3:30 PM Pacific Time: Wednesdays
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. The first week of every month is a combined one-hour program featuring Jack Foley & Nina Serrano. The archive can be found at Cover to Cover with Jack Foley. The second week is hosted by Nina Serrano, Poet 2 Poet. The third week is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro. The fourth week is hosted by Reyna Cowan, Frame to Frame. And the fifth week (if there is one) is hosted again by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro.
Frank Sterling will be on to highlight community stories from the First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Frank will explore the new direction the program is taking, and announce that Fisrt Voice is accepting applications for the new group.
Amelia Gonzalez talks with Torange Yeghiazarian, artistic director of Golden Thread Productions and playwright, Ignacio Zulueta about ReOrient 2007-08. ReOrient is the annual festival of short plays about the Middle East is back for another thought-provoking and transformative season. Featuring five plays that reflect the diversity of the region as well as the urgency with … Continued
This week’s Sprouts is a half-hour retrospective of the year — an explosive, emotional mix of the sounds, music and events of the past twelve months, "A Shortcut Through 2007" opens with an introduction by the late sonic pioneer, Karlheinz Produced and mixed by Peter Bochan
Microscopic organisms – our ancestors and allies – transform food andextend its usefulness. Fermentation of food is found throughout everyhuman culture on earth. Hundreds of medical and scientific studiesconfirm what folklore has always known: Fermented foods help peoplestay healthy. Sandor Ellix Katz is the author of the books "Wild Fermentation: TheFlavor, Nutrition, and Craft of … Continued
Today’s’ program is hosted by Nina Serrano, presenting the second episode of the LAS COMADRES series. Las Comadres is a radio drama series about three senoras on a mission to transform the world are Mamacoatl, Maria Medina Serafin and Nina Serrano. The three women artists make their weekly plans and exchange their latest poetry and … Continued
In the mid 1980s, plays about AIDS started to emerge in the United States. In part, these early plays and the plays that followed were calls to action. They documented the devastation within a community – and showed how little was being done. Blending advocacy and art, the plays also gave us individual characters whose … Continued
Amelia Gonzalez speaks with Bill Martinez about restrictions of artists’ travel to Cuba. Bill Martinez is an immigration attorney who has also produced and managed cultural events in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1973. He co-founded the Encuentro del Canto Popular, a San Francisco-based Latin American music festival. His work with the Encuentro lead … Continued
Sarah O’neal Rush, the last born of the great-grandchildren of former slave turned educator and founder of Tuskegee University, Booker T. Washington, reads from her book, Timeless Treasures: Reflections of God’s Word and the Wisdom of Booker T. Washington. Hosted by Safi wa Nairobi.
