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This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Hernan Diaz 2022 Best Seller, Trust. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Traci Cumbay, Barb Shoup, and Robin Beery only on 99.1 WQRT.

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. In this episode, Jim Walker of Big Car talks with artist Nathaniel Russell

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Maurice Broaddus, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT

Big Car's Director of Programs and Exhibitions, Shauta Marsh interviews visual artist Betsy Stirratt. Stirratt’s creative practice focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment. She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Exhibiting her own work widely since 1983...

Join the Radio Free Book Club team—Dan Barden, Susan Neville, Traci Cumbay, and host Ken Honeywell for a no-holds-barred discussion of the provocative novel - When We Cease to Understand the World. Radio Free Book Club is a radio show book club produced monthly at 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis. We talk about contemporary novels, with an alternating cast to book club members. Yes: There will be spoiler...

In the fifth installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Jim Walker talks with poet Lasana Kazembe and jazz musician Rob Dixon who collaborated to create the multi-media performance, Firedance. Both artists are based in Indianapolis. Kazembe, a professor at IUPUI, is The Cabaret's inaugural Artist in Residence. Firedance is an original work Kazembe...

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Upgrade by Blake Crouch. #6 on the New York Times Best Sellers list in the first week of publication in the category of Hardcover Fiction. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Craig Von Deylen only on 99.1 WQRT

In this episode, we explore the story of groundbreaking utopian writer Marguerite Young who lived from 1908 until 1995. Born in Indianapolis but living most of her life in Greenwich Village in New York City, Young should be better known beyond literary insiders. Indiana author Susan Neville, who joins Jim Walker in this episode, and others are working to preserve Young’s legacy and keep her work i...

Words and Music on WQRT is a series of audio programs highlighting the lives and work of Indiana Writers. The series — produced by Big Car Collaborative and first heard on our FM radio station, 99.1 WQRT and streaming at  wqrt.org  — is made possible by a grant from Indiana Humanities. In this episode, Indianapolis-based Afrofuturist writer Maurice Broaddus talks with Oreo Jones about the origins...

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, a multilayered novel about friendship, love, and video games. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Ashley C. Ford, Traci Cumbay, and Robin Beery only on 99.1 WQRT

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Ken Kalfus' 2 A.M. in Little America. A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. In this Episode Yaebi Tabb talks with artist Jennifer Blue Hands

On October 15, 2022, Tube Factory artspace hosted a reading of essays from the new book, Indiana Waterways: The Art of Conservation. The project, organized by artist Avon Waters, includes both the work of Hoosier plein air painters and writers with a passion for our state’s waterways. This is a recording of the event made possible with support from Indiana Humanities. An exhibition of the artwork...

roduced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. In this episode, Jim Walker of Big Car talks with Dr. James Lemler, President of Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, about the visionary pe...

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. In this Episode Shauta Marsh and Eduardo Luna talk with Mexico City native artist, Miguel Casco

This is Circle Anthology on WQRT, a public poetry project for SPARK Monument Circle organized by the arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative, and featuring 25 Indianapolis writers who share brief poems inspired by the Circle. In partnership with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis, SPARK is an artist-led approach to bringing creativity, togetherness, and fun to the heart of our city. We paid...