Esi Edugyan on Art Freak, April 3rd
On the afternoon of April 3, at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Calgary-based novelist Esi Edugyan gave a reading of her Giller Prize winning novel “Half Blood Blues” and answered questions from the audience about the work. Catch a glimpse of the talk Tuesday April 3rd at 5:30PM on Art Freak. Art Freak airs Tuesdays at 5:30PM and Sundays at 2:30PM.
For more information about the novel: http://www.esiedugyan.com/half-blood-blues.html
Special Radio Documentary: Modern Sadness
Monday, April 2 at 5pm, CFRC airs a special radio documentary produced by volunteer Annie Dunsford.
“Modern Sadness” is a documentary piece about depression and mental health that aims to extend the dialogue about depression beyond diagnoses, causes and effects, and brain chemistry; to humanize the dehumanized word ‘depression’ by attempting to open up a conversation about how it feels to people, how it happens to people. Part and parcel of this is trying to create dialogue between people who have depression and people who don’t, to create a place where people talk about something that’s hard to talk about.
Ghost-themed Late Night Pirate Radio Takeover!
Friday March 30 at midnight, tune in to CFRC 101.9FM for a special pirate radio takeover!
The Late Night Pirate Radio Takeover is an opportunity for CFRC volunteers & friends to come together and produce some live, creative, late night radio programming. We take over the airwaves at midnight on Friday March 30th so volunteers can come by the station just before then, or any time between midnight and 4am.
We hope this will both be an opportunity for volunteers (new and old) as well as talent from Kingston and Queen’s to come together for a wild night of radio magic!
This year’s theme is GHOSTS! So go ahead and bring scary ghosts stories, musical instruments/noise makers (for dramatic flair), music selections, actors, bands who want to do a live set, or whatever you think will make for cool late night radio. In this process hopefully the night owls in CFRC’s broadcasting radius will get a very special or scary auditory treat.
Dramafields on Art Freak
On Tuesday March 27, tune in to Art Freak at 5:30pm to hear a special radio drama produced by children and youth aged 7 - 11 from the Dramafields drama troupe, titled “The Dramafieds Wait For Spring.”
In this crazy world of climate-change and the weirdest winter on record, seven Verona-area elementary school-kids decided to do something about it. They wrote a radio show! Now they’re going to perform it. Stories, poems, jokes, interviews, music and skits — documenting the rites of spring, entirely from a kid’s perspective. Kid-written; kid-performed.
The Dramafieds is an after-school drama group that meets weekly in Verona (north of Kingston), ages 7-11. The group is facilitated by Karen Holmes, teacher, CFRC alumnus and B.A.(Hons) graduate of the Queen’s Drama department. For more information contact her at anamcara2@care2.com or (613) 374-1303.
