10,000 Fresh Voices

Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis

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Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


952 Pieces

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Anger Slows Your Down
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Brigid McDonald, Credit: @ltmcdphoto
"Sisters of Peace," a new play at the History Theatre in St. Paul, tells the story of Brigid McDonald and her three biological sisters. They're Cat...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:57
From Shy Kid To Prolific Performer
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Joy Dolo
As a kid, Joy Dolo was shy. Now she's an actor, a member of the comedy troupe Blackout Improv and a podcaster. KFAI's Dixie Treichel produced this ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Anthony Ceballos: Poetry As Music
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Anthony Ceballos, Credit: Sasha Suarez
Anthony Ceballos is a Minnesota poet who loves reading his work before an audience. "A live reading of a poem for me is just as important as how it...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:27
Singing For Justice
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, Credit: Johnny Goodson, St. Olaf College
Choral conductor Tesfa Wondemagegnehu believes vocal music can help change the world. In 2017, he co-founded the Justice Choir movement in Minneapo...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2019
  • Length: 03:27
'Blood Memory' Tackles Family Separation In Indian Country
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The government has a history of taking Native children from their families. It started with boarding schools, then later the Indian Adoption Projec...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:23
On This Album, Children Are The Priority
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Somali-American kids and a London musician are making music together. Minneapolis teens recently teamed up with Aar Maanta to produce the first alb...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 08, 2019
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
Queer Art For Queer People
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Cassandra Snow, Credit: Janet Nguyen
Cassandra Snow produces queer and feminist plays with Gadfly Theatre Productions in Minneapolis. As someone who is chronically ill, Snow encourages...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 03:29
What To Do When The Food Disappears — And Other Steger Tips
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Will Steger has spent a lifetime exploring cold places: North Pole, Greenland and Antartica. Most winters, he lives inside a houseboat on the Missi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
Story Aerobics: The Lights Are On You
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Steve Ray
Usually, when people perform on stage, others watch. But story aerobics is different. It's a hybrid of exercise and performance art that challenges...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
The Bitter 1890 Census Rivalry
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the Twin Cities, but relationships weren’t always so sisterly. During the summer of the 1890 census, both cit...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
Encrypted Textiles
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: "I Want To Be Seen" woven by Heather MacKenzie
Minneapolis artist Heather MacKenzie practices hand weaving and experiments with encrypted woven storytelling. She regards woven textiles as sensua...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Rinkside With Brownbody
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Black figure skaters are far and few between. Deneane Richburg is one of just a few in Minnesota. She's created a project that puts stories and mov...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Dark Beauty: Mike Olson's Vintage Electronic Sounds
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mike Olson, Credit: Stafford Photography
Mike Olson is a Minneapolis based composer who loves creating and performing music with vintage analogue electronic instruments. His fragment-based...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:11
Motionpoems: Films of Pure Poetry
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Todd Boss, Credit: Kyndell Harkness
Mike Olson is a Minneapolis based composer who loves creating and performing music with vintage analogue electronic instruments. His fragment-based...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
From Vacant Lot To Skate-able Park
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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On a busy street corner in North Minneapolis, there once stood a fenced-off, vacant lot. It was the site of a building Juxtaposition Arts had to te...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
Nuns in Drag, Joy Promulgated
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Forget silent auctions, chocolate bars and meat raffles. Fundraising is more fun with nuns. Make that nuns dressed in drag. Dancing, joking, singin...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Roots of Gay Liberation in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Stephen Ihrig and Koreen Phelps, Credit: The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies.
F.R.E.E. was Minnesota’s first queer organization. It stands for "Fight Repression of Erotic Expression." The group began on May 18, 1969 when Kore...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
Fire Mama, Doom Props, And A Monster Named Fred
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Amy Bloss, Credit: Francesca Bernardi
She spits fire. She spins fire. Amy Bloss is Fire Mama. She performs and teaches a variety of fire performance arts and safety. She is the Director...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Wrestlers Body Slam Domestic Violence
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Midwest All-Star Wrestling League recently invited wrestlers from across the country to compete in Minnesota. Behind all the trash-talking and ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WDSE


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 2
Welcome To The Cabal
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Image of Actor Jamie Case , Credit: Photo Courtesy of Dan Norman
Within a hidden maze of mysterious rooms, a magical secret society needs the help of new initiates. Cabal – a play with puzzles, created by the Min...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:08

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