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Words and Music Episode 5 : Lasana Kazembe and Rob Dixon

In the fifth installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Jim Walker talks with poet Lasana Kazembe and jazz musician Rob Dixon who collaborated to create the multi-media performance, Firedance. Both artists are based in Indianapolis.

Kazembe, a professor at IUPUI, is The Cabaret's inaugural Artist in Residence. Firedance is an original work Kazembe and Dixon created and performed at the Cabaret in May of 2022. This multimedia, multi-disciplinary event featured live musical performance with storytelling, dance, and live painting on stage. This work drew on the African cultural concept of Serudj-Ta, meaning: to repair and remake the world - the restorative practice by which we replenish the world in order to make it more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Firedance follows Kazembe's highly acclaimed Voodoo of Hells Half Acre that aired on 250 PBS TV stations across the U.S. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1wht61KYM)

Radio Free Book Club - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Upgrade by Blake Crouch. #6 on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the first week of publication in the category of Hardcover Fiction. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Craig Von Deylen only on 99.1 WQRT

Words and Music Episode 8: Marguerite Young

In this episode, we explore the story of groundbreaking utopian writer Marguerite Young who lived from 1908 until 1995. Born in Indianapolis but living most of her life in Greenwich Village in New York City, Young should be better known beyond literary insiders.

Indiana author Susan Neville, who joins Jim Walker in this episode, and others are working to preserve Young’s legacy and keep her work in print. In 2022, Chatwin Books released Young’s collected poems. This is the first time a press has published a lifelong grouping of Young’s poems — previously out of print for decades. Dalkey Press will also put out a new edition of her hallucinatory masterpiece of a novel — Miss MacIntosh, My Darling — in 2023.Neville was able to spend time with Young after she returned to Indianapolis.

We’ll hear her share an excerpt from, Where the Landscape Moved Like Waves, an essay she wrote about her experience interviewing Young.In addition to the conversation with Susan and more excerpts from her essay, you’ll hear passages of Young’s writing read by Shauta Marsh.

Words and Music Episode 7: Maurice Broaddus and Afrofuturism

Words and Music on WQRT is a series of audio programs highlighting the lives and work of Indiana Writers. The series — produced by Big Car Collaborative and first heard on our FM radio station, 99.1 WQRT and streaming at wqrt.org — is made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities.

In this episode, Indianapolis-based Afrofuturist writer Maurice Broaddus talks with Oreo Jones about the origins of Afrofuturism. Broaddus's books include the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk works, Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship, and the middle grade detective novels, The Usual Suspects and Unfadeable. His project, Sorcerers, is being adapted as a television show for AMC. As an editor, he’s worked on Dark Faith, Fireside Magazine, and Apex Magazine.

Audio production for this episode, including music, by Oreo Jones. Excerpts from Octavia Butler read by Yeabsera Tabb.

Radio Free Book Club- Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, a multilayered novel about friendship, love, and video games. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Ashley C. Ford, Traci Cumbay, and Robin Beery only on 99.1 WQRT

Radio Free Book Club - 2 A.M. in Little America by Ken Kalfus

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Ken Kalfus' 2 A.M. in Little America. A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT

Create Hear-Jennifer Blue Hands

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this Episode Yaebi Tabb talks with artist Jennifer Blue Hands

Indiana Waterways: The Art of Conservation Artist Talk

On October 15, 2022, Tube Factory artspace hosted a reading of essays from the new book, Indiana Waterways: The Art of Conservation. The project, organized by artist Avon Waters, includes both the work of Hoosier plein air painters and writers with a passion for our state’s waterways. This is a recording of the event made possible with support from Indiana Humanities. An exhibition of the artwork is up at the Indiana State Museum through Dec. 11, 2022. 

Find more info at https://www.indianamuseum.org/experiences/indiana-waterways-the-art-of-conservation/

Create Hear-Jim Lemler

roduced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this episode, Jim Walker of Big Car talks with Dr. James Lemler, President of Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, about the visionary person who started the foundation — Allen Clowes — and about topics ranging from philanthropy, to art, to music, to community radio.

Dr. Lemler — who usually goes by Jim — has worked with numerous organizations, communities, and institutions. Assuming the executive office of President in 2019, Dr. Lemler has served the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation as a director and officer since 2003. Dr. Lemler is a Sagamore of the Wabash, awarded by the State of Indiana. He's a musician and longtime supporter of the arts.

Create Hear-Miguel Casco

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this Episode Shauta Marsh and Eduardo Luna talk with Mexico City native artist, Miguel Casco