Home Grown: Stories: Big Blue Door and Ante Up Comedy Host Battle

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Stories. Telling true stories. Telling funny stories. Telling stories to connect us. Telling stories to self-express. Today on Home Grown we talk with related but different artistic cousins. First Joel Jones, co-founder of Big Blue Door, returns to the show to talk about the latest incarnation of their class Telling True Stories. Joel’s one of the smartest artists that we know so we always love talking to him, though we always feel like we barely scratch his surface. Next we continue our serious talks (or sort of serious) about being seriously funny. Stand-up Chris Alan returns and brings with him fellow comedian Winston Hodges. They’re going to be hosting The Ante Up Comedy Show (Host Battle Edition), and we take the opportunity to talk about the craft of stand-up. It’s a look at the side of art that’s all about stories. (At least that’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.) Of course, all sides of art have a home on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Wake-Up Call: Big Blue Door

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks to Joel Jones, Nauder Namaky, Brian Weisbrod, Jess Pascoal and Kelsey Keverline about their work with Big Blue Door. Listen as the five improvise on a number of topics.

The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 11:00 AM. The station is currently looking for volunteers.

Home Grown: Faraway… So Close and Answer Man and Other Bar Plays

Home Grown hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to photographer Will Kerner about his show, Faraway… So Close opening at the McGuffey Art Center this Friday, and Local improv guru Joel Jones dusts off his old playwright hat in light of the e-publication of his short plays – Answer Man and Other Bar Plays.

Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m. The station is currently looking for volunteers.

Home Grown: Big Blue Door Improv and ShenanArts

Home Grown hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Joel Jones from Big Blue Door Improv about their upcoming show at C’Ville Coffee and about their next round of improv classes, and Jacquie Patteson, local theater director talks about her upcoming show, ShenanArts‘ production of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress in Staunton.

Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m. The station is currently looking for volunteers.

Wake Up Call: The Art of Storytelling

On the September 2 Wake Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with husband and wife duo Joel and Jennifer Jones of their co-founded company Big Blue Door talk about different varieties of storytelling, the difference between writing and telling a story, and recent graduates from their classes Browning Porter and Miller Murray Susen come and tell their own stories.