Out and About May 13th 2025 - Brush on the Bluff 2025

 

We are back from a trip to Chicago, just in time for today's show! 

I will be talking with Ava Barany who is one of the dynamic duo known as the Botanical Alchemists. We're going to be talking about Brush on the Bluff, an event that the Botanical Alchemists organize every year. This is an outdoor art show where the artists are working on their pieces which will be auctioned off. You can talk to them while they work. Plus there are a lot of other fun events too, and great food. The auction proceeds are split between the artists and Friends of the Bluff. 

I am really happy to be participating in this event again. Arrived home late last night, so fingers crossed that nothing weird happens during today's broadcast. I am beat! 

Brush on the Bluff is this Saturday at Polly Judd Park and the surrounding  bluff trails from 9 until 4. 

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org.  Show notes and playlist at https://kyrs.org/show/out-and-about/  Thanks for listening! Maeve 

Haiku Friday May 9 1960

Haiku Friday on location!

Talking with Dahveed!

As always, I have such a great time hanging out with Dahveed Bullis. 

His take on theater, Spokane, and the arts in general, is something I really enjoy. The transformational nature of live theater is palpable, especially today. The current ugly destruction of our nation is on everyone's mind, and it is easy to feel powerless. If you want to fight this destruction, embrace creation. Dahveed is going to bring some beautiful theatrical creation - live, human, face-to-face truth - to Spokane, in his new role as national-award-winning Stage Left Theater's Artistic Director.

If you missed the conversation you can check it out here: https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_250506_160000b.mp3

Today on Out and About!

On today's Out and About, I'll be talking with Dahveed Bullis. Dahveed is the new artistic director for Stage Left Theater. He's also the first African-American artistic director of Stage Left. I am really excited to hear about Dahveed’s vision for the theater. I hope you are too! If you’ve never heard Dahveed before, you are in for a treat. His talent and skillset is amazing and he is just a darn lovely human being.

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org.  Show notes and playlist at https://kyrs.org/show/out-and-about/  Thanks for listening! Maeve  

Haiku Friday May 2, 2025

 

Haiku Friday May 2, 2025

“Watershed moment:

“Anger, grief, and disbelief.”

Vancouver, B.C. 

Max Q

They’re finally here! 

The first maggots of the year:

Warm weather coming.

Max Q

Electricity

It is taken for granted

Until it's not there

Bill

Woman weepily 

Helping another weepy

Help you helping me

Laurel

Liquor of lilacs

Spring yawns her fragrant welcome

And begins anew 

Laurel

 He was a hobo

 With plastic bags on his feet

 On the frozen path

Rikosan

Noises in my head

distractingly pleasant din

New kind of hearing

Maeve 

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Thanks for listening to Out and About. In October, I will have been at it for four years - every Tuesday at 4 pm on 88.1 or 92.3 fm or streaming from KYRS.org. Like everyone else who has a show here, I am a volunteer. I've had the fortune of bringing such a diverse group of guests on the air, from Broadway stars to hunting camp operators, drywall experts to recording artists. The conversations have been fun and sometimes have made me cry. 

We live in a wonderful place! And I am so lucky that I get to celebrate that with you. You can check out the archives here for all of KYRS shows. Or you can go to my show page. You can also search your favorite podcast app and you will be able to listen to the last month's worth of shows. 

Thanks for listening. And thanks for supporting KYRS. Love, Maeve 

Haiku Friday April 25, 2025

 

Haiku Friday April 25 2025

Golden bumblebee 🐝 

Buzzing the mahonia

On Easter Sunday.

Max Q

Soft comforts of friends

Bolstering hope above fear

The heartsong of grace

Laurel 

For special treatment 

Some imagined malady

Wasn’t that the goal 

Rikosan

Mammoth detritus 

Arcane adventures distilled

Hubbard squash rebirth 

Maeve 

Haiku Friday April 18 2025

 

Haiku Friday 18 April 2025 

He’s under water, 

Swimming against the current.

All hail The Drowned Man! 

Max Q

Her ardent embrace 

Makes my hungry heart flutter:

The AFib of love. 

Max Q

John did not begin...

Salt spray, watery miqveh:

Unalive, arise!

Ashuvyahu

Oh the quiet night 

With only the moonlight and stars

The power is out 

 Rikosan

Watch us in horror

Madness consumes our nation

Please quarantine now 

Maeve