Monday, April 15, 2019: Happy 70th to KPFA

Thank you to everyone who showed their support yesterday during our 70th Anniversary! If you haven't yet, please donate and help KPFA continue broadcasting another 70 years of community powered radio!

Tune in next Monday at 1 PM when KPFA Women's Magazine will return with a new program from a radical, multiracial, feminist perspective. Thanks for listening.

Click here to listen to yesterday's special programming celebrating 70 years of listener sponsored radio on KPFA. 59:58 min

Monday, January 23, 2017: KPFA Apprenticeship program

KPFA apprentice, Darlene Pagano discusses how the program has provided her opportunities to lift up community voices and issues that are important to her, and how you can get involved.

Darlene Pagano talks about herself and this great program that is now accepting applications for it's 43rd apprentice class. Members of the First Voice Media Apprenticeship program produce, write, host and engineer Full Circle every Friday night at 7PM on KPFA. Check it out at www.KPFAApprentice.org. The deadline for applying in Jan 27th. It is an 18 month commitment and it is free. Call the apprenticeship office at 510-848-6767 ext 235 or come by KPFA for an application.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
Linda Burnham speaks at "People Get Ready"
Angela Davis at the Women's March on Washington

Monday, March 21, 2016: A sit-down with radio host Kris Welch

Nina Serrano sits down with long-time radio producer Kris Welch, who came to KPFA in 1972 to learn to do radio and cover women's issues.  They talk about Kris's fascinating youth traveling around Europe, Iran and Turkey, getting an abortion in England and how she ended up at KPFA.

Click here to listen now. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Murder in Honduras
Zika in El Salvador

Calendar of Events:
Film Night at the Omni - "Fundi: the Story of Ella Baker" 
Tuesday, March 22
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Disco Room, Oakland CA

Selma James speaking on Caregiving:
An Anti-Capitalist Perspective
Friday March 25, 7pm
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland (at 48th St)
Donation $10, no one turned away

American Bookbinders Museum
All Month, Tue - Sat 10-4
355 Clementina, SF
415-824-9754

“THE WOMAN BOOKBINDER” through March 2016
WomanBookbinderAs part of Women’s History Month, the American Bookbinders Museum presents an exhibition featuring books and ephemera from the Museum’s collections, curated by Elspeth Olson, librarian and archivist at the ABM. The exhibition offers looks at women in the binding trade, women and the rise of the bindery unions, and women in artisanal binding.

International Women's Day Special: Women Who Built Free Speech Radio

On International Women's Day, March 8, 2015, the women of KPFA produced 25 hours of special programming including talk, music, culture, and spirituality.

Photo by Paul Richards

As part of this day of programming, we took time to hear from and appreciate three women who have all been at KPFA for over three decades, through thick and thin, bringing their unique voices and multitude of talents and helping to keep it true to its mission, to be the voice of the voiceless.

Nina Serrano is the long-time host of La Raza Chronicles/Cronicas de la Raza and Book Waves.  She is an internationally acclaimed poet, director, filmmaker and cultural worker.  For the last seven years she has been working to eliminate violence against women in the US and internationally.

Avotcja is currently host of Bebop,  Cubop and The Musical Truth.  She is a Bay Area icon, multiinstrumentalist, DeeJay, teacher and performer.  Her poetry has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is founder and director of The Clean Scene Theater Project (AKA) Proyecto Teatral De La Escena Sobria". She teaches Creative Writing, Storytelling & Drama in public schools.

Jennifer Stone is a novelist, poet, essayist as well as a radio programmer. Stone's Throw, her witty, fast-talking program of social commentary and literary analysis "Stone’s Throw," has long been a fixture at KPFA.

Over 70 people gathered on Sunday in the Performance Room at the station to honor these three remarkable women.

Listen to the interviews with Nina, Avotcja and Jennifer