Category: Interviews

Interviews with newsmakers and everyday folks in Central Virginia. Some are conducted by Coy Barefoot on his WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now or Sean Tubbs of Charlottesville Community Media.

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Apropos Of Something: Activism Makes For Neighborhood Mission Statement & Novel Ideas

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Steven Thomas, a restorative justice coordinator, scholar and community activist, on how to cultivate and celebrate neighborhood diversity, block by block; and Corban Addison, bestselling author, activist and humanitarian, on the refugee crisis as a global plot point and Supreme Court flash point.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Machinal: Lissa Fulton and Gil Mitchell from Mary Baldwin University

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, it’s week two of a no show guest! (Seriously, people! What’s going on?) Fortunately David and Clinton had two young artists from Mary Baldwin University who were more than willing to fill the space. Lissa Fulton and Gil Mitchell from Mary Baldwin’s Theatre Department come to the show to talk about their upcoming production, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. We have Lissa and Gil for the whole hour, and they talk the machines of society, the benefits of non-realistic theater, and Shakespeare in Abu Dhabi. “Local” art also means art over the mountain here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Minding Your Heart’s IQ & Sizing Up Beauty

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Tish Jennings PhD, Assoc. Professor, Curry School of Education, Senior Fellow, Garrison Institute, on how to take stress out of the classroom; and Francesca Calamita PhD, Asst. Professor, UVA’s Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, on the paradoxical roles women have in life, art and language.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Downtown Lunchtime Treat: Christ Church’s Alice Layman and Bach’s Lunch

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Clinton is left to flounder as one of two scheduled guests doesn’t show and as Leslie and David are out. Fortunately, our first guest is as dependable as she is delightful. Alice Layman is the organist and choir director of Christ Episcopal Church in Downtown Charlottesville. She returns to the show to talk about the free, weekly, lunchtime concert series for the month of May that she originated — Bach’s Lunch — now in it’s 30th year! It’s secular music in a sacred space on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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To Your Health: Good Stuff

Host M.C. Blair reviews the benefits of coconut oil. Also, pressure on the Charlottesville City Market to keep prepared food vendors from buying ingredients from outside, non local sources. Elana (Elana’s Pies and Cakes) and Lauren (Free Union Grass Farm) join the conversation.

Each week To Your Health hosts M.C. Blair talks to local growers and food producers. Join him on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville every Saturday from 11 a.m. to Noon.

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Apropos Of Something: Miss Representation In Media & Arming Students With Purpose

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Andrea Press PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Prof. of Media Studies and Sociology, writer, feminist, on the media’s effect on gender and class; and Eric Irizarry PhD, Principal, Charlottesville High School, on the impact of gun violence on students’ daily life and school operations.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Community: Writer Cliff Garstang from SWAG and Painter Frank Walker

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Leslie returns … well, most of her. She seems to have misplaced her voice, but she and David soldier on! Cliff Garstang joins us from over the mountain. He’s the founder of SWAG – The Staunton, Waynesboro, and Augusta Group of the Virginia Writer’s Club and the organizer of a poetry reading at Black Swan Books & Music. We talk to Cliff about what makes this reading (during National Poetry Month) special, and he talks about the importance of artists having a community to work with. Then, Charlottesville painter Frank Walker comes on the show and utterly beguiles us. He has a joint portraiture show with Jae Jae Johnson called Visage at New City Arts. So we start to talk to Frank about portraiture and very quickly move on to talk about the nature of art. It’s all art / no snobbery here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Blokes on the Bench: Week 34

Blokes on the Bench host Andy Richardson and the Blokes are joined in the studio by C-Ville FC manager Bayram Sadikoglu to discuss their campaign in the UPSL. With a 3-2 win over Sparta 20/20 this weekend, we discussed Champions League and the shocking exit of Barcelona at the hands of Roma. Also, Liverpool knocking out Manchester City. And speaking of Manchester City, with the red side of the city losing 0-1 to West Brom, City won the Premier League with several games in hand. So where does that leave everyone else? Who’s going down? Wolverhampton Wanderers have been promoted to join the top flight next season. And lastly, Mark’s dislike of EPL referee Michael Oliver and where does Arsenal go from here after losing 2-3 Newcastle United. All this and more on this weekend’s Blokes on the Bench.

The blokes are Andy Richardson, Mark Coffman, Alex Gomaa

Blokes on the Bench is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday evenings at 6:00 p.m.

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Home Grown: More Open: Protest Art at the Fralin and Poems from JMRL

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David talks to two sets of art curators who are different but similar. First, student intern curators Sarah Russell and Sarah Vanlandingham from The UVA Fralin Art Museum visit the show to talk about their upcoming museum tour Art of Protest. What follows is an engaging and moving conversation about what museums have been culturally and what they need to be. Next, we welcome two people from one of our favorite places, The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Young Adult Services Manager Tim Carrier and Circulation Manager Brittany Eversberg are co-chairs the library’s local execution of National Poem in Your Pocket Day. It’s a show about getting art out to the people and getting people to the art on this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Pouring Over Cocktail Culture & Feasting On Food Stuff

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Micah LeMon, author of The Imbible and head mixologist at James Beard Award-nominated The Alley Light, on the art of crafting serious spirits; and Leni Sorensen PhD, prominent culinary and cultural historian, author, creator of Indigo House, on her unique journey from back-to-basics foodie to sustainable farming and the bounty in between.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Puppets: Live Arts’ Hand to God and 4CP’s Avenue Q

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David soldiers on alone in a unique Home Grown that welcomes two sets of guests together for the entire hour. It’s Virginia Wawner, James Sanford, and Kerry Moran from Live Arts Theater’s upcoming show Hand to God and also Jonathan Karns, Victoria Clement, and Frank Saxon from Four County Players’ upcoming show Avenue Q. Both shows use puppets, and puppets are topic of conversation — designing them, acting with them, acting opposite them, respecting them, and loving them. It’s a collection of puppet masters you can love even in your tin foil hat on this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Fools for Art: Jessi Conover & Marjory Ruderman and Andy Davis

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David and Leslie welcome two sets of impressive artists to our airwaves. First, studiomates Peneople Stone and Esther visit the show for the first time. Penelope is an experieced urban forager who uses her talents to make easter eggs with natual dyes. Esther works exclusively in matzah. They talk about their work and their working relationship and about what they are doing artistically to celebrate Eastover. Next, we’re pleased and wowed to have Charlottesville’s favorite artistic son, Duncan MacMhunna, well known and lauded for his wax sculptures of B-List stars. David and Leslie fight through being starstruck to ask Duncan about his process, his vision, and his keen eye for a celebrity on the rise and on the fall. (Andy rumors that our guests are actually Jessie Conover & Marjory Ruderman from Big Blue Door’s Feminine Hijinks Improv and Andy Davis from Bent Theatre Comedy Improv are foolish and falacious.) It’s April Fools Day on this week’s Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.