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WPKN’s Fall Fund Raiser Starts Sept 7

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6 AM: WPKN Mornings with Doug Echols: music, news, community announcements

7 PM: Ray Terlaga: music, Skies of Bridgeport, AIDS Update

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Today’s schedule:

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Today’s Schedule:

Coming Up on WPKN

Eastern LI Arts Calendar

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Join WPKN on Facebook

A Note from WPKN Program Director Rod Richardson

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Today’s Schedule:

6 AM: WPKN Mornings with Jeep Ward: music, news, community announcements, etc.

7 PM: Jim Motavalli

10 PM: Radio Free Arcadia: Tom Poplawski

Station News

There’s still time to tell everyone WHY YOU LOVE WPKN. Fundraising for Fall begins on September 7th this year. So you still have the opportunity to help us by letting everybody know what you like about WPKN. Please call our Fund Drive Hotline at (203) 938-2721 and record your announcement for on-air use. Please make sure you give your first name and where you live; then tell us what it is about WPKN that makes you tune in. Is it the variety of music, the programming freedom that means you can be surprised, the live music specials? Don’t wait; call soon.

SAVE THE DATE: The Epic Pledge Drive Brunch Concert
The WPKN Sunday Brunch Concert has hosted many artists, but usually one at a time. On September 12th, we will stretch a bit with three bands on the first Sunday of WPKN’s Fall Pledge Drive. This show also marks the maiden voyage of WPKN’s new performance space.
- 11:00 a.m. Frank Viele and the Manhattan Project (driving horns, funky bass lines, and syncopated rhythms)
- 12:00 noon The Kind Buds (a raucous acoustic guitar jam duo from Vermont)
- 1:00 p.m. Kung Fu (a “lethal funk” supergroup from New Haven)
The concert takes place at the WPKN studio, 244 University Avenue in Bridgeport, CT. Admission is free and everybody is welcome. Listeners are encouraged to call with pledges of support for WPKN. Sunday, September 12 at 11:00 AM.

Entertainment:

Saturday. September 4 at 7 pm

Song Trails Radio Hour: Caroline Doctorow and Mick Hargreaves explore the world of roots-based music and highlight Long Island based musicians.  Heard on the first Saturday each month at this time

Public Affairs

Beginning Wednesday, September 1 at 6:30 PM:

In Context: Controlled Demolition on 9/11? — In Context, the new live format for History Counts, will mark the approaching anniversary of the 9/11 attack with a series of live call-in programs. Hosts Ken MacDermotRoe and Gus Cantavero, guests and listeners will discuss important aspects of the crime including the theory that the World Trade Center was brought down in a controlled demolition. The programs, all live with call-ins, will be on Wednesday, September 1 at 6:30 -7:00 PM, Sunday, September 5 at 10 -11 PM and Saturday, September 11 at 6:00 – 9:00 AM.

Wednesday September 8 at 6:30 PM:

Tidings from Hazel Kahan: Hazel examines the practice of tipping. She talks to two waiters about their experiences with tipping.  Should we tip our favorite radio station? Hazel  emphatically says YES.

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Today’s Schedule:

6 AM: WPKN Mornings with Chris Teskey: music, news, community announcements

Counterpoint is heard each Monday from 8pm to 10 pm on WPKN 89.5 and  wpkn.org.  Tonight Scott Harris will talk with:

Bill McKibben, author of more than a dozen books including “The End of Nature,” founder of global warming awareness campaigns, Step It Up and 350.org and scholar in residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. He discusses his latest book, “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.”

Prof. Snehal Shingavi, assistant professor of South Asian literature at the University of Texas in Austin, examines the slow pace of U.S. and international assistance for the people of Pakistan devastated by that nation’s historic floods and the related issues of possible man-made causes of the disaster.

Medea Benjamin co-founder of both Code Pink Women for Peace and the international human rights group Global Exchange, talks about the peace movement’s reaction to the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the recent escalation of bombings there and the true costs of the war for the Iraqi people.

Justine McCabe, co-chair of the Green Party’s International Committee assesses the election of Green Party candidates in Australia and the role of proportional representation voting there — as well as a brief overview of the GP in the U.S. and around the world.

Some segments of Counterpoint are edited for re-broadcast on the syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine. Visit their web site at http://www.btlonline.org for free subscriptions to mp3 – podcast audio files, program summaries and interview transcripts. An archive of Counterpoint programs are accessible for free at http://archives.wpkn.org

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Today’s Schedule:

5 AM Haitian Program: Pierre Richard Merisier or Maud Joseph

7 AM Black Introspectives: Eric Ford

10 AM Morning Maniac Music: David Golden

1 PM WPKN Sunday Brunch Concert:

Parker’s Tangent from Arcadia Coffee, 20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich, CT 203-637-8766  New Haven-based Parker’s Tangent plays blues and roots based original art rock. The music can be poetic, quiet and touching to bluesy to out and out rocking. http://www.myspace.com/parkerstangent Admission is free.

2 PM La Esquina Latina: Edwin plays music from hotter spots

5 PM Between The Lines: radio news magazine details here

5:30 PM Amazon Radio: Pam Smith

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Today’s Schedule:

6:00 am J.F. (Nazmo King): filling in for Rob Reeves and Doug Echols ’til 11am

The Eastern Long Island Arts Calendar is heard on WPKN Radio several times each week

and is presented by Kathryn Szoka, photographer and co-proprietor of Sag Harbor’s

literary landmark Canio’s Books and the non-profit Canio’s Cultural Cafe.

Here are some up-coming events in the arts on Eastern Long Island:

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The 64th Annual Shinnecock Indian Powwow will be held on Labor Day Weekend, Friday September 3 through Monday September 6 at the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.  The event includes Arts, Crafts, Native Foods, Drum and Dance Contests.  Hours are 3pm to 11pm on Friday, 10 am to 11pm Saturday and Sunday and 10am to 5pm on Monday
More information is available at 631-283-6143 ext 11 or www.ShinnecockNation.com
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An exhibition titiled Mahogany Dew II: More African American Artists in Southampton
will open Saturday, September 18  with a reception from 5 to 7 pm.
at the  Rogers Mansion, 17 Meeting House Lane in Southampton.

This exhibit will focus on the work of five living professional artists in Southampton who have made a career in the visual arts. They include Nanette Carter, Pamela Council, Adger W. Cowans, Richard Mayhew and Reynold Ruffins. The opening reception will have a performance by jazz violinist Krystle Ford. Then exhibition will be on view  through November 6.

Information is available at 631-283-2494
of at www.southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org

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Guild Hall in East Hampton presents the work of Barbara Kruger  through October 11:

“In keeping with our longstanding tradition of exhibiting artists of the region, Guild Hall is turning over the entire museum to Barbara Kruger. Kruger will create a site specific installation in the Moran Gallery, a video installation in the Woodhouse Gallery and a selection of paintings and prints from private East End collections will be exhibited in the Spiga Gallery.”

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A juried sculpture exhibition is on view at Brecknock Hall, Peconic Landing in Greenport

through September 26. Fourteen artists from all over the country are represented.

The program is sponsored by the East End Arts Council.

More information is available on the web at www.eastendarts.org
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Upcoming free literary events at Canios Cultural Cafe at Canios Books,

290 Main Street Sag Harbor include: Fri. Sept 3 at 6 pm: Poetry reading with Alexandra van de Kamp and Toni Mergentime Levi.

Tues. Sept. 7 at 6:30 pm: Top of My Lungs: an evening with Natalie Goldberg returning to Sag Harbor.

Sat. Sept. 11 at 6 pm: Author Patricia Sullivan discusses Lift Every Voice a celebration of the N.A.A.C.P.

More free events are listed at www.caniosbooks.com/events.asp

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To include your organization’s events in the Eastern Long Island Arts Calendar

send an email to caniosculturalcafe@gmail.com