New Americans workshops with Craft Lake City, featuring Hanifa Javadi. To See Beyond Time with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. Roundtable Tuesday with Risshan Leak talks about environmental issues of the day and arts and culture. Plus, Meet the DJ, Peter Orum.
Tonight’s show featured the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!
March For Our Lives SLC will be rallying on the steps of the Utah Capitol Building tomorrow evening. RadioACTive got a preview with youth activist Ellie Otis.
- April 5: Utah Chapter of March for Our Lives Rally, 6:00 p.m. on the steps of the Utah State Capitol Building, 301 N. State St., SLC. “The rally will be an opportunity for students, families, and community members to come together and demand action to end gun violence. The Utah Chapter of March for Our Lives is committed to advocating for common-sense gun reform that protects our children and communities. The rally will feature speeches from student activists and community leaders. There will also be a moment of silence to honor the victims of gun violence. For more information about the rally, please visit the Instagram account, @marchforourliveslc or @marchforourlivesut.”
RadioACTive’s Connor Estes talked to Daniel Charon and Alexandra Harbold, the co-creators of To See Beyond Our Time, playing later this month at The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.
- Thurs-Saturday, April 13-15: To See Beyond Our Time, 7:30 p.m. at Leona Wagner, Black Box Theater at The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC. Event by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: “TO SEE BEYOND OUR TIME is a new dance created in response to the urgent call to save the Great Salt Lake. Galvanized by the declining water levels and catastrophic impact on both the air quality and the Lake’s teeming ecosystem, this dance reckons with our interconnected environmental fates. To See Beyond Our Time bears witness to what is happening to the Great Salt Lake and our response. It is an invitation to greater attention, recognition, and shared action.” For tickets, click here.
New American Hanifa Javadi of Free Women Co. will be sharing her crafting skills in an upcoming workshop with Craft Lake City and the International Rescue Committee in SLC. RadioACTive got a preview and learned more about Javadi’s journey to Utah. To register for her April 13th workshop, click here. Other guests included Liz Amato of Craft Lake City and Jamaica Trinnaman of the International Rescue Committee of Salt Lake City, the two organizations who partnered to create the New American Workshop Series.
Meet the DJ: Peter Orum, host of Random Shuffle, Saturdays from 4-7AM on KRCL. Listen as Peter shares his love of music, from Charlie Watts to Van Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis (covering BB King) to Primus. And there’s a personal connection to the latter.
- Every Saturday, 4-7AM: Random Shuffle with Peter Orum. Click here to listen on-demand to the last 2 weeks of Night Light. Better yet, download KRCL’s mobile app and listen when you want, where you want!
Guests’ views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners’ Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Questions, comments or suggestions for the show? Email radioactive@krcl.org. Tonight’s RadioACTive team included:
- Executive Producer, Host: Lara Jones
- Volunteer Host: Risshan Leak
- Production Assistant: Valene MC