Charlottesville Podcasting Network
Lectures, radio shows and more available on-demand
Audio features and interviews on the arts, centered around Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Artist Russell Richards about some current projects, and to Brian Wimer about what’s in store for the IX Art Park in 2016.
Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.
Hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Jim Respess and Steve Fishman talking about their upcoming show at the McGuffey Art Center.
Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.
Hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to to First Night Virginia performers Sally Rose from the Sally Rose Band and Lillie Williams from Chihamba, the African Dance Group.
Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.
Founded by Jeff Lenert and Rod Howard WPVC 94.7 FM serves up a mix of progressive talk radio during the day and EDM during the evening hours. If you are interested in volunteering with the station you can apply here.
Hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Carmel Clavin about the Shenandoah Fringe Festival.
Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.
Founded by Jeff Lenert and Rod Howard WPVC 94.7 FM serves up a mix of progressive talk radio during the day and EDM during the evening hours. If you are interested in volunteering with the station you can apply here.
Publicist Gary Springer talks about four films that he brought to this years Virginia Film Festival: Lady in the Van, with the great Maggie Smith; Reconquest of the Useless, a documentary following up on Werner Herzog’s 1982 Peruvian film adventure Fitzcarraldo; The Looking Glass, with esteemed British actress Dorothy Tristan; and Price of Love, a hard-hitting look at life on the streets in Ethiopia.
Director Jason Mann’s film The Leisure Class was the winner in this season Project Greenlight
on HBO. Jason stops by to talk about the making of the film and the challenges of being a documentary film subject himself. The Leisure Class screened Friday November 6 in the new Violet Crown cinema.
Sean McCord speaks with Mike Dion, the director of Inspired to Ride. This documentary about the ultra-endurance Trans-Am bike race was distilled down from over 2,000 hours of footage as cyclists crossed the country from Oregon to Virginia. Find out why many cyclists have shirts that read “It’s Mike Dion’s fault” The film will be released on iTunes and other digital outlets on November 13.
Sean McCord speaks with Mark Rozzo, Sam Erickson, and Matthew Amster about their film Hallowed Ground which made its film debut at the Virginia Film Festival on Friday at the Southern. The film is a documentary about the “sacred American space” that is Gettysburg. How do people who are drawn there think about the Civil War battle that defined the space and the history of the United States? That’s the topic the film explores.
The WH House 100 Thousand Poets for Change Global 2014 Event Reading was one of 650 events that occurred internationally on September 27th.
At WH, a broad poetic spectrum of poetry, including slam, hip-hop,experimental, free verse and rhymed was presented by sixteen readers: Catherine Twomey, Bill Prindle, Erika Castillo, Mary Burns, Tom Brown, Fred Maus, Joanna Lee, William Sypher, Fred Wilbur, Sigrid Mirabella, Jamie Reaser, Jason Kirkey, James McDowell, Patsy Ascuncion, Susan Shafarzek, and Polly Lazaron — Writer House 100 Thousand Poets for Change Event Volunteer Coordinator.
On December 13, 2013, award-winning poet TJ Jarrett discussed her book Ain’t No Grave, and ways of entering the historical poem as means to a greater understanding of history, as well as the pitfalls of inserting the self into the historical moment. Thanks to our moderator, poet Amy Woolard.
On July 27, 2014, author Josh Weil talked to UVA Slavic studies professor Andrew D. Kaufman about the challenges, both internal and external, of breaking far away from yourself in your fiction, and the ways in which doing so can bring you closer to your core project at the same time. He also discussed his relationship with Russian culture and his current fascination with humanity’s efforts to bring light into darkness.