Starting February 3rd, you can now hear The New Jack SwingBeat ReVue; North America’s definitive premier New Jack Swing formatted music program, hosted by The Original Spider J Hamilton 00, moves to Thursday after almost 10 years at Sunday nights.
“I welcome this new time slot! I welcome the new audience! For those that will miss me because of the change, remember I’m STILL accessible via the KFAI archives, where most of you made this program #3 out of 87 choices at KFAI to date! The #3 most downloaded program, I’m humbled and I thank you! Now it’s time to get our ‘Swingin’ on!”
Former Thursday 10am program Afrique Nomad, hosted by Jumondeh Tweh, has aired its last show on January 27th, and you catch encores of past episodes on Sunday evenings at midnight beginning February 6th.
About the Host:
Originally aired January 25, 2022.
Liz kicks off the show with Farhad Dadyburjor and his new novel The Other Man, a romantic comedy that centers conversations about queerness, modern Indian dating norms, and arranged marriage.
After the break, Josh connects with Jing Tsu, the first Professor of Chinese Literature & Comparative Literature at Yale, about her new book Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern.
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As guests walk through the third floor of the Minneapolis Institute of Art or MIA, they see ancient sculptures, vast canvases, and even a couple of swords. But what’s waiting at the end of one hallway is something new to the museum. Rituals of Resilience is a new audiovisual exhibit co-created by Chaka Mkali – rapper, visual artist, and community organizer.
“I have several hats. One of those hats is co-curator of Rituals of Resilience, and the other hat is of a musician, I Self Devine, the hip hop who developed the soundtrack that accompanies,” says Mkali.
Chaka Mkali has been a hip-hop artist in Minneapolis for over four decades. After he moved here from California, he helped revitalize the Twin Cities’ early graffiti scene. He’s put out a host of rap albums as I Self Devine, and has been described by one weekly arts publication as “one of the most influential voices in Minnesota Hip-Hop.”
Rituals of Resilience is the first time he’s worked with a major museum to co-curate an art exhibit. He says the sense of trust he felt was necessary to begin the work wasn’t easy to come by. Mkali says he’s been distrustful of museums in the past. As an African American artist, he says his distrust stems from what he sees as the exploitation of artists of color across the globe. But in getting to know the curators at MIA, he says he saw an opening to create something different.
“When I met with the co-curator I asked him a question: are you here to do your job and if you are then I’m not the person. Now if you’re interested in challenging and doing some things then I’m interested and up for that.”
KFAI’s Tony Williams shares this short audio story for MinneCulture.
MinneCulture on KFAI is Supported by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
*THIS IS A RE-RELEASE OF SEASON 1 EPISODE 2 (SANS COPYRIGHT MUSIC)*
Sara shares her experience, strength and hope as it pertains to life in recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. She quit using when she was 14. What could she possibly know about addiction after stopping at that age? Give a listen to what it was like, what happened and what it’s like now, and you will understand. Her wisdom is unmatched.
DMCA AND COPYRIGHT-FREE MUSIC:
LOFI CHILLED BEATS: THE RELAXED MOVEMENT
1261 CLAN–JARKICO: ISLAND
*This is a re-release of Season 1 Episode 2*
Sara shares her experience, strength and hope as it pertains to her recovery from alcohol and drugs. She got clean and sober at 14. What could she possibly know? Give a listen and you’ll find out just how honest, wise and hilarious she is.
DMCA AND COPYRIGHT-FREE MUSIC:
LOFI CHILLED BEATS-THE RELAXED MOVEMENT
1261 CLAN– JARICO: “ISLAND”
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Spirits, UFOs, and Ouija boards, and all things otherworldly make up “Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” – an unsettling, new touring exhibition curated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Premiering in Toledo before traveling to Louisville and then Minneapolis, it’s the first major museum exhibition to take on the supernatural in art in the United States. KFAI’s Sheila Regan reports.
“Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art” runs at the Minneapolis Institute of Art February 19 – May 15, 2022.
Banner image: “Healing: Nanâtawihowin” by Chholing Taha. Soundcloud/social media image: “Destinies Manifest” by John Jota Leaños.
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
This month’s meeting of the Fresh Air, Inc. Board of Directors will be held on Monday, January 31, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.
Important note: This month’s meeting will be held virtually. Participants can take part online or by phone. Above and below the agenda is the registration link for Monday’s Zoom meeting. You must pre-register to attend the meeting–this is to protect our public meeting.
If you have questions about the meeting, or wish to add an agenda item, please email the Board at <board@kfai.org> prior to the meeting. The Board roster, contact information and prior meeting minutes and financials are available at kfai.org/board.
KFAI Board meetings are open to the public; all interested persons are welcome to attend. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:00 pm.
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The craft of glassblowing can be extremely demanding. Al Honn has been practicing the art of blowing glass for over forty years. He says artists are often ruled by small windows of time, maybe only thirty seconds, before temperature and gravity start to take over.
“Gravity can take over real fast, and if you’re not blowing things out evenly, it doesn’t have the ability to maintain the form, and defying gravity is kinda what glass is about”
A stout man, with a ponytail halfway down his back, a gray-blond beard, and a light blue t-shirt tucked into his blue jeans, he’s making a glass top hat. Honn’s studio is a shared workspace in a big open room with large furnaces and ovens, all glowing with hot orange, the ambient heat of which, Al says has crackled the coating on his glasses.
Honn works and teaches out of FOCI – the Minnesota Center for Glass Arts in south Minneapolis. KFAI’s Drew Temperante shared this audio profile.
MinneCulture on KFAI is supported by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
