Madrona's First Wildkind Visionary

  • July 21, 2025
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July 21: Madrona's Em Capito on why Antelope Island poet-in-residence Nan Seymour is first among Wildkinds. Plus, Rallies and Resources Spotlight with 3 groups to support.

Plug into your community with tonight's guests, organizations and community events.

Rallies & Resources Spotlight (full list here):

  • Jaz Dumas of Utah March on Drag Me to the Runway, a July 26th fundraiser for gender-affirming care, "featuring drag queens & kings, runway models wearing local designers, local music artists performing LIVE, and a killer DJ." 

  • Volunqueer with Founder and CEO Jacob Buck. The nonprofit says it is "revolutionizing volunteerism for the LGBTQIA+ community" with its new platform.

  • Jeanette Padilla-Vega of Food Justice Coalition, which is seeing a surge in demand that it is struggling to meet. To learn more, click here.

  • WATCH: "Stephen Colbert Isn't the Crisis. Public Media Is," by Tad Stoermer, a public historian, teacher, and author of the forthcoming book A Resistance History of the United States (Steerforth Press / Penguin Random House, 2026). 

RadioACTive Pop's Madrona Meet-up

During its Midsummer Reverie, Madrona will present its inaugural Wildkind Visionary Award to SLC poet Nan Seymour this month. Let's count the reasons why Seymour is the obvious choice:

  • As poet-in-residence on Antelope Island, Nan Seymour led day-and-night vigils at the receding shoreline of Great Salt Lake throughout the 2022 and 2023 Utah State legislative sessions, during which she composed irreplaceable, a collective praise poem for Great Salt Lake containing over 400 local voices. The resulting book was published in 2024 by Moon in the Rye Press. 

  • This was followed by daily, inclusive demonstrations for the lake at the Utah State Capitol throughout the entirety of the 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions that brought local artists and thousands of community members together to celebrate all of the species that rely on the lake’s water. 

  • These efforts led to the founding of the Making Waves Artists Collective, ensuring an ongoing campaign of community engagement through participatory art. 

  • Nan’s devotion has invited the broader Utah community into a personal relationship with the places we live, play, and hope to pass on to future generations, creating a legacy that will continue to make waves long after her vigil.

Joining us to talk about cultivating well-being at the confluence of art, soul and nature tonight:

  • July 29: Midsummer Rooftop Reverie | 7-10 PM | American Towers Rooftop, SLC. Event by Madrona: "A collective daydream of new beginnings, celebrating the impact of Utah artist advocates and revolutionaries. Join us in a toast as we present Madrona’s inaugural Wildkind Visionary award, honoring the legacy of lake-facing poet, Nan Seymour. Nan’s “devotion to repairing the breach between humans and the rest of the sentient, singing earth” echoes far beyond words, and will continue to make waves long after her vigil. For more than four years, Nan has invited us to sit with the lake. Attention turned into devotion, nourishing creativity as a simple act of love. In Nan’s presence, many of us became poets, painters, dancers, song leaders and even puppeteers for the first time. Chances are you’ve walked the waves or celebrated the species during a legislative session, penned your own stanza in irreplaceable, or you know someone who has. Amidst divisive rhetoric, Nan faced apathy and resistance with an unwavering, inclusive, and inspired celebration of our lake and all of the species that depend on her water, including our own future. Enjoy a summer evening of enchanting art, music, dance and song as an awakening into possibility set against a panoramic view of our Wasatch mountains to the east and Great Salt Lake to the west."

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Tonight's RadioACTive Team

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