Listening Lab

For a while now, KUAF’s Listening Lab has been collecting the voices, stories and experiences of people who live here. Earlier this week, Emerson Alexander, the Listening Lab’s coordinator, and KUAF’s general manager, Clint Schaff, spoke about the Listening Lab and how the “One Day, One UofA” is fundraising for the Listening Lab.

Advocates of boosting Arkansas’ film industry say offering incentives for filmmakers could begin to make the state a player in that field. On today's show, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams discusses a campaign to bring more movies to Arkansas. Plus, we will explore another entertainment industry gaining a foothold in northwest Arkansas: video game production. Also, learning more about KUAF's Listening Lab.

Listening Lab Coordinator Emerson Alexander captures voices from the 75th anniversary of Maxine's Tap Room and Bar in Fayetteville.

In the final episode of 'Ozarks ri-Ṃajeļ,' we explore the ancient roots of Marshall Islanders, pre-colonization.

Marshallese ensemble MARK Harmony sang the theme song for Ozarks ri-Ṃajeļ in the studios of KUAF. Ozarks at Large’s Sophia Nourani interviews MARK Harmony, an eclectic band formed in 2018, about their group and the theme song.

'Ozarks ri-Ṃajeļ' is a limited KUAF/Listening Lab multimedia series on the history of Marshallese migration in our region. In episode three, noted Marshallese physician Dr. Sheldon Riklon discusses the unique health challenges experienced by Marshall Islanders resulting from centuries of foreign occupation and twelve years of U.S. Cold War nuclear weapons testing on their remote Pacific archipelago.

Marshallese human rights advocate Benetick Kabua Maddison discusses the continuing consequences of Cold War U.S. Military nuclear weapons testing on the Marshall Islands as well as climate catastrophe impacts, in episode two of 'Ozarks ri-Ṃajeļ' — a new KUAF/Listening Lab multimedia series on the history of Marshallese migration in our region.

Ozarks ri-Ṃajeļ (Ozarks Marshallese) reveals how waves of legally-present Marshallese migrants have navigated new lives on the Arkansas Ozarks over the past thirty years. The premiere episode, "First Arrival," features Carmen Samual Chong Gum, first Arkansas Consul General of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The following is an excerpt from the filmed studio conversation.

University of Arkansas Black Student Association members Kennedy Williams and Dallis Bryant.

KUAF’s Mobile Listening Lab visited the Folk School of Fayetteville for Girl Power Rock Camp. It’s a week-long camp for girls ages 8-14 to learn to play, write and perform their own songs. Today on Ozarks at Large, we hear from the members of the newly-formed band MZ MESS: Hazel, Stori, Emily, Milly, Emerson, Shiloh, and Morgan— and from their instructors: Jori, Shannon, Jules, and Milcah.