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Thursday Night Special
Thursday nights are special!
First Thursday: Jasmine Jones hosts Next Step Forward, a spotlight on millennials of Kansas City who are within a marginalized group, but are using their talents, business, activism etc. to help bring positivity within their communities. This program exists to be a place that is inclusive, safe, fun, inspirational and educational not only for the listeners but for the guest as well.
Second Thursday: Shots in the Night radio theatre; hosted and produced by various members of Shots In The Night. In 2023 SITN has received seven awards for podcast productions in the 9th Annual Hear Now Audio Fiction and Arts Festival produced by the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Third Thursday: People Power Hour, brought to you by KC Tenants, hosts a rotation of speakers featuring members and leaders from KC Tenants and other tenant unions across the country to analyze, inform, and inspire listeners about the power of tenant unions in America. Every episode will showcase a different lesson about tenant unions and America's problematic history with housing by providing in-depth historical analysis, testimonials and stories from leaders who organized in their communities, and collectively brainstorming a vision for a better world where housing is treated as a human right.
Fourth Thursday: Sirisha Naidu and Taki Manolakos host Economics For the People, a journey to explore the transformative power of economics when it is harnessed for the working classes, to advance social justice, and to create an inclusive and equitable society. It is an open invitation to participate in collectively shaping and reimagining an economy that prioritizes the needs and aspirations of the working classes, marginalized communities, and individuals of different gender expressions, sexualities, and abilities. The show features diverse voices, experiences and perspectives that often remain unheard in mainstream conversations about economics, markets and numbers.
Fifth Thursday: The provocative "From Ark to Microchip", produced by Dwight Frizzell, mixes commentary, dramatic re-enactment, original music, historic voices, audio art and sound effects in a pan-historical, pan-cultural milieu. Programs in the program series have received several awards.
Note: These programs may be preempted by special presentations.
Part 1 – BRIDGE: Missouri River Bridge as Instrument, a premiere program
“Bridges are expressions of our spiritual evolution, and our impulse toward transcendence.”
—Rev. Dwight Frizzell
Bridges are resonant living systems activated by our crossing formidable passageways now made passé. Crossing Liberty Bend Bridge, our featured instrument, takes a mere 14 seconds. We invite you to hang with the bridge a moment longer, entertain its own perspective, listen inside its metal structure, ascertain its rhythms and singing tones as we listen to humanity in transition from one side to the other. The sonorous Missouri River bridge at Highway 291 (near Independence) is a magnificent traffic-activated instrument expressing a flow of people, materials, animals and plants. Its voice, animated by us humans and full of percussive and harmonic sound, is intimately heard by nestling an ear on its metal understructure (or attaching contact microphones as recorded here by Dwight Frizzell).
2- ARKIVE program: Music for Socio-Ecological Evolution by Second Nature
Second Nature is dedicated to a freer society of universal human freedom and dignity that recognizes the mutuality of human and ecological existence and the necessity of a more ecological social, economic, and political consciousness. A better world is possible! The ensemble features composer/players Michael Eaton (saxophones and flute), Seth Andrew Davis (guitar and EFX) with Ben Tervort (acoustic and electric bass), Alan Voss (drums), Tim J Harte (laptop electronics) and your host, Dwight Frizzell (wind controller, alto clarinet).
