ON THE RADAR

🎙️ ON THE RADAR — A Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Podcast Where arts, culture, and community stories rise above the headlines. From Twin Cities creatives shaping culture to voices expanding what it means to tell our stories, On the Radar brings you conversations that illuminate the people and moments making an impact right now. Tune in for an inspiring conversation about resilience, craft, and why creativity always deserves a place on the radar. 🎧

ON THE RADAR is a arts podcast hosted by Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, with 2 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder hosts ON THE RADAR, a arts show with 2 episodes published.

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  iLLism - Building Community Through Music, Love, and Purpose

  Jun 5, 202633 minS0

  <p>Twin Cities hip-hop and R&B duo iLLism have spent years blending music, storytelling, partnership, and purpose into a sound uniquely their own.<br/><br/>On this episode of On the Radar, Emmanuel Duncan and Fancy Lanier-Duncan of iLLism share their journey through music, marriage, creativity, and community building.<br/><br/>From performing on stages across the country to co-founding initiatives like The Legacy Building and Soul of the Southside, iLLism reflects on the experiences that have shaped their artistry, strengthened their partnership, and deepened their commitment to culture, creativity, and community connection.<br/><br/>This conversation explores music...

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  On The radar Podcast w Esther Callahan

  Jun 3, 202637 minS0

  <p>On this episode of On the Radar, the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder's series highlighting Black Minnesota creatives, host Damenica Ellis sits down with Esther Callahan, a Minneapolis artivist, curator and co-founder of the BLK Collectors, whose work spans art direction, curation, consulting, activism and community building all in service of one mission: ensuring Black artists are seen, supported and paid.<br/><br/>When Operation Metro Surge began and families across the Twin Cities were sheltering in place, Callahan did not wait. She reached out to the Legacy Building and began collecting art donations to build handmade art kits, distributing them to...

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  On The radar Podcast w Pavielle French

  May 27, 202636 minS0

  <p>On this episode of On the Radar, the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder's series highlighting Black Minnesota creatives, host Damenica Ellis sits down with PaviElle French, an Emmy-winning interdisciplinary artist, musician, dancer, writer, composer and arts educator whose decades of work have made her one of the most celebrated and deeply rooted artists in the Twin Cities.<br/><br/>French grew up in the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, where she began singing in the choir at Maxfield Magnet School under Mary Hafner, director of music at Pilgrim Baptist Church. She trained at Mississippi Creative Arts Magnet School, performed professionally as a...

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  On The Radar w Kprecia Ambers

  May 27, 202625 minS0

  <p>On this episode of On the Radar, the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder's series highlighting Black Minnesota creatives, host Damenica Ellis sits down with Kprecia Ambers, a Minneapolis-based visual artist whose vibrant figurative work is built around a simple but powerful intention: putting love into the world.<br/><br/>Ambers describes herself first as a child of God, and that foundation shapes everything she creates. Her work centers Black beauty, self-love and representation, drawing on a desire she felt acutely growing up and in college, where she rarely saw herself reflected in the creative spaces around her. The response to that absence...

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  OTR Pod w Jametta Raspberry

  May 7, 202626 minS0

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