KXCI Conversations

Melanie & Rambo from The Nerd Gym speak with Bridgitte about their groundbreaking event.

Muscles! is the first Gender Neutral Strength and Bodybuilding Competition in the World! for more information contact [email protected]

Macy Cummings and Alycia Ruffin from the Tucson Museum of Art Teen Council joined Elva De La Torre in the studio to talk about their work and their recent event.  The TMA Teen Council is a group of diverse high-school students from all over Tucson who meet once a week to brainstorm and design programs, events, and resources for their peers. The group works on skill building in the areas of communication, critical thinking, as well as leadership skills. Members have the opportunity to meet contemporary artists, make new friends, go behind the scenes of the museum, and shape what’s happening at the Tucson Museum of Art. 

Jenny Lewis talks with KXCI’s Jennie Grabel about her new album “On The Line”, on the week of it’s release.

We get the scoop on the songwriting behind the new album, perspective on pitfalls of modern communication and social medial in the life  of a professional musician, the band that she’s bringing on tour and some reasons why she loves Tucson. Jenny will be in Tucson on May 13th at The Rialto Theatre, KXCI Presents!

Pastor Margaret Redmond McFaddin from Prince Chapel A.M.E. Church and Bryan Davis, Executive Director of the Jewish History Museum, joined Elva De La Torre, KXCI Director of Outreach, for a conversation about a Gallery Chat taking place on Friday, May 17th at 11am at The Jewish History Museum. The Gallery Chat is entitled Neighbors and is about the historical collaboration between the Church and the Synagogue that have been Armory Park neighbors for years. The Chat will focus on a historical photograph that is on display in the Museum. KXCI is proud to join our neighbors in presenting this Gallery Chat.

Information on the May 17th Gallery Chat 

Yuvennice Caraveo, Gabriela Cazares-Kelly, and Lydio Otero recently joined Elva De La Torre in the KXCI studios to talk about being recognized by The Arizona César E. Chávez Holiday Coalition at their 6th Annual Dolores Huerta Celebración de la Mujer. The Celebration is named after Dolores Huerta who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union, and one of the most prominent Latina leaders of our lifetime. She went on to found the Dolores Huerta Foundation, devoted to community organizing, developing leadership skills, and encouraging civic engagement. Dolores Huerta has received multiple honors and recognition, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

The full conversation is here:

Ms. Caraveo attends Cholla High School and at a young age has already organized around many issues both at her school and in the community. She is dedicated to forging alliances and ensuring the voices of the most affected are at the center of what she does. 

Gabriella has dedicated her life to advocating and fighting for her community. From working with youth in and outside of high school and higher education to organizing voter registration efforts across the Tohono O’odham Nation to founding Indivisible Tohono, she has helped forge a new path for the O’odham people, and especially women.

Dr. Otero’s contribution to the preservation of the history of Tucson should be celebrated as a symbol of love for our City. Dr. Otero’s deep sense of fostering leadership and mentoring those from marginalized communities has spanned a career of 30 years. Her dedication to scholarship, mentorship, community service and advocacy has had a profound impact on all of us.

Dolores Huerta

Ryley Walker is opening up for Richard Thompson in Tucson and David of KXCI’s Observations Of Deviance did an interview with the guitarist and indie folk rock musician.

KXCI Presents! The Richard Thompson Electric Trio with Ryley Walker opening at The Fox Theatre on February 17th.

Tickets and More Info

Observations of Deviance is an all vinyl, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio.  Your host, David, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from the around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.

Observations of Deviance

They discussed the upcoming Backpack Project art installation taking place at the University of Arizona Mall on October 31st.

The Backpack Project seeks to amplify and complicate the current conversation about the existence of Opportunity Youth, young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are not in school and not working due to economic, social, and educational barriers.

For more information visit – https://www.unitedwaytucson.org/backpackproject

You can see the film for yourself

on Sunday Oct 7,  7:30 pm

The Screening Room 

For more information visit

tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com

Rest In Peace

Geoff Emerick passed away on Oct 2, 2018. He was an English recording studio audio engineer. He worked with The Beatles on their albums Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road.

Here he is talking with KXCI’s own Al Perry in his last recorded interview.

recorded by Bridgitte Thum