ARTSPEAK RADIO with Morgan Cooper, Stacy Busch, and Miguel M. Morales

Wednesday, April 22, 2020, noon – 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live www.kkfi.org

Co-producer/host Mark Manning talks with director/writer/filmmaker Morgan Cooper, composer/performer Stacy Busch, and writer/community activist Miguel M. Morales.

MIGUEL M. MORALES grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Miguel also earned the Society of Professional Journalists’s First Amendment Award. He is also a founding member of Brown Voices/Brown Pulse and of La Resistencia.

His work appears in:
* From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction
* Hibernation and Other Poems by Bear Bards
* Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
* Primera Página: Poetry from the Latino Heartland
* Cuentos del Centro: Stories from the Latino Heartland
* Desolate Country: We the Poets United Against Trump
* If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration
* Only Light Can Do That: 100 Post-Election, Poems, Stories, and Essays
* Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival
* Raspa magazine
* Pilgrimage magazine
* Duende Journal
* Green Mountains Review
* Acentos Review
* and Texas Poetry Review among others.
Miguel is also the co-editor of Pulse/Pulso anthology for Orlando.

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STACY BUSCH, No Divide KC -NDKC 1st Annual Queer Narratives Festival:
https://www.nodividekc.org/queernarrativesfestival

No Divide KC Mission:
No Divide KC uses the arts as a vehicle for stimulating social awareness, participation and community building. No Divide KC partners with Kansas City-based artists and organizations to create artistic events that are focused on the stories of underserved and misrepresented communities in Kansas City.

Stacy Busch is a composer and performer. Her concerts and productions are designed to be provocative yet accessible in order to cultivate broader artistic interest and, in particular, reach under-served and/or misrepresented communities. Stacy is the founder and president of No Divide KC, an arts and social justice non-profit that creates artistic events for social causes. Artistically, her work deals with internal conflicts that are often taken abstractly from her personal experiences with addiction and bipolar disorder. These experiences of duality both in the mind and body are universal and her work expresses this underlying human vulnerability.
Stacy’s work has been performed nationally as well as in France and Iceland. In 2020, Stacy is composing/performing the new music and theater production, When/Time in partnership with Charlotte Street Foundation. The Mid America Freedom Band is premiering her double concerto piece for two drag queens. No Divide KC is producing “Stories from Under the Stars” a storytelling event focusing on homelessness in Kansas City as well as the 1st Annual Queer Narratives Festival. Recently, Stacy released a new project and subsequent album, titled Mass, which she premiered at MTH Theater. She performed at Splice Electroacoustic Music Festival, she scored the documentary “The Ordinance Project” which premiered at the Kansas City LGBTQ Film festival, she partnered with Gilda’s Club KC, Owen/Cox Dance Group and Charlotte Street Foundation to compose and perform the music for “Collective: Our Stories of Cancer,” other service with No Divide KC includes partnerships with the Kansas City Ballet School and the Johnson County Library. In addition to Kansas City, Stacy’s work has been featured at the University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, Western Michigan University and Central Michigan University. It has also been performed by ensembles including: loadbang, Bent Frequency and the Beo String Quartet. She is a ‪2020 Charlotte Street‬ Foundation Generative Performing Artist Fellow. Stacy has received grants from ArtsKC, ArtSounds, Charlotte Street Foundation and the UMKC Women’s Council. Stacy received her MM in composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and her BM in composition from Western Michigan University. Her teachers include Rome Prize winners Paul Rudy and James Mobberley as well as Pulitzer Prize winners Zhou Long and Chen Yi. Other influential teachers include Guggenheim Fellow Curtis Curtis-Smith, Christopher Biggs and Lisa Coons. Prior to studying music, Stacy studied print journalism at Boston University.

Morgan Cooper is a Kansas City, Missouri / Los Angeles, California based director with a unique voice, clear vision, and a passion for every aspect of storytelling. His film “U Shoot Video” has been selected to be a finalist for the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival X Award. Morgan Cooper gain international acclaim for his short film “U SHOOT VIDEOS?” that reimagined “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and a television drama. Cooper was recently signed to Creative Arts Agency and also Darren Arronofsky’s Chromista. Morgan Cooper recently signed a development deal as writer, director and executive producer for “Black Coffee,” a new single camera comedy, produced by actress Gabrielle Union and Sony Pictures, for Quibi. Cooper’s influences range from fine art, jazz, and hip hop, to the works of photographers Roy DeCarava and Gordon Parks. His Midwest roots and wide array of experiences growing up in Kansas City, Missouri also resonate throughout his work. Morgan Cooper is a graduate of Artist Inc. Cooper is committed to combining art with purpose by using his voice as a filmmaker to positively impact underrepresented communities. More information at: ‪www.morgancooperdp.com‬

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