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Speaking of the Arts

Speaking of the Arts is mid-Missouri"s only weekly arts show. The show is hosted by Diana Moxon, who chats with actors, directors, authors, musicians, festival directors, event organizers, arts curators, and artists about the events they are involved in and also about their own works and their influences. Whilst the show focuses mainly on the mid-Missouri arts scene, Diana"s guests have included international composers, conductors, authors as well as artists, musicians, and performers from around

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24:50

'Seminar' at Talking Horse Productions

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2023/02/14

The Theresa Rebeck play 'Seminar' opens at Talking Horse Productions on February 17th for a two-weekend run and in this episode Diana Moxon chats with two of its cast members, David McSpadden who plays the fiction guru and hilariously condescending seminar leader, Leonard, and Erin Matteson, the aspiring young writer who has offered to host the 10-week seminar for 3 of her equally aspiring pals. This episode is marked with an E as the scene from the play between Leonard and Kate contains a

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58:01

Two poets on mothers, daughters and loss

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2023/02/03

This week host, Diana Moxon, takes a look back at two conversations she had with Columbia-based poets Lynne Jensen Lampe and Barbara Harris Leonhard in October and November last year. Both Barbara and Lynne had recently released collections of poems, both of which explored their relationships with their mothers and the complications that post partum depression and alzheimers had on their time together. Their collections of poems are eloquent, moving, sad and funny, and both Lynne and

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57:56

Two composers and a writer/poet/vocalist educator

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2023/01/27

Once again this week show host, Diana Moxon, is taking a look back at some her favorite chats from the past year. Back in July Diana chatted with two composers who were visiting Columbia as part of the Mizzou International Composers Festival: guest composer Angélica Negrón and resident composer Cassie Wieland. In August the vocalist, spoken word poet, writer, arts educator and community organizer, Josh Runnels aka J. Artiz, was on Speaking of the Arts talking about his passion and purpose,

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58:01

Three singer songwriters

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2023/01/20

This week Diana Moxon revisits chats with three singer songwriters who were on the show last year. From August, St Louis' Paige Alyssa (https://www.paigealyssamusic.com/) chats about their blend of jazz-new jack swing-R&B and the influence of Sonic the Hedgehog on their music; from September, social justice singer songwriter Crys Matthews (https://www.crysmatthews.com/) talks about the importance of empathy and compassion when inviting listeners into a story; and from October "not your

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59:14

A movement scientist dancer, a fine artist muralist,...

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2023/01/13

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in (belatedly) with the December artists: St Louis-based Elinor Harrison, a dancer with a national touring resume who is doing pioneering research into how singing can improve the gait of people with Parkinson's Disease; Christine Riutzel from Hollister, a muralist and fine artists whose art is therapy that helps her unpack past traumas, doubts

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58:05

A peek behind the scenes: teaching accents and...

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2023/01/06

For the first show of 2023 Diana Moxon chats with two people who the audience never gets to see on the stage or screen, but whose work has a huge influence on both actors and audiences. Paula Vanlandingham (https://www.accentpaula.com/) is an accent and dialect coach to actors all over the world from her home in Columbia Missouri. She speaks 6 languages plus English and coaches in over 50 global accents including coaching an American actor who doesn't speak any Spanish to speak 19th century

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59:15

2022: the year in review

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2022/12/23

As we close in on the end of 2022, Diana Moxon invites three arts pals to the Speaking of the Arts studio to look back on their favorite moments of the year. Columbia Daily Tribune arts writer Aarik Danielsen remembers some of the music, poetry and sentences that moved him this year. From Ragtag Film Society, Stacie Pottinger, drops in to talk about the year's movie highlights and how meeting a film-maker can really change her opinion about a film. And the woman who sees more theatre

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57:47

What would you do with a $100,000 donation? 9 arts...

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2022/12/16

With end of year giving season firmly upon us, on this week's show Diana Moxon chats with 10 arts leaders from 9 local arts agencies to find out about some of the magic and meaningful moments their organizations have inspired, and what they would do with a $100,000 donation.

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57:46

White Christmas, a new conductor in town, and...

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2022/12/09

'Tis the season when stages are awash in figurative tinsel and this week Diana Moxon visits three of them. At the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, their new Music Director Designate, Wilbur Lin, makes his first public performance at this weekend's Symphony of Toys concert and chats about his vision for the orchestra and how he came to found his own orchestra at 18. In Act II, Broadway actor and now Stephens College Conservatory for the Performing Arts associate professor, Lisa Brescia, and

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57:50

Steel Magnolias, The Masters' Exhibit, and The...

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2022/12/02

This week's show is a theatre-fine art-theatre sandwich with host, Diana Moxon, talking to Talking Horse Production theatre directors, DeeDee Farris and Mark Baumgartner about their production of the Larissa Fasthorse comedy satire, 'The Thanksgiving Play' in which the history of Thanksgiving, woke culture, and privilege checking all collide. In Act II of the show, Diana explores Sager Reeves Gallery's 2022 Masters' Exhibit and its theme of love, human connection, courtship and sex, with

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63:02

Portrait photography, murals, colored pencils and...

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2022/11/25

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the November artists: portrait photographer Randy Bacon from Springfield whose profoundly moving photographs of unsheltered people has traveled the country and is also a vital viewing short film "The Road I Call Home" (https://www.randybacon.com/the-road-i-call-home-short-film); St Louis-based visual artist and art educator, Simiya

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57:26

'Three-Penny Memories A Poetic Memoir' and 'MO Love:...

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2022/11/11

This week two writers explore the lives of two women: one a memoir poetry collection about a mother's Alzheimer's, and the other an original play based on love letters from 100 years ago. Barbara Harris Leonhard's book "Three-Penny Memories A Poetic Memoir" is a love story that explores her relationship with her mother, their mother wounds, entangled journeys, and her mother's Alzheimer's. And in Greenhouse Theatre Project's new, original production in collaboration with the State

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57:56

The sounds of music: from experimental to musical...

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2022/11/04

Music is the through line on this week's show with host, Diana Moxon, chatting with Dismal Niche's, Matt Crook, the curator and director of the Columbia Experimental Music Festival about this year's festival and the challenges of overcoming stubbornly conditioned ears. Plus Diana checks in with Joy Powell from the University of Missouri's theatre department about their regional premiere of the heartwarming musical comedy 'The Prom'; and Robert Wells and Lainie Vansant talk about the 2022-23

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57:44

An art fair, a fantasy painter, an encaustic artist,...

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2022/10/28

With the return of Fall into Art this weekend after a 2-year hiatus, Diana Moxon chats with one of the art fair's organizers, Melynda Lotven, about the event's new venue and the challenges of re-starting the festival, plus she chats with two of the exhibiting artists - St Louis-based surreal and fantasy painter, Mollie Chounard, and encaustic artist and jeweler, Jamie Scheppers from Columbia. And as Columbia Entertainment Company moves into the final weekend for its production of the

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59:28

Two painters, an award-winning author, and not your...

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2022/10/21

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the October artists: award-winning author Greg Stout from Cape Girardeau who wrote 22 books on US railroad history and then won a national award for his first work of detective fiction; St Louis-based singer songwriter, Miss Molly Simms, who made her public singing debut at the age of six in an unusual place; artist Nick Gadbois from

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55:50

A work of classic American theatre, a contemporary...

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2022/10/14

This week's show is a theatre-poetry-theatre sandwich. Diana Moxon chats with theatre director Elizabeth Braaten Palmieri and actor Lindsey Oberle about Stephens College's upcoming production of the American classic, 'Our Town', by Thornton Wilder and explores how the play's significance changes as we age. In Act II poet Lynne Jensen Lampe talks about her first full collection of poetry titled 'Talk Smack to a Hurricane' which centers on her relationship with her mother, whose life was

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58:51

A once-a-year art show, some dance, x-acto knife art,...

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2022/10/07

Keeping it eclectic this week Diana Moxon chats with the two women behind the annual Boone County Art Show: Mary Wilkerson from Central Bank of Boone County (which has hosted the show for 63 years), and Kelsey Hammond from the Columbia Art League. Plus Karen Mareck Grundy talks dance with Diana and about changing the name of her organization from the Missouri Contemporary Ballet to Mareck Dance. Artist Sarah Nguyen talks about the origin and inspiration for her large scroll works

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61:02

The Roots 'n' Blues festival edition

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2022/09/30

The Roots n Blues festival returns to Stephens Lake Park from October 7th-9th, and on this week's Speaking of the Arts Diana Moxon chats with the festivals two owners, Tracy Lane and Shay Jasper, about what it takes to make a music festival be a safe, accessible and inclusive space and how centering women is paramount to the festival's identity. There's also a check-in with two of the singer songwriters appearing at this year's festival. Kassi Ashton who released her debut radio single

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62:51

Two painters, a poet, and a wearable art sculptor:...

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2022/09/23

Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the September artists: painter Joshua Newth from Cape Girardeau whose art tells the story of the ubiquity of man's litter and environmental impact; Kansas City based wearable art jeweler and sculptor, Clarissa Knighten, whose first sale happened in an elevator and who navigated her own clinical depression and bulimia through her

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58:51

Author M O Walsh & Poet Dave Malone

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2022/09/16

This week a rebroadcast of two of Diana Moxon's recent chats: author M O Walsh about his book 'The Big Door Prize' which is this month's Daniel Boone Regional Library One Read book (first broadcast September 1st); and poet Dave Malone about his latest collection of poetry entitled 'Tornado Drill' (first broadcast July 7th). Opening and closing music credits with thanks to guitarist Yasmin Williams (www.yasminwilliamsguitar.com)

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