APEX Express – May 26, 2011
API Women artists in Spoken Word & Music.
APEX Express
7:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asian and Pasifika folx from all corners of the community. We are dedicated to highlighting the artists and changemakers that make up our diverse community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, artists, and activists and airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM.
APEX Express – May 19, 2011
Janice Mirikitani is recognized as a visionary, community activist, leader, poet, and editor. She’s the founding president of the Glide Foundation, and has developed programs that empower San Francisco’s poor and marginalized communities to make meaningful changes in their lives. She was named San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2000 and has authored four books of … Continued
APEX Express – May 12, 2011
Continuing with our Leaders in the Community Series for pledge drive, we feature Nancy Hom. Nancy is an artist, writer, organizer, and arts administrator who has created numerous images for community events, political and social causes, and children’s books. After exploring silk screening and illustration, she is now a mixed-media artist and for the past … Continued
APEX Express – May 5, 2011
Grace Lee Boggs and Michael Hardt discussed themes from Grace’s new book “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century”. This was at the “Asian American Movement Building Conference:Out of the Margins”, held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in late March. The book was released last month and co-authored by Scott … Continued
APEX Express – April 28, 2011
We interview Eric Nakamura, publisher of Giant Robot magazine. Along with Martin Wong, the two began a long and earnest love affair with Asian popular culture and brought it to America with their publication and Giant Robot stores in New York, Los Angeles, and until April 26, 2011, San Francisco. The closing of the San … Continued
APEX Express – April 21, 2011
Tonight, we offer a critical look at what is happening in Japan. We talk with Hiroshi Fukurai, a professor at UC Santa Cruz in Sociology. He’s originally from Sendai, the epicenter of the monstrous 9.0 earthquake last month, and where many of his family still reside. He talks with us about the nuclear power system … Continued
APEX Express – April 14, 2011
On this show, we start off with a poem from Isle Yi Park in celebration of National Poetry month. Park’s piece comes from her album entitled Work Is Love. APEX will begin a series of interviews trying to gain some insight and orientation with all that’s been going on in Japan. For the April 21 show, … Continued
APEX Express – April 7, 2011
This week we bring you another packed show featuring powerful community voices: Police Brutality in Oakland: While we continue to heal from the murder of Oscar Grant, Oakland youth of color continue to be targeted by racial profiling and police brutality. This week we bring you a dynamic interview with Sarn Saechao, a Mien youth … Continued
APEX Express – March 31, 2011
Tonight, we replay a program produced by Making Contact, “Presumed Guilty: American Muslims and Arabs” produced by Andrew Stelzer. Marie B. Choi kills it with an amazing interview with Anh Pham, a anti-war and solidarity activist whose home was raided in September 2010 because of her political activity. And we bring you a commentary from … Continued
APEX Express – March 24, 2011
Free Rapa Nui Day of Action on March 16, 2011 Join DJ LN and Selekta Lapu~Lapu as they interview Rachel Jackson about Oakland Gang Injunctions and Sri Lankan American reggae and hip hop artist Ras Ceylon with pre-release versions of his new music. And finally, we bring you take you to the Free Rapa Nui … Continued