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On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, continues an exciting summer series of interviews with local women/fem artists who are all engaged in some form of struggle for social justice and are all featured in an exhibit called “We Don’t Wither,” on display at the Muhammad Ali Center April 1 - December 18, 2023. We Don’t Wither examines the intersection of art and activism.

The artists have created pieces that respond to current socio-cultural and -political situations, lived experiences, and related current events — to see our world and our community through their unique perspectives. The intention is to celebrate the often unheard experiences, opinions, feelings, and perspectives from those who work, create, and fight in our city; to share their artwork and views with visitors; and to provide a space for conversation and reflection. This exhibit is included in the regular price of admission, but you can see it for free and meet the artists themselves during the upcoming ARTIST SHOWCASES:

Shauntrice Martin July 29

LaNia Roberts August 12

Joanne Weis August 26

Morgan McGill September 30

Nikki Douglas October 28

Learn more at: https://alicenter.org/muhammad-ali-center-announces-new-temporary-exhibit-featuring-louisville-area-artists/

This week, we interview LaNia Roberts, an artist who was born in 1996 and raised in the West End of Louisville. As a young black girl who struggled with her identity, she discovered in visual art a creative outlet for self-expression that would prove to be transformative. After several years in Louisville Visual Art’s Children Fine Art Classes and attending Kentucky Governor School for the Arts, she graduated from Central High School in 2014. With multiple scholarships and as a first generation college student, she entered Syracuse University in New York to study painting and was very active in student organizations becoming President of the Black Artist League for 3 years, as well as singing in the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble and more.

While studying at Syracuse, LaNia continued to exhibit work throughout the Louisville area in spaces like the Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany and 1619 Flux Art & Activism. During her junior year of college, LaNia was the first ever in her family to travel abroad. She lived and studied painting, photography, and sculpture in Florence, Italy, and took a 4-month art history class throughout Greece. She soon was invited back to Italy to attend art workshops led by master professors taught in Tuscany, Italy in 2017 and 2018. At the end of her senior year, LaNia lived and worked in New York City with internships at Creative Capital and the Ronald Feldman Art Gallery. During the fall of 2018 LaNia lived and studied Human Rights & Multiculturalism for a full semester in Cape Town, South Africa. She has traveled to a total of 13 countries within the past 5 years. LaNia completed her degree in Painting in 2019.

Since traveling and graduating, LaNia has moved back to Louisville. Recently invited to speak at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, LaNia was flown out to present her artwork and to talk about “Decolonizing the Art World as a Black Woman” to college students. She continues to exhibit work throughout KY and is thrilled to have the opportunity to give back to her community as much as her community has given to her.

Learn more at https://www.laniaroberts.com/

Get Social: https://www.instagram.com/laniaroberts/

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

K.A. Owens interviews filmmaker and film student, Will Severson, about current issues in film such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the value of streaming.

Recorded Friday June 23, 2023, 3PM.

Patty and Iain discuss a variety of conspiracy theories and some critical thinking strategies for dealing with them. Please tune in!

Why is the planet Venus so bright right now? What's the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission for generating electricity? How can different renewable-energy sources be integrated in the future?

Thanks to Dave Robinson (Bellarmine University), Scott Miller (Maysville Community & Technical College), Amanda Fuller (Kentucky Academy of Science), and Zeel Maheshwari (Northern Kentucky University) for contributing to this episode.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville ‘Forward Radio’ 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

David Barton Smith, author of the Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Healthcare System discusses to the crucial impact the black medical community and civil rights activists had on the passage of the Medicare Act of 1965. He discusses his book with Kay Tillow. His book is the basis of the documentary The Power to Heal which will be shown free July 30 at the main branch library. Go to http://kyhealthcare.org for more info

This week we celebrate all the special days of June! Want a book rec for Pride month? We have one. What about Juneteenth or Father's Day? We have you covered. And did you know it's National Audiobook Month? It's new to us as well but we love audiobooks so we give you some recommendations for that too. And we throw in one wildcard category - one of those random National Days or Months that always makes you wonder why there needs to be a month for that:)

This is the last episode for Season 8. We are taking a month off for summer family travel and some rest and relaxation. We will be back the late July/ early August with all new episodes. Until then, we will air some of our favorite past episodes in case you missed them the first time around.

Happy Reading!

For show notes for any episode or to contact us, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

2- The Road by Cormac McCarthy

3- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

4- Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo

5- Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo

6- The Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel

7- The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel

8- The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule

9- Fun Home: A Famliy Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

10- Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

11- And Then the Grey Heaven by RE Katz

12- Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

13- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

14- Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

15- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

16- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

17- The Chosen by Chaim Potok

18- Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

19- The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

20- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

21- Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Willingham

22- The Good One by Polly Stewart

23- On Earth as it is on Television by Emily Jane

Shows/movies mentioned--

1- No Country For Old Men ( 2007)

2- My Octopus Teacher (Netflix, 2020)

Articles Mentioned

1- https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/09/ama-ata-aidoo-ghana-author-dies/

2- https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/13/16257084/bestseller-lists-explained

Lisa Willner is a licensed Psychologist. In additions to representing Kentucky political district 35 in the Kentucky House of Representatives, Dr. Lisa Willner serves as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Psychological Association, a statewide membership organization. She has served as a member of the Bellarmine University faculty since 2000 and has served as Vice Chair of the Jefferson County Public School board in 2014.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, continues an exciting summer series of interviews with local women/fem artists who are all engaged in some form of struggle for social justice and are all featured in an exciting new exhibit called “We Don’t Wither,” on display at the Muhammad Ali Center April 1 - December 18, 2023. Created to engage our community, We Don’t Wither examines the intersection of art and activism.

The artists featured in this exhibit have created art or chosen from their art, pieces that respond to current socio-cultural and socio-political situations, lived experiences, and related current events—to see our world and our community through their unique perspectives. It is our objective to celebrate the often unheard experiences, opinions, feelings, and perspectives from those who work, create, and fight in our city; to share their artwork and views with our visitors; and to provide a space for conversation and reflection. This exhibit is included in the regular price of admission, but you can see the exhibit for free and meet the artists themselves during any of the upcoming ARTIST SHOWCASES:

Marlesha Woods June 24

Shauntrice Martin July 29

LaNia Roberts August 12

Joanne Weis August 26

Morgan McGill September 30

Nikki Douglas October 28

Learn more at: https://alicenter.org/muhammad-ali-center-announces-new-temporary-exhibit-featuring-louisville-area-artists/

This week, we interview Shauntrice Martin who is a mother, abolitionist, and artist. Her work explores longing, identity, and struggle through mixed media. She was born and raised in Louisville and currently serves as a lobbyist. Her artwork has reflected a tumultuous yet triumphant trajectory. The use of acrylics, textile, sculpture, and photography blend in her pieces to create sometimes haunting images of the lives Black and Indigenous people could have lived if white supremacy never existed. She created Chahta Noir as a resource & outlet for artists to develop, network, and BE.

Shauntrice is a Black/Choctaw contemporary artist & curator. She was the inaugural Speed Art Museum Artist-In-Residence and Louisville Visual Art (LVA) Curatorial Fellow. Shauntrice's museum solo exhibition "Something in the Water" was featured at the Speed Art Museum 2021-22. Most recently, she curated a permanent exhibit entitled "Sweet Fire" with Play Cousins Collective in the Historic Lyles Mall.

Shauntrice's "Gateway" Collection will debut at the Muhammad Ali Center in April 2023.

More at https://www.chahtanoir.org

Get Social: https://www.facebook.com/blackfuturefest

https://www.instagram.com/ChahtaNoir/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/chahtanoir

Media Mentions: https://www.chahtanoir.org/media.html#/

Fund Black Founders: https://www.wave3.com/2023/05/09/black-louisville-entrepreneurs-receive-25k-grants-help-grow-businesses/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackfuturefest

Read the WFPL story about Shauntrice at https://www.lpm.org/news/2023-05-15/louisville-creator-wants-to-use-her-experience-to-uplift-more-black-visual-artists

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

K.A. Owens interviews Dr. Bill Hamilton about his new book "Tyre's Tale - Black Men speak on the murder of Tyre Nichols."

Recorded Friday June 16, 2023, 3PM.

Professor Tom Lambert brings you the second edition of a new program on Forward Radio focused on exploring our political economy to get at deeper truths about why our economy and society is the way it is and what we could do to make it better for everyone! Tune in to hear an increasingly rare perspective on these issues - that of a heterodox economist.

On this week's program, Tom interviews John Komlos, author of the book "Foundations of Real-world Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know." John Komlos is a professor emeritus of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich. He has also taught at Harvard, Duke and the University of Vienna. Learn more at https://books.google.com/books/about/Foundations_of_Real_world_Economics.html?id=SiSFswEACAAJ

Your host, Tom Lambert is a professor in the Economics department at UofL and has recently been assigned to their equine industry programs as an applied economist. Prior to UofL, he taught full time for Northern Kentucky University in their Master of Public Administration program for several years. Before that he was with the economics department at IU Southeast for many years. Professor Lambert has a MS in economics from UK and a PhD in Urban and Public Affairs from UofL with a concentration in urban economics and economic development.