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In conversation with Bob Fulkerson, a longtime local activist and co-founder of PLAN, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada. Bob has devoted his life to direct action and constant, vigilant organizing around issues ranging from nuclear disarmament to corporate accountability to LGBTQ rights. His convictions are old-school, in a way, but fundamental to progressive movements of any time period: democracy has to work for everyone if it is to work at all. We talk about activism - the past, the present, and the future, which always looks scary and always challenges us to face it, head-on.

Are you tired of your kids coming home feeling discouraged and intimidated by socializing with peers? In the third episode of Family Communication with Dr. Bob Quilitch, learn about the positive benefit of teaching your kids cooperative games.

A meditation on the poetry of Vassar MiIler.

Nathaniel Benjamin has now spent most of his life in Reno, Nevada, where he co-founded Laika Press with some friends from UNR’s printmaking department.  In the one year that I’ve lived here, I’ve seen his work in public, printed on shirts and beer cans, or in the gallery.  I hadn’t had the chance to talk with him until recently when we had a conversation surrounding his Holland Project Window Gallery exhibition Terms and Conditions.

Using his artist statement as a jumping point, I asked Nathaniel how he saw the relationship between humans and technology; both positive and negative.  We continued to explore the many ways technology has changed the way we interact with one another, its role in our current “era of misinformation”, as well as the relationship between printmaking and digital mass media.

In this episode of Jim Davidson’s Roots Junction, Jim talked over the phone with Rick Sparks, the president of the Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association. Listen in to hear Rick and Jim speak about the 35th Bowers Mansion Bluegrass festival coming up on August 20th through the 22nd. This years lineup includes Crying Uncle, The Sonoran Dogs, Trey Hensley & Rob Ickes, among many more. Check out the interview to learn more about the festival schedule, lineup, vendors, and hear a few songs from the headliners!

“WHERE WE WERE WHEN WE WERE NOT WHO WE ONCE WERE” revisit the exhibition from @hpgalleries with an excellent interview between featured video artist Veronica Graham and local artist/educator Scott Oliver on KWNK tonight at 8:30pm 🪴 Dive with us into Veronica’s process, making art over the pandemic, 🌊 water simulation 🌊 and 🌏 world-building 🌎, meditation, PLUS feast your ears on out-of-this-world soundscapes by Julia Kim 👂👂 Full transcript available on @hpgalleries  blog, audio-only streaming on KWNK or 97.7FM and wherever you get your podcasts!

Sometimes it can be hard to figure out what to talk about in your radio show. 

Here's a new podcast for KWNK DJs to learn more about improving their radio shows and familiarize themselves more with other DJs on our station.

In this episode we will go over different things you can talk about in your radio show including: 

Check it out!

On the latest Soft Power Radio, we are in conversation with Austin Pratt. Austin just completed a three-week artist residency at Great Basin National Park while a collection of his paintings and sculptures completed a month of exhibition at the Depot Gallery in Sparks. Austin teaches drawing at UNR and also teaches in the MFA program in Interdisciplinary Arts at Sierra Nevada University. We talk with Austin about paintings and where to put 'em. Check out some of his work - austinjpratt.com and @austinjpratt.

A meditation on the value of carefully written work.

Hear a new Spoken Views Radio with performances from their 2nd Open Mic at the Holland Project this summer. This show is a collaborative effort by The Spoken Views Collective working to broadcast local poets and keep the community up to date with what’s excellent in spoken word internationally.