Open Source RVA September 4, 2020

Open Source RVA presents:

THE SOURCE AWAKENS!! On Friday’s season-opening installment of Open Source RVA, heard at noon on WRIR 97.3 FM, we welcome Kenya Gibson, who’s running for reelection in November as Richmond’s third district school board representative. Gibson talks with host Don Harrison about. among other things, virtual learning and childcare concerns during the COVID crisis, police presence in schools, teacher recruitment, and future challenges facing RPS. We also welcome a new co-host to the Source family… but you already know his voice: Veteran WRIR DJ Mike Kemetic — a.k.a. Michael Donovan — presents the first in a series of conversations with Richmond’s notable African-American cultural figures, called “The Next 400.” This week, Mike talks with figurative realist painter S. Ross Browne, whose work can be found in the permanent collection of the VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.. OH BUT THERE’S MORE!! We’ve got the sixth season opener of Curtain Call, courtesy of the RIchmond Theatre Critics Circle. This week, Richmond Triangle Players at the Robert B. Moss Theatre Artistic Director Lucian Restivo talks about the upcoming So.Queer Playwright’s Festival, and Omiyẹmi (Artisia) Green, project director, fills us in on Cadence Theatre Company’s “Sitelines Black Lives Matter” project. THE SOURCE IS SOCIALLY DISTANT BUT COMMUNITY CONNECTED! Hear it at noon on WRIR 97.3 FM and http://wrir.org