KUOM - Quick Queue

Arts, culture and history will be interwoven into every facet of community life: Only 90-seconds long, fast-paced, sound-rich Quick Queue is broadcast during high-demand “morning drive time” to broaden listen’s access to arts coverage, creating a vibrant interplay of music and culture unique to the Twin Cities media landscape. The micro-storytelling format is an effective and efficient way to interweave arts, culture and history into community life.More Minnesotans of all ages, ethnicities, abilities and incomes will participate in the arts, culture and history: Quick Queue shines a spotlight on the people and places that improve every Minnesotan’s quality of life. Through the implementation of new internet broadcast technologies, Quick Queue is available anytime via streaming on our website in addition to airing on terrestrial radio. By drawing on the unique blend of race, religion, economic backgrounds, geographic origins, genders and beliefs that make up the University of Minnesota’s diverse student body, Quick Queue fosters participation in the arts from an equally-wide body of listenership.People will trust Minnesota’s stewardship of public arts, culture and history funding: As a responsible steward of ACHF funds, our projects reflect fundamental values that include honesty, integrity, and accountability. The project plan’s desired outcomes, measurable outcomes, and budget will help to ensure responsible management of the funds. Financial controls are in place within our organization to ensure that expenses are appropriate and within the grant parameters. Timely reports and invoices will be submitted regularly to the State of Minnesota to promote transparency, providing external oversight and ensuring that the arts, culture, and history grant outcomes are met.Arts, culture and history will thrive in Minnesota: Created by students from all backgrounds, incomes and ethnicities, Radio K has a unique voice within the state and is poised to create a lasting impact on the arts and cultural heritage of the next generation of Minnesotans by creating a new media rubric, extending the reach and creating new paths of media access, allowing broader access to high-quality content that can be inventoried, preserved, accessed and continuously shared anywhere – thereby contributing to Minnesota’s reputation as a place of discovery.More student exposure to professional performing arts, and the work of professional artists: Highly accessible and interwoven into music programming, Quick Queue engages students in an on-going conversation with professional artists, exposing them to a wide range of artistic ideas and concepts; empowering them to see art and culture as integral parts of their lives. Students and non-students alike will become increasingly exposed to the span of cultural opportunities at home in Minnesota, thereby encouraging artists to continue living and working here in Minnesota and in-turn fostering a higher-quality of cultural living across the state.More K-12 students can affordably learn to read music and play a music instrument, participate in dance, choral, drama and other performing arts: Many junior and senior high school students at Radio K come to us through Post Secondary Enrollment Options, a program at the University of Minnesota allowing high school juniors and seniors can affordably take classes for both high school and college credit. With ACHF funding, junior and senior high school students participating in Quick Queue are empowered to become active in artistic and cultural pursuits as part of their daily life and have the opportunity to increase their exposure to a variety of performing arts that they might otherwise never encounter.Increased potential for visual and literary artists in Minnesota to earn income from their art: Quick Queue increases the exposure of Minnesota artists from all disciplines, often being the first major media outlet to showcase an artist’s work or ideas, thereby giving them a chance not only to be seen, but showing artists that Minnesota is a viable place from which to sustain a career as an artist. Quick Queue will be broadcast over the air and archived online and easily accessible to all Minnesotans, thus increasing local and Minnesota focused content and increasing the potential for increased exposure and income for the featured artists or event.More locally and Minnesota focused content: Quick Queue provides a dedicated outlet for a variety of new and established Minnesota artists and places of culture, exposing more Minnesotans to the breadth of artistic and cultural experiences being created, curated and performed within our borders.More local artists, historians, writers and other that have their work showcased through public broadcasting: Every week, artists, historians, writers, and others on Quick Queue, are heard over our public airwaves. To increase accessibility, programs are also available 24/7/365 via streaming online, as a downloadable podcast on iTunes, and nationally on the Public Radio Exchange.More knowledge and awareness of the way that history affects people’s lives and how that knowledge can help people make informed decisions for the future: By fostering on-going conversations and performances with artists and professors, thinkers and musicians, Quick Queue’s content provides a lens with which to view Minnesota’s varied past and its dynamic and changing future.