KFAI's MinneCulture Presents

Poetry, Minnesotan Style  from MinneCulture ~ Celebrate  National Poetry Month  with the crew of MinneCulture producers! This episode will feature some of KFAI's best stories about Minnesotan poets like  Danez Smith ,  Linda LeGarde Grover ,  Sun Yung Shin ,  David Mura , and  Anthony Ceballos . We'll also hear profiles of Twin Cities spoken-word-scene giants  Adina Burke  and  Danny Klecko , plus  Nicholle Ramsey , who has redefined the Winona poetry scene. Poet song-writers  Dessa  and  Brian Laidlaw  will get to have their say too. This episode features stories from  Emily Bright ,  Britta Greene ,  Britt Aamodt ,  Jared Goyette ,  Diane Richard ,  Sylvia Thomas , and sound artist  Dixie Treichel .

Listening to the Arctic from the National Science Foundation ~ When you hear statistics that convey oceans are warming and glaciers are melting, do you ever wonder where those numbers come from? Well, it's from scientists measuring precisely what exactly is happening in the Arctic and what that could mean for all of us. In this program from the National Science Foundation and producer  Richard Paul , we go to the top of the world to meet scientists who are trekking over glaciers, diving into oceans, and engineers building brand new tools to figure out what’s going on up there and how it impacts our lives down here. They are all helping one another to discover the problems and cooperating to find solutions.

Taylor Seaberg and the Art of the Revolution by Sheila Regan ~ Living just blocks away from where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police, musician Taylor Seaberg wanted to enact change and turn strife into music and healing. Seaberg and fellow artists set out to create a safe outlet which could approximate community during the pandemic. So, they decided to perform a revolutionary, outdoor, socially-distant concert at the George Floyd memorial site. KFAI's Sheila Regan talked with Seaberg about the concert and a new single which features Kory LaQuess. Live from Minnesota: Taylor Seaberg from MinneCulture ~ Minneapolis jazz-punk-hip-hop musician Taylor Seaberg recruited Portuguese singer and rapper Beatriz Correia Lima , Blvck Madonna bassist Roderick Glasper , and former Lizzo drummer Glory Yard for this installment of KFAI's MinneCulture's “Live from Minnesota.” Responsibly staged at St. Paul Neighborhood Network 's on October 24th, 2020 without a live studi...

Crossing Borders from Hearing Voices ~ Crossing Borders, a Peabody award-winning documentary , is a snapshot of America's immigration debate. It's shocking how little has changed in the 15 years since it was first produced; between its interviews of anxious border-bound immigrants and weary agents of  the Border Patrol, it could have been recorded yesterday . Its vivid audio mural shows how and perhaps why thousands try to immigrate to the United States illegally as well as what their harrowing and hazardous desert journeys can entail. Though the courage and hope we see in the migrants can be inspiring, we also learn that the fates which can befall them are equally horrifying . The great Scott Carrier helps to create a sonic portrait that makes both a desert and a political issue live and breathe.

Tapestry Turns Fifty from Joyride Media ~ Carole King's 1971 masterpiece celebrated its half-century anniversary on February 10th, 2021. All these decades later, it’s easy to take Tapestry for granted. For many, it has just always seemed to be there. But last year Rolling Stone labeled it as the 25th Greatest Album of All Time and, upon its initial release, it was the Number One record in the country for an astonishing 15 weeks straight. In this music-heavy one-hour special, we'll hear insightful interviews with King herself, producer Lou Adler, her friend Graham Nash, and journalist David Wild of Rolling Stone. Their comments touch on nearly every aspect of the album's production, its impact on the music industry, Carole King's songwriting process, and how her career developed from the Brill Building to Tapestry . This documentary was produced by the team of Paul Chuffo and Joshua Jackson at Joyride Media and is hosted by Rita Houston .

Sonic Flavor: The Lyricism of D Mills by Dixie Treichel  ~ A sonic portrait of Minneapolis rapper Diane Miller aka D Mills who creates thought provoking hip hop work that expresses her authentic self and engages the audience with a fusion of sonic flavors. Thunder Chases Lightning: Vicky Emerson's Music and Mentorship  by Dixie Treichel  ~ Vicky Emerson is a Minneapolis based singer/songwriter/producer of Americana music. She co-founded Front Porch Music Group and mentors women with producing their own albums. Her most recent album is Steady Heart . Time Signatures Explained, Then Deranged by Sheila Regan  ~ These Twin Cities musicians go beyond the metronome in their explorations of odd measures. Using uncommon time signatures or, in some cases, no time signatures at all, their shifting uses of time offer a window into the limitless musical possibilities. KFAI’s Sheila Regan visits the Cedar Cultural Center for this Minnesota music story. Genre Bending Music by...

A Brief History of Women in Bars: A Minnesota Story in Three Rounds  from MinneCulture ~ One hundred years ago, two major constitutional amendments went into effect. The 18th marked the start of Prohibition and the 19th granted many   women   the right to vote. It wasn’t a coincidence that these laws went into effect adjacent to one another. The movements were linked in some surprising ways. In this new   documentary , Fulbright Fellow, historian, and podcaster   Katie Thornton   looks at how the state’s temperance movement set the stage for its women’s suffrage movement. But she also looks at how temperance leaders—and, by proxy, many early suffragists—failed to engage many women who weren’t wealthy, White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The   Minnesota   women who didn’t fit that bill empowered themselves in other ways—sometimes through the economic and social opportunities presented by the alcohol industry. The Bootleg Cocktail   from MN90 ...