Extra: Hay bale sculpting and Afro Con

On the Nov. 13 episode of Friday LIVE, we’re broadcasting from our studios at Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about the arts and humanities in Nebraska with: Orion Walsh, who will also be playing some music (1:13); Cameron Iwan, the president of the Great Plains Game Festival about their upcoming two-day event (18:47); the Prairie Arts Center's Holly Carlini about their latest exhibition "It Takes a Soul to Love the Prairie" (34:31); and artist Pasju HanuShimbava about "DIVIDING LINE • the Transmutation of Hermes" (47:12). Also hear more poetry from Bushnell, Neb.'s M. Timothy Nolting (40:50).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, hear from the Lincoln group Toasted Ponies about its music, writing and upcoming gigs. Also hear from the Joslyn Art Museum's Chief Curator, Taylor Acosta, about its exhibition Café Society: Art and Sociability in Paris, 1855–1914 and the accompanying event Art Conversation & Cocktails, à la française.

On the Nov. 6 episode of Friday LIVE, we’re broadcasting from the Mill Coffee and Tea in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket! Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about the arts and humanities in Nebraska with: tattoo artist and Ink the Island Tattoo Convention organizer Tatyana Erington (1:04); Lincoln's Pioneer Park Nature Center Coordinator Jamie Kelley to talk about the Wild Fall Festival and Bison Day (10:25); artist and educator at Yale's School of Art, Rochelle Feinstein (22:27); John R Bozell and Courtney Biska about their book "Below Nebraska, Archaeology and Ancestors" (31:00); Shona MacDonald, about the opening of her exhibition, "Stable Air, Temperature Inversions" at the LUX Center in Lincoln (47:30). Also hear poetry from Bushnell, Nebraska's M. Timothy Nolting (41:05).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with Kwakiutl Dreher, not about a film review, but about Kwakiutl's return to the stage with Tea and Temptation II, An Intimate Musical. Also hear about an upcoming choral performance featuring the Miami Arts Studio Vocal Ensemble and Lincoln's own Standing Bear Singers.

On the October 30 episode of Friday LIVE, we’re broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media studios and IT'S ALIVE! Tune in to hear our spooky host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about the arts and humanities in Nebraska with: composer Lora Laitman, about an upcoming production of her opera Maya and the Magic Ring, (0:58); Director Eric Delehoy, and lead actor Michael Ridley about their film Winters, Nebraska, which is showing both at Scottsbluff's Midwest Theatre, as well as Kearney's World Theatre (11:10); Jessie Korgie, who's one woman show Andy Interrupted is coming to the Hastings Museum (22:12); and Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra's guest conductor Andrew Grams will be joined by concertmaster Anton Miller to talk about their upcoming concert (44:58). Also hear poetry from Jan Chism Wright (40:48), and a film review from Kwakiutl Dreyer of The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, as well as about a 50th anniversary screening of 1975's Carrie (31:18).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with the Nebraska State Historical Society's Family and Community Educator, Emma Reiner, about some upcoming Día de los Muertos celebrations. Also hear about what an exhibit on the history of education in Nebraska's York County at the Anna Bemis Palmer Museum.

On the October 23rd episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about the arts and humanities in Nebraska with: director of "Going for Two" Kathleen Welch Markel and actor Victoria Blade (04:30), violinist Rachel Barton Pine (17:43), Ed Zimmer about his upcoming "Postcards" talk (26:30), Project Funway members Monica Zinke and Angie Taylor (39:00), and DJ/producer J.PERIOD about his upcoming show (46:30).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with retired astronaut Clayton Anderson about his collaboration with the Arts for the Soul series, the Friend Historical Society upcoming events, and the Hastings Community Theater about their upcoming staging of "the Wizard of Oz."

On the October 16th episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about the arts and humanities in Nebraska with: singer/songwriter Jessica Willis Fisher, investigative journalist Wesaam Al-Badry, collections manager for Bone Creek Museum Gabrielle Comte, and director Tyler J. Rinne and actor Mitchell Keane for Beatrice Community Players' staging of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with the directors and actors of two plays which revolve around conversation. "Now and Then" is a production being put on by the Grand Island Little Theatre, with director Steve Gobel and the actress playing "Abby," Jana Thompson, appearing on this week's show. "The Sunset Limited" is one of Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy's plays; it's being put on by Omni Arts with director Jillian Carter. She and the actor playing "Black," Max Antoine join Genevieve for a discussion of the play.