James Joyce’s literature comes to life in an upcoming performance by Adam Harvey in Santa Fe. It's a chance to experience Joyce in a new way.

The Santa Fe Institute and Currents New Media are producing festivals of art, technology, and science that bring together people across many disciplines, and that invite audiences of all ages and interests. We speak to Caitlin McShea of the Santa Fe Institute, Frank Ragano of Currents New Media, and artist Agnes Chavez.

Charlotte Rowe, Vulcanologist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks about what volcanoes are, what we know and don’t know about them, and what’s happening at the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where she directs the New Internationalism Project. She talks about what happened on Monday, May 14, when 60 Palestinian protesters were killed and 2400 injured; how the history of US-Israel relations informs the current political situation; and how this conflict is contextualized in the larger geopolitical reality.

Brian Vallo, director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research talks about pueblo arts of New Mexico and the conversation among tribal artists, researchers, and collectors.

Mark Twain encountered the work of Shakespeare when he was a small child and was in dialogue with him as a writer for his entire life. Now that dialogue comes to Santa Fe as a play by Lois Rudnick and Jonathan Richards, a scholar, and an actor. We talk about the many connections between these two literary figures, and some of the history of how their work was received and interpreted—including a major riot.

New Mexico passed the first law in the nation banning lunch shaming. In today’s program we talk to Jenny Ramo, executive director of New Mexico Appleseed, who promoted this legislation, and Debriana Mansini, actress and writer, whose one-woman show, the Meatball Chronicles, will be performed at the Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living on Sunday May 20.

Delanna Studi, actress and writer, is bringing her one-woman show to the Lensic Performing Arts Center And So We Walked: An Artists's Journey Along the Trail of Tears, on Wednesday, May 23.

What does hunger look like in our community? It looks like you and me. The Food Depot's Jill Dixon dives deep on with Mary-Charlotte on the challenges that face Santa Fe families and children.

Searchlight New Mexico’s series on child well-being in New Mexico continues with a chilling investigative story by Ed Williams on what happens when the foster care system fails its children. He follows the story of a young boy and his sister who were placed in “treatment foster care;” the boy ended up in the emergency room, the apparent victim of ongoing brutality his own foster mother. We explore the question of how this could happen, and what could be done so it doesn’t happen in the future.