Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Producer: Amy Browne
Topics and guests:
Interviews with Julie Arnold Lisnet, Director of the Ten Bucks Theatre Company’s Shakespeare Under the Stars production of MacBeth in Brewer, Maine and Francis Fortier, Artistic Director and Founder of the Bar Harbor Music Festival now in it’s 40th year
FMI: tenbuckstheatre.com ; barharbormusicfestival.org

What are the rewards and drawbacks of performing “under the stars”?
What is a “fight director”?
How does the Bar Harbor Music Festival showcase new as well as established talent?
How do they mix beautiful music and settings?

Producer: Amy Browne
Topic: Magnus Johnstone interviews Dr. William Gallagher an expert on Bangor Maine artist Waldo Peirce

Producer: Amy Browne
Topics: Carolyn Coe with the U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment at the Maine/Canada border
Denis Howard with a WERU Full Circle Fair update
How is the U.S. preventing Cuba from receiving needed medical supplies?
What are concerned people in the U.S. and Canada doing about the situation?
What is the line up of performers at this year’s Full Circle Fair?

Topics:
Tish Noyes profiles community member Bill Reeve
Lawrence Reichard reports back from his most recent trip to the U.S./Mexico border, this time he participated in the Migrant Trail walk
Debbie Melinkas talks about volunteer opportunities at the American Folk Festival in Bangor in August
Denis Howard talks about volunteer opportunities at WERU’s Full Circle Fair in Blue Hill in July

Producer: Amy Browne
Topics: Karen Larsen on the Summer Solstice; an interview about a film and fundraiser for Maine Greyhound Placement Service; an interview with a local resident organizing a visit to the area by Thunder Rider, a Native American elder
What are some of the ways different cultures have celebrated Solstice?
How can people learn more about greyhound adoption?
What will Thunder Rider’s workshops be like?

Producer: Amy Browne
Topics: Ron Beard interviews William Colby an expert in the field of end of life issues. He represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in the first right-to-die case heard by the U.S. Supreme court, and is the author of “Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan”, and more recently “Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America”.
Amy Browne interviews Joshua Raymond, organizer of the Black Maria Film Festival’s event at the Grand in Ellsworth, Maine

Producer: Amy Browne
Resisting Atlantica: Activists in the Northeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada organizing together to protect human rights, local culture and the environment
Sunrise Herb farm: A business that has recently relocated to Maine
Carolyn Coe reports from the WarFlowers art exhibition opening in Blue Hill, Maine

Producer: Amy Browne
Topics:

• Carolyn Coe with a report on a Memorial Day observation in Blue Hill, Maine
• Joel Mann interviews musician Don Campbell
• Amy Browne interviews area residents who are sponsoring a visit by spiritual teacher Neelam
• Tish Noyes interview Jim Harney about his presentation on Immigration and Globalization