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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.
It’s a media triple threat extravanganza on tonight’s APEX EXPRESS: • We have noted historian, professor and author Mae Ngai talking with us about her new book, “The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America” • We also interview filmmaker Wendy Champagne about her documentary, “BAS! Beyond the Red Light” which … Continued
This week on Apex Express, we highlight Keep Her Safe, Please! Jakarta 1998, a new work of dance and music drawing on Chinese and Indonesian traditions inspired by the conflicts in Indonesia in 1998 and the universal struggle of immigrants. Presented by Wan-Chao Dance, Gadung Kasturi Balinese Dance and Music, HEI GU Chinese Percussion Ensemble, and Midiyanto. … Continued
Tonight on Apex Express, we bring you a mixed bag of Asian American music and theater! We will talk about the upcoming Filipino American Jazz Festival, we will bring you music from the Gamelan Çudamani ensemble, “Bamboo to Bronze”, and we will highlight the dynamic 68 member Zenshinza Theater company. Also music by Anthony Brown’s Asian American Orchestra, … Continued
Tonight on Apex Express, we highlight the documentary film, Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority. This film by Kimberlee Bassford explores the political life of Patsy Takemoto Mink, an Asian American woman, who, battling racism and sexism, redefined American politics. Mink was the first Asian American woman and woman of color in the United States … Continued
Preeti Mangala Shekar discusses with Sunaina Maira, professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis, about her year in Pakistan. Sunaina got back from the country weeks before the recent floods and talks about the role of the progressive left in Pakistan, women’s rights and the politics of aid relief in the wake of the … Continued
Tune in to Apex Express this Thursday September 2 from 7-8 pm on KPFA 94.1 FM. We bring you a panel discussion with Grace Lee Boggs and Immanuel Wallerstein in discussion at the US Social Forum in Detroit, which brought together more than 15,000 social justice activists from across the United States. Immanuel Wallersten and Grace Lee Boggs were on a … Continued
August 29 marks the 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Families and communities in the Gulf Coast are still recovering and rebuilding today. To make matters worse, on April 20, 2010, we witnessed the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explode in the Gulf, spewing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean, marking it one of … Continued
This week’s Apex Express features an exclusive interview with Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas, who was abducted and tortured for 6 days while on a medical mission in the Philippines in 2009. She will share her experience, talk about the progress of her case, and what is currently being done to address the human rights crisis … Continued
Preeti Mangala Shekar talks to Samar Minallah, a Pakistani documentary film maker and women’s rights activist. She discusses her work highlighting issues impacting women’s rights and in Pakistan and the South Asian sub-continent. Japanese Koto player Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto talks about her music, life and upcoming performances. She along with her son Brian Mitsuhiro Wong, has … Continued
Get ready for laughter and remembrance on tonight’s APEX Express. Live, in studio we’re featuring comedians Susan Alexander, Kat Evasco, Lilibeth Helson and Priya Prasad from the Five Funny Females Festival this weekend at the legendary Purple Onion in San Francisco. We also visit the August 4th Eviction Commemoration of the I-Hotel, and the unveiling … Continued
