ARTSPEAK RADIO 2018 Winter Pledge Drive

Wednesday January 31, 2018
Noon – 1pm CST

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd asks for your support during the 2018 Winter Fund Drive- 30 Years of Building Community!!
Please support this on air arts program that gives local artists, spoken word poets, painters, authors, sculptors, arts educators, museums, arts organizations and so many more the opportunity to discuss their art, chapbooks, events, openings, performances, innovations, submissions, and programming. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS PROGRAM NOW IN ITS 6TH YEAR BY CALLING 1.888.931.0901 or pledge online at www.kkfi.org

Guests on the program include, Tammy Ruder with Union Station, ArtsKC Director Development Allison Patterson, Jim Clark Good Samaritan Response Program, and Arts in Prison Leigh Lynch Executive Director.

Union Station Bricks –n-blues FEBRUARY 2 – MARCH 2, 2018
ON THE 2 DAY OF FEBRUARY AND MARCH
NEXT SHOWING – FEBRUARY 2
TIME: FEBRUARY 2 & MARCH 2: 7 – 9 PM
PRICE: $25
Tammy Ruder Union Station Bricks-N-Blues; Experience the world’s largest display of LEGO® art at Bricks & Blues at Union Station’s The Art of the Brick exhibition. “Build” the perfect evening with live Blues music performed by Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats, food and beverage tastings from local businesses to round out the evening while being surrounded by hundreds of thousands of LEGO® bricks*. Designed to inspire ingenuity and creativity, The Art of the Brick is the most elaborate display of LEGO art. Containing massive collections of both original and re-imagined works of art, guests can expect to get up close and personal with masterpieces like van Gogh’s Starry Night and Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa…all made exclusively from LEGO® bricks.
Bricks & Blues is an after-hours, adult (21+) only event held in the exhibition gallery. Admission to the event is required. Cash bar available. *Food & beverage available while supplies last. No food allowed in the exhibition gallery. Last entry into the exhibition is 8 PM
Union Station 30 West Pershing Rd. KCMO 816.460-2020
www.unionstation.org

ArtsKC – Regional Arts Council was founded in February 1999. ArtsKC was started as a result of a community-wide planning process facilitated by the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and supported by the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation. ArtsKC has developed programs and services designed to “unleash the power of the arts.” This includes programs for the arts community, the business community, and services to the civic community. Today, we serve Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas, and Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties in Missouri.

ArtsKC highlighted Arts In Prison at the annual Inspiration Breakfast. At the breakfast we bring together community members to connect them more deeply to ArtsKC and also to artists or arts organization.

Alison Patterson Director of Development ArtsKC, leads fundraising efforts. She brings 20 years of experience leading both social service and arts organizations through the successful completion of annual fundraising campaigns and special events, and she has assisted with two capital campaigns. Alison has served on the Executive Committee of the Lyric Opera Circle, Chaired the Nonprofit Connect Awards Luncheon, and currently serves on the Village Presbyterian Endowment Trust Committee. Alison earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her master’s in Public Administration from the Bloch School of Business. She is a recent graduate of the Central Exchange Emerging Leaders Program.

ArtsKC 106 SW Blvd KCMO 64108
816.221.1777
www.artskc.org

Arts in Prison began as the East Hill Singers, a men’s chorus program started by Maestra Elvera Voth at Lansing Correctional Facility in 1995. Inmates came to participate because they thought that the “singing program” would give them a chance to practice their rap skills. By 1998 demand had grown for more arts programming at Lansing and Arts in Prison was incorporated to offer multi-disciplinary arts education throughout the facility. Over the years Arts in Prison has provided arts education and programming in all units of Lansing Correctional Facility, the Topeka Correctional Facility, the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth and juvenile detention centers in Johnson and Wyandotte Counties, Kansas and Jackson and Clay counties in Missouri. Programs include not only choirs but also visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpting, mixed-media), performing arts (theatre, public speaking), literature and writing (poetry, short stories, memoires), guitar, yoga, philosophy and gardening. The Arts in Prison Library Partners program has processed more than 7,000 books for prison libraries.
Arts in Prison is a 501(c)3 organization, operating with a small staff and strong corps of volunteer instructors under the direction of its board of directors.
Leigh Lynch, Executive Director has been with Arts In Prison for 10 years, the last 6 as Executive Director. She brings with her 20 years of nonprofit work. Her passion for this work is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves an opportunity to reach his or her fullest potential. When it comes to the incarcerated population, most have never had that chance. This isn’t a second chance, it is too often the first one they have had.

Arts in Prison, Inc.
913.403.0229
www.artsinsprison.org

Jim Clark with Good Samaritan Program Response For People Needing a Second Chance- In the United States of America, we have two dynamically opposite problems that can be emulsified to solve each other. The number of unemployed and underemployed people is extraordinarily high, yet at the same time the number one struggle for business owners is finding good employees. One of the most difficult classes of people to employ is former Criminals and Drug Addicts. Different than the people who merely don’t want to work, there is a small minority of highly motivated former criminals and drug addicts that have a strong desire for success. While a handful of facilities are doing outstanding work, the rehabilitation provided by the prison system appears to be the worst in the history of our country. The most dangerous and disgusting people in our society have been incarcerated and are allowed to set and control the culture and environment within the prisons. To be successful once released from this horrible environment, our candidates must shed this culture, language and acquired attitudes within the first couple weeks of release. Imagine how difficult this task would be without a supportive home & work environment. Thanks to our Good Samaritan Companies (employers) we are changing the recidivism rate or relapse rate that has historically exceeded 70%.

When released, these people have two basic goals: get a job and find a place to live. Unfortunately, without a supportive family, one is as equally hard to find as the other and the typical job they find sets them on a path to nowhere. With these factual markers, a group of Kansas City Ministries, Reformers and Professionals have come together under the name The Good Samaritan Response to solve the problem.

Purpose of the Program: By selecting attitude, desire, and aptitude while placing the candidate into a firm but nurturing environment, the business gets a hardworking and loyal employee.

Good Samaritan Response is designed to assist people coming out of incarceration / rehabilitation to not just get a job but a career with a life plan. Our primary focus is to help people get a good job in a great environment – one that is the beginning of a career complete with benefits and opportunities for advancement.

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