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OAK HARBOR – Saturday – June 22, 1pm – Wind & Tide Books Store Oak Harbor – 790 SE Pioneer Way
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FREELAND – July 9, 10am – Whidbey Telecom Conference Center – 1651 Main Street
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Join us in Coupeville, May 30th at 7pm [map]
Learn more about the future of radio island and nationwide, streaming radio technology, the history of WhidbeyAIR, member/sponsor and volunteer activities, programming, community building, and much more!
If you can’t make the this coming Thursday – May 30th – Mark your calendar for July 9th at the Whidbey Telcom Media room at their Wifi Cafe building. [map]
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Language Academy founder Josette Hendrix and Ethiopian Journalist Nigist Selfu during Ethiopian Fireside Chat & Coffee Ceremony
Whidbey residents can travel the world without leaving the island, through the international events and classes held year round at Langley’s the Northwest Language Academy and Cultural Center.
WhidbeyAIR was fortunate to attend one of 3 events and classes based on Ethiopia in April 2013.
We hope you enjoy this special recording, from the opening night fireside chat at the Northwest Language Academy and Cultural Center.
NW Language Academy & Cultural Center, is located in Langley, providing innovative resources for people of all ages to learn new languages and better understand diverse cultures as community becomes global.
Ethiopian Cookbook Available through NWLA Cultural Center
NWLA is focused on creating opportunities for the residents of Whidbey to become residents of the larger, global community. Through the study of languages, cultural enrichment and foreign travel, we preserve and honor diversity while building bridges of understanding and appreciation between people of different cultures. In this way we will contribute to a more peaceful and harmonious global community and a richer local one.
NWLA Cultural Center | 5023 Langley Rd., Langley, WA 98260 – Ph. 360-321-2101
Please help WhidbeyAIR continue to record, edit and present wonderful events on Whidbey by becoming a member or sponsor.
Support WhidbeyAIR - Thank you so much!
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Tagged Ethiopia Whidbey, Ethiopian Coffee, Ethiopian Language, Northwest Language Academy, Public Radio on Whidbey, Public Radio on Whidbey Island, public radio whidbey, Public radio Whidbey Island, The Northwest Language Academy and Cultural Center, Whidbey Air Public Radio, Whidbey Community Radio, Whidbey Island radio, Whidbey Radio Station, WhidbeyAIR
Join us in Coupeville, May 30th at 7pm [map]
Learn more about the future of radio island and nationwide, streaming radio technology, the history of WhidbeyAIR, member/sponsor and volunteer activities, programming, community building, and much more!
If you can’t make the this coming Thursday – May 30th – Mark your calendar for July 9th at the Whidbey Telcom Media room at their Wifi Cafe building. [map]
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Can I hear it in my car? Can I hear it on my phone? Why do I want to hear it? Just exactly what can I hear? Do I have to buy something? But I’m afraid of computers! I don’t trust the Internet! My grandchildren mentioned something about this. But will it harm the environment? And how does this thing work?
Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m. - Coupeville Public Library [map]
Sunday, June 9, 10 a.m. - Whidbey Telecom in Freeland [map]
WhidbeyAIR – All Internet Radio, non-commercial public radio – for Whidbey Island invites you to a free, informative discussion about the potential of non-commercial Internet public radio to serve our island’s diverse communities.
Please come and bring your friends!
Hear the sounds and voices of Whidbey at http://www.whidbeyair.org
We’ll have a demonstration of an internet *radio tuner
*WhidbeyAIR does not indorse any specific home or car internet radio tuner or App. The pictures below are strictly posted as examples of what is available to the public at this time.
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We will have one version of an internet radio at the demonstration
Come learn more about the future of internet radio and find out more about WhidbeyAIR
Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m. - Coupeville Public Library [map]
Tuesday, July 9, 10 a.m. - Whidbey Telecom in Freeland [map]
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Listen to Whidbey artist and writer Perry Woodfin read his short story The Spaghetti Incident and 3 of his original poems.
Listen to his show Adult Content on Whidbey AIR – public radio from Whidbey Island.
Listen here
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Whidbey AIR has been assisting the Home Connections School in Oak Harbor with a radio lab class again this semester, and oh what fun! It is our 2nd year working with Home Connections.
Adding some spice to the class this year, Home Connections teacher Kelly Hall contacted KIRO Radio’s Rachel Belle and asked her to come to Home Connections to share with our students what it’s like to be a “real” radio host. In her usual bubbly fashion Rachel agreed !
December 14th – Rachel came to the Home Connections campus in Oak Harbor, held an assembly for the students, showed them some of the equipment she uses to record and produce her show, and answered student questions about who, what, why and how she became a radio personality, produces her shows and find ideas for her subjects.
Then they all loaded up into parents cars and mini vans and headed to the Whidbey AIR studio for an on air LIVE interview with Rachel.
If you missed that interview it will be available again in Feb. IN conjunction with the Home Connections radio show “Home Connections Radio Magazine” – stay tuned.
If you have a kid who’s interested in recording, radio, music or hosting a show – contact us at feedback@kwparadio.org and we’ll set up a meeting time to help your young broadcaster what it takes to get involved with Whidbey AIR.
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Author Dorothy “Dot” Read joined hosts Mary Rose and Annie on Whidbey AIR’s Isle of the Arts to share the story of how her book End the Silence came to be written, how she spends her time helping other writers through the Whidbey Island Writers Association, and to read a selection from her book.
End the Silence is the memoir of Ilse Evelijn Veere Smit, who was interned in a Japanese concentration camp for Dutch and Indo women and children, during World War II.
In 1945, Ilse, her 3 younger siblings and their mother lived in a vermin-infested bungalow with 35 other people at Camp Halmaheira on the island of Java. During their internment, Ilse’s mother and several other women in that squalid bungalow were arrested for a “crime”, forcing Ilse to be responsible for herself and her younger siblings. Surviving the camp, and eventually being freed at the end of WWII, Ilse found herself in the middle of a bloody Indonesian revolution, targeted for death.
Taking in excess of 5 yrs. to write End the Silence is a story of endurance, suffering and triumph.
A key volunteer with Whidbey Island Writers Association (WIWA) Dot also devotes time to the Altar Guild, the Banners and Paraments Committee and choir at her church.
During this interview Annie Zeller Horton will also be reading, from a WIWA submission.
You can find more information about Dot’s book End the Silence on her website or at Createspace.
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Did you know – one of our volunteer crew is a professional voice artist in his “other life”?
YEP – it’s true !
WHIDBEY AIR wants to congratulate Jim C. Dunn on the heels of his latest professional recording project, the audio book “Lift – Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation” being released!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS JIM! You’re a positive force on Whidbey AIR!
There are several of us who WISH we had what it takes to be “professional” in the recording world, but Jim actually is (!!!) and Whidbey AIR is so happy he gives his personal time, and his professional expertise and technology skills as a volunteer board member, host and techno powerhouse.
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Best-selling author Robert E. Quinn (Deep Change, 90,000 copies sold) and his son, Ryan Quinn, show through personal experience and scientific research how anyone can become a positive force in any situation through a proven method to increase his or her level of influence and effectiveness.
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Siri’s Bio:
I moved to Whidbey Island in 1991 and, needing a job, I advertised myself as a cello and guitar teacher. I was actually doing very little playing at that point although still singing with a band in Seattle in a cabaret setting. I got a pile of students and connected with Linda Good who was looking for a partner/teacher with her Island Strings program. We worked together for ten years and founded the Island Strings Summer Music Camp that met for many happy summers at Greenbank Farm. Through Island Strings and my private teaching, I met many, many kids and grown ups, all of whom I consider my fellow musicians. I always say, I love hanging with the musicians and I don’t care how old they are!
In the mid-90s, Michael Nutt [a KWPA Whidbey AIR founder] and a cadre of retired LA Philharmonic musicians came to Whidbey Island. Saratoga Chamber Orchestra was founded. I was lucky to play in a variety of exciting programs that Michael spearheaded and music on South Whidbey got an incredible boost from his presence. Leah Burns came to the island in time to grab the baton from Michael and the Saratoga orchestra became a regular season entity. I played with them off and on over the years.
My cello remained bound up in the conventional classical music role until 1993 when Randy Hudson, Linda Morris and Devon Ossman asked me to join No band Is an Island. This was a very inventive and creative endeavor. We played a lot of original material that had strange and difficult arrangements. I started to translate all my chord knowledge from my guitar playing to the cello, lots of pizzicato and strumming. I discovered I knew tons about vocal harmonies from all the singing and the biggest discovery was that I can sing and play the cello at the same time. I don’t see hardly anyone doing that. We had a sell out WICA show in January 1994 and that was a peak experience for me. I have worked in public education these last 11 years to raise my boy but I am thrilled to be taking a leave this year to devote to my creative life. Each day is a new adventure and I have only scratched the surface with my electric cello playing. I am the luckiest person in the world! – Siri Bardarson
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The electric cello is a type of cello that relies on electronic amplification (rather than acoustic resonance) to produce sound. An acoustic cello can be fitted with a bridge or body mounted contact pickup providing an electric signal, or a built-in pickup can be installed. A few pickups work by other principles like magnetic coil guitar type needing steel strings to work, or by an unusual pickup system employing the string itself as a linear pickup element, thus avoiding any modification of tone-producing parts on an acoustic cello.
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Although Internet radio is much more economical to produce than traditional, over-the-air radio, and although we are an all-volunteer station and nobody gets paid, it still costs a lot of money to keep WhidbeyAIR going.
Our biggest expenses are studio rent, music licensing, utilities and insurance. That’s why we have set a fundraising goal of $15,000 for 2013 in order to maintain and grow our programming and technical capabilities.
Thus far this year, we have raised $4,035 – we still need $10,965 to reach our goal.
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