0:08 – Excerpts from The Battle for People’s Park, a special audio documentary from the Pacifica Radio Archives, capturing the conflict unfolding. KPFA reporters were on the scene throughout the demonstrations, the National Guards arrival, mass arrests, and what followed after. Get the audio for a pledge of $150 to KPFA.
We’re also offering the brand new collection from Heyday Books: The Battle for People’s Park by Tom Dalzell. Yours for a pledge of $300 to KPFA.
1:08 – Remembering Stonewall
We air excerpts from the Pacifica Radio Archives’ feature Remembering Stonewall: a radio documentary on the birth of a movement, narrated by Michael Schirker and produced by David Isay. Yours for a pledge of $120 to KPFA.
1:40 – The Oakland Museum of California is presenting Queer California: Untold Stories, open now through August 11, 2019
Christina Linden is an independent curator and Associate Professor in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts, and curated the new OMCA exhibit Queer California: Untold Stories.
Torreya Cummings is a project-based visual artist working with ideas of space, place, and time. Cummings uses drag aesthetics, hardware store materials, the unsettling relationship of history and fiction, the paradoxes of life in the west, ambivalence, theater tricks, bad illusions, props, sets, and interpretive sites. Their work is currently exhibited as part of the Queer exhibit (Cat may want to know exactly what is exhibited here)
Tina Takemoto is an artist, scholar, and Dean of Humanities and Sciences at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Their work examines issues of race, queer identity, memory, and grief. Takemoto’s research explores queer Asian American history and identity including the hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality for Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government during World War II.
We’re offering tickets to the exhibit for a pledge of $100.