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August 2018
Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself. A re-occuring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves, each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration by…
Find out more »June 2019
99.1 WQRT’s Rhinestone Country presents Town Mountain
Making their second trip to Duke's Indy, do not miss one of our favorite Bluegrass Bands around. Raw, soulful, and with plenty of swagger, Town Mountain has earned raves for their hard-driving sound, their in-house songwriting and the honky-tonk edge that permeates their exhilarating live performances, whether in a packed club or at a sold-out festival. The hearty base of Town Mountain's music is the first and second generation of bluegrass spiced with country, old school rock ‘n’ roll, and…
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We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself. Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will…
Find out more »March 2021
Words & Music-In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
In this first installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Hoosier authors Susan Neville, Adrian Matejka, Kevin McKelvey, and Jim Walker discuss the sublime beauty and challenges of Indiana through the lens of William H. Gass's 1968 fiction story, "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country." The episode features excerpts of the story as well as a conversation about what it means to be a writer living and working…
Find out more »September 2021
Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde-Remembering What I’d Rather Forget
Join us for a reading, talk about writing as a process and act of witnessing, remembering, healing, imagining and activating healing and justice. Audience Q& A with Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde follows. The event will also play live on 99.1 WQRT. You can stream at www.wqrt.org Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde, Ph.D. is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, doula, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work are grounded in contemplative and…
Find out more »Words and Music-From The Belly: Etheridge Knight
In this installment of Words & Music, an audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Sean Smith aka, Oreo Jones, explores the fascinating life and poetry of an Indiana Icon, Etheridge Knight. Susan Neville, Adrian Matejka, Hanako Gavia, and Smith discuss Knight’s later years as a poet living in Indianapolis, his critically acclaimed publishings after prison, and the art of meddling. Born in rural Mississippi, Etheridge Knight would grow to become one of the most prolific voices…
Find out more »October 2021
Lockerbie Movie Night-Alice (live soundtrack by Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester)
Step through the looking glass with us at Lockerbie Movie Night! Box Burger food truck and Sun King Brewery will help fill your bellys. Sound artists Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester will stimulate your ears with a live soundtrack to Czech director and stop-motion animator Jan Svankmajer's "Alice." Loosely based on the classic Alice in Wonderland story, the colors and proportions are dreamlike and lucid — even more so than one might imagine, and the pace at which it moves…
Find out more »January 2022
Snuggy Bear Presents: MLK Day 2022
Live programming from 12p-5p on WQRT 99.1 FM TImes are subject to change. SunggyBear Presents 12:00 Oreo Jones (Opening introduction building understanding of concept.) 12:15 Ashley Gurvitz (Community Advocate) 12:45 Tiana Cain (APLR Artist, Entrepreneur) 1:15 Thomas Kneeland (Published Poet) 1:45 Rebecca Robinson (Visual Artist, "18 Collective") 2:15 Oreo Jones (APLR Artist, Recording Artist, Station Manager) 2:45 Carrington Clinton (APLR Artist, Performing Artist) 3:15 Quinton Holland (Counselor and Therapist, Entrepreneur) 3:45 Andrea Hunley (IPS Principal, State Senate Candidate) 4:30 Ebony…
Find out more »July 2022
Frida Está Chida
El 6 de Julio de 1907, en Coyoacán, México nació una pintora conocida por sus famosos autorretratos. Frida Kahlo se convirtió en una fuerza del movimiento surrealista al crear un estilo único mezclando elementos de la naturaleza y la identidad mexicana con aspectos de su vida. On July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico a painter was born, known for her famous selfportraits. Frida Kahlo became a force in the surrealist movement by creating a unique style mixing elements of nature…
Find out more »January 2023
Em Elise, Jane Sun Kim, Simon Plemon: delicate(s)
delicate(s), is a collaborative multimedia installation assembled by Em Elise, Jane Sun Kim and Simon Plemon. The installation is a hypnotic visual foraging into the emotional nature of memory and the physical residue it leaves on, in, and around the body. Spiritually fused by a collective longing for depth in a time of social media's staged memory and the dissociative “new normal” induced by a global pandemic, delicate(s) investigates, commemorates, and liberates the artists' hauntings beyond a two dimensional plane.…
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