August 21 2025

California Public Radio Day

Join the movement to keep independent radio in your community on-air.

KPFA

August 21, 2025 is California Public Radio Day! We’re rallying together with stations across California to ask YOU to show your support. You know the importance of staying connected and informed about what is happening in our community. While KPFA is not federally funded, the federal government’s action to defund public media is attack on...


August 13 2025

Unscripted: An Evening with Robert B. Reich

KPFA

Robert Reich, political economist, UC Berkeley professor and former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton will be speaking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America at an event co-sponsored by KPFA and Book Passage – Unscripted: An Evening with Robert B. Reich is on Wednesday, August 13th at the Golden...


July 19 2025

📻 Radio Day by the Bay 2025 🎙️

KPFA

Join us on July 19 at the California Historical Radio Society’s Radio Central in Alameda--celebrate radio’s golden age and the future of broadcasting! Don't forget to make a stop by the KPFA booth and learn more about your local community radio station!


May 29 2025

Chris Hedges In-Person

Resistance in Occupied Palestine

KPFA

Chris Hedges at First Congregational Church of Oakland on Thursday, May 29th at 7:00pm, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine hosted by Law & Disorder’s Cat Brooks


April 26 2025

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with UpSurge!

UpSurge! melds jazz with poetry and shout-out resistance at 5 PM Saturday, April 26, at the Plymouth Church of Jazz and Justice!

KPFA

Poets and jazz musicians Raymond Nat Turner (poetry), Zigi Lowenberg (poetry), Tammy Lynne Hall (piano), Roger Glenn (saxophone), Kevin Goldberg (bass), and Larry Vann (drums) will make this a celebration worthy of the best in jazz and poetry, a night to remember.


March 15 2025 through March 16 2025

KPFA’s 2025 International Women’s Day Special

Music, Culture & Her-Stories

KPFA

KPFA Celebrates International Women’s Day! Saturday, March 15 | 6 AM – 3 AM Smash the patriarchy and amplify women’s voices! From dawn past the witching hour, KPFA brings you powerful stories, music, and conversations from women and gender-expansive voices. Empowered women empower the world—tune in and rise up! 📻 KPFA 94.1 FM | Stream...


February 1 2025

Carry the Light: KPFA Celebrates Black History & Culture

KPFA

Continuing KPFA's tradition of celebrating Black History Month, we are proud to present our annual 12-hour block dedicated to honoring Black culture. Tune in, Saturday, Feb 1st starting at 6am all the way 6pm! Carry the light will feature a full day of Illuminating, uplifting, and inspiring programs. You'll hear a conversation with Nikki Giovanni-poet,...