May 24 2022

Ray Fest: KPFA Benefit Honoring KPFA Host Ray Edlund

KPFA

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.


May 5 2022

Mark Follman “Trigger Points” Virtual Event

Thursday, May 5th at 7:00 PM

KPFA

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...


April 18 2022

Alice Walker “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire” Event

Monday, April 18th at 7:00 PM

KPFA

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,...


April 21 2022

Sasha LaPointe “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk” Virtual Event

Thursday, April 21st at 7:00 PM

KPFA

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...


April 5 2022

Shawn Levy “In On The Joke” Virtual Event

Tuesday, April 5th at 7:00 PM

KPFA

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...


April 14 2022

Azar Nafisi “Read Dangerously” Virtual Event

Thursday, April 14th at 6:00 PM

KPFA

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.


March 24 2022

Tony Messenger “Profit and Punishment” Virtual Event

Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 PM Pacific

KPFA

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...