In this episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, making an experience out of diversity and inclusion is, in itself, the act of teaching diversity and inclusion.  Today, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Aamera Siddiqui.  Siddiqui is a regular contributor and facilitator with the Central Minnesota Arts Board’s continuing series “Race and […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack checks in with Central Minnesota Arts Board Executive Director Leslie LeCuyer and finds out about the rebound in the arts following the near total shutdown of activities due to the pandemic.  Spoiler Alert: the CMAB funded over $800,000 dollars last year and is […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we travel way back in time to one of the original farmsteads in central Minnesota, the William W. Warren and MacDougall farmstead.  Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack joins SCSU Anthropolgy Professor Rob Mann and his class on the dig, which is just three miles west of Royalton about […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack speaks with Anna Marie’s Alliance Executive Director Charles Hempeck and Jule’s Bistro owner Donella Westphal.  Fresh from Beaver Island Brewery’s Tending for a Cause fundraiser to support Pet Safe Homes, Charles and Donella talk about the interrelation between the restaurant and crisis service agency over the years […]

In this episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, school is out for the summer!  The epic and strange carnival which has been the 2021-2022 K-12 school year is the conversation today as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with 2022 MN Teacher of the Year Sarah Lancaster.  Lancaster teaches in her hometown […]

On May 4th (be with you) 2022, KVSC presented the SEASON FIANLE of our 10th season of the Granite City Radio Theater! Our special musical guest David Huckfelt joined house band Collective Unconscious and mesmerized the crowd while the Shades Brigade crew got freaky with the CIA, SuccessCo “moved” into a new product field, the […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, the more things change, the more they stay the same as the iconic 80’s movie The Breakfast Club is “sort of” recreated by SCSU’s Theater & Film Studies Department. “Mr. Sherman’s Acting 101 Class is Proud to Present The Breakfast Club (or Sort of)” took to the Center Stage […]

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks again with Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha.  In a time of COVID relief funds, budget surpluses, and record inflation, there have been increased calls by “thrifty Minnesotans” for more and more audits.  What, however, is an audit, and what should it be […]

In our 3rd episode of our 10th season of the Granite City Radio Theater,  the drama, comedy, trivia, and music continued to captivate both our live and radio audiences! Special musical guest Shannon Curfman joined house band Collective Unconscious and brought the house down! Jack Shade and his Shade Brigade crew found out that you […]

Jaedyn James has taken time away from the stage to reclaim her voice and approach her music with a sense of lyrical honesty. She’s producing new music in 2022 and learning from her past, her losses, loves and life experiences.