Local Motion

KVNF's Lisa Young interviews Jill Jurca, Western Slope Regional Director Destination Imagination, and Alisa Johnson, Instructional Coach at Garnet Mesa Elementary, about Destination Imagination, a program that offers students from elementary to college open-ended STEAM challenges designed to teach the creative process.

What does equity in healthcare look like for Latinos? The question may seem big and abstract, but Julissa Soto has dedicated more than two decades to accomplishing equity in latino communities. KVNF's Cassie Knust hosts this Local Motion centered around the Latino community.

In this Local Motion you’ll hear from Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Maeve Conran for another regional roundup dive in. This week features a round table with Clark Adomatis and Hattison Rensberry about their reporting on harm reduction in their communities, with audio from their respective reports.

FernGully will show at the Paradise Theater in Paonia on Thursday April 27th. Proceeds will be donated to Citizens for a Healthy Community. Tickets and more information can be found here.

In this Local Motion, you’ll hear from Merrily Talbott, director of the Paonia Players theater group and KVNF board member. Merrily and I chatted about the hope she hopes audiences will feel after seeing Happiness, and other upcoming events and features, as well as some challenges the theater group had to navigate through the pandemic.

Rocky Mountain Radio's Managing Editor, Maeve Conran, highlights the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic that took place in Snowmass Village.

On this Local Motion, you’ll hear a conversation between KVNF's Cassie Knust and Michelle Leslie Prentice and Tom Cheney of Montrose. You'll learn about these two Montrose-based locals’ involvement in a new nonprofit, Friends of Ukraine. Friends of Ukraine was co-founded by a group of volunteers focused on helping Ukrainian refugee families transition from a war-torn country, all the way to Montro...

On this edition of Local Motion, Lisa Young talks to representatives from The Nature Connection and the Grand Mesa Nordic Council. Both of these non-profit organizations serve our listening area and provide a number of unique and fun opportunities for outdoor recreation here on the Western Slope.

Last year, there were more than 13,000 midwives in the United States, according to the American Midwifery Certification Board. The profession is female dominated. The board’s most recent demographic report finds that less than one percent of midwives in the U.S. are male. That figure holds true in Colorado. State data, from February of this year shows, there are currently four men certified as nur...

Mishe Skenderova is an Oncology acupuncturist and student of Death and Dying. KVNF's Taya Jae visits Mishe at her home in Marble, CO where she shares how she is de-stigmatizing the conversation around Death and Dying with 'Expiration Dinners' and more conversation about death, in community.

Today on the North Fork and Knife we’re talking about Beer. Adam Smith relaxes with two home brewers; Ashley Krest visits a local brewery owner and Taya Jae chats with two women who are revitalizing a small Colorado town, with beer.

Today on Local Motion host Taya Jae is joined by Natalie Haines and Jen Ramsey, co-producers of this year's The Vagina Monologues here to discuss women's rights, inclusivity and what Natalie and Jen believe is the importance of bringing this show to the North Fork Valley.

For decades the town of Paonia struggled to maintain its complex water system. In February 2019 the town ran completely dry in what state and federal agencies called a "perfect storm." Following the water crisis, a number of Paonia citizens decided to take matters into their own hands.

Join seven directors, filmmakers and subjects as they talk about the documentary films featured in this years Mountainfilm on Tour. Featuring interviews with Maxime Moulin with his film Flow (with Sam Favret), Alex Cullen and Manny Almonte with Wood Hood, Whit Hasset with I Am Salmon, Daniel Lombroso with American Scar, Jason Whalen and Loon with Loon, Darcy Hennessey Turenne with The Ocean Soluti...

Taya Jae is joined by actors Elisa McKee, Scott Pollak and Dave Olson to discuss the plot of The Lady In The Van, the highlights of working on this production and what the audience can look forward to. Lesley Hallenborg gives us the details and Lisa Rediger previews February's show, My Funny Valentine on Route 66.

Today, a conversation about death in three parts. We visit a young woman who hosts dinners to discuss death long before it’s facing us, we talk about death cafes and the death positivity movement, and learn about end of life planning and why more people are considering green burials. Tune in as we explore how to change the conversation and how we greet with curiosity this inevitable and unavoidabl...

Western Colorado is fortunate to be surrounded by a variety of talented musicians. Today on the show we highlight some of those local voices both in conversation and song. Tune in to hear Bracken Creek, David Starr, Hillery McCalister, Bill O'Brien, Ben Bentele and Mama Lingua.

Author Craig Childs joins Taya Jae on Local Motion to share how he navigates ancestral lands, the lessons geology has taught him about the passage of time and to preview the 14th annual Dark Night performance.

Take the Sage: A Solstice Variety Show is a collaboration between The Paradise Theatre, Christy Eller, Paonia Players, and Seems Legit Productions. The show will feature Ruby Joyful, The Madrigal Singers, Paonia Improv, Single Single Double, Merrily Talbot, Cosmic Gale Force, DJ Art Beller and many more.

Dr. Nathan Perry, assistant professor of economics at Colorado Mesa University, spoke with KVNF's Lisa Young about how Mesa, Montrose and Delta counties fared during the third quarter of 2022.

Every birth experience is different. Some are joyful, even spiritual occasions. Others result in emergency situations or even tragedy. This week on Local Motion, four mothers share their birth stories.

This month Montrose based theater company, Magic Circle Players, kicks off their second show of the season with a production of Amadeus. Actors Janel Culver, Mark Smith, Everett Gregory and Kenny Easton join Taya Jae to discuss their highlights from the show. We also hear from Magic Circle Players PR representative Lesley Hallenborg.

Beth Hendrix, Executive Director League of Women Voters of Colorado, speaks with KVNF's Lisa Young on the importance of protecting our democracy and the important work of LWV.

Director Arthur Harriman and Assistant Director Lisa True join Taya Jae on Local motion to talk about the Rocky Horror Picture show shadow cast and upcoming performance.