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/