Member Magazine JUNE 2016 Celebrating Joan Baez KQED Perks KQED Member Day at SFMOMA — Free Admission to New Museum on June 23 After a three-year-long expansion, the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a must-see San Francisco destination. The largest museum of its kind in the United States, SFMOMA now offers free public spaces, free admission for visitors 18 and under, 170,000 square feet of gallery space, and almost an entire floor devoted to photography. To celebrate the newly transformed museum, KQED is partnering with SFMOMA for KQED Member Day! On Thursday, June 23, KQED members plus one guest are admitted free to SFMOMA (current KQED MemberCard and valid ID required). These free, timed tickets must be picked up on-site, cannot be reserved in advance, and are subject to availability. For hours, information about exhibitions and more, visit sfmoma.org Ask/Tell: LGBT Event Focuses on Veterans Hosted by famed drag queen Landa Lakes, this year’s LGBT celebration will focus on KQED’s continued work with veterans. Former and active military personnel will speak about their experiences serving in the military through song, dance and spoken word — and glitter. Ask/Tell will include the whole spectrum of the queer population and © Henrik Kam, courtesy SFMOMA. will highlight important issues for the LGBT community today. Wednesday, June 8 Oasis, 298 11th St., San Francisco Doors open at 7pm Free, please register to attend. asktell.eventbrite.com courtesy Joseph Sinnott/WNET. KQED Members Save on Tickets to Snøhetta expansion of the new SFMOMA, San Jose Summer Concert Series Downtown San Jose’s 2016 Music in the Park concert series kicks off with Grammy Award winners Los Lobos on Friday, June 24. On Thursday, July 14, rock out with two all-female classic rock tribute bands, AC/DShe and The Killer Queens. On Thursday, August 4, Grammy Award winners Ozomatli take to the stage, blending Latin rock, hip-hop and jazz. The final concert, onThursday, August 25, will feature one of the top R&B and soul bands in history (to be announced on June 24). the Indigo Girls and Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter, KQED members: use promo code “KQED” to receive $5 off (page 2) Photos: (cover) courtesy Joseph Sinnott/WNET. (page 3) tickets to each show. musicintheparksj.com On Q June 2016 KQED Public Radio Joan Baez KQED Public Television A Star-Studded Birthday Celebration Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday “She has showed multiple generations on Saturday, January 27, 2016, at that music can move and inspire New York’s historic Beacon Theatre. as well as be a force for courage, The special event honored her legendary solidarity, fellowship and justice. 50-plus years in music with an intimate, To be able to celebrate her 75th career-spanning live performance, birthday with her in New York City is a including duets with a remarkable array dream evening, and I think I will feel 17 of superstar artists. again for much of it.” Indeed, their duet of “Catch the Joining Baez on stage for duets are David Bromberg, Wind” – movingly dedicated to Baez’s Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ late sister Mimi – is a highpoint. Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, But all the duets reveal a strong Judy Collins, David Crosby, Emmylou Harris, mutual affection between Baez and her guests, close friends as much as the Indigo Girls, Damien Rice, Paul Simon, professional colleagues. Mavis Staples, Nano Stern and Richard Thompson. Despite the vastness of the ornate Beacon Theatre, a former movie “She has been a mentor, an palace from the 1920s, the concert is inspiration and a role model for anyone captured in intimate close-ups, and who ever picked up a guitar and wanted Baez intersperses her vocals with to believe they could do more than off-the-cuff reminiscences such as how just sing pretty songs,” observed Mary she was once tasked with waking an Chapin Carpenter before the event. exhausted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. KQED.org Great Performances presents Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration, Saturday, June 4, at 8pm on KQED 9. 3 Arts Spark: Our Creative Nature Featuring art projects that protect and enhance the environment The new Spark special “Our Creative Next, step into the Berkeley studio snowfall covers them up or they simply Nature,” airing Monday, June 27, at of Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, melt away. 7:30pm on KQED 9, explores innovative designers who are using organic materials Finally, take to the stage with projects that help to protect and enhance like sand, salt and clay to bring new form San Francisco choreographer KT Nelson our environment. See how Bay Area artists, to large-scale 3-D printing. Their creations and the ODC dancers as they perform working in a variety of genres, hope to swing are among the first steps toward a whole a stunning new work, Dead Reckoning. public opinion behind efforts to improve the new world of sustainable, natural building Scored by former Kronos Quartet cellist quality of our land, waters and air. materials that could profoundly change Joan Jeanrenaud, the dance uses a mix of . (bottom) courtesy Wendy Inspired by her fieldwork in the Arctic how we design and manufacture everything visual and acoustic motifs — the sound and Antarctic, composer Cheryl Leonard from our furniture to the houses we live in. of a tree falling, for instance — to make creates instruments and compositions from viewers experience the anxiety and urgency Then, strap on snowshoes to follow onja Hinrichsen field recordings and found objects like artist Sonja Hinrichsen as she and dozens of a world transformed by climate change. penguin bones, dried seaweed, and ice. As of volunteers make massive snow drawings kqed.org/spark ; courtesy S she prepares for her performance as part of in the Sierra. Designed to enhance natural Ronald Rael Emerging Objects image, courtesy Matthew the Brower Center’s Vanishing Ice exhibit in landscapes around the world, Hinrichsen’s Berkeley, she hopes to use sound to help her art is completely ephemeral; when her Funding for KQED Arts is provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Diane audience make visceral connections to polar creations are complete, it’s a race against B. Wilsey, the California Arts Council, a state landscapes in need of preservation. time to photograph them before the next agency, Helen Sarah Steyer, and the William Photos: (top l. to r. ) Millman Photography Goodfriend/KQED. and Gretchen Kimball Fund. KQED Volunteer Honored Nationally For the past five years, Ken Blackmon has “I believe that an informed citizenry needs arrived at KQED by 6am, seven days a a news source that is as independent as week, to volunteeer at every KQED Public possible of commercial, agenda-based Radio pledge drive (that’s three drives a influence,” said Ken. “Volunteering at KQED lets year for up to two weeks at a stretch). me physically support that idea. Plus I meet like- Given his unflagging commitment, minded people, make new friends and enjoy the it comes as no surprise that Ken has been camaraderie of working for a common cause.” selected by the National Friends of Public Volunteers have always been an integral Broadcasting as the 2016 Outstanding part of public broadcasting, and KQED is very Public Broadcasting Volunteer. grateful to have such a stellar group of people supporting us during our pledge drives. 4 Thank you all! On Q June 2016 Science Bay Area Life KQED Public Radio in partnership with the KQED Public Television Californians are no strangers to the destructive power You are invited to join KQED at the second annual of earthquakes. And it likely comes as no surprise that, on Bay Area Book Festival, presented in partnership with average, an earthquake of magnitude 8 or higher strikes the San Francisco Chronicle. More than 250 local, somewhere on our planet every year and that national and international authors are scheduled to approximately 10,000 people die annually as a result be present at this free, family-friendly festival, of quakes. happening June 4 and 5 from 10am to 6pm in An online collection of videos and infographics downtown Berkeley. co-presented by KQED and the California Academy of Meet your favorite authors and discover new ones. Sherman Alexie, Rebecca Solnit, Colm Tóibín, Richard Sciences provides a new perspective on one of the most Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ powerful natural phenomena on Earth. Russo, Daniel Clowes, Jacqueline Winspear, and “We are thrilled to partner with the California 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners T.J. Stiles and William Academy of Sciences to make all of these resources freely Finnegan will be there – plus renowned spoken-word available and easily accessible to the public, educators artist Saul Williams. and students,” says Andrea Aust, senior manager of In addition to a full weekend of activities for kids science education at KQED. Drawing from the academy’s and teenagers, this year’s festival inaugurates a new film Earthquake exhibit, its gorgeous digital visualizations series, running concurrent with the festival and screening and KQED’s multimedia reporting, you’ll learn why in BAMPFA’s new theater. The series celebrates how the earthquakes happen, how they’ve shaped the Bay Area language of cinema can reflect, even reinvent, the forms and what you can do to prepare for the next big one. and substances of fiction and poetry. The festival is free, but reserving your place for kqed.org/earthquake indoor sessions will ensure you can get into the most popular sessions. The complete schedule and more details are online. KQED.org Support of KQED Science is provided by HopeLab, the David B.