(First airdate: December 4, 2019) Can Art and Science inspire each other? Nan Evans and retired fisheries biologist and fiber artist Carla Stehr explore this topic on Nature Now this week.
Feeling lucky? We are! KPTZ volunteers and DJ hosts will be on hand at the Hilltop Tavern on Wednesday night, December 4 for an evening of Bar Stool Bingo. Your plus-ones, family, and friends, all are welcome! Everybody gets one Bingo card each round, with additional cards available by donation. This Bar Stool Bingo event benefits KPTZ. All prizes are courtesy of Hilltop Tavern.
Hilltop Tavern is located on your right when heading out of town on Sims Way, just beyond the second roundabout. KPTZ’s Bar Stool Bingo starts at 7pm Wednesday, December 4.
(First airdate: December 3, 2019) HERDING CATS ON MULTIPLE STAGES. Our Town host Maryanne McNellis interviews Kelly Doran, Centrum’s Technical Director. Kelly’s work is largely behind the scenes. But she’s the one who carefully knits together all the elements of a show – lighting, sound, staging, and a million other details. It’s a constant blur: she orchestrates jazz, classical, blues, fiddle tunes and all of the other events that make Centrum a key cultural magnet on the Olympic Peninsula. Centrum’s season is mainly in the summer. So this winter Kelly took on the challenge of directing Port Townsend High School’s rendition of the classic play Our Town. Sound familiar? Both the play and this show are called Our Town and both feature small American towns. The similarities end there but strong characters dominate both.
This week the Compass goes to Poulsbo to witness two simultaneous Black Friday ceremonies: the annual municipal Christmas display lighting, and a 40th birthday commemoration of a Native American man who was shot to death by a Poulsbo policeman at another public celebration five months ago, on Independence Day.
Today is officially Black Friday, when good Americans rush out to support the economy with their Christmas shopping. Whether or not you celebrate this way, please do take a listen to Tossed Salad this afternoon when KPTZ Music Director Ruby Fitch takes a turn hosting. She’s lined up an afternoon of special listening just for you!
1:00 – Hello + new music
1:30 – The Farmer’s Craft Fair at the Chimacum Grange Preview
2:15 – Jimmy Stewart & Aili Emilia, music
3:15 – Local Live DJ forum
4:00 – Patricia Jones, South County Report
4:30 – Heather Dudley Nollette, reading
(First airdate: November 27, 2020) Following up on a Nature Now conversation from last February (program #401), Nan Evans talks with local naturalist Steve Grace about recent efforts to protect a very special old forest here on the Quimper Peninsula. For additional information, contact Steve directly.
(First airdate: November 26, 2019) Brian Richardson, program manager for the Recovery Cafe, regales the excitement of this newly launched program supported by the Dove House. Missy Nielsen of Everybody Can discusses with Brian the opportunities to impact lives at the Recovery Cafe, from Cafe’ Companions to construction support and more.
(First airdate: November 26, 2019) Sheila Bender talks to Toni Kennedy about her memoir, “Far from Home,” in which she explores the family life and personal attributes that led her to become a nun and then leave the order 25 years later for secular life.
Since April of 1997, the Buffalo Field Campaign has been standing in defense against the harassment and slaughter of our country’s last wild buffalo: the Yellowstone herds. This week on the Compass, KPTZ reporter Chris Bricker talks with the Campaign’s co-founder and coordinator, Mike Meese, who came through Port Townsend with the Buffalo Field Campaign Road Show, to raise awareness of the natural habitat of these wild, free-roaming buffalo and other native wildlife. Joining him is Patrick Johnson, Montana Native and Co-Chair of the Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship’s Green Sanctuary Environmental Action Committee.
(First airdate: November 20, 2019) Nature Now presents Robert Michael Pyle, interviewed by Mary Robson, in the second part of their interview about his 50 years of writing FOR nature.
