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Aurora PhotoCenter Director Mary Goodwin in conversation with 2025 Aurora Project Resident Cali M. Banks (Munsee Lenape/Scottish), who uses her artistic practice to reclaim identity through auto-ethnographic, experimental photography and filmmaking. Her work explores personal and collective histories, relational intimacies, and the expansion of narrow, flattened definitions of indigenous art.

Readers will find a whole lot of characters riding The Paris Express, Emma Donaghue’s latest historical novel. How much fun is it to ride with them? Barb Shoup, Laurel Judkins, Kate Shoup, and Ken Honeywell have opinions on the December 2025 edition of Radio Free Book Club.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview Big Car Collaborative’s Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh. Hear how the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is emerging as a cultural campus in the Garfield Park neighborhood—the culmination of Big Car’s 10-year vision.

Real Life, Revised - A reading series of "stories, poems & other truths" featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, and WQRT Radio, part of the Garfield Park Creative Community from Big Car Collaborative.

This show was recorded Dec. 14, 2025. Our next live event, featuring invited readers and open-mic opportunities, is Jan. 18 at 4 p.m. at Indiana Humanities, 1500 N. Delaware St. in Indianapolis.

 

Real Life, Revised No. 3, Dec. 14, 2025.  

 
00:05 - Auboni open
00:25 - Sam Ferrante open
02:02 - Auboni
05:56 - Steve Berta
10:40 - Ebony Chappel
16:50 - Tracy Mishkin
20:15 - Nasreen Khan
24:30 - Ariana Beedie
29:40 - Marissa Dooley
34:00 - Januarie York
39:13 - Kandace w/ a K
42:45 - Sam Reflection
43:45 - Sam Close
44:23 - Music Out

 

    Real Life, Revised - A reading series of stories, poems & other truths featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, and WQRT Radio, part of the Garfield Park Creative Community from Big Car Collaborative.
    This show was recorded Nov. 9, 2025. The final episode in our three-show pilot of the "Real Life" series, featuring invited readers and open mic slots, is scheduled Dec. 14 at Indiana Humanities, 1500 N. Delaware St. in Indianapolis.

00:00 - Sam Ferrante Open
01:50 - Thanks WQRT/Big Car, Butler, Indiana Humanities
04:18 - Sam reads Burning Haibun by torrin a. greathouse
07:00 - Mitchell L. H. Douglas
10:50 - Jane Ristine Hixon
16:40 - Rosaleen Crowley
19:53 - Samantha Fain
23:20 - Anastacia Cohen
29:40 - Vinny Corsaro
35:40 - Aaron Thomas
39:12 - Monica Lewis
45:50 - Kenneth Foran
51:23 - Sam Close and December preview
51:50 - MFA, Indiana Humanities, and Booth Thanks
53:14 - Megan Telligman, Indiana Humanities
53:51 - John Strauss, Close
54:17 - Music Out

Hear a discussion between Kimi Katada, curator at Kansas City’s Charlotte Street, and artist Amy Kligman as they discuss Amy’s exhibition ‘Shrines of the Luminous Halo’.

FLICK FIX | BUGONIA | with Anne Laker & Tracy Ball

Five-time Flick Fix guest and queen of rabbit holes Tracy Ball eats up the full-throttle sci-fi absurdity of Stone and Plemons in BUGONIA (2025, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos), while Anne reflects on the film’s politics. Discussed: Christian Louboutin shoes, self-delusion, KILL BILL, Noxema, crafting, and AIR FORCE ONE.

Tracy rewinds to the golden age of sci-fi TV with THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959-64) and THE OUTER LIMITS (1963-65) for  the segment *YOU'VE NEVER SEEN*.

Radio Free Book Club - A university researcher in a dystopian 2119 searches for a famous poem that was read only once and disappeared without a trace. That’s the intriguing subject of Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know—which is the subject of the November 2025 meeting of Radio Free Book Club. Steve Woods, Christine Hudson, and Craig Von Deylen join Ken Honeywell for the discussion.

Lee Alig and Steve Mannheimer interview authors and photographers, Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin. Their new book, “What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen,” expands the narrative of modern architecture and its legacy in the American Midwest.

Real Life, Revised - A reading series of stories, poems & other truths featuring Indiana writers and produced by Sam Ferrante and John Strauss, with the support of Indiana Humanities, the Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing, and WQRT.

This show was recorded Oct. 26, 2025. Other shows in the "Real Life" series, which include featured readers and open mic slots, are scheduled for Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at Indiana Humanities, 1500 N. Delaware St. in Indianapolis.

00:11 - Sam Ferrante, Open
01:24 - Booth: A Journal shout-out and contest promo
03:39 - "Hummingbird" by Fady Joudah read by Sam
04:49 - Scoot Swain
10:56 - Logan Taylor
16:00 - Taylor Lewandowski
20:36 - D'Mon Jones
25:27 - David Strange
29:03 - Jennifer DelGadillo
34:49 - JD Amick
40:03 - Imani Lehté
45:46 - Cayden
49:54 - Sam Ferrante, Wrapup
50:55 - Megan Telligman, Indiana Humanities
52:25 - John Strauss, Close
52:54 - Music Out