Member Magazine MAY 2018 The Great American Read KQED Perks Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at CAAMFest The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM presents the 36th year of its annual festival, CAAMFest, the world’s largest showcase for new film, music, food and digital media from innovative Asian and Asian American artists. Presenting more than 100 works across the Bay Area, CAAMFest takes place May 10–24. In addition to four more days of festival, CAAMFest 36 broadens its slate by expanding programming into more mediums of art and performance. The festival opens at the Castro Theatre with a documentary about former San Jose mayor and longtime Democratic congressman Norman Mineta. caamfest.com Storytelling and Action at The Tech Join The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose on Friday, May 11, to explore how the power of a story inspires action to improve the world. The conversation features best-selling author and winner of the 2017 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award Khaled Hosseini; best-selling author and activist Dave Eggers; Valentino Achak Deng, formerly one of the lost boys of Sudan and the inspiration for Eggers’ book What Is the What; and KQED Silicon Valley Arts reporter Rachael Myrow. The Tech Cafe will be open for dinner beginning at 6pm, the panel discussion starts at 7pm and is followed by a dessert reception with the panelists, included with the price of admission. Tickets are $20 for KQED members, using the code KQED. thetech.org/events/storytelling-and-action KQED Member Discount to Maker Faire Experience Maker Faire Bay Area — a family-friendly celebration of invention, interactive art, creativity and curiosity on May 18–20 at San Mateo County Event Center. Immerse yourself in Maker culture with more than 800 exhibits, six plus stages, hands-on making and learning — all showcasing the creative and experimental innovators who make, play, tinker and hack to inspire the future. KQED members receive 15% off admission using the code MF18KQED. makerfaire.com Photos (top to bottom): courtesy CAAMFest; courtesy The Tech; courtesy Joan Rosenberg (Make Editorial). Photos (top to bottom): courtesy CAAMFest; The Tech; On Q May 2018 KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Read, share and vote in the first-ever national vote for America’s favorite novel If you were asked to name a novel that changed your life, as a society, viewers will hear from a variety of sources about what book would you say? what the novels on the top 100 list can tell us about our The Great American Read, a new eight-part television diverse nation, our shared values, our cultural identities and series and nationwide campaign that explores the joy of the common themes that tie us together. Watch as a star- books and the power of reading, will take you on a journey studded cast of beloved authors, celebrities and notable figures across the country to find America’s best-loved novel. including Margaret Atwood, Chelsea Clinton, Junot Díaz, “The power of reading is extraordinary,” says host Morgan Freeman, George R. R. Martin, Shaquille O’Neal, Meredith Vieira, author and 14-time Emmy Award winner. Sarah Jessica Parker, Gabrielle Union and others share their “It allows us to escape to new worlds, introduces personal stories and connections with their favorite titles. Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ us to a diverse range of people, opens our minds to different KQED will celebrate the love of literature with special ideas and allows us to keep learning no matter our age programming all summer long. Listen to Perspectives segments or background.” dedicated to how books changed the lives of Bay Area residents Produced by PBS in partnership with Nutopia, The and tune in to Forum for intimate chats with local authors to Great American Read explores the power of literature and discover their literary inspirations and personal favorites. Stay the joy of reading through the lens of America’s 100 best- tuned for special Great American Read coverage from KQED loved novels, as chosen by you. An announcement of all Arts, KQED Science, KQED Food and more. 100 books, selected from a demographically representative Visit pbs.org/greatamericanread to cast your vote starting national survey conducted by market research firm YouGov, Tuesday, May 22, and share your favorite titles from the list will be made available to the public prior to the launch of top 100 books on Facebook and Instagram using the episode on Tuesday, May 22, at 8pm on KQED 9. Voting hashtag #GreatReadPBS. will open in tandem with the two-hour premiere and will continue throughout the summer, leading up to the grand The Great American Read premieres KQED.org finale in October 2018. Tuesday, May 22, at 8pm on KQED 9. To spark conversation about the books that have Photos: courtesy Stephanie Berger Photography; Nutopia / PBS. inspired, moved and shaped us, both as individuals and kqed.org/greatamericanread 3 Food Check, Please! Bay Area Returns for Season 13 Check, Please! Bay Area features guests and eateries as diverse the Bay Area You’ve been waiting and itself — and Season 13 is no different! Tune in Thursdays at 7:30pm on KQED 9 for all-new episodes of the show that turns local diners into amateur now it’s here! restaurant critics. In each episode of the James Beard and Emmy Award–winning program, KQED’s popular Check, Please! Bay Area’s three local diners choose their favorite place to eat, while the other two guests Taste & Sip food and wine event will be visit anonymously. The restaurants are not notified that Check, Please! held Tuesday, May 22, 6:30–9pm, at the reviewers are dining there. After trying each other’s recommendations, they San Francisco Design Center Galleria. Sample join host and moderator Leslie Sbrocco to discuss, dispute and celebrate their mouthwatering bites from nearly 50 Check, dining experiences. Please! Bay Area–reviewed restaurants, sip “Check Please guests always surprise and delight me,” says Sbrocco. “They have wines from around the world and enjoy an endless appetite for new restaurants and cuisines, and never fail to bring a fresh specialty cocktails. perspective. With each episode, we get to explore these Bay Area favorites with the “Taste & Sip is my favorite event of the people who know them best.” year,” says Check, Please! Bay Area host Leslie Season 13 celebrates the diverse people who call the Bay Area home. Guests Sbrocco. “Not only are there world-class wines for this season include drag stars Sister Roma and BeBe Sweetbriar, attorneys, and spirits to sip, top-notch local eateries also homemakers, venture capitalists, hairdressers and DJs as well as celebrity chef Ryan show up to show off their best bites. It’s also my Scott. Get ready for a gastronomic adventure, including Brenda’s French Soul Food chance to meet and mingle with the fans of the offering up a taste of New Orleans in the Tenderloin, savory bites at La Marcha show; making them a part of the Check, Please! Tapas Bar in Berkeley, the wildly flamboyantly decorated Buck’s of Woodside and family is the goal of the event for me.” a visit to Paris via Lafayette at Reve Bistro. Tickets are $85 for KQED members, $95 general and available at kqed.org/ Want to be a guest on Check, Please! Bay Area? checkplease. All food and beverages are included Apply at kqed.org/checkplease. in the ticket price. Must be 21 years or older to attend. Special thanks to Check, Please! Bay Area Season 13 sponsors: Integrated Resources Group, Oakland International Airport, Redwood Credit Union, Sutter CPMC, Total Wine & More and Visit Oakland. Photo: courtesy Wendy Goodfriend / KQED. Photo: courtesy Wendy 4 On Q May 2018 Arts KQED Public Radio KQED Public Television Rebel Girls From Bay Area Herstory KQED Pop’s new series, Rebel Girls, In her writing, Beasley not only but one that paid off in a larger sense, highlights female trailblazers from bucked racist stereotypes by putting giving a voice to the black pioneers the Bay Area’s past. Discover Sofia an emphasis on achievements in the who had largely been written out of Mendoza, a civil rights activist and African American community, but history. The book remains widely beloved community organizer who also managed to shine a light on the available today. battled for better schools, a fairer barriers that people of color — and Beasley continued writing her police force and Hispanic rights, and women — faced in their everyday lives. column for the Oakland Tribune until innovators like Louise Arner Boyd, an Even when she was writing about local her death in 1934. She is buried in Arctic explorer and photographer who issues, Beasley’s vision was big picture. St. Mary’s Cemetery in Oakland, was utterly fearless in her adventures, She had an instinct and understanding and her tombstone reads: “Author which included going on eight Arctic that her column had the potential to and columnist, a native of Ohio and expeditions and being the first woman act as a direct line to both the white for 25 years, a resident of Oakland.” to fly over the North Pole. establishment, which could affect Beasley’s own words might have proved Get magazine online: kqed.org/OnQ Another woman in Bay Area legal change, and the average white a more fitting tribute to her tenacious Herstory, Delilah L. Beasley was a household, which might encourage trailblazing. “Every life casts its pioneering journalist and dedicated social change. shadow,” she once wrote, “My life plus writer who used her pen as a weapon In 1919, Beasley self-published others make a peer to move the world.