Area Voices

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show connect listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in northern Minnesota.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show keep you up-to-date on the local arts scene, help you stay informed on cultural happenings, and transport you to Minnesota's storied past. Connecting listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in Northern Minnesota. All in a week's work on Area Voices.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.


780 Pieces

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The Adventurer & Her Husband
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Polly Keith Scotland's new book The Adventurer & Her Husband takes readers along for the hike in places including Nepal, Cambodia, Canada, the Rock...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 18:08
Russ White: Face Value
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Russ White’s exhibit Face Value opens tonight at the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. He joined the morning show to talk about his work, his n...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 14:10
Sex Trafficked: A survivor thrives
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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In this Area Voices segment, Gabrielle takes listeners inside her experience in the sex trade, shares how she escaped the lifestyle, her multi-pron...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 22:09
Thirteen: Nonconformity
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Alice Blessing ’s newest portrait exhibit Thirteen: Nonconformity began as study of feminism and girls coming of age in a patriarchal society. It e...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 15:52
Every Child Matters: Bemidji's 1st Orange Shirt Day
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Bemidji recently held its first Orange Shirt Day: Every Child Matters event. Attendees recognized the significant impact residential boarding schoo...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 09:20
Racism, Sexism, and White Women
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Through anecdotal stories, What’s Up With White Women? invites white women to look closely at their life experiences in an effort to generate aware...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 27:22
  • Purchases: 1
First Friday Arts - November
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Every First Friday we find out what's going on in the arts scene across the listening area. Tonight in Grand Rapids First Friday arts magic is spri...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 14:51
Wild Women Don't Get the Blues
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Cate Belleveau’s life is one for the books… she’s a woman with wanderlust and an innate curiosity about the human experience and the natural world....

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 14:46
Aiyana Beaulieu & Brainerd's Waabigwan Ox
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Downtown Brainerd has a new sculpture to add to its growing collection public art. Aiyana Beaulieu designed the Waabigwan Ox statue at the intersec...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 12:58
ISD 31 Update: Supt. Tim Lutz on masking, TikTok, and the proposed tax referendum
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Like more than 40 school districts across Minnesota, ISD 31 in Bemidji is seeking approval of a tax referendum on November 2nd to remedy a previous...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 21:30
Endazhi- Nitaawiging: The Place Where it Grows
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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One year from now children living on the Red Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota will have another option for education-one tailored just for th...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 13:59
Thomas Paquette: Giving back to inspire the future
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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BSU alumni Thomas Paquette will dedicate a series of paintings to the university this morning. He's a landscape painter whose work hangs in embassi...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 11:53
Headwaters Science Center: Tailoring Discovery Quests
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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The Headwaters Science Center is a multi-faceted, hands-on science and discovery experience that started as the dream of Jim and Laddie Elwell some...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
Worth Repeating: A retrospective exhibit
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Mitch Blessing’s current exhibit at the Talley Gallery on the Bemidji State University campus was 13 years in the making. A combination of new crea...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 18:36
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Matters: Watermark Exhibit with a Global Message
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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The Surface Design Association’s (SDA) thought-provoking, collaborative exhibit “Earth Matters” begs the assessment of human impact on the ecology ...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 18:32
  • Purchases: 1
Gillian & Amara Bedford: A legacy of creativity, positivity, and love
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Gillian Bedford has been painting and exhibiting for decades. Her most recent exhibit “Landscapes and Abstracts of the North Woods” is currently on...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 16:13
  • Purchases: 1
Continuing the Conversation: Critical Race Theory
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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In this Area Voices segment, Magie Baumgartner discusses how being called a racist can be the beginning of critically important bridge-building as ...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Quad Cities First Thursdays: A Celebration of Art and Community
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Virginia, Gilbert, Eveleth, and Mountain Iron are Minnesota communities that have worked together as an economic engine since the 1800s. Sharing a ...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 12:35
  • Purchases: 1
Ducks, Drought, and Teal Season: A conversation with MN DNR's Steve Cordts
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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The drought is having an effect on multiple aspects of regular life in Minnesota. Minnesota DNR Waterfowl Specialist Steve Cordts joined the mornin...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
It's the most bountiful time of the year!
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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It’s the time of year when gardeners are busy… busy harvesting, busy saving seeds, busy prepping their plots for the upcoming Minnesota winter. Ter...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 1