8/27/2008

August 30, 2008

Don't miss this Saturday's opportunity to hear the astounding facts and poignant story of Nashvillian Mounu Sharon Riddell's sponsoring two Kenyan youth who she learned were from opposing factions and the relationship and career plans that have resulted. Charmaine Jamieson rounds out the hour with retelling parts of her trips to Iraq, India and now Kenya. Charmaine had no idea growing up in the country outside Nashville would lead her to places afar. (Contact Charmaine at cjbthere@aol.com and check out these sites researched by Mounu for ways you can be involved from afar. www.kiva.org, www.one.org, www.saveafricanow.org , www.nyumbani.org and www.lewachildrenshome.info

Our second hour includes Noah Baker Miller & Najlaa Al-Nashi with Direct Aide Iraq from Amman, Jordan followed by new area resident Simone Allmen who shares her travels in Kurdistan were she filmed footage for her upcoming documentary “Thank You For My Eyes.” Learn more about these guests at www.directaidiraq.org and www.simoneallmen.blogspot.com

8/18/2008

August 23, 2008


The arts often are the vehicle for waking up and even more so in challenging times when we're so removed from our relatedness to the earth. Our first guest is Pittsboro, NC resident Mike O'Connell who has won several awards for his film "Mountain Top Removal" including Best Documentary at Nashville's Film Festival. Mike will share the threads of his journey that helped birth this important film. Learn more about MTR the film at http://www.hawriverfilms.com/ . And go to http://www.ilovemountains.org/ to find the source of your electricity.

Former Nashvillian and now NYC resident, Quinn Dukes joins us in the second hour to discuss the use of performance art in coming to terms with our impact on nature. Quinn embodied a pigeon as it came upon a dead fawn in her last Nashville performance after driving to New York and seeing numerous dead fawn's lying roadside. She'll return to Nashville this September and in January has a showing with the Off the Wall group at Dickson's Renaissance Center. (See http://www.rcenter.org/ for info.)




At 9:30 central Alan Lequire, who sculpted the Athena in Nashville's Parthenon as well as Musica (in photo) will share his journey to sculpting as well as the present landscape exhibit at Lequire Gallery on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville. The gallery presently has landscape paintings juxtaposed to green facts about Nashville and will host a public event this Saturday evening. Meet representatives from over 70 Nashville environmental groups in attendance. For more go to http://www.lequiregallery.com/

August 23, 2008

The arts often are the vehicle for waking up and even more so in challenging times when we're so removed from our relatedness to the earth. Our first guest is Pittsboro, NC resident Mike O'Connell who has won several awards for his film "Mountain Top Removal" including Best Documentary at Nashville's Film Festival. Mike will share the threads of his journey that helped birth this important film. Learn more about MTR the film at www.hawriverfilms.com . And go to www.ilovemountains.org to find the source of your electricity.

Former Nashvillian and now NYC resident, Quinn Dukes joins us in the second hour to discuss the use of performance art in coming to terms with our impact on nature. Quinn embodied a pigeon as it came upon a dead fawn in her last Nashville performance after driving to New York and seeing numerous dead fawn's lying roadside. She'll return to Nashville this September and in January has a showing with the Off the Wall group at Dickson's Renaissance Center. (See www.rcenter.org for info.)

At 9:30 central Alan Lequire, who sculpted the Athena in Nashville's Parthenon as well as Musica (in photo) will share his journey to sculpting as well as the present landscape exhibit at Lequire Gallery on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville. The gallery presently has landscape paintings juxtaposed to green facts about Nashville and will host a public event this Saturday evening. Meet representatives from over 70 Nashville environmental groups in attendance. For more go to www.lequiregallery.com