The WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Program
[Formerly]Thursdays, from 4-5 p.m. on WPRV AM790. Underwritten by National Grid.
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Our host, Bronwyn Dannenfelser, is joined in the studio by our dear friend Spogga (Spogga: Brother Hash on Facebook).
WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show – underwritten by National Grid and supported by Lifetime Medical and Emery’s Catering. Hosted this week by Bronwyn Dannenfelser.
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Bronwyn will speak first with Tommy Denucci, acclaimed writer/director/actor (who is also a Rhode Island native!) about the Rhode Island International Film Festival, happening this week, and his new film Almost Mercy available now on Netflix.
Next on, we’ll have Spogga, WaterFire’s iconic fire dancer, who will share his experiences fire spinning at WaterFire as well as creating and performing his original music down in New Orleans!
Finally, Tim Blankenship, our Interactive Media Manager, will tell us about Clear Currents, coming up at the next full lighting on August 20th, when canoeists and kayakers will paddle on the river with beautiful illuminated Japanese koi mounted to their boats.
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WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show –
underwritten by National Grid
supported by Lifetime Medical
Hosted by Bronwyn Dannenfelser
Bronwyn’s guests will be writer/director and producer Richard Tilkin and executive producer Cindy Gruber of the film Aside From That – A Film About Everyone’s Least Favorite Topic: “How do we live, knowing we are going to die?” Is there a best practice for thinking about mortality? Aside From That will premiere August 7 at 4:45 p.m. in the RISD Museum‘s Metcalfe Auditorium. Tickets are available on the Rhode Island International Film Festival website (riiff2015.sched.org) and at the door.
Next Bronwyn is joined by actor Michael Cuomo and filmmaker Paolo Monico. Michael was a RIIFF 2011 Best Actor winner and is back at the film festival this year to be one of the speakers at the 2015 ScriptBiz workshops. Paolo’s film The Mother plays Friday Aug 7th 5:15 pm in the “The Abyss Stares Back” program. The film is dedicated to the memory of his father Sandro Monico.
Brother Hash : Spogga also will be joining us in studio to talk about his year’s at WaterFire as well as his music and art both in RI and New Orleans.
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underwritten by National Grid
supported by Lifetime Medical
Hosted by Bronwyn Dannenfelser and guest co-host Tim Blankenship
Today on the show we’ll be joined by Dana Nolfe, director of communications at Cox Communications and Suzette Roberts, the marketing manager for Cox Business. We will be discussing Cox Business’s communications solutions for businesses of all sizes and their long standing support of the arts in Providence as a WaterFire sponsor. We’ll also get the chance to learn about how Cox Communications is working to expand WiFi access to communities across the state and how their Connect2Compete program that is making home internet access to families.
Next on will be Tim Blankenship (that’s me), WaterFire Providence’s interactive media manager, I’ll be chatting with Bronwyn about our first ever Instagram based scavenger hunt that is being held at our July 18th event.
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Fire spinner, musician, and great friend of WaterFire Providence Spogga Hash was in the studio. Bronwyn and Barnaby we also joined by WaterFire Providence’s Director of Operations Paul “PK” Kochanek as he took listeners behind the scenes of all of the planning that goes into each WaterFire event. Join hosts Bronwyn Dannenfelser and Barnaby Evans for a lively discussion on special events coming up for our August lightings on the 9th and 23rd.
