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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How To Talk To Algae
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Aliston Hiltner inspects her work at the Minneapolis Institute of Art., Credit: Britt Aamodt
Where some see science, Alison Hiltner sees art. In "It Is Yesterday," a new exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota artist d...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
Ghosts of the Chinese Exclusion Act
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Harry Chin, subject of the play "The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin", Credit: Sheila Chin Morris
President Trump’s efforts to halt immigration from specific countries isn’t new. In the 19th century, the United States prohibited working-class Ch...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
No Lights, Stage or Curtains Needed
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: (From left) Natasha Benjamin, Elizabeth Icard and Tracy Dick enjoy a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof" at the Ramsey County Women’s Workhouse. , Credit: Paula Keller
When you think of the theater scene in the Twin Cities, you may think of The Guthrie. Or The Ordway. But one small company has a different approach...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:31
For The Kim Loo Sisters, It Was About Jazz
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The Kim Loo Sisters
The Kim Loo Sisters was a jazz vocal band born in South Minneapolis in the twenties, thirties and forties. Today, the daughter of one of musicians ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Blackout Improv Offers Comic Tonic
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Blackout Improv's Kory LaQuess Pullam, John Gebretatose and Joy Dolo., Credit: Nancy Rosenbaum
Blackout Improv is one of the Twin Cities' newest improv comedy groups. But they want to do more than just make people laugh. KFAI's Nancy Rosenbau...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
Drone, Not Drones
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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If you're pissed about drones dropping bombs on innocents, the Twin Cities has the perfect music festival for you. Drone, Not Drones, is a 28-hour ...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:11
Rape Survivors Heal in Harmony
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Laura Linder-Scholer, Julia Bodin and Sarah Super at a Survivor Voices choir rehearsal., Credit: Sophie Nikitas
Sexual assault is not an easy thing to talk about. One group in Minnesota is trying to help survivors use their voices again. KFAI's Sophie Nikitas...

Bought by WDBM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 3
Why We Love Mary
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The Star Tribune's James Lileks has a thing for Mary Richards., Credit: Britt Aamodt
How will you make it on your own? Mary Tyler Moore, as television's Mary Richards, showed young women—and the occasional guy—how to forge their own...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 06:49
Soup for Everyone
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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There's a restaurant in Minneapolis that operates under a radical concept: everyone eats. Diners can pay, of course. The cafe, Soup for You, is fun...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:21
Chris Santiago's World of Sound
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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An accident nearly resulted in Chris Santiago losing hearing in one ear. Which is more important to the Minnesota poet than you might imagine. KFAI...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:10
Teen's Dream of Loopty Loop Madness Comes True
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Loopty Loop Madness is one of 18 weirdly, wonderful holes of mini-golf at St. Paul's Can Can Wonderland. And unlike the other artist-designs, this ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:48
The Concourse King of MSP Airport
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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For most people, the airport is a hassle, somewhere we have to go to get to where we really want to go. But Gilmore Harris has made Concourse G at ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
After Living Through 'Hell,' Dropping Happy Beats
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Zaire Huruku, Credit: Brigitta Greene
As a refugee from "Africa's World War," Zaire Huruku arrived in Minnesota unable to speak English. Years later, he's more than fluent. These days, ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
It's a Bird. It's a Plane. No, it's SuperMayor.
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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He cruised the streets in a Lincoln Continental, monitoring police calls and magically making red lights turn green. He was Charlie McCarty, St. Pa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 1
Illegal Whiskey, G-Men and The Story of Minnesota 13
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Men in Stearns County, Minnesota, showing off their goods., Credit: Melrose History Museum
After World War One, farmers in Stearns County, Minnesota, were losing their shirts–and sometimes their farms. But where the Great Depression clos...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:52
He's Forgotten More Rock Shows Than You'll Ever Attend
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Dan Corrigan has forgotten more rock shows than you'll ever attend. For decades, he saw and photographed thousands of acts at Minneapolis' First Av...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 2
Autumn Frazier Lives For Vintage Fashion
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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We live in a society of disposable fashion. Americans send more than 10 million tons of clothes to landfills every year. None of it comes from Autu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
The Gilded Age Lives On In St. Paul's Sleeper House
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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There are no velvet ropes separating visitors from objects at the Julian H. Sleeper House, a living museum of America's Gilded Age. That's because ...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2016
  • Length: 06:57
Sisters on Stage and in Life
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Iman and Khadijah Siferllah-Griffin are identical twins, award-winning dancers and teenagers. In local hip hop circles, they’re known for making da...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KALW


  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 2
Making People Laugh Like It's 1491
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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1491: The year before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. So it’s fitting that a Native American comedy group uses that year as its moniker. KFAI’s Sop...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1

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