RadioActive: June 14, 2017

Gender Stereotypes in Music and Dance, Blind Spot

Hosted by Lara Jones and Billy Palmer, tonight's show featured:

Island Wave podcast host Kamaile Tripp talks about a free workshop at Salt Lake Community College this weekend to teach others how to podcast. For details, visit Utah Podcasts United - Free Community Workshop. Multiple podcasts will be recording the night prior at Watch Tower Cafe.
Salt Lake City Councilman Derek Kitchen on saying no to the mayor's appointment of Sen. Jim Dabakis to represent the city on the Utah Advisory Board, creating a mural project for Granary District, and his concerns that the current plan to build homeless resource centers will not be enough to help those in need.
Blindspot, sponsored by part by a generous grant from the Utah Women's Giving Circle. Tonight's installment explored this bit of research: "...Gender stereotypes are influencing students’ choices about orchestra instruments as early as the third grade." Source: Beyond auditions: gender discrimination in America 's top orchestras, Amy Louise Phelps, University of Iowa.
After Blindspot, the following panelists weighed in on the story:
- Victoria Petro-Eschler, Salty Cricket Composers Collective. Click here for Salty Cricket's summer schedule.
- Hillary MacDaniel and Amy Stocks, co-directors of Rock N' Roll Camp For Girls - SLC
- Josh Perkins, The Bboy Federation, which presents They Reminisce, July 7 & 8 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in SLC

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