In honor of Anti-Bullying Month, we feature noted songwriter and speaker, Saphire Brown and her accompanist, Blake Walker. Then we fill out the hour with happy songs and talk about the Brewers’ Association’s push to buy Budweiser back from InBev for only $213 billion. (Aired 10/19/2017)
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“Weekly Arts Calendar”
Thursday, October 26th through Sunday, October 29th
October 27 The University of North Dakota All Voice Studio Recital – showcasing UND’s vocal students and their talents – will be held at the Hopper-Danley Spiritual Center on campus. More information at 777-2257. The performance is free and open to the public.
October 27 The Crookston Community Theatre presents “Jake’s Women,” a Neil Simon comedy at 7:30 p.m. in Kiehle Auditorium at the University of Minnesota – Crookston Campus. Tickets are $12 per person at the door.
October 27 & 28 Auditions for the esteemed New York Metropolitan Opera will take place at Hughes Fine Arts Center on the University of North Dakota campus in Grand Forks. The 54th annual event is for residents of North Dakota and Manitoba, Canada. More information at 777-2644.
October 28 The North Dakota Museum of Art will host their annual Autumn Art Auction. The event begins with a social at 6:30 and the auction begins at 8 pm.
October 28 The annual “Art & Wine Walk” will be held in downtown East Grand Forks and Grand Forks, between 1 and 5 pm.
Moorhead, Minnesota resident Newzad Brifki’s journey to America began in Kurdistan, from which his family fled in 1988 when he was seven years old, due to the oppressive governmental regime of Saddam Hussein. He lived in a refugee camp in Turkey for 4 years before coming to America with his family, being sponsored by two families through Lutheran Social Services.
Brifki discusses his book, “My Journey to America”, a personal memoir about this journey to America.
He graduated high school in Moorhead, and eventually earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and an MBA in 2014.
Brifki is the founder and director of the Kurdish Community of America, which is a resource center for the vast local Kurdish community members in the Fargo-Moorhead area and a bridge to the greater community, nurturing understanding of Kurdish people’s stories and history.
Lucille Nelson of Argyle, Minnesota has been painting and drawing since childhood. She currently has an exhibit at the NWMAC River Walk Artist Gallery in East Grand Forks. The exhibition, “Past and Present Passages,” is a selection of her works she has created since mid-2000. Lucille’s works evoke the feeling of being carried from your current place and time–transporting the viewer to a farmyard in the 1950s, to a lake in northern Minnesota or among children playing in a yard.
Many of Lucille’s drawings bring to life bygone scenes and whimsical moments of the past, and especially portray the people who lived them–her uncle as a young boy playing hockey, her husband as a toddler, and her own children, now grown, in the vibrant purity of their youth.
She will be participating in an artist reception on Saturday, October 28th at the NWMAC Artists Gallery in East Grand Forks, MN from 1 pm until 5pm.
Glen Braget welcomes the always entertaining and knowledgeable Bill Apter back to program for another engaging 50 minutes of old school pro wrestling talk. This time around Glen and Bill chat about a variety of old and new school pro wrestling topics including Pro Wrestling Podcast Boom, The Apter Audio Files Archive, Starrcade, Lance Russell, Pro Wrestling This Week tv program, Gordon Solie, Wrestling on YouTube versus the old days of tape trading, and the future of the Billy Corgan led National Wrestling Alliance. It’s a light lively 50 minutes of pro wrestling chat.