KNBA Radio Special: Our Voices Will Be Heard

KNBA | By Loren Dixon

Published April 6, 2018 at 1:55 PM AKDT

April is both National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. On Saturday April 28th at 9:00am KNBA and Native Voice One will present, Our Voices Will Be Heard, a 59-min radio theater adaptation of a play about a powerful mother- daughter journey that reveals how generations face the choice of continuing to perpetuate-or disrupt-family violence. Through the lens of fiction, and the palette of Alaska Native Storytelling, theplaywright tells the true storyof her mother's strength against impossible pressure. Our Voices Will Be Heard weaves together legend and truth in a fierce call for healing and forgiveness. Our Voices Will Be Heard is a Perseverance Theater Production

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Loren Dixon

Loren’s been on the Radio in Anchorage for 30 years. Since the mid 80's he's worked with Anchorage radio stations including KWHL, KFQD, KKLV, and KMXS. His passion for Music and the 'Triple-A' radio format began in the early 90’s which led to him to help establish the format for KNBA when the station signed on in 1996. When not on the radio hosting a music show and interviewing local and national music acts, he may be on a long road trip or you’ll find him hanging out at his log cabin in the quiet, but bear filled hillside valley of his hometown Anchorage.

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