RadioACTive 06.12.23

  • June 12, 2023
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Community building with Black Cultural Center - University of Utah and Our Sundays. Plus, embodying Great Salt Lake with with poets, artists and activists.

Tonight's show features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!

With Juneteenth a week away, RadioACTive catches up with community builders with a few ideas about celebrating and bridge building. Featuring:

  • Meligha Garfield, director of the 

  • Domeda Duncan and Mark Giles of Our Sundays SLC, which creates events for black people to fellowship

  • Keith Embray, the first Executive Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Operations and Associate Athletic Director for EDI and Student Belonging at the University of Utah

Artivists on a new embodiment for Great Salt Lake. Featuring:

Events mentioned on tonight's show:

  • June 17: Making Waves for Great Salt Lake, 10:30a-2:00p at Jordan River Nature Center, 1125 W. 3300 S., South Salt Lake. Event by River Writing: "Come make fabric sun prints with artist Sarah May! Help us make public art for the lake, plus a smaller piece to take home with you. Open to all ages! We will have interpretation available in Spanish. Registration is FREE, but it is essential to help us prepare the necessary materials. Bring an instrument if you like to make music. Our parade will need a band! Gender-neutral restrooms are available at the Jordan River Nature center. We will provide snacks and water. You are welcome to bring your own lunch if you wish."

  • June 17-18: 34th Annual Juneteenth Freedom & Heritage Festival, Ogden Amphitheater, 324 25th St., Ogden. Event by Project Success Coalition.

  • June 20: Juneteenth 2023 Wave of Freedom, University of Utah. Flag-raising ceremony 9:00 a.m. at 201 Presidents Cir., SLC.  Followed by Juneteenth Summit: Wave of Freedom, 11:00 a.m. at Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building. Event by Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion - University of Utah: "Juneteenth is a historical holiday that commemorates the day when Black Americans who had been enslaved in Texas were finally informed they’d been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. The Juneteenth Summit will gather in the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building’s Bill & Pat Child Family Community Hall for a series of panels and presentations on Black excellence, achievement, education, and freedom–featuring a keynote by Dr. Sidni Lloyd-Shorter of the Utah Black Chamber of Commerce. Presenters include the Black Physicians of Utah and the university’s Black Cultural Center, HBCU IMPACT Program, and Black Student Union." To register (required), click here. 

  • June 28: Celebration as Resistance! A Virtual Book Discussion with Author Eli Nixon, 6:00-7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Free registration, open til 4:00 p.m. day-of. Event by River Writing: "Join us for a discussion of BLOODTIDE- A New Holiday in Homage To Horseshoe Crabs with author and illustrator Eli Nixon. For maximum delight, read the book beforehand! Eli Nixon builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of drawings, puppets, pageants, parades, suitcase theaters, and low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with activists, schools, mental health and recovery centers, libraries and the more-than-human world to expand imaginative capacity and build muscles for collective liberation. Eli is a parent of a teen, an organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice-RI, and a member of Direct Action for Rights and Equality, The Public's Devised Theater Working Group, The New Georges Jam, and brotherdykes unlimited. Eli and 300 Modern Humans (ages 0.3-83) recently 'finished' a 450-million-year timeline of flora and fauna (mostly out of recyclables) in 9 months of asynchronous but collaborative organism-building workshops."

  • July 23: The 2nd Annual Cookout, 12-7pm at Fairmont Park, 1040 W. Sugarmont Dr., SLC. Hosted by OurSundaysSLC. Featuring food, vibes, music and games.
Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Questions, comments or suggestions for the show? Email radioactive@krcl.org. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

 

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