Heart Of The Arts with Roni Nicole

09/24/2025

Missed the show? Here are 2 simple ways to turn art into everyday liberation based on Paulo Freire 👇🏾

🎨 Community Mural Freire-style

Turn a blank wall into a neighborhood classroom:

1. Jot real local themes on sticky notes → cluster → sketch simple scenes that end in a question.
2. Paint it (paper panels or a permitted wall), add blank bubbles + a QR for replies.
3. Host a quick “sidewalk chat,” collect answers, then add new panels from feedback.

Not slogans—problem-posing art that sparks dialogue → action.

Tag us if you try it!

09/17/2025

Missed the show? Here are 2 simple ways to turn art into everyday liberation based on Paulo Freire 👇🏾

1. Kitchen Actos (mini home theatre)

✨ Grab 2–3 people.
✨ Pick a real-life tension (rent hike, bus routes, school lunch).
✨ Improv a 60-second skit that ends with a question (not a slogan).
✨ Record on your phone, share, and ask viewers: “What would you do next?”
➡️ Goal: spark dialogue + ideas you can act on together.

3. Pocket Posters (DIY printmaking)

✨ Carve a potato/eraser with one word you want more of (e.g., “dignidad,” “access”).
✨ Stamp it on paper or recycled bags; add a short link/QR to a community survey.
✨ Post where it's allowed (bulletin boards, shop windows, community fridges).
✨ Invite folks to comment or vote; post results and a next step.
➡️ Goal: turn walls into conversation starters.

Tag us if you try it!

09/17/2025

Heart Of The Arts with Roni Nicole family, thank you for spending part of your day with us and for listening with your whole hearts and ears.

Deepest gratitude to our guest, —Raleigh-born, Durham-based poet, playwright, recording artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Across books, classrooms, and stages, his work holds the Black Southern experience with rigor, tenderness, and hip-hop’s living scholarship. Highlights include his poetry collections Shackled Freedom: Black Living in the Modern American South and Everything Worth Fighting For, plus the studio project Words, Rhythms, and Melodies.

Website & events: dasanahanu.com (tour dates, projects, bookings)
Instagram:
X (Twitter):
Facebook: Dasan Ahanu artist page
Stream the work: Spotify & Bandcamp

On behalf of myself thank you, Dasan, for the craft, the care, and the courage—and thank you, listeners, for making space for art that listens back. Until next week, keep your ear to the ground and your heart in the arts! Xoxo Roni 🩷

09/10/2025

Heart Of The Arts with Roni Nicole family, thank you for spending part of your day with us and for listening with your whole hearts and ears. Your chat messages, DMs, and moments of reflection are the culture we’re building—together. 💛

Deep gratitude to our guest, —Raleigh-born, Durham-based poet, playwright, recording artist, educator, and cultural organizer. He’s the co-founder/managing director of Black Poetry Theatre, the 2023 Piedmont Laureate, and serves with Carolina Performing Arts as the Rothwell Mellon Program Director for Creative Futures. This season he’s NC State LIVE’s 2024–25 Artist-in-Residence. Across books, classrooms, and stages, his work holds the Black Southern experience with rigor, tenderness, and hip-hop’s living scholarship. Highlights include his poetry collections Shackled Freedom: Black Living in the Modern American South and Everything Worth Fighting For, plus the studio project Words, Rhythms, and Melodies.

If today’s conversation moved you, stay connected with Dasan:

Website & events: dasanahanu.com (tour dates, projects, bookings)
Instagram:
X (Twitter):
Facebook: Dasan Ahanu artist page
Stream the work: Spotify & Bandcamp

On behalf of our team, thank you, Dasan, for the craft, the care, and the courage—and thank you, listeners, for making space for art that listens back. Until next week, keep your ear to the ground and your heart in the arts!

08/13/2025

⭐⭐Today, 3–5 PM ET our Black August Feature on
Heart Of The Arts with Roni Nicole ⭐⭐

We’re honored to welcome
—poet, scholar, and visionary—on Heart of the Arts with Roni Nicole (WRLY-LP / 93.5 FM) on Oak 93.5 !!

We’ll dive into her new biography Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (paperback out now, audiobook in her voice) and how Lorde’s legacy meets the practices of Black August: study, remembrance, and recommitment.

Expect conversation on breath and discipline from Undrowned, ritual and community from Dub: Finding Ceremony, speculative lineage in M Archive, fugitivity in Spill, and care-as-strategy in Revolutionary Mothering—plus a look at this month’s launch events.

Tune in TODAY: 3–5 PM ET
📻 WRLY-LP / 93.5 FM (Raleigh)
🖥️ Stream live: www.mixcloud.com/live/oak935

Bring a notebook, deep breath, and your liberation questions. 🔥✊🏾❤🖤💚

08/07/2025

🎨🎭 Thank You from Heart of the Arts! 🎨🎭
We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who tuned in to Heart of the Arts yesterday for our introduction to the month of Black August! Your presence, energy, and commitment to the liberation of Black artistry made it an unforgettable hour of powerful storytelling and celebration.

A special and deeply rooted thank you goes to our brilliant guest, Ifasina Clear for gracing the studio with their insight, courage, and creative spirit. Ifasina’s words reminded us that artistry is more than craft—it’s a practice of survival, resistance, and love. From their reflections on healing through art to their unwavering commitment to justice and joy, they offered us a living example of what it means to create from the core of one’s values.

Your wisdom and presence, Ifasina, was a gift. We are honored to have shared space with you during Black August—a time when the legacy of resistance meets the fire of imagination.

To all our listeners: thank you for showing up, for building with us, and for continuing to walk with Heart of the Arts. We look forward to more dialogue, more creativity, and more collective liberation every Wednesday from 3–5 PM on Oak 93.5 FM!

With gratitude and revolutionary love,
🎨 Roni Nicole & the Heart of the Arts Team 🩷

08/06/2025

Heart Of The Arts with Roni Nicole is BACK LIVE IN STUDIO today 3:00 PM- 5:00 PM on Oak 93.5 !!
You can also watch at www.mixcloud.com/live/oak935!!

Join us today with our incredible guest Ifasina TaMeicka L. Clear for !! ✊🏾❤🖤💚

01/08/2025

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12/18/2024

🌟 Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU to Today’s Guests and Listeners! 🌟

What an incredible way to wrap up 2024! A huge thank you to our phenomenal guests, Matt White and Rahkie Mateen, for bringing laughter, insight, and the heart of comedy to today’s show. Your stories about resilience, creativity, and humor have truly inspired us!

And to our amazing listeners—you are the soul of Heart of the Arts! Your support, engagement, and love for the arts have made every episode special.

We’re so grateful to share this space with you, and we can’t wait to bring you more incredible guests and conversations in 2025. Stay tuned, and keep sharing art with your heart! 💜