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A showcase of Asheville’s dynamic art groups and collectives brought together for a celebration of both community and storytelling through art.
This month’s theme: “ON AIR”, featuring some of Asheville’s arts-centric radio programs and podcasts.
Radio/Podcast Hosts + Participating Artists Include…
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Matt Peiken just passed five years as the arts and culture producer with Blue Ridge Public Radio. Before arriving in Asheville, he was a longtime staff writer with the St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press and contributing feature writer and record reviewer to Modern Drummer Magazine. Many years ago, he won a car, a lot of worthless crap and a brief shoulder massage from Alex Trebek as a contestant on NBC's Classic Concentration.
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Presenting CILLAVEE
Claire Elizabeth Barratt (artist moniker CillaVee) is an international interdisciplinary artist born in Pakistan, raised in the UK, based in the USA.
She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media collaboration – and The Center for Connection + Collaboration in Asheville, North Carolina. She is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance, accredited by Plymouth University. Her work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, movement, music, sound, text, media, visual arts, installation and performative action. She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA.
Claire received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement and Dance and at the London Studio Centre For Performing Arts. Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy of Dance and the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music examinations as well as the University of Oxford syllabus for Advanced level Theatre Studies plus Art with Art History.
She served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University, UK.
Claire has presented work through Jacob’s Pillow, Wave Hill, the New York Botanical Gardens, Chashama, Bronx Council on the Arts, Pepatian at BAAD!, Vision Festival/Arts For Art, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout the USA and in Canada, Europe, Japan, Israel and Pakistan.
Earlier in her career, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills outdoor drama on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as well as serving as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.
“My work as an artist blurs boundaries and crosses categories. Re-defining the traditional concepts of a “piece” and challenging the conventions of performance, time, space and audience relationships.”
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Buzz Radio Asheville Features ONLY Asheville connected Artists 24/7. All musical styles are featured. We say "Genre: Asheville!" Every song you hear on Buzz Radio Asheville is also an original. No covers here. Founded within the first year of Covid as a means of highlighting and promoting local artists, long-time Asheville personalities Michele Scheve and Matt Mittan are passionately committed to bringing a high quality station, worthy of the incredible talent of our region.
More info: BuzzRadioAsheville.com*
PRESENTING Rob and Stephanie of Krave Amiko
Krave Amiko was formed in early 2019 by Rob Walsh and Stephanie Barcelona. Since the debut of their first album "Before the Words" in 2020, Krave Amiko has regularly charted in the weekly Top 20 Requests Countdown on Buzz Radio Asheville, with an impressive five songs charting at #1. With the release of their second full studio Album, "HMNKND", the band continues to build a loyal and enthusiastic fan base - highlighted by their engaging and moving live shows.
More info: kraveamiko.com
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Jazz Hybrid is a positive, community-based show that celebrates good music and engaging conversation by highlighting some of the many amazing writers, teachers, artists, activists, and musicians living in the area and the projects they are working on. Host Sebastian Matthews will play modern and contemporary jazz music—working to widen and deepen the notion of “jazz” as much as possible—while engaging in conversation with local and national figures.
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Presenting MILDRED BARYA
Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer from Uganda and an assistant professor at UNC-Asheville, where she teaches creative writing and world literature. Her publications include three poetry books, as well as prose, hybrids, and poems forthcoming or published in Joyland, Shenandoah, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Ruminate Magazine, Obsidian, The Poetry Review, Nowhere Magazine, poets.org, Poetry Quarterly, Asymptote Journal, Matters of Feminist Practice Anthology, Prairie Schooner, New Daughters of Africa International Anthology, African American Review, and more. She’s at work on a new poetry collection and creative nonfiction. One of her essays—Being Here in This Body—won the 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award, and is published in the North Carolina Literary Review, 2021. She received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver, MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University, and B.A. in Literature, Makerere University. She is a board member of the African Writers Trust, and also coordinates the Poetrio Reading Events at Malaprop’s Independent Bookstore/Café in Asheville. Visit her blog http://mildredbarya.com/ -
The Talking Book Podcast is the official podcast of the indie audiobook publisher The Talking Book. Conversations and readings from writers we love. More info at: thetalkingbook.org
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Presenting CLAIRE HOPPLE
Claire Hopple is the author of five books. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Peach Mag, Hobart, Forever Mag, and others. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina. More at clairehopple.com -
Wordplay features poets and writers of creative prose, sometimes in performance, and sometimes in conversation about their craft and ideas. Guests have included Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners and high school students; writers who are household names (in households that read, at least), and writers who have only begun the process of interaction and publication that leads to recognition; formalists and performance poets – all working to keep language alive and real. Join hosts Jeff Davis and Lockie Hunter every Sunday from 5:00 - 6:00 pm by tuning in live to 103.3 FM live or stream us at Asheville FM.org.
More info: https://www.ashevillefm.org/show/wordplay/
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PRESENTING Brit Washburn
Brit Washburn is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan, where she was born and raised, and of Goddard College in Vermont. She also studied at Eugene Lang College in New York City and at the University of Hawaii, and lived in Brazil, France, and Italy, before moving to Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005, and to Asheville, NC, in 2017. The winner of two consecutive Albion Prizes for Poetry, judged by the poets Gary Snyder and Ai respectively, Brit's work has appeared in Art Mag, The Albion Review, Alexandria Quarterly, Controlled Burn, Culture-Keeper, The Dunes Review, Earth's Daughters, Foreword Magazine, Gratefulness.org, Guideword, Heartland Review, Manoa, and A New Song, as well as the anthologies, Mourning Our Mothers: Poems About Loss, A New Guide to Charleston and What Matters, among others. Brit has been awarded an artist's grant by the Vermont Studio Center and for many years served on the board of the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and the Low Country Initiative on the Literary Arts (LILA). She co-directed the salon Poets House South and works as a freelance writer, editor, and indexer for publishers and individuals, including University of Virginia Press, Baker Publishing Group / Brazos Press, and Eerdmans Publishing. The mother of four children ranging in age from six to twenty-one, Brit is also a Montessori school teacher. She is the author of the poetry collection, Notwithstanding (Wet Cement Press, 2019), and the forthcoming essay collection, Trial and Failure: 40 Attempts on Love, Motherhood, Poetry and Purpose. She enjoys reading, stretching, drinking tea, taking the same long walk every day, and cooking and eating lots of vegetables.