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At Large with Leni Holliman
hosted by Leni Holliman
 YPR
Arts and Humanities Producer Leni Holliman presents a
variety of programs exploring the visual arts, the performing arts, literature,
and regional cultural events. In addition to conducting interviews, Leni
records presentations and special events, capturing the themes and topics
and distilling them into a half-hour or hour of radio. With a focus on
artists of all kinds working in or visiting our region, Holliman works
to provide a fun and interesting look into the creative endeavors of artists
of all kinds throughout Montana and Northern Wyoming.
Leni Holliman grew up in Billings and returned to Montana after having
earned a degree in English Literature with a minor in violin performance
from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Realizing such an education
suited her for nothing other than public radio work, she embraced her
destiny and has called Yellowstone Public Radio home ever since. Over
the last 9 years, Holliman has interviewed authors, painters, dancers,
actors, sculptors, journalists, musicians, scholars, arts administrators,
and a broad variety of others. Each year she brings both the Montana
Festival of the Book and the High Plains Bookfest to the airwaves. Leading
an amazing team of volunteers, she helped bring to life the Journey
of the Corps of Discovery with the series Day by Day with Lewis
and Clark.
At Large Audio Archive
YPR maintains an archive of recent At Large programs.
They are available as on-demand, streaming audio using the Windows Media
format, and as MP3 files encoded at 64kbps.
Utah Phillips & Mark Ross
 Utah
Phillips & Mark Ross (WMA)
 Utah
Phillips & Mark Ross (MP3)
In this archive edition of At Large, host Leni Holliman interviews
folksinger and labor activist Utah
Phillips, who passed away last month. This discussion, which also
includes fellow folksinger and Butte resident Mark Ross, ranges
from radical politics to the particulars of life as a hobo.
Jonna Tamases
 Jonna
Tamases (WMA)
Jonna Tamases (MP3)
Jonna
Tamases explores the trials of living through cancer and cancer
treatments in her funny and touching one-woman show Jonna's
Body, Please Hold. Tamases will perform her show in Helena,
Butte, Bozeman, and Billings between April 23 - 26 [ticket information
available here]
in performances sponsered by the Cancer
Family Network of Montana. Tamases has survived cancer three times.
In this conversation with Leni Holliman, she discusses
her journey through cancer, what she hopes to accomplish with the play,
and how cancer can be funny after all.
Rory Rogina
 pictured: Rory
Rogina
Rory Rogina (WMA)
Rory Rogina (MP3)
Rory Rogina is a yoga instructor and owner of Perfect Balance
Yoga and Massage in Billings. In 2007, Rogina traveled to India, where
he was deeply inspired by the faith and hope he witnessed amid crushing poverty
and suffering. His experiences greatly impacted his worldview. Rogina discusses
those experiences and what it was like to return to the U.S.
Anne Sherwood
 Left:
photography by Anne Sherwood
Anne Sherwood (WMA)
Anne Sherwood (MP3)
Anne Sherwood is
an international freelance photojournalist who makes her home in Bozeman.
Hear Sherwood discuss the camera as a passport into the story of a person's
life. She also talks about the insight and understanding gained from
travelling the world. Anne Sherwood will be the keynote speaker at this
year's Girls
For a Change conference on March 22.
Web-Only Audio Extra: Anne Sherwood
Anne
Sherwood Extra (WMA)
Anne
Sherwood Extra (MP3)
Hear additional comments from Anne Sherwood, including
what she thinks makes for a great photograph.
Katie Knight
 Featured
Image: Kim Fink, The Most Precious Commodity
Katie Knight (WMA)
Katie Knight (MP3)
The exhibit Speaking
Volumes: Transforming Hate is currently on display at the Holter
Museum in Helena. Exhibit curator Katie Knight discusses
the exhibit—in which artists transformed books of hate literature into
art—and how it came to be. Knight also discusses the artists' experiences
in creating the works, as well as how audiences are responding to them.
Web-Only Audio Extra: Katie Knight
Katie
Knight Extra (WMA)
Katie
Knight Extra (MP3)
Hear additional comments from Curator Katie Knight about
the Speaking Volumes exhibit.
Alan Thompson
 Alan
Thompson (WMA)
Alan Thompson (MP3)
Image Credit: Great Falls Tribune photo illustration compiled from
historic photos and original work by artist Brian Morger
In honor of Black History Month, Leni talks with cultural anthropologist Alan
Thompson about African-American history in Montana. The Montana
Historical Society is currently cataloging
all of its material related to telling the story of African-Americans in Montana.
We're Making History: Billings' First 125 Years
 The
city of Billings celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. The Western
Heritage Center has been looking back at the early days of Billings
through their High
Noon Lecture Series. YPR is pleased to present four of these lectures,
covering the early growth of the "Magic City," the importance
of the railroad, a partially built prison that never housed an inmate,
and a survey of the extraordinary women who helped shape the city of
Billings. Speakers include Dr. Carroll Van West, Kevin
Kooistra-Manning, Dr. Keith Edgerton, and Sue
Hart.
J.L. "Woody" Wooden
 pictured:
"Cambodian Children," by J.L. "Woody" Wooden
J.L. "Woody" Wooden
(WMA)
J.L. "Woody" Wooden
(MP3)
J.L. "Woody" Wooden is
a professor of Photography at Northwest
College in Powell, WY. He believes that travel is the best teacher
and put that theory into practice recently by taking a group of students
to Cambodia and Vietnam. The trip resulted in the exhibition The
Similarities Between Our Differences, currently on display in the
SinClair Gallery on the campus of Northwest College.
StoryCorps
 StoryCorps
(WMA)
StoryCorps (MP3)
StoryCorps is
a national project that allows people to interview each other. The recordings
are then archived with the American
Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorp's mobile recording
booth has been parked in Butte for most of July, and Leni Holliman interviewed Terry
Scott, Senior Coordinator for StoryCorp's mobile booth, and Michael
Marsolek, Program Director for Montana
Public Radio, about the mobile booth and the power of the personal
story.
Alberta Bair 20th Anniversary
Alberta Bair 20th Anniversary (WMA)
Alberta Bair 20th Anniversary (MP3)
2007 marks the 20th anniversary of the Alberta
Bair Theater. Hear Christine Meyers and Corby Skinner tell
the story of their involvement in saving the old Fox Theater building and how
it was then transformed into a cornerstone of the Billings arts community.
Online Extra!
Alberta
Bair 20th Extra (WMA)
Alberta
Bair 20th Extra (MP3)
In this online-only extra, Corby Skinner remembers some
of the great performers who have played at the Alberta Bair, and Christine
Meyers reminices about a lifetime spent at the theater.
MSU-B Wine and Food Festival
MSU-B
Wine and Food Festival (WMA)
MSU-B
Wine and Food Festival (MP3)
 pictured:
Leslie Sbrocco (photo courtesy http://www.lesliesbrocco.com/)
The 15th annual MSU-Billings
Wine and Food Festival begins May 14. Learn about the history of this fundraising
event and the programs it helps support in a discussion with festival co-chairs Joe and Jane
Howell. Also on the program, YPR General Manager Lois Bent joins At
Large host Leni Holliman for a conversation with festival
presenter Leslie
Sbrocco. A wine expert, Sbrocco talks about her latest book, The
Simple and Savvy Wine Guide.
Steven Dietz
Steven Dietz (WMA)
Steven Dietz (MP3)
Pulitzer-nominated, award-winning playwright Steven
Dietz wrote all the plays in Venture
Theatre's current season. Dietz came to Billings recently to see a production
of one of those plays. While he was in town, At Large host Leni
Holliman sat down with Dietz, former Venture Theatre artistic director Mace
Archer, current artistic director Lysa Fox, and actor Russ
Palmer, who appeared in two of this season's plays. The discussion includes
Dietz's style, his body of work, and what it's like to work in theater in today's
crowded media market.
Western Heritage Center: Billings' 125th Anniversary
Western Heritage Center: Billings' 125th Anniversary (WMA)
Western
Heritage Center: Billings' 125th Anniversary (MP3)
 2007
marks the 125th anniversary of the city of Billings. The Western
Heritage Center (WHC) is celebrating this benchmark with an exhibit
titled "We're
Making History: Billings' First 125 Years." WHC Director Julie
Dial and community historian Kevin Kooistra-Manning walk
listeners through the exhibit and discuss Calamity Jane, the first Western
Days Parade, and an old fire wagon pulled by people.
Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer, Ph.D.
Bonnie
Sachatello-Sawyer (WMA)
Bonnie
Sachatello-Saywer (MP3)
The Bozeman-based organization Hopa
Mountain provides community leaders with the resources and training
necessary to advance the educational opportunities, ecological health,
and economic well-being of their communities. Founder and Director Bonnie
Sachatello-Sawyer, Ph.D. discusses the ways in which Hopa Mountain
provides this vital resource, as well as the organization's scholarship
program for high school seniors who have demonstrated a commitment to
community service.
Robert Manchester
Robert
Manchester (WMA)
Robert
Manchester (MP3)
 Robert
Manchester is the new Senior Curator at the Yellowstone
Art Museum. He has a three-dimensional perspective that extends not
only to the art he displays, but also to the space in which it's displayed.
By March 23, his approach can be explored in three
new exhibits at the museum.
Lisa Woll Keynote Address
2007
Girls for a Change-Bozeman conference
Lisa
Woll Keynote (WMA)
Lisa
Woll Keynote (MP3)
 pictured
left to right: Cameron Dabney, Lisa Woll, Annie Hansen, Sarah Craig (photo
by Julie Langaker)
On February 24, the Bozeman-based organization Girls
For a Change (GFAC) held their annual day-long conference. This year's
conference was called "Dream
Big," and the keynote speaker was Lisa Woll,
CEO of the Social
Investment Forum and former Executive Director of the International
Women's Media Foundation. In honor of Women's
History Month, At Large presents Ms. Woll's address concerning
handling the social pressure both girls and women face, building and managing
a career, and how to make big dreams into realities. The program also
features a brief interview with some of the girls who help run GFAC
and a short conversation with Ms. Woll.
Rose Marie Goetz Aus
part of Five Who Make a Difference Week
Five
Who Make a Difference: Rose Marie Goetz Aus (WMA)
Five
Who Make a Difference: Rose Marie Goetz Aus (MP3)
During her 25 years as a member of the English/Humanities Faculty at Dawson
Community College, Rose Marie Goetz Aus staunchly
advocated for humanities programming in eastern Montana. She does so to
this day, both encouraging and offering programs for the Montana
Speaker's Bureau. In addition, she logs thousands of miles driving
to communities all over eastern Montana to lead reading groups and One
Book Montana discussions.
William "Woody" Wood
 William
"Woody" Wood (WMA)
William
"Woody" Wood (MP3)
William "Woody" Wood is the new Executive Director
of the Alberta
Bair Theater in Billings. Wood previously ran the Interlochen
Arts Festival in Michigan. He discusses his broad definition of "the
arts" and the importance of bringing a variety of performances to
the region.
 Kristin
Korb
Kristin
Korb (WMA)
Kristin
Korb (MP3)
Billings native Kristin
Korb is a jazz vocalist, bassist, and educator who hit her
stride after moving to Los Angeles. With a renewed focus on her perfermance
career, Korb recently released her fourth album Why Can't You Behave.
This interview was recorded in December 2006, when Korb was in Billings
visiting her family and performing in the area.
Web-Only
Audio: Kristin Korb on the photo shoot for her latest album
Broad Comedy
 Broad
Comedy (WMA)
Broad
Comedy (MP3)
Broad Comedy
is a Bozeman-based, all-female comedy troupe whose irreverent critiques
of everything from foreign policy to motherhood have won them a growing
local fan base, a 2005 Vancouver
Fringe Festival "Pick of the Fringe," a successful run in
Boston, and slots at two New York showcase events. Broad Comedy
was founded in 1999 by Katie Goodman, co-director of
the Equinox Theater
in Bozeman.
Kristi Hager
 Kristi
Hager (WMA)
Kristi
Hager (MP3)
Kristi Hager
is a painter, photographer, printmaker, hula dancer, speaker, teacher,
and architect. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of a number
of Montana art institutions and some of her photographs are collected
in the book Conveniences Sorely Needed: Montana's Historic Highway
Bridges. In this conversation, Hager talks about her work, winning
the Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, and what it's like to
make a career out of being an artist.
William Wyckoff
William
Wyckoff (WMA)
William
Wyckoff (MP3)
In On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape, photographer
(and MSU Geography professor) William
Wyckoff details the passage of time by contrasting photographs
taken by highway engineers in the mid 20th century with recent photographs
of the same scene. In this interview, Wyckoff talks about his book and
his life as an "historical cultural geographer." An exhibit
of photographs and information from the book is on display at the Museum
of the Rockies in Bozeman through January 21, 2007.
Robert DeWeese
Robert
DeWeese (WMA)
Robert
DeWeese (MP3)
 Robert
DeWeese was an artistic force in Montana for 40 years as a teacher,
creating an impact on almost everyone who crossed his path. A retrospective
of his work titled "A Look Ahead" is currently on display at
the Holter Museum
of Art in Helena. Hear a conversation about DeWeese with long time
friend and colleague (and exhibit curator) Terry Karson.
In addition, hear comments from a few of DeWeese's former students.
Image Credit: Robert DeWeese, Self Portrait, n.d.,
ink on paper (from the collection of the Holter Museum of Art, Helena,
MT)
Jeff Biggers
Jeff
Biggers (WMA)
Jeff
Biggers (MP3)
 Hear
a conversation with Jeff
Biggers, author of In
The Sierra Madre. Biggers talks about the year he spent in the
Mexican mountain range, the indigenous people of the village where he
and his wife lived, some of the adventures he had while there, and what
happens when drastically different cultures interact. Biggers is also
the author of The
United States of Appalachia.
Jerry Cornelia & Melissa Stewart
Jerry
Cornelia & Melissa Stewart (WMA)
Jerry
Cornelia & Melissa Stewart (MP3)
This program combines interviews with two artists connected by their New
York "take" on Montana. Painter Jerry Cornelia
grew up in eastern Montana, but spent a decade in New York painting mannequins
and developing his artistic style and skill. He has since moved back to
Montana, and his work is currently
on display at the Yellowstone Art Museum. Cornelia also shows his
work at Visions
West Galleries in Livingston and Bozeman, which has an online
gallery of some of his whimsical paintings. Photographer Melissa
Stewart is a portrait photographer based in New York who traveled
to Montana in the summer of 2004. During her stay, she lived and worked
with her subjects, making her portaits an intimate portrayal of rural
Montana. Stewart's Montana photography is on display at the Western
Heritage Center through the end of 2006. Stewart's
website features her work, and her Montana portraits are viewable
by clicking the fourth icon from the left across the bottom of her homepage.
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