WPKN Community Radio

Hosted by David Green of The Cultural Alliance Of Fairfield County.

This month we hear from a wide range of our theatres in Fairfield County as they emerge from 15 months of closure and deep uncertainty about their future. All five of these theaters have survived in quite different ways and are reassessing who they are, who their audiences are and what the future looks like. Our guests are: Michael Barker, Managing Director of the WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE; Hugh Hallinan, Executive Director and producer of DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, Bridgeport; Stephanie Hazard, Founder and Co-Artistic Director, with Andrea Lynn Green, Co-Artistic Director of the GREENWICH THEATRE COMPANY; Kristin Huffman, Producing Artistic Director of the NEW PARADIGM THEATRE; and Lou Ursone, Executive Director and Producing Artistic Director of CURTAIN CALL, in Stamford.

* Senate Nearing Critical Stage of Negotiating Medicare Expansion Legislation Alex Lawson, Executive Director of the group Social Security Works Producer: Scott Harris

* Cuba's Economic Crisis Provokes Protests & US Threats James Early, Fmr Dir Cultural Studies, Communication Center for Folklife Pgrms cultural Studies Smithsonian Institution Producer: Scott Harris

* Ranked Choice Voting Tested in New York City Primary Rob Ritchie, President and CEO FairVote Producer: Melinda Tuhus

Bridgeport native Jason Coombs discusses growing up in Bridgeport, his love for the arts, and the journey of creating and organizing the Bridgeport Film Fest!

Bridgeport Film Fest takes place virtually on Thursday July 22, 2021, and in person Friday July 23rd through Sunday July 25, 2021, at the Klein Memorial Auditorium at 910 Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport.

More information, and tickets, are available at www.bridgeportfilmfest.org.

Two interviews from our Walk for Our Grandchildren to visit climate justice fights across PA and an interview with a soil scientist who is a panelist at the July 25 forum, "Land Use, Climate and Equity"

Interviews with Zulene Mayfield, head of a group fighting the biggest garbage incinerator in the U.S.; Tracy Carluccio, of Delaware Riverkeeper Network, discussing an even worse than average proposal for a liquefied natural gas export terminal; and Kip Kolesinskas, a soil scientist and panelist at the July 25 forum, "Land Use, Climate & Equity"

Mike Horyczun Interviews Falcon Ridge Folk Festival's Anne Saunders in a conversation that aired on WPKN on July 7, 2021.

My gueston this "Digging inthe Dirt" is regenerative Farmer, author and host of the popular "No till Market Garden podcast'" Jesse Frost. Jesse farms at a farm in Kentucky with his wife Hannah Crabtree called Rough Draft Farmstead. He is here on "Digging in the Dirt" to talk with me about his new book. The Living Soil Handbook - The no till growers guide to ecological market growing.

-Study suggests 90% cut in energy use

-Earth has lost 33,000 square miles of ice since 1979

-one-third of Wisconsin's gray wolves killed by humans

-Florida passes the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act

-The Weather Channel coverage to focus on the impact of climate change.

Michael Zweig, labor economist and historian, describes the mission of the National Labor Relations Board, traces its history from its formation in 1936 and assesses what it might accomplish with a Democratic majority in this current political landscape.

Interview by Richard Hill

Host: Kathy Connor

Summer Shorts — enjoying balance in the summer time