ARTSPEAK RADIO with Slupski, Powers, Charlotte Street Foundation, Bach Aria Soloists, and The Rabbit hOle

Wednesday April 18, 2018 Noon - 1PM Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with poets Samantha Slupski and Jeanette Powers, Charlotte Street Foundation's Mason A. Kilpatrick, Bach Aria Soloists, and The Rabbit Hole owners Deb Pettid and Pete Cowdin. Deb Pettid and Pete Cowdin-On February 9, The Rabbit hOle, a 501(c)(3) started by artists and veteran book sellers Deb Pettid and Pete Cowdin, closed on the purchase of a 165,000 sq ft warehouse at 919 E. 14th Ave., just north of downtown. The $2.2 million acquisition will serve as permanent home to the Rabbit hOle’s Explor-A-Storium. In building the world’s first Explor-a-Storium, The Rabbit hOle will not only deliver Kansas City’s first truly immersive ‘museum’ experience, it will bring national prominence to the city as a visionary center for children’s literature. This radical literary wonderland will aim to highlight the historical, artistic, and cultural value of children’s books through a dynamic series of fluid, interconnected narrative exhibits and installations. For Co-founder/director Deb Pettid, the building at corner of E 14th and Knox was love at first sight - “It was what we had imagined from the beginning. The serendipitous way it came about made it all the more perfect.” In addition…