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Home Grown: Before the Flood Offered by LEAP & Local Comic Books (Slate & Ashe) by Ethan Murphy with Susan Holland

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown hosts David Vaugh Straughn and Leslie M. Scott-Jones talk about energy efficiency and Leonardo DiCaprio’s sufficiency (with bears) as Kellie Hocking from the Local Energy Alliance Program visits the show in anticipation of LEAP’s free screening of National Geographic’s climate change documentary, Before the Flood. Also it’s the ins and outs of local comic writer Ethan Murphy’s and comic editor Susan Holland’s Slate & Ashe. Spoilers! It’s all about the doorknobs! Ethan and Susan also talk about their upcoming book, Screen Boy and about representation in comics. It’s a show about a man named Robinson … and he “caroosed!”

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


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Home Grown: Second Street Gallery, sit.dance.create, Gorilla Theater

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On this week’s Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott-Jones and Clinton Johnston talk to Kristin Chiaccia and Kristie Wood about workshops, pop-up salons, and the fun you can have with 200 degree wax at Second Street Gallery. Then it’s a conversation with artist and retreat leader Susan McCulley about how the combination of movement and mindful stillness can open us up to creativity in our art and in our lives. Finally, acting teacher and theater director Michael McGee talks about an impressive play set in (and talking about) repressive times — Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening playing now at Gorilla Theater.

Plus, we’ve got several shout outs, Mother’s Day suggestions, and an open letter to the “Day Job” — it’s all here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

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

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Home Grown: A Theater Classic at Four County and Classical Music for Your Downtown Lunch

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott-Jones and Clinton Johnston talk with Miller Murray Susen from Four County Players about her upcoming show, Blithe Spririt. Then Leslie and Abigail Rinhyke discuss Christ Episcopal Church’s Bach’s Lunch series with organizer Alice Layman.

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

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Home Grown: Firebird by Charlottesville Ballet and A Piece of My Heart at ShenanArts

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

On today’s Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and Clinton Johnston talk with Nina Staeben about ballet in intimate spaces vs. large spaces and about how ballets can be constantly re-interpreted. Then we talk to two actors from ShenanArts’ upcoming Vietnam era production about their preparation for their show and the benefits and challenges of playing heady material.

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

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Home Grown: The Next Show at Live Arts and the Nine Pillars Hip Hop Festival

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Home Grown hosts David Vaughn Strong and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to actors Adrienne Oliver and Jack Walker about Live Art’s upcoming show, The Realistic Joneses. Also MC Remy St. Clair and FellowMan return to the show. This time they discuss the upcoming Nine Pillars Music Festival.

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

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Home Grown: UVA’s McIntire Department of Music and the Shenandoah Fringe Festival

Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and David Vaughn Straughn talk to Michele Kisliuk from UVA’s McIntire Department of Music about her upcoming 20th anniversary celebration “interactive event” with UVA’s African Music & Dance Ensemble, and, Shenandoah Valley artistic impresario Carmel Clavin returns to give David and Leslie the lowdown on year two of the Shenandoah Fringe Festival.

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

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Home Grown: Shipwrecked! and The African American Heritage Center

Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and David Vaughn Straughn talk to UVA Drama’s Marianne Kubik and Matt Marshall, director and music designer respectively of Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself) about UVA’s upcoming production, and, Andrea Douglas, director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center returns to the show to talk about their new exhibit by Jeanine Michna-Bales, Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad.

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

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Home Grown: Kyle Christopher, Greg Brown and Edward Warwick White

Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and David Vaughn Straughn talk to Kyle Christopher, managing director of Phoenix Theatre Works about Charlottesville’s newest theater, guitarist, Greg Brown joins us to talk about his upcoming CD, Just Tell Me Why. and Edward Warwick White from Four County Players talks about Central VA’s oldest community theater, specifically about their current sell-out show, Chicago, and their next season.

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

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Home Grown: Silver Sparrow, Peter and the Starcatcher and the Creator’s Circle Salon

Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and David Vaughn Straughn talk to Sarah Hamfeldt from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library and Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow, this year’s book for the NEA Big Read. Bree Luck from Live Arts talks about their next show, Peter and the Starcatcher – opening this Friday. Also, a duo that our artist listeners will want to check out, Amiee McDavitt and Elizabeth Swider from The Creator’s Circle Salon discuss their cross-art-disciplinary engagements.

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

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Home Grown: Fralin Art Museum and A Kiss to Build a Dream On

Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and David Vaughn Straughn talk to University of Virginia Fralin Art Museum docent June Heintz about her Looking Inward Meditative Art Tours at the Fralin, and, local author Katie Baldwin talks about her upcoming romance novel, A Kiss to Build a Dream On.

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

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Home Grown: Infusing Art with Politics

Home Grown hosts Leslie M. Scott Jones and David Vaughn Straughn talk to local painter and sculptor Angus Carter, director Shelley Cole, and local musician Jaewar about infusing your art with your political fervor and, specifically about addressing our current unprecedented presidential situation.

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