Grassroots Activists, Community Builders on the Mic Tonight

  • March 25, 2025
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RadioACTive Roundtable Tuesday with Risshan Leak highlights good troublemakers: Plan-B Theatre Co., Grid Zine Fest, First Step House, YouthWorks and more. Tune in and find out how to get involved in your community!

Tonight's edition of RadioACTive features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community:

Plan-B Theatre Co.'s production of The Beatrix Potter Defense Society is getting ready to bow. RadioACTive gets a preview with actors Sibley Snowden (Beatrix Potter) and Flo Bravo (Edith Rawnsley), playwright Janine Sobeck Knighton and director (and Plan-B founder) Cheryl Ann Cluff.

  • March 27-April 13: Plan-B Theatre Co. presents The Beatrix Potter Defense Society, asdf. "THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY explores the teenage life of Beatrix Potter. And now you’re thinking of Peter Rabbit. As anyone would. But Beatrix Potter (Sibley Snowden) was much more than Peter Rabbit. She was a literary subversive, employing the interplay between the wild and domestic worlds to help her worldwide readership view and interact with the natural world differently. Meet the Beatrix Potter you didn't know you didn't know. Much of her story lies in the journal where she sketched the artwork that would become synonymous with her name. But her real story lives in the coded text accompanying those sketches, coded text that chronicles both her discovery and harnessing of her personal power, anathema to Victorian gender norms. Although much is made historically of how Beatrix’s connection to the vicar Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley enhanced her writing career, there are also hints that his wife Edith (Flo Bravo) was Beatrix’s true guide. Yet it’s virtually impossible to find information about her. It’s as if she’s been erased. THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY explores that erasure in an attempt to crack the code of how Edith and Beatrix may have set each other on anarchic-for-the-times journeys of artistic independence."

SCHOLARSHIP ALERT: Katie Tesch, regional manager at Planet Fitness, says local Boys & Girls Club teens are invited to apply for a scholarship that emphasizes kindness, inclusivity and community leadership.

  • March 31: Deadline to apply for Planet Fitness’ annual Judgement Free Generation® Scholarship. "Local Boys & Girls Club teens have the chance to become Utah’s first-ever recipient of a $5,000 scholarship through Planet Fitness’ annual Judgement Free Generation® Scholarship Program. This program doesn’t just recognize academic or athletic achievements — it celebrates teens who embody kindness, inclusivity and community leadership. The application period is open now through March 31, 2025, and BGCA-affiliated high school seniors are encouraged to apply. For more details, click here.

KRCL neighbor Moisés Lopez reports on train horns that have been keeping him awake since October. 

Voices Amplified with rising journalists sharing stories of Women & Sports in Utah, a partnership between RadioACTive and Amplify Utah. Tonight: Student journalist Estella Weeks introduces us to Dylan Lolofie, who entered the NCAA transfer portal to move from Weber State to the University of Utah's women's tennis team.

  • The University of Utah women's tennis team returns home for a pair of conference matchups this week, hosting Kansas on Thursday and Iowa State on Saturday at the George S. Eccles Tennis Center. For more details, click here. 

Mckayli Abbe MSW, LCSW, Supportive Housing Program Manager at First Step House, on the new Stratford House, permanent supportive housing to serve people at risk of homelessness because of serious behavioral health conditions

More than 65 zine makers from across the country are headed to SLC for the annual Grid Zine Fest. RadioACTive finds out more with organizer and zine artists Donna Ramone & Ricky Vigil.

  • March 29: Grid Zine Fest, 11a-5p at Church & State, 370 S. 300 E., SLC. "Grid Zine Fest is an annual zine festival in Salt Lake City. Over 75 zine makers from across the country table at our annual festival in the mountain west city we all call home. Whether you have been making zines for 30 years, or made your first one last week, have an MFA or doodle in the margins, there is a table for you to share what you make at Grid Zine Fest.

Local musician and DJ Club Masters stops by with a new release. He's also organized a release party with a lineup of locals, including Stella Standing Bear.

YouthWorks Salt Lake returns with its second youth panel. Tonight: teens and mental health.

  • YouthWorks is a community-based program that assists youth ages 14-18 in a pre-employment training and life skills building environment. The youth have a wide array of experiences in which to practice the skills they learn — including drug and alcohol prevention to healthy family lifestyles, to resumé writing and community service. While youth learn these skills and give back to the community, they earn a bi-weekly stipend of $200, and get guidance on how to handle their first paycheck, establishing good money habits from day one.

How'd you like the show? Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889. Or, send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org. Please tell us your name and neighborhood and leave a short message that may air on the show. So, keep it clean!

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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