Sean Claffey, director of the award-winning documentary AMERICONNED. Plus, Meet Your Maker Spotlight with Craft Lake City’s Belynda Magalei and @bonytongueart’s Tiffany Whitby, and Granary Arts’ debut of Critical Ground series.
Tonight’s show features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!
Meet Your Maker Spotlight, featuring Craft Lake City‘s Belynda Magalei and @bonytongueart‘s Tiffany Whitby.
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Aug. 11-13: The 15th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Fest at the Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 W., SLC. “Utah’s largest local-centric art, music, science and technology festival. We are celebrating our 15th Anniversary with our biggest fest yet with over 350 local artisans, vintage vendors, foodies, youth entrepreneurs, performers, & STEM exhibitors over three days the second weekend of August at the Utah State Fairpark!”
Climate disaster zones may not be at the top of your list of destinations this summer, but you can let a book take you there. A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind and Water brings readers from the burning American West to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. For Rocky Mountain Community Radio, KGNU’s Shannon Young spoke with the book’s author, David Gessner.
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June 26 & 27: Author David Gessner will read and sign his new book, A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind and Water, at Moab’s Back of Beyond Books (6/26) and SLC’s The King’s English Bookshop (6/27). Gessner writes about climate disaster zones, bringing readers, from the burning American West to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. For more information, click here.
Scotti Hill & Darren Jones on Critical Ground, a new series of conversations and brainstorms between visiting critics and artists, curators, writers, and other stakeholders from the region at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah.
- June 23: Critical Ground, day-long dialogue at Granary Arts, Ephraim. Event by Granary Arts: “Critical Ground is an initiative exploring how the dialogue of art critique might shift towards communities and artists working outside the frameworks of NYC and LA. The day-long event is a series of conversations and brainstorms between visiting critics and artists, curators, writers, and other stakeholders from the region. Through formal and informal discussion, this gathering is a space where strategic thinking meets creative action with the intention to shift the current framework of art critique hierarchy to highlight work outside metro-centered locales.”
Filmmaker Sean Claffey, director of the award-winning documentary AMERICONNED.
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“AMERICONNED is a film about income inequality in the US and the tragic destabilizing effects to Americans. Radical inequality has led to radicalization at every level of society, and this powerful documentary depicts what happens when America hits its tipping point by looking back through our history at similar critical moments of instability. In this David vs. Goliath story, Chris Smalls leads a movement to unionize Amazon workers for the first time, after the corporation fired Smalls for speaking up for workers’ rights. They are inspiring legions of workers to, as the late, great Congressman John Lewis said, get into ‘good trouble.’” More information: https://shinethelightfilms.com
Views, thoughts or opinions shared by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff or members of Listeners’ Community Radio of Utah, 90.9fm KRCL. Tonight’s RadioACTive team included:
- Executive Producer, Host: Lara Jones
- Production Assistant: Connor Estes