Episodes

  • Connections Radio Show – September 28, 2024

    Connections Radio Show – September 28, 2024
    Sep 28 2024
    Laurie Fitz joins author Marcie R. Rendon, White Earth Ojibwe, to hear and discuss selections from her recent book, Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium (2024, University of Minnesota Press). Rendon was included on Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 list of thirty-one Native American authors. Her poem-songs evoke and keep alive a world still unfolding around us, reflecting our place…
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    44 mins
  • Connections Radio Show – September 14, 2024

    Connections Radio Show – September 14, 2024
    Sep 14 2024
    Laurie Fitz is joined by co-hosts Susan and Sally from the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA)—the largest of MN’s regional library systems, serving 8 member-libraries with more than 100 library locations across the greater Twin Cities area. Along with some of their indispensable team as guests, hear about the magic of these modern libraries and…
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    43 mins
  • Connections Radio Show – August 24, 2024

    Connections Radio Show – August 24, 2024
    Aug 24 2024
    Hosts Laurie Fitz and Rick Bernardo visit with two leaders from Resources for Enriching African Lives (REAL): founder and executive director, Tsehai Wodajo, with board president and chair, Olga Tolle-Rodrigues. REAL’s local community has been transforming lives through education and empowering girls to be leaders in their communities in Ethiopia. Join them September 14 for their 20th Celebration Fundraising Gala (Union Depot, Saint…
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    44 mins
  • Connections Radio – August 17, 2024

    Connections Radio – August 17, 2024
    Aug 17 2024
    Laurie Fitz is joined by co-hosts Susan and Sally from the Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA)—the largest of MN’s regional library systems, serving 8 member-libraries with more than 100 library locations across the greater Twin Cities area. Hear about the magic of these modern libraries and their systems for keeping us up on various media…
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    44 mins
  • Connections Radio – August 3, 2024

    Connections Radio – August 3, 2024
    Aug 3 2024
    Hosts Laurie Fitz and Rick Bernardo visit again with local musician, Nathaniel Harris—to share his growing “Circles of Musical Connection.” He’s built a Twin Cities following from the ground up, performing at festivals, on stages, at local Kowalski’s Markets, the Midtown Global Market, Lund’s and Byerly’s, and now weekly Sundays at Minneapolis’s Longfellow Grill (3–6 PM). – www.Facebook.com/NathanielHarrisLive
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    45 mins
  • Connections Radio – July 27, 2024

    Connections Radio – July 27, 2024
    Jul 27 2024
    Laurie Fitz and Rick Bernardo visit with the Rev. Don Dewey, longtime minister, former Regional Minister of the Pacific Southwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Rick’s long ago former Pacific School of Religion classmate in Berkeley. We discuss many changes over the decades in churches’ nature and membership—and re-emerging evils of…
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    44 mins
  • Connections Radio – July 20, 2024

    Connections Radio – July 20, 2024
    Jul 20 2024
    Hosts Laurie Fitz and Rick Bernardo visit with minister (United Church of Christ), musician, event producer, and Center for Courage & Renewal facilitator, Alan Claassen—one more remarkable person with whom Rick had the privilege of attending grad. school at Pacific School of Religion (in Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union). Alan has a rich history of skills and ways he makes a difference in connecting people far…
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    42 mins
  • Connections Radio – July 13, 2024

    Connections Radio – July 13, 2024
    Jul 13 2024
    This week we cover Ashti’s Journey to Jazz, coming soon to Children’s Performing Arts this month! Host Laurie Fitz is joined by composer Thomasina Petrus and author and playwright Carmen Rubin.
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    43 mins