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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Moving In The Next Direction: The Works of Filmmaker Missy Whiteman
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Missy Whiteman (Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo) is a Minneapolis filmmaker exploring new ways of Indigenous storytelling with expanded cinema and ne...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Master of Deception: John Ivan-Palmer Remembers His Magician Father in New Memoir
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Jack Pyle, Credit: Photo Courtesy of John-Ivan Palmer
The Minneapolis of the 1950's offered a thriving entertainment scene that lured men and women with money to spend into dozens of theaters and burle...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
BYO Boat at Float-In Theater
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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As COVID Summer 2020 heated up, Minnesotans got creative about socially distant summertime events. Parks and outdoor recreation venues saw a surge ...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Theater Artist Kim Hines Authors Novella for Young Adults
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Kim Hines, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kim Hines
Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Taylor Seaberg and the Art of the Revolution
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Album art for "The Art of the Revolution", Credit: Taylor Seaberg
Minneapolis musician Taylor Seaberg turned strife into music and healing. "I’m experimental. I go completely against the grain of what a lot of Mi...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Sarah Bellamy Leads Toward New Theater Arts Landscape
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Sarah Bellamy, Artistic Director of Penumbra Theater, Credit: Ann Marsden
On the heels of Penumbra Theatre's 2.5 million dollar Ford Foundation grant, KFAI's Sheila Regan talked with Sarah Bellamy, Lily Tung Crystal, and ...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 2
Like the Banks of a River: Deborah Foutch's Fiber & Mixed Media Art
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Rooted Earth by Deborah Foutch, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Deborah Foutch
Minneapolis artist Deborah Foutch creates rich and complex work with fiber and mixed media that expresses her love of the natural world. Her Soil H...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Sharp Imagery and Precise Language: Heid Edrich's Little Big Bully
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Heid E. Erdrich, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich's latest volume of poetry, Little Big Bully, is brutal and beautiful. It won the National Poetry Series, and was released just befo...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 05:08
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From Aisles to the Art Gallery, Juxtapositions of Opposites
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Painting by Patricio DeLara
Who would have thought 2020 would bring a shortage of toilet paper, flour, and clorox wipes? The backdrop for these market deficiencies, the Superm...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 04:07
The (Really Mean) Snow Queen Streams On Screen
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Dancer Rachel Seeholzer is the Snow Queen., Credit: Ballet Co.Laboratory
Ballet Co.Laboratory wants to change the way people think about ballet by changing ballet itself. That’s no easy task. The art form is full of trad...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
Driven by Hope: Paul Deng Kur and the Story of a Lost Boy
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Paul Deng Kur and pages from his book, "Out of the Impossible." , Credit: Ryan Dawes
As a rideshare driver, Paul Deng Kur had heard hundreds of stories. But this passenger's loss had left the man feeling suicidal. So when they reach...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 06:01
Accordion for the Front Lines
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Philip Shorey and Nathaniel Smith perform for healthcare workers outside Bethesda Hospital.
While social distancing is pushing many artists to perform on video screens, Minneapolis musician Philip Shorey seeks small, in-person audiences. K...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
First Love Project Supports First Ave Fam
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Famed music venue First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn., Credit: Ryan Dawes
When the future of an iconic music venue is on the line, artists and music lovers haven’t just stood around. Producer Colleen Cowie reports from Mi...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Ty Yule Remembers Pi: “The Dyke Bar of Our Dreams”
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Pi Bar proprietor Ty Yule and business partner Benny. , Credit: Kim Thompson
Pi Bar infused the Twin Cities with an ecstatic, high energy jolt of queerness for the year and a half it was open. The bar was dreamed up in 2006 ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Can You Dig It? Shaft Turns 50
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Gordon Parks, Isaac Hayes, Earnest Tidyman, Credit: Courtesy of MGM
Before Shaft, badass movie detectives were white. Shaft starred Richard Roundtree as a Black detective, prowling New York City's tough streets, sav...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2021
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
'Dear Neighbor,' This Poster Is for You
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Writer Adlyn Carreras presents her 'Dear Neighbor' poster., Credit: Sheila Regan
The Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul was hit hard during the civil unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd. While buildings are be...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
Emily Michaels King and Her Digital Detritus for the Zoom Era
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Emily Michaels King
Performance artist Emily Michaels King has a new production called ‘Digital,” which invites the audience into the bedroom, into the computer screen...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:23
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Teen Abstract Painter Jackson Duin Wades Into Curation
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Jackson Duin at ArtReach, Credit: Sheila Regan
Jackson Duin, a high school student in Edina, Minnesota has been getting noticed in the past few years for his talented eye. Recently he has branch...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Marcie Rendon Named McKnight Distinquished Artist
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: McKnight Distinguished Artist Marcie Rendon, Credit: Jaida Grey Eagle
Marcie Rendon is tribal citizen of the White Earth Nation, whose work focuses on the lives of Native people. Based in Minneapolis, Rendon's career ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Peril of Spring Snow in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Ojibwe people at a winter camp in South Harbor, Minnesota in 1875, Credit: MN Historical Society
This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the 1941 blizzard that killed dozens of people in Minnesota and North Dakota. The region has a reputation...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 2

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