Empower House Radio KXEP-LP

About Empower House Radio KXEP-LP

Empower House Radio, KXEP-LP 101.5 FM, is a non-profit, community radio station in San Antonio, TX.. We highlight stories from community advocates, non-profit organizations, local artists/poets/musicians and those fighting for, and creating, positive change in our local community.

Publisher

KXEP-LP Empower House Radio

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2024

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

140 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Platica Y Poetics S4E2 Monica Bosch

   Resumen de la plática — Mónica Bosch | Plática y Poetics Platicar con Mónica Bosch se sintió menos como una entrevista y más como sentarme con ella a comer en una colonia de la Ciudad de México —quizás Roma— con un cafecito o una cerveza sobre la mesa, viendo a la gente pasar mientras la conversación se va dando sin prisa. Hubo algo muy mágico y íntimo en esta plática: dos mujeres hablando de arte, de México, de San Antonio, de lo que cargamos en el cuerpo y de esas decisiones que, sin darnos cuenta, nos van llevando hacia nuestro verdadero llamado, el don artístico. Conocí a Mónica más allá de la artista y entre a la historia de la mujer que comenzó creando en la soledad de su cuarto, ese espacio que se convirtió en santuario y donde el dibujo y la pintura fue dando su lenguaje propio. Hablamos del lenguaje visual, los corazones, rostros, Milagros, palabras, objetos cotidianos, textura y color, y cómo una palabra puede dejar de ser solamente palabra para convertirse en imagen, memoria, emoción e identidad. La platica nos llevó a ese espacio que compartimos tantos artistas que vivimos entre lugares: ¿qué cargamos de México y como San Antonio existe en nuestra esencia? Mónica habla de la cultura como el “DNA de un lugar”, y desde ahí quise explorar cómo las fronteras no solamente separan, sino que también nos transforman y nos permiten llevar una parte de un lugar hacia otro. Su trabajo con Parallel 29 abre precisamente esa posibilidad de crear puentes entre San Antonio y México. Al final, sentí que nuestra conversación tenía esa cualidad de una buena sobremesa: empiezas hablando de arte y terminas hablando de cómo nos ha afectado la vida y como respondimos ante los momentos difíciles, sin pretender tener todas las respuestas. Dejemos que la plática nos transportó de un tema al otro viendo y sintiendo la vida pasar sintiendo su furia y sentimientos de fragilidad.

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Platica Y Poetics S5E1 w/ Lauren Oertel and Bree Bailey

   In the first virtual Plática y Poetics I had the privilege of sitting with two powerful poets and dear amigas, Lauren Oertel and Bree Bailey, whose collections invite us into the complicated terrain of the body, memory, survival, grief, love, and transformation. Lauren Oertel’s Scars & Other Luxuries asks us to look closely at the wounds we carry, physical, emotional, inherited, and societal. They lead us to consider how those wounds can become sites of memory, resilience, connection, and even beauty. Lauren’s conversation moved into scarcity and the difficult choices we make to survive, the social judgments attached to those choices, and the ways our bodies become sites where shame, control, pleasure, and liberation collide. She spoke about how the body becomes a place of reclamation and freedom, focusing on the details under a scope of the unseen networks that nourish, communicate, regenerate, and hold one another up. “Scars & Other Luxuries” reflects on the body as archive reminding us that what we often take for granted,such as health, safety, shelter, connection, the ability to heal can itself be modern luxury. The plática shifted with Bree Bailey, into a conversation of intimate landscape: grief, motherhood, divorce, heartbreak, anxiety, humor, memory. It felt like we were tight roping between the complicated act of continuing to live. Reading Wailing on Whisper Street felt, for me, like being at her bedside when she entered a stream of though—sometimes laughing, grieving, sometimes recognizing myself in the brutal honesty and language of the page. Bree’s humor becomes a way of entering difficult truths without softening them, using repetition mirroring the mind replaying moments, relationships, memories, and the versions of ourselves we are still trying to understand after loss. The past remains behind us, entering our present, interrupting, changing the way we inhabit our lives. Our conversation became an acknowledgment of the strange simultaneity of loving someone who is no longer here while continuing to move through the world. Her poems create beautiful architecture where language, intimacy, memory, and poetry become intertwined. Poetry is word architecture, and love becomes something we can preserve within word structures, stanzas, and prose. This was a plática about what our bodies remember, what our hearts have had to endure, and the language that allows us to reclaim, as both witness and shelter.

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Platica Y Poetics S4E11 Kristina Salinas

   My Plática y Poetics conversation with multidisciplinary artist and photographer Kristina Salinas felt less like a sit down and more like walking into Blue Star Contemporary in the trendy King William on a random day like randomly moving from canvas to canvas of process, detail, color as language, community, and curation. Pausing intentionally, zooming closer into what makes art and the process so unique. Rather than approaching critique of the work, we delved deeper into the who behind the art. Kristina shared candidly about her creative practice, and the many ways she experiences art through detail, color, place, energy, memory, and connection. We talked about what happens before a piece becomes a finished work, the trance feeling of being in the creative zone, and most important the visual language, sometimes-unspoken feeling that guides an artist toward what the intention, soul of a painting. As a multidisciplinary artist, Kristina moves fluidly between photography, painting, and other creative dimensions of her practice. She shared what becomes possible when an artist refuses to be confined to a single medium, and how different forms can reveal different parts of an artistic vision. We lingered on the detail, like admiring a lover of texture, color, objects, and visual moments that can suddenly shift a moment and vision. Color, a language we both speak, was the neutral intoxicating essence in the room. It is what arrives emotionally and instinctively, the metaphorical canvas. There is power when the voice of cultura, heritage come beckoning into the creative realm, and Kristina listens to both transient voices, gifting them a permanent home, en ambos lados, in both spiritual and metaphorical spaces. Ushering and reclaiming her space across borders and identity.

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