VOICES Radio Hour

VOICES Radio Hour | a collaboration with Creative Archeology

2nd Friday of The Month, 6-7pm on KDNK Radio

VOICES Radio Hour is a response to our intrinsic need to share stories, coupled with Creative Archeology’s mission to preserve memories and stories as the sacred archeology of our loved ones. The collaboration brings about collected stories under different themes and voices from all walks of our community in the monthly VOICES Radio Hour. We hope this serves to preserve our oral history of who we are, where we come from, and who we aspire to be, through the tradition of storytelling.

Where To Listen

1. Tune into KDNK at 88.1FM in Carbondale or 88.3FM in Aspen

2. Stream the program live at kdnk.org

3. Or listen below!

Episode 23. A VOICES Radio Hour Retrospective

December 20, 2024

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 come from all walks of life and all parts of the community.  How fortunate we are to be invited into each other’s storyline. So for this December episode we will be looking back, and featuring stories from past episodes, including: “What We Look Forward To”; “Singlehood”; “Theater Magic”; “Authenticity”; “Where I Am From”; and many more. The storytellers include Joan Lamont, Brian Colley, Gabrielle Bailes, Elsa Cordero, Lindsay Gurley, Lucas DeCesco and Zoë Rom.

A special space in our heart is saved for Joan Lamont, who left the earth earlier this year and whose humor, love, bright spirit and voice is deeply missed. You can hear her in both “The Things We Left Behind” in the February 2023 episode and “What We Look Forward To” in the January 2024 episode.

Episode 22. A Modern Day Ute Experience

November 8, 2024

As far as he knows, Skyler Lomahaftewa is the only member of the Ute tribe living in the Roaring Fork Valley - a place that is the ancestral hunting grounds of the Ute people. Skyler did not grow up in the Valley, however. He was born in Phoenix, AZ, and raised on the Ute reservation in northern Utah. In fact, Skyler’s journey to the Valley is a familiar story to many: he came here for the snowboarding. 

As Skyler’s understanding and love of the Valley grew, so did his desire to help educate people about his culture and the ancestors who called these mountains home for so many generations. Skyler sees his purpose as sharing a modern awareness of the Ute people. That said, he is also the first to acknowledge that he is one man and one perspective and not a representative of all Ute people or all native people. 

Through stories, history, and songs, Skyler, and his friend Nina Gabianelli of the Aspen Historical Society, illuminate the perspective of a modern Ute man in the Roaring Fork Valley. Skyler shares his experience as a “default rebel” and what it means to him to be Ute-American in these modern times. 

Excerpts from the Sopris Sun

What’s The Name? by Skylar Lomahaftewa, 11/07/2024

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