MemberMember MagazineMagazine APRIL 2018 If Cities Could Dance KQED Perks KQED Member Days Free admission to The Contemporary Jewish Museum Visit The Contemporary Jewish Museum's new exhibition, The Art of Rube Goldberg, for free during KQED Member Days! Goldberg began his career drawing comics for the San Francisco Chronicle. Goldberg’s contraptions, which were nothing short of a cultural phenomenon in the 1930s, delight audiences to this day. This exhibition brings together never-before-seen original drawings and rare memorabilia from the Goldberg family archives. KQED Members receive free admission to the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Saturday, April 21, and Sunday, April 22, with a valid ID and KQED MemberCard (two persons total). Complimentary One-Day Tickets to Art Market Art Market San Francisco, the Bay Area's leading modern and contemporary art fair, returns to Fort Mason Center's Festival Pavilion from April 26-29. The fair’s eighth edition offers presentations by 80 top galleries from around the world, for enjoyment and acquisition. KQED members receive a pair of complimentary one-day tickets at artmarketsf.com/tickets/kqed18-1day. artmarketsf.com Bay Area Book Festival Brings Together Literary Luminaries Experience a literary extravaganza at the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival in downtown Berkeley, April 28-29. Meet 250 top authors of literary fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, poetry, nonfiction and more. Participants include Robert Reich, Pico Iyer, Rebecca Solnit, Alice Waters, Geneen Roth, Sally Kohn, Gary Snyder, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joyce Maynard, and bestselling teen writers Melissa de la Cruz and Sabaa Tahir. Plus, Dave Eggers will debut his first-ever novel for middle- graders, and kids will love appearances by Newbery Award winner Katherine Applegate and picture book favorite Mac Barnett. In addition, there will be 200 outdoor exhibitors and food vendors. General admission passes are $15 each, and priority tickets are $10 per event. Photos (top to bottom): courtesy Rube Goldberg Inc.; Art Market; Ramin Talaie. baybookfest.org On Q April 2018 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television If Cities Could Dance If Cities Could Dance, a new online video series from ● Detroit choreographer and dancer Erika “Red” Stowall KQED Arts, features dancers performing outside (pictured on cover and above) started dancing at the traditional performance spaces and in unconventional age of four. She focused on African and Caribbean urban settings, from an open-air produce market to a traditions and later studied jazz, tap, ballet and historic train station to city streets. Each episode tells contemporary dance interpretations. Stowall showcases an intimate, personal story about the artists and their her blend of styles (movement she calls “mutt” deep-rooted relationships to their community. The eight- or “gumbo”) in Detroit’s historic Corktown part series highlights dancers in San Francisco, Oakland neighborhood, including in front of the old Michigan and San Jose, as well as in Detroit, Portland, Los Angeles, Central Station train depot. Through her dance New Orleans, Baltimore and New York, celebrating dance company Big Red Wall, Stowall creates dances that styles unique to each urban area. The series is funded empower women to reclaim their safety and power. with a special grant from the Oakland-based Kenneth Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ Rainin Foundation. ● Los Angeles-based contemporary dancers Lilia Ontiveros and Roberto Lamubren, both with family These are some of the featured dancers and companies: roots in Mexico, present their performances against the backdrop of a busy produce market in downtown ● Founded in the early 1980s, the San Jose street dance Los Angeles. The market’s vendors, products and crew Playboyz Inc. helped develop the Bay Area customers represent countries from all over the world, underground tradition of “strutting” and “popping,” and the dancers focus on the influence of migration which include intricate movements of some of the across greater Los Angeles while including themes of body’s tiniest muscles. We meet the newest generation their own immigrant stories. This episode is of Playboyz Inc. from the neighborhoods of East San choreographed by Heidi Duckler, whose dance Jose, where Latino, African American, Asian and company — which is based in downtown Los Angeles Samoan dancers come together to evolve a fresh new — has created movement experiences in style. The dancers share their reflections on the pride nontraditional spaces for 30 years. KQED.org and identity they infuse into their choreography and Photos (cover; inside): courtesy Claudia Escobar / KQED. comment on the enthusiasm of street dancers around If Cities Could Dance premieres Tuesday, April 10. the world for this Bay Area original art form. kqed.org/arts 3 FoodNews Start Your Day With The Bay KQED’s new podcast The Bay stems from How is The Bay different from How are you and the production team the idea that every good story starts local. other podcasts? going to produce a four-times-per-week Host Devin Katayama talks with the The Bay wants to break down the reporter/ podcast? reporters and people directly affected by audience barrier and let everyone inside Producing four episodes a week is a hustle. the news to go deeper into the stories that our reporting process. We are trying to A lot goes into a 5-10 minute show. The help to define the Bay Area. Published marry short-term narrative and daily news, Bay team is tapped into what reporters four times a week, The Bay mines the which means listeners get the urgency of are working on and anticipating what personal impact of the stories to reveal what’s happening around the Bay, but will news may happen. We’re flexible enough the humanity behind the headlines. be more engaged with the story — all in to jump on breaking news, but we don’t Katayama sat down with On Q to tell us under ten minutes. consider ourselves a breaking news show. more about The Bay. Tune in to KQED 88.5 FM or visit What excites you most about it? kqed.org if you want to know what’s How did The Bay originate? I’m most excited about working alongside happening now; play our show if you I started in radio almost ten years ago, Vinnee Tong and Erika Aguilar — two want to know what it means. and I’ve always wanted a show that brings producers who like to think deeply Start listening to The Bay by subscribing on people along on an adventure. I thought it about the true meaning of news. As part Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your would be cool to listen to a news program of our production process, we spend a podcasts, or visit kqed.org/thebay. that showed those moments of uncertainty, fair amount of time sharing our own transparency and discovery, almost hearing experiences and analyzing why some Funding for KQED News is provided by the the story unfold as it happens. The Bay news is deeper than just the headline. James Irvine Foundation, the San Francisco team has been lucky enough to develop For example, the North Bay fires created Foundation, the Westly Foundation, the our show from scratch based off our belief a second wave of homelessness. What Heising-Simons Foundation, the Craig Newmark Charitable Fund and the members that people want smart, creative stories does that mean to a city that was already of KQED. that help them understand the Bay Area. struggling to serve homeless people? Photo: courtesy Juan Plasencia / KQED. 4 On Q April 2018 Education KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Youth Takeover Brings New Voices to KQED’s Flagship Programs It’s a Youth Takeover! That’s what we’re calling the week of School, Menlo-Atherton High School, Palo Alto High April 23-27, when stories pitched, produced and reported School, Richmond High School, Sacred Heart Cathedral by local youth will air across KQED’s news platforms. Preparatory, San Leandro High School and Santa Clara Their stories will air during local editions of Morning Edition, High School. The California Report, Forum, KQED Newsroom and more. KQED News has long valued and featured youth telling In preparation, staff in KQED’s Education and News their stories and takes this latest step with great commitment departments have been collaborating with a pilot group of ten to carving out more space for voices of the next generation. Bay Area high school journalism and English/language arts John Sepulvado, host of The California Report, adds: classes for the past two months. “When we say we’re public media, we mean we’re public “We are in a ‘youth takeover’ moment right now that’s media. We’re encouraging them to join us — and whether Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ becoming a movement. It’s empowering to use our platforms it’s for a week, a month, a year or, like me, have a lifelong to broadcast and elevate the voices of our youth community commitment to public media, we’re all richer for members in this dedicated way, where their story ideas are their involvement.” at the forefront,” says KQED Youth Media Manager Ariana Selected stories will broadcast on air as part of KQED’s Proehl. regular programming and will be published online. Every In February, students pitched stories to staff and student story, including those not broadcasted due to limited journalists — including The California Report Magazine’s Sasha time slots, will be accessible online at The Lowdown Khokha and KQED Newsroom Senior Producer Monica Lam (kqed.org/lowdown). So don’t adjust the dial when you hear — getting feedback on their story ideas. Students were then numerous youth voices over the airwaves during the last off and running to produce their stories for submission.