On the final day of the Rural Arts and Culture Summit in Grand Rapids from October 3rd-5th Kathy Dodge, Sonja Merrild and Ed Zabinski will be leading a talk about how city government can lead in arts and culture - and how that makes rural places better.

Today we get ready for the month ahead on Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo! BINAAKWE-GIIZIS "FALLING LEAVES MOON" (OCTOBER)

"... as a vocal professor you teach voice... which is a little bit different than what sometimes people think in the sense that we approach the voice as an instrument . So we are looking for how it functions and how to make that function as efficient and natural as possible . And that can take a long long long time because it takes a tremendous amount of self-awareness and exploration ... when people sing in a way that is efficient and natural, they can do it for their whole lives . When people

From the write up at the 2019 Rural Arts and Culture Summit in Grand Rapids Thursday October 3rd-5th WE CAN! Working Towards Equity in Rural Communities through Female-led Artistic Interventions and Creative Action Ashley Hanson, Lauren Carlson, Cassie Williams, Esmeralda Hernandez, Saara Raapana, (Women’s Empowerment Creative Action Network) A recent Creative Minnesota report stated that female artists receive only 50% on the dollar of what male artists are paid in Southwestern Minnesota. To

On August 5 th of 2019 Barbara McDonald became the 13 th president of The College of St. Scholastica. With a background in leadership and higher education administration and a long career with the MN State Colleges and Universities System including North Hennepin Community College Itasca Community College and Rainy River Community College in International Falls. She has a doctorate of education from the University of MN Mpls as well as a masters of Arts in Teaching from American University in

Phenology is the biological nature of events as they relate to climate. Every week John Latimer takes a close look at the blooms and changes happening while considering how the timing measures up to past years in his Phenology Report. He's full of clues and changing hues indicating that fall is happening in this week's report. Take a listen! School is on! We are excited to start hearing from our intrepid student reporters in classrooms around northern Minnesota! If you are a teacher or work with

Tuesdays are special at Northern Community Radio and when school is in session, we are even more jazzed than normal! We hear from listeners every week who are noticing and observing interesting events in nature, but during the school year, we also hear from young phenologists across Minnesota as they call in their classroom phenology reports. This week we heard from kids in Ely, virginia, Blackberry, Kelliher, Shevlin, Hill City, Two Harbors and Northfield! Wow! Ripe apples and wild plums, white

This morning we welcomed newly retired judge Mark Munger into our studios to talk about his new novel Kotimaa: Homeland coming out on October 1st. Looking at the cover of the book you might be like me and assume it's historical fiction. It is. But it's also tied to right now. Immigration weaves it all together - from Finnish immigrants moving to the Iron Range for work to an American doctor in contemporary times working with Syrian refugees in Finland. Follow the journey of Anders Alhömaki from

"Every student is unique... I'm actually teaching a 61 year old saxophone player right now, who is a beginning saxophone player, and he is doing so great...if you're learning an instrument that's new to you, the first step is really exploring that instrument. Really getting to know that instrument and playing it in a way where you're being more creative and improvisational...so there's really no judgement and then at the same time we have a six level music theory system that helps people learn

Today we get a chance to hear from our friends Nana Boozhoo and Natasha and another edition of the podcast about Ojibwe language and culture. Today we learn DOG. And we learn about Michael Lyons book "DOG AND MA'IINGAN".