiplies.

My technique of throwing on the wheel and hand building allows a personal connection with my clay and forms. This intimacy is imperative for me to process my emotions and stories into clay and create meaning with images,…

Wednesday January 23, 2019 noon to 1pm CST Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Dan Hadley, David Bears, Heather Campbell, Gregg Higginbotham, Ralph Monaco, and Garrett Lipps members of HIP-Historical Interpretive Programs. “HIP” stands for Historical Interpretive Programs. HIP is a group of experienced, talented interpreters, historians, artists and performers who are passionate about preserving and promoting the rich historical legacy of our region. HIP partners with area historic sites and organizations to offer compelling educational “living history” programs and events to the public. HIP strives for a high level of historical accuracy in everything we do. HIP members work together to conduct exhaustive research in every aspect of its programming; from narratives drawn from primary sources, to historically accurate recreated settings, furnishings, clothing, hairstyles and dialogue. HIP members pay no dues; HIP has no by-laws. We are a group of like-minded individuals committed to creating high quality living history events and activities that tell the stories from our past. We love history, and we love what we do. Our storytelling possibilities are limitless. Those interested in learning more may contact HIP member Dan Hadley by e-mail or phone: [email protected] / 913-908-3101. Dan Hadley is an artist, graphic designer and historian.  He…

Wednesday January 16, 2019 noon - 1PM CST 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes artist/musician Robert Castillo, muralist/artist Baldemor Rivas, multi-media artist Stacy Busch, and writer/poet Waco Porter. WACO PORTER has lived in the Kansas City area for 20 years. Born in Galveston, Texas, he served in the military and traveled widely. He now proudly calls KC home. Porter recently published his first book of poetry, Total Eclipse. He also enjoys writing short stories, working out, and hanging out with his wife, three daughters, and family dog. He serves as board vice president of Jump Start Art KC. He’s also in school, pursuing a new career in the field of physical therapy. BALDEMAR RIVAS is a 2016 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and recently finished his part of “Wall of Respect,” a mural for InterUrban ArtHouse in Overland Park and the Jewish Community Center. Rivas has some interesting projects in the pipeline, his work presently adorns the covers of “Bubba Ho-Tep,” the comics prequel to the 2002 movie that featured Bruce Campbell as an old Elvis Presley fighting an ancient, evil Egyptian deity. Baldemar Rivas is featured in ARTIST TO WATCH the November-December…

Wednesday January 9, 2019 noon - 1PM, 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Kansas City Kansas Police Officer Osvaldo Navarro, artist Sandy Van Tuyl, Mid-Continent Public Library Curator Mark Livengood, Kansas City Public Library staff Courtney Lewis and KCPT's Lindsey Foat. Osvaldo Navarro, Kansas City Kansas Police Officer, talks about community programs through the Kansas City Kansas Police Department. SAFETY FIRST, COURTESY ALWAYS-

Our department provides emergency services to the community of Kansas City, Kansas, which spans approximately 125 square miles with over 330 sworn officers serving a population of approximately 150,000 citizens and 10 million visitors per year. KCK POLICE DEPARTMENT JUVENILE ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES

Today a Reader, Tomorrow a Leader Program- This initiative was designed to engage with children and inspire them to learn. Once a month, COPPS and MPS officers respond to Parker Elementary School and read from selected books to the Kindergarten, First and Second grade students. The selected reading always supported whatever character trait the school was teaching for that month. These sessions usually last about ½ hour, and always end with a question and answer session. Summer Job Program – This teen program is designed to be a initial stepping stone toward…

Wednesday January 2, 2019 noon - 1pm 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio www.kkfi.org Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes author David Hanzlick, photographer/queer disability activist Kathyrne Husk, & artist Patrick Jacobs. Author, David Hanzlick, is Director of Program and Development for Sheffield Place, a treatment and transitional living program for homeless mothers and children in the Kansas City area. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Nonprofit Leadership Studies Program at Rockhurst University and the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs at Park University. Hanzlick is a historian and holds a PhD in Political Science and History from UMKC. His doctoral research explored the history of women’s activism in Kansas City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hanzlick’s book Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality: Women’s Activism in Kansas City, 1870-1940, is a study of women’s activism in the Kansas City community within the national context. It traces the rise of women’s activism in Kansas City during its post-war golden age of population and industrial growth. During this period, women of varying backgrounds emerged from the domestic sphere to claim space as full participants in their community, state, and nation through activism on behalf of benevolence, moral reform,…