This week on the podcast, guest host Pam Blair is reading "Between" by Groshonda McDonald and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
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This week on our podcast, we enjoy a conversation with Karen White, who has devoted over 28 years of service to South Bend as an elected official.
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This week, we are reading "Paradise on Fire" by Jahnari Pruitt and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
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This week on the podcast, we enjoy a conversation with Alex Ann Allen, a South Bend-based artist best known for spending the past couple of years painting murals all across the city.
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This week, we are reading "Where We Are" by Gerald Locklin and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
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This week, we enjoy a conversation with Joe Mittiga. Joe is a husband, father, and the second-generation owner of Corby's Irish Pub in the East Bank neighborhood.
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This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are reading a selection from Galway Kinnell’s poem “When You Have Lived a Long Time Alone” and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
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This week, we enjoy a conversation with Antonius Northern, a public servant in the truest sense—whether as an activist, artist, resident, or municipal employee, he has a record of bringing goodness to the city.
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This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are reading selections from Audre Lorde’s poem “New York City 1970” and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
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This week, we enjoy a conversation with Beth Graybill, a resident of South Bend's near-west side historic neighborhood, who is refreshingly thoughtful about her decision to make a life here.
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This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are reading Alice Walker’s poem “We Alone” and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
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This week, we enjoy a conversation with Mayor James Mueller about his time leading our City government during the pandemic.
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This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are trying something new. Our friend John Garry is joining the show to share "prose for the city" with us—shorter episodes that will contain a poetry reading and guided reflections.
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This week we welcome Pam Blair to South Bend on Purpose. Pam is a local artist and organizer of the Poetry Den—a community-based safe stage for the spoken word hosted at the Civil Rights Heritage Center.
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This week we welcome Kathy Burnette to South Bend on Purpose. Kathy is the owner of The Brain Lair, a bookstore in South Bend focused on developing empathy and building community with inclusive books.
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One year since the murder of Eric Logan and just weeks since the murder of George Floyd, our city is in the streets calling for justice. This week, we listen to these calls at the largest protest of the month in downtown South Bend.
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This week we welcome our friend Chuck Fry to the podcast to discuss his road to South Bend, how he learned to tell stories with film, why he got out of bed to start creating things during quarantine, and the internal battles that come with being a full-time artist.
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On this forty-fourth episode, we record remotely for the first time and are joined by Jason Miller, the founding pastor of South Bend City Church, for a long conversation about the state of belonging amid the pandemic.
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Jacob and Dustin are joined by Maria Gibbs to reflect on a Saturday in Greenville, South Carolina that sparked a wide-ranging conversation about the future of South Bend.
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Jacob and Dustin are joined by Maria Gibbs, John Garry, and Cynthia Gibbs to reflect on the road to South Carolina and a day in Columbia filled with barbecue, canvassing, and Mayor Pete’s final town hall in the state.
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