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In this edition of First Person Plural, we hear the story of Richard “Dick” Bancroft, who used his passion for social justice to become a documentary photographer for the American Indian Movement (AIM). Bancroft began working with AIM in the Twin Cities in the 1970s and travelled the world, covering many of the movement’s political, spiritual and cultural activities for more than 40 years. This story was produced by Dixie Treichel.
Photo of Indigenous Delegations & Russell Means at the World Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, 1977 by Dick Bancroft.
First Person Plural is funded in part by the Minnesota Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Fresh Fruit Host on the Third Thursday of the MonthProducer, Host, Engineer, Editor,Composer, Sound Artist. Sound Designer
Dixie creates audio documentaries and stories, collaborates with artists in many disciplines, and her sound art has been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, sound art festivals and streaming festivals. She is a recipient of a 1996 Hollywood Drama-logue Award for Theatrical Sound Design (San Francisco); Best Sound Designer 2010 from Lavender Magazine (Minneapolis-St Paul); 2015 Page One Award from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists for Getting a handle on ham radio, a radio documentary. Fresh Fruit: 35 Years of Queer Radio, an audio documentary by Dixie Treichel for KFAI MinneCulture
This Way OutCorrespondent and Contributor to Free Speech Radio and WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
Audio stories, portraits, documentaries on Ampers, PRX, MinneCulture soundcloud
Plus special interviews & shows throughout the year
Contact: DixieT007@yahoo.comInternational Women's Day on KFAI March 8 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008Selected Fresh Fruit interviews (listed in alphabetical order)
Gaye Adegbalola, musican, educator, activist, founding member of Saffire – the Uppity Blues Women
Edward Albee, playwright
Representative Susan Allen, Minneapolis, district 61B
Kevin Allison, comedian, storyteller, Risk! Host
Ann Bancroft, arctic explorer, author, educator
S. Bear Bergman, trans writer, performer, activist
Alexandra Billings, trans actress, singer
Bain Boehlke, Artistic Director/Founder, The Jungle Theater, actor, designer
Kate Bornstein, trans playwright, perfomance artist, author, activist
Bill Burleson, writer, author, bisexuality activist
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