ARTSPEAK RADIO with Tosh, Galloway, Weiser, & Pruitt

Wednesday October 24, 2018 Noon to 1PM CST

Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes Paul Tosh, Tyler Galloway, Dennis Weiser, Stephen Pruitt, and Mary Settle Pruitt.

Paul Tosh & Tyler Galloway- TypeHike is a collaborative, nonprofit design project that supports the outdoors through typography. Expressed as poster series focusing on national shorelines and recreation areas, endangered animals and Mars, this exhibition will be presented at the UMKC Gallery of Art, the UMKC Fine Arts Building, November 1 thru November 17, with the opening reception November 1, 7:00-8:30 pm. The opening will be proceeded by TypeTalk from co-creator, James Walker, at the UMKC Miller Nichols Library Room 325, at 6:00pm. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the UMKC Dept. of Art & Art History and the Kansas City Art Institute. Both events are free and open to the public.

D. C. Weiser is the author of many works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, including a satire of American exceptionalism Crash Dummies and a memoir Allegory: A Child of the Sixties. After working as a community editor for New Letters Magazine, he was a regular columnist for The Kansas City Business Journal, and recorded weekly book reviews for KCUR. “Tzytzyan Ysalane” won first prize for prose fiction at the 2004 Chicago Printers Row Book Fair. Recent work has appeared in San Francisco’s The Five-Two: Crime Poetry Weekly and The Hungry Chimera. He has read his work at the Writers Place, Uptown Arts Bar, and Westminster College.
After working as a community editor for New Letters, D. C. Weiser was a regular columnist for The Kansas City Business Journal and weekly book reviewer for NPR affiliate station KCUR. An excerpt from his satire Crash Dummies, “Tzytzyan Ysalane,” won first prize for prose fiction at the 2004 Chicago Printers Row Book Fair. His adventure-romance “The Last Whale” appeared in the premiere issue of The Hungry Chimera March 1, 2017.

The Song of Strawberry is more than a poetry reading…A Celebration of Life, Love, Humor, Romance, Mystery, Magic and the Power of Luminous Speech to Enchant and Reveal Sublime Reality . . . on the Cusp of All Hallows’ Eve. Experience of a Lifetime! Great Fun for All. Possibly Edifying.”

Saturday, October 27 Uptown Arts Bar 7:00 to 9:00 PM
UMKC Theater Arts graduate Chelsey Tighe (“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare—Abridged”) and will be performing a retrospective of Weiser’s poetry.

Stephen Pruitt and Mary Settle Pruitt- “The Tree” is a wonderfully redemptive film that has played at film festivals around the nation (including two Academy Award qualifiers), and was described by one critic as “a gentle, unforgettable work of wonder.” We have also recently completed on the final edit of our next feature film, “The Land,” which was almost exclusively shot within the radio reach of KKFI’s listeners. That film deals with issues involving depression and suicide in rural America, and asks (and answers) the question asked by so many: “Are we more than what we do for a living?” Here is a link to one of the music video montages (which occurs near the end of the film as our couple prepares to be evicted from their family farm):

An official selection of 23 film festivals around the country and the winner of five Best Feature and Audience Choice awards, The Tree follows three days in the life of 88-year-old Dorothy Thorp (astonishingly played by former Guiding Light soap opera actress Joicie Appell) as she drives from Kansas to Indiana on US Route 40 to reunite with her oldest and dearest friend. Inspired by the relationship between the director’s mother and her childhood best friend (tenderly recreated by 9-year-olds Caroline Kelley and Sydney Hendricks), The Tree “tackles important issues involving aging and independence, yet does so in a way that is remarkably universal and deeply intimate.”

Co-starring husband-wife actors Paul Fellers and Laura Kirk (American Honey) as Dorothy’s next-door neighbors, Christie Courville as a remorseful waitress, and Kip Niven (Magnum Force) in an emotional performance as a homeless Vietnam veteran, The Tree is a beautiful reminder that sometimes the road back home takes the journey of a lifetime.
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