Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk is combination live performance, community event, and radio broadcast based in the New York's Catskills region. With her vintage 1965 Beeline travel trailer, Sabrina Artel travels to festivals and events where she invites individuals to participate in what she calls a "public conversation" in a relaxed and comfortable setting. These conversations are broadcast live through speakers mounted outside the trailer and many interviews are later aired on public radio station Radio Catskill WJFF-FM where Sabrina is a regular producer.WJFF Radio Catskill. "Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk", Radio Catskill WJFF-FM The New York Times article A 1965 Trailer Goes on the Road, and Catskill Residents Go on the Air York, Michelle. A 1965 Trailer Goes on the Road, and Catskill Residents Go on the Air, New York Times, Roscoe, NY, April 9, 2006. described Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk as "an unusual blend of theater, activism and broadcast journalism."
Although the conversation ranges widely from politics, arts and culture to the environment, agriculture, community development and recreation, Sabrina Artel's emphasis is consistently on localism and the contribution of individuals to their communities.
Podcasts of the program from 2018 through today are available online in the WJFF Archive at https://archive.wjffradio.org/.
Between 2011 and 2013 Sabrina Artel was a regular contributing writer to AlterNet.org.2011 to 2013. "Stories by Sabrina Artel"
Sabrina Artel is a stage and screen actressIMDB "film credits" with many credits including the film, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.
Notable guests In addition to many local townspeople, a number of famous personalities have been guests around the kitchen table in Sabrina Artel's trailer: singer Joan Osborne, television show host Rosie O'Donnell, activist historian, Allan Berube, John Adams, founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Arianna Huffington, choreographer Elizabeth Streb, and Laura Flanders, author of Bushwomen.
Recognition and awards Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk has been featured on CNNCNN. "CNN profiles Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk talk show host" CNN, YouTube video, Summer 2006. and in The New York Times as well as Huffpost Green,Levy, Allison Rose. "Water or Gas? Karl Rove, Cheney, and Cohorts Weighing In On Key NY Race", Huffpost Green, Upstate New York, May 25, 2011. RV Travel Magazine,Woodbury, Chuck. "'Trailer Talk' is on the road", RV Travel Magazine, reprinted from Issue #1. The Towne Crier newspaper (Livingston Manor, NY), The River ReporterButerbaugh, Charlie. "Trailer made for the airwaves", The River Reporter, August 11–17, 2005. (Narrowburg, NY), The Times Herald Record,Sacco, Stephan. "Fundraiser in Sullivan County draws fracking foes", The Times Herald Record, Parksville, NY, May 23, 2011.Times Herald Record. "Farmers markets to host Trailer Talk Picnics", The Times Herald Record, Liberty, NY, August 21, 2009. The Sullivan County Democrat (Callicoon, NY), and Hudson Valley Inside Out magazine (Athens, NY), The Shale Reporter.Gilbert, Suzie. "Talking about ‘Frack Talk’" Shalereporter.com, September 13, 2012.
Sabrina Artel's Trailer Talk was awarded a Puffin Foundation grant in 2007Grantees. "Public Interest Grantees", Puffin Foundation, 2007. and a NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) Individual Artist Grant in 2006.NYSCA 2006 Individual Artist Grant. "Individual Artist Grant for Marcellus Shale Water Project (The Shale Project)"
In April, 2010, Sabrina Artel was one of 25 top journalists chosen to participate as a fellows in the sixth National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater at USC Annenberg.
Activist Sabrina Artel was canonized into Fabulous Sainthood in April 2011 by Reverend Billy.
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External links
Gourmet Food Garden. "My Most Memorable Meal: Sabrina Artel"