Host: Steve di Costanzo.

GM of WPKN Steve di Costanzo interviews executive director and founder of the Litchfield Jazz Festival, Vita Muir as they discuss the 2016 event coming up at the Goshen Fair Ground in Goshen CT.

Civil rights veteran Bob Zellner was a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee known as SNCC [Snick) in the 1960's.

Now Zellner works with the NAACP's Moral Fusion movement led by Reverend William Barber in North Carolina and nationally. He is also active in training new civil rights organizers.

WPKN News spoke with Bob Zellner about the state of policing in the U.S.

and the response of grass roots movements such as Black Lives Matter, as well as elected officials and candidates for office.

Zellner started by recalling a similar discussion in 2015 when police killings were in the news.

Today's show focuses on self worth, emotional resilience, and a bit about perfection. Two callers George and Phil share their very interesting experiences.

Host: Valerie Richardson

I greatly enjoyed this conversation with Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and conceptual artist Peter Liversidge, who is visiting from the UK as he realizes several projects at the Aldrich Museum. Here's a description of his work from the Aldrich's website:

For the past decade, Peter Liversidge’s practice has focused on the creation of conceptually based proposals that describe artworks that might—or might not—be realized. Typed on an Olivetti manual typewriter, these proposals—complete with typographical errors and hand annotations—describe ideas from the practical to the far-fetched. Liversidge wrote sixty proposals for The Aldrich (all of the typescripts are included in the exhibition), and twenty-three have been chosen for realization, guided by the concept of connecting the interior of The Aldrich Museum with both the surrounding landscape and the community.

These include working with the employees of Ridgefield Hardware, the town’s hardware store, to write a song about the store that they will publically perform;* ring a cannonball into the Museum’s wall in reference to the action during the Revolutionary War that led to a British cannonball being embedded in the wall of the Keeler Tavern, Ridgefield’s Colonial-era historical site; and the fabrication of nine shallow, circular aluminum pans whose relative sizes correspond to the nine largest lakes in Connecticut, with the pans being subsequently filled with water from the specific lakes

Today's Episode:

We focus on emotional resilience, empathy and one caller trying to help his partner by being more supportive and less judgmental.

HOST: Duo Dickinson

In Studio with Duo will be Eva Geertz whose online postings as an “East Rock [New Haven] Matron” on home creation – making “Geertzhaus” – are both hilarious and useful (and often disseminate Food Porn of the Highest Order.

Joining via call in will be legendary radio icon Bruce Barber – his radio homes have been morning drive at WPLR for a generation, the voice of WNPR and now the station manager of WNHU: but Bruce and his blended family left a McMansion in the ‘burbs to return the the city, New Haven- where he was the stay at home parent.

Additionally Bob Tedeschi whose Guilford home harbors a blended family and has hands-on experience making a house a home will call in. Bob senior writer at the website STAT,https://www.statnews.com/staff/robert-tedeschi/ . He was previously a columnist and feature writer for the New York Times for 16 years, where he covered issues ranging from business technology to personal finance, among many others.

Antje Katcher - Catechism: New and Selected Poems

Today we present the poetry of the late Antje Katcher with Paul Genega and friends reading from her posthumous collection Catechism (Three Mile Harbor Press - 2015). Catechism was edited by Paul Ganega

Recorded in June 2016 at Canios Book in Sag Harbor. Photo Kathryn Szoka- One Eye Open Photography

Episode: Del 'in Transition' : the Slambovian Circus rolls into town, as we converse with tophatted Joziah Longo via the phone fr Cardiff, Wales

UK Tour ending Tues : and in a couple of weeks they roll into Stage One Fairfield on Sat 7/9 on a event filled weekend all over this great Nation of ours. We're talking UK tour, Bowie, Visconti being interview by Eric Cocks on WPKN at the moment Bowie passed, Their sharing Manhattan studios during the Tin Machine sessions, Tink's squeeze box getting signed by Garth Brooks. I walk away every time fr talking or seeing these folks with such a great feeling only a smile can describe.

Today's show is about emotional resilience. We explore three callers- why they are able to handle adversity in a positive way. Each of the callers talk about how "giving to others" helps them to be emotionally resilient,

Karen Finley, performance artist is the subject of Valerie's interview.