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Hollywood Bowl Summer Season 2024 - Showcasing Artistic Greatness & Celebrating Our Global Cultural Heritage.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum 2024 Repertory Season June 1 - October 20 2024 Celebrating 50 + Years Of Magic @ Theatricum
Gregory Maqoma + Vuyani Dance Theatre September 21, 2024 8pm Live At Royce Hall Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro
BroadStage Presents Future Sounds of Jazz Festival Saturday September 21, 2024 A Special Day Of Jazz Music Curated By Stanley Clarke! 2pm-9pm
Don Was And The Pan-Detroit Ensemble Sunday September 22, 2024 8pm
The Javaad Alipoor Company, co-produced with National Theatre of Parramatta Friday Sept. 27 - Saturday Sept. 28, 2024 The Nimoy 8pm (both nights)
An Intimate Evening With Santana LIVE At The House Of Blues Las Vegas Sept 25-Oct 6 & Oct 30-Nov 10 2024 Mandalay Bay
67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 27-29 2024 Monterey County Fairgrounds
Michael Feinstein LIVE At The Luckman Fine Arts Complex Friday October 4, 2024 8pm At Cal State LA
Aditya Prakash: ROOM-i-Nation Live At The Nimoy Friday October 4th + Saturday October 5th, 2024 8pm showtime (both nights)
Van Morrison LIVE At The Orpheum Theatre Saturday October 19 & Sunday the 20th 2024 October 19th is SOLD-OUT Tix only available for Sunday October 20, 2024
KPFK's ability to serve the community and the cause of free speech & cultural expression, peace and justice, depends on your input and involvement. Please click here to take our listener survey!
If you can volunteer for assisting in social media promotion and marketing, video production and editing, or news gathering and beat reporting for KPFK, fill out this form to apply.
Pacifica Executive Director Stephanie D. Wells named Renee Peñaloza at the 2024 National Election Supervisor for the Bylaws-mandated election of delegates of the listeners and staff at KPFK and the other Pacifica staions to serve on the elected governance, the Local Station Boards and the Pacifica National Board. The following timeline has been adopted for the election process, commencing immediately. The date of record for membership to qualify as either a listener-sponsor or staff member was June 30, which was also the deadline for nominations to run for the position of Delegate in either the listener or staff constituencies.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL CURRENT CANDIDATES
On-air candidate forums were conducted Aug. 12-15 in English and in Spanish with bilingual translation
Click on the date below to listen to the forum, or look for Pacifica Delegate Elections on the archives:
English forums: Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 15
Foros en Espanol/bilingue: 12 de agosto 13 de agosto 14 de agosto 15 de agosto
Here's the remaining election calendar:
August 15 - Voting phase opens; voting through Sept. 30
- ballots go out (email, SMS) and reminders at weekly intervals
Look for an email from Pacifica Foundation Inc., search for election-buddy, including in spam folder
- phone line opens for members who do not have access to the internet or who need special assistance eg for paper ballot or for telephone casting of vote. Call 707-500-1910.
- Ballot request system in place. Ballot request form is on the elections.pacifica.org website.
August 15 - Sept 30
- Various PSAs and ecampaigns to encourage participation across the network.
Sept 30 - Ballot phase closes - cast your vote by 8:59 pm Pacific time
- Extension of up to 7 days if necessary to reach quorum (additional cost to vendor and NES) - Quorum is 10% of listeners, 25% of staff
October 15 - Certification of results
Nov 1st - NES FINAL REPORT
National Election Supervisor Renee Peñaloza can be reached at nes@pacifica.org
nEW DELEGATES WILL BE SEATED IN DECEMBER ON THE LOCAL STATION BOARD
Click here for 2024 EEO Report
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KPFK, under a policy adopted by the Pacifica National Board, is now accepting underwriting from local businesses, community organizations, and other non-profits, that are aligned with Pacifica’s Mission Statement. Underwriters will receive weekly on-air announcements acknowledging their support for KPFK, listing on a dedicated page on our website, and a rotated listing in KPFK’s weekly Dispatch newsletter emailed to over 17,000 of our listeners. KPFK has the strongest broadcast signal in Southern California, with listeners from Santa Barbara to San Diego to the greater Palm Springs area, and online at KPFK.org. We are listener-sponsored, commercial-free Pacifica Radio for all of Southern California.
For more details about how you can become an underwriter of KPFK, email mnovick@kpfk.org with your contact info and "Underwriting" in the subject line or click this link to fill out the preliminary contact form: https://kpfk.org/community-underwriting-intake-form
We will send you more information about the program and what it offers.
At least two women in Georgia have died since the state’s six-week abortion ban went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Candi Miller and Amber Thurman, both Black women and mothers to young children, died after they were unable to access care for rare but typically treatable complications caused by medication abortion. We hear more from ProPublica editor Ziva Branstetter, whose publication reported on the preventable deaths of Miller and Thurman, and from reproductive justice advocate Monica Simpson. “We are in a maternal healthcare crisis in our state,” says Simpson, the executive director of SisterSong, an organization that works throughout the southern United States on behalf of communities of color, which disproportionately suffer the impacts of restrictions on abortion care.
At least 12 people were killed and over 2,800 people were injured Tuesday in Lebanon when electronic pagers used by many members of Hezbollah — who had switched to the older technology over concerns of mobile phones’ vulnerability to security breaches — exploded simultaneously across the country in a coordinated attack on the group. Individual explosions occurred in supermarkets, cafes, houses and in other public places. Many of the injuries were sustained by civilians who were not carrying the pagers themselves, including at least two children who died from their wounds. According to a Reuters report, Israel’s Mossad spy agency had managed to plant explosive material in a batch of pagers bought in recent months by Hezbollah, which has vowed to retaliate, deepening the risks of a broader regional war. We discuss the attack with three guests: Beirut-based journalist Mohamad Kleit, Human Rights Watch’s Ramzi Kaiss and Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri. Kaiss says the “indiscriminate attack” on the Lebanese population — which Kleit additionally describes as “terrorist” — is “unlawful under the rules of war.” “What the Israeli attack using the pagers did was completely throw out the rulebook,” says Khouri, as eyes are on the region in preparation for another possible Israeli escalation.
KPFK's Rebel Alliance News is our nightly weekday English-language locally produced newscast, your uncensored source of progressive news, information and commentary, with international, national, state-wide and local coverage. Interim news director Ziri Rideaux has recruited a team of unpaid newsgatherers, reporters, commentators and anchors to cover local, state, national and international news, including Angela Birdsong, Jack Kennedy, Polina Vasiliev, Ann Garrison, Don DeBar, Dan Nowman, Marcy Winograd and others. We are looking for more beat reporters and volunteer stringers from OC, San Diego, and covering local government, housing and policing issues in Southern California including LA City and County and other municipalities. Email news@kpfk.org
In this one-man tour-de-force based on Picasso's writings, writer/performer Herbert Sigüenza (Culture Clash) takes on the role of the legendary artist, inviting the listener into Picasso's private studio for an intimate and revealing weekend as he prepares to deliver six new works to a buyer on Monday morning. Includes a conversation with Herbert Sigüenza and Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Department Head of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Music, Media, Education, Worker Owned Cooperatives, Sustainability, Enlightenment and more! Steven Starr welcomes guests Peter Kalmus and Rose Abramoff, two key forces behind Scientist Rebellion
From darkness to light on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] FIRST UP... As an increasingly panicked Team Trump continues to find new depths in which to sink and new, more dangerous lows to drill down into --- Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world turned virulent Trump supporter, [...]
On today's BradCast, a focus on the challenges ahead for election officials in what is likely to be the most closely watched state in the country, in the most closely watched Presidential election of all time. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] FIRST UP... The endorsements for Kamala Harris keep rolling in. From the [...]
The extremist rightwing Heritage Foundation has made immigration its number one issue. What would a progressive vision of immigration look like instead?
In a story for YES!, award winning journalist Peter Yeung explains how Los Cedros’s rights as a forest have prevailed against extractive industries thanks to its constitutional protections.
Currently heard Tuesdays at 7am on KPFK Archives of the program can be found HERE |
Something's Happening is KPFK's long-running overnight program midnight to 6:00 AM Tuesday-Friday with segments of holistic health, meditation, psychology, philosophy, political economy, science fiction and fact, old radio and more, created and long curated by the late Roy of Hollywood, Roy Tuckman. KPFK has been maintaining it since he passed in his honor and memory and in the framework and format he developed and evolved over the decades, which continues to evolve.
Monday overnight to Tuesday features political economy, including Creative Frontline, a new segment developed exclusively for radio for KPFK by filmmaker Robert Lundahl and producer Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone, a Chiricahua Apache investigative reporter, about Indigenous land and water protection in the face of extractivism industries. Extended video versions are available on YouTube. Equal Rights and Justice from WBAI also airs in that early morning.
Tuesday overnight to Wednesday is holistic health, with Street Sankofa with Dr. Ife Jie, dealing with mental liberation as HipHop artivist and scholar, Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA, Green Street and Food Sleuth Radio from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Whole Mother about pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing from sister station KPFT.
Wednesday overnight to Thursday features an anti-fascist focus, with programming from David Emory's "For the Record," the Grayzone Radio from Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate', also developed for radio on KPFK's initiative, Final Straw Radio from young anti-authoritarians from the Pacifica affiliates unit, and Out-FM from sister station WBAI in New York.
Thursday overnight to Friday focuses on philosophy, psychology and consciousness/enlightenment, with Alan Watts, The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein from the Pacifica affiliates unit, an old radio break with drama, mystery, science fiction and comedy, and at 3:00 AM, Caroline Casey, the Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA in Berkeley, a long-running feature on Something's Happening. We have also been running occasional lectures from the "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps" from Kings College in London.
Each hour is separately posted on the station's archives for easy listening - Something's Happening A hours 1-3, and Something's Happening B hours 1-3 each overnight. Check it out! Dynamite radio for night people also available 24-7 on kpfk.org (for listening, not download).
Tuesdays at Midnight (late Monday night)
CLICK HERE FOR KPFK LOCAL STATION BOARD INFORMATION AND NEWS
Members and Officers of the Local Station Board, 2024
Rodrigo Argueta Vargas
Christina Avalos
Doug Barnett
Veronica Becerra
Mike Bressler
Tatanka Bricca, Chair
Rachel Bruhnke
John Cromshow
Ace Estwick
Vic Gerami
Aryana Gladney
Jan Goodman, listener director
Wendell Handy
Nikki Haun, Vice chair
Michael Heiss
Sue Cohen-Johnson
Evelia Jones, listener director
Oye Oyeyipo
Robert Payne
Nancy Pearlman
Myla Reson, staff director
Oscar Ulloa
Harvey Wasserman, listener director
Carlos Zavala
Ex officio, non-voting: Michael Novick, interim General manager
Secretary: Leslie Dione Emge
Treasurer: Steven Meeks (serves ex officio on PNB's National Finance Committee)
Pacifica National Board and Local Station Board meetings, as well as those of their committees can be found here:
Pacifica's governance - Pacifica National Board and the Local Station Boards/dlegates of the five stations are considering the following Bylaws amendment affecting the filling of vacancies of delegates, which the delegates will consider at a Local Station Board meeting in July:
Pacifica Foundation Info can be found on the foundation's website at www.pacifica.org.
The Pacifica National Board (PNB) can be reached by email at PNB@pacifica.org.
The Local Station Board (LSB) can be reached by email at LSB@kpfk.org.
Information about governance meetings can be found at https://kpftx.org
PNB Directors' Reports are now on a blog - click on blogs on the top navigation menu above.
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KPFA Radio Berkeley - UpFront Producer Sought -
UpFront is a mostly-live morning public affairs show that delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through engaging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 am on 94.1 FM and at kpfa.org. This producer will have primary responsibility for setting up most days’ shows, with help from the show’s host and interns. More info here
KPFK is seeking to fill several pro bono (unpaid) interim management and coordinator positions. These include:
interim unpaid development director to form and guide a development task force to raise funds for the station;
interim unpaid social media marketing manager to coordinate social media promotion efforts at and by the station;
interim unpaid volunteer coordinator to recruit and supervise volunteers for diverse tasks at the station.
Those interested in applying for these unpaid interim positions, please contact interim GM Michael Novick at gm@kpfk.org.
Pacifica Foundation Radio seeks an experienced leader for the position of General Manager of its Los Angeles station, KPFK 90.7 FM For more information and to apply, click HERE or see http://pacifica.org/jobs_kpfk.php |
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Midnight - 1:00am
News and programming on the cutting edge - dynamite radio for night people
1:00am - 2:00am
Political Economy Tues, Holistic Health Wed, Anti-Fascism Thu, Philosophy/Psychology/Spirituality Fri
4:00am - 5:00am
Public affairs programming - dynamite radio for night people
Strange Days: A Tribute To The Doors LIVE at The Whisky A Go Go Friday September 20, 2024 6pm
at Whisky A Go GoGregory Maqoma + Vuyani Dance Theatre Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro Saturday September 21, 2024 8pm UCLA's Royce Hall
at UCLA Royce HallGuitarist Julian Lage Speak To Me Tour Sunday September 22, 2024 Live At The Palace Theatre 8pm
at Palace TheatreDon Was And The Pan-Detroit Ensemble Sunday September 22, 2024 LIVE At The Canyon Club In Agoura Hills 8pm
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