The VOICES nonprofit continues to evolve while offering a variety of diverse programs with events and workshops happening on the mainstage, in the community and at local schools. Part of the change includes staff turnover and the expansion of several programs within Garfield County schools. “There are lots of really exciting things with a new […]
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Choosing sobriety
This month on VOICES Radio Hour — Friday, April 11 at 6pm on KDNK — we hear from women in the Roaring Fork Valley, including Allison Alexander, who are living life sober, and learn what makes that journey a challenge, as well as a joy. On a recent midwestern trip home, my aunt gave me […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: How I found IFS
This month on VOICES Radio Hour — Friday, March 14 at 6pm on KDNK — we kick off our Common Ground series by discussing the ways we can bring our best self to the table for hard conversations. In a conversation with Paul Dankers, who is a psilocybin harm reduction specialist, we discuss Internal Family […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: Love endures
By Gary Gleason Love is in the air! This month, we celebrate the enduring power of love to overcome any obstacle. So often, romantic love gets the focus, but what about the stories of how love can carry us through difficult times, challenges and all that life has to throw at us? The following story […]
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Stay tuned to VOICES Radio Hour
Just like that, VOICES Radio Hour is ready for its third season in 2025. The total of 23 episodes to date are a celebration of all the voices integral to our community. They are voices and stories of our sages, our youth, our teachers, students, moms and dads, neighbors, newcomers, men, women and queer. They […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: What’s the name?
Is it Columbus Day? Is it Indigenous Day? What IS an Indigenous? Is it a creature? These are questions not easily answered. As a person born and raised with Native culture and ancestry of this land, I often am asked what we would like to be called. My own perspective, thoughts and answers might not […]
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Reflection: Queer VOICES broke me open
Sometimes we must be broken open in order to find inner strength. Such was a relatable theme woven throughout seven strangers’ stories in the latest VOICES devised theater project.The nonprofit VOICES has hit a powerful stride with these twice-a-year devised theater endeavors. They revolve around four themes; so every two years we get to see […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: Queer VOICES returns Oct. 18-20
The second Queer VOICES Theater Project is presented by VOICES at TACAW on October 18, 19, 20. The following is an edited excerpt from October’s VOICES Radio Hour. Listen to this episode and past episodes — and purchase tickets for the Queer VOICES Project — at www.voicesrfv.org CASSIDY: The name of the Queer VOICES Theater […]
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Breaking back into theater
On June 3, I said “yes” to an opportunity that would become one of the most healing and exciting endeavors of my year, so far — the second installment of VOICES’ Queer Voices Project: “Authentically Versus…” I was speaking with MinTze Wu that day about the summer teen residency program VOICES was hosting and, though […]
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VOICES Radio Hour: The arrowhead
With an ancestry of Roaring Fork Valley pioneers, Stephen Bershenyi was born into a ranching family in Glenwood Springs and stewards the family property, the Lazy V Quarter Circle Ranch, a 640-acre high-mountain parcel protected by a conservation easement. An English literature and German language double major, Bershenyi also earned his journeyman card as a […]