Featured Event
Eric Holder with Jelani Cobb – Our Unfinished March
Wednesday June 1, 2022 6:00PM
Ray Fest: KPFA Benefit Honoring KPFA Host Ray Edlund
Freight & Salvage presents “Ray Fest” - a tribute to the career of KPFAs 'Pig in a Pen' host, Ray Edlund on his retirement. The event takes place on Tuesday, May 24 at 8pm at 2020 Addison street in Berkeley. Masking and Covid vaccination protocols apply. For more information, call 510.644.2020 or go to thefreight.org.
Mark Follman “Trigger Points” Virtual Event
Thursday, May 5th at 7:00 PM
For the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings--a hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from perpetrators and survivors, and real-time immersion in confidential threat cases, casting a whole new light on how to...
Alice Walker “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire” Event
Monday, April 18th at 7:00 PM
Alice Walker is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works,...
Sasha LaPointe “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk” Virtual Event
Thursday, April 21st at 7:00 PM
Please join KPFA for a very special Zoom Event on Thursday, April 21st at 7:00 pm when we welcome Sasha LaPointe and her new memoir, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk, hosted by KPFA’s Christina Aanestad. An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of...
Shawn Levy “In On The Joke” Virtual Event
Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 PM
Please join KPFA for a very special Zoom Event on Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 pm when we welcome Sean Levy and his new book, In on the Joke, in conversation with Debi Durst In on the Joke is a hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls...
Azar Nafisi “Read Dangerously” Virtual Event
Thursday, April 14th at 6:00 PM
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.
Tony Messenger “Profit and Punishment” Virtual Event
Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 PM Pacific
Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2019, Messenger won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his series of columns on debtors' prisons in Missouri. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. That same year he...