Live in Studio A p. 4-5 Sights & Sounds of LIVE Richmond p. 7 AND LOCAL Cabrillo Festival 2017 p. 6 Kamau Right Now! p. 7 Summer 2017 KALW: By and for the community . COMMUNITY BROADCAST PARTNERS America Scores Bay Area • Association for Continuing Education • Bay Area Book Festival • Berkeleyside• Berkeley Symphony Orchestra • Burton High School • Cabrillo Festival • East Bay Express • Global Exchange • INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club • Jewish Community Center of San Francisco • New America Media • Other Minds • outLoud Radio • Radio Ambulante • San Francisco Arts Commission • San Francisco Conservatory of Music • San Quentin Prison Radio • SF Performances • Stanford Storytelling Project • StoryCorps • Youth Radio KALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERS Shereen Adel, Josiah-Luis Alderete, Dennis Aman, Dan Becker, David Boyer, Susie Britton, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Lisa Cantrell, Bonnie Chan, Julie Dewitt, Ethan Elkind, Chuck Finney, Richard Friedman, Janos Gereben, Nato Green, Sadie Gribbon, Nicole Grigg, Dawn Gross, Anne Harper, Meradith Hoddinott, Wendy Holcombe, Jeremy Jue, Dianne Keogh, Kendra Klang, Carol Kocivar, Justine Lee, Martin MacClain, JoAnn Mar, Holly J. McDede, Greer McVay, Rhian Miller, Sandy Miranda, Helena Murphy, Emmanuel Nado, Marty Nemko, Erik Neumann, Chris Nooney, Edwin Okong’o, Kevin Oliver, Steve O’Neill, David Onek, Joseph Pace, Colin Peden, Stephanie Porcell, Peter Robinson, Dana Rodriguez, Dean Schmidt, Raja Shah, Lezak Shallat, Steven Short, Kanwalroop Singh, Cari Spivack, Dore Stein, Claire Stremple, Devon Strolovitch, Niels Swinkels, Beatrice Thomas, Peter Thompson, Kevin Vance, Boawen Wang KALW VOLUNTEERS Daniel Aarons, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Judy Aune, Leon Bayer, Brenda Beebe, Nikki Bengal, Susan Bergman, Laura Bernabei, Christopher Boehm, Karl Bouldin, Robbie Brandwynne, Karen Brehm, Nathan Brennan, Diane Brett, Joshua Brody, Marie Camp, Ceinwen Carney, Jessica Chylik, Linda Clever, Susan Colowick, Peter Conheim, Keith Dabney, Carolyn Deacy, Roger Donaldson, Louis Dorsey, James Coy Driscoll, Laura Drossman, Nanette Duffy, Kai Dwyer, Linda Eby, Eleanor Eliott, Jim & Joy Esser, Peter Fortune, Nina Frankel, Stephen Gildersleeve, Helen Gilliland, Andrei Glase, Dave Gomberg, Jo Gray, Terence Groeper, Paula Groves, Ted Guggenheim, Daniel Gunning, Ian Hardcastle, Barbro Haves, Jeffrey Hayden, Eliza Hersh, Tom Herzfeld, Phil Heymann, Kent Howard, Clara Hsu, Susan Hughes, Judge Eugene Hyman, Didi Iseyama, Jenny Jens, Vicky Julian, Kathleen Kaplan, Brenda Kett, Lou Kipilman, Franzi Latko, Claire LaVaute, Joseph Lepera, Margaret Levitt, Fred Lipschultz, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, William Maggs, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Ann Maley, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, John MacDevitt, Robert McCloud, Michael McGinley, Sylvie Merlin, Matt Miller, Susan Miller, Linda Morine, Reba Myall-Martin, John Navas, Brian Neilson, Antonio Nierras, Laura Niespolo,Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Art Persyko, Dale Pitman, Elise Phillips, Maria Politzer, Caterine Raye-Wong, Ronald Rohde, Marti Roush, John Roybal, Jaimie Sanford, Jean Schnall, Bill Schwalb, Ron Scudder, Marc Seidenfeld, Lezak Shallat, Steve Sherwood, Angelo Sphere, Kevin Stamm, Tim Sullivan, Flora Summers, Bian Tan, Howard Tharsing, Madelon Thompson, Sal Timpano, Rob Trelawney, Kathy Trewin, David Vartanoff, Charlie Wegerle, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Superintendent: Vincent Matthews • Board of Commissioners: Stevon Cook, Matt Haney, Hydra Mendoza-McDonell, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Mark Sanchez, Shamann Walton, Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe KALW PERSONNEL Matt Martin, General Manager Malihe Razazan, Sr. Producer W. Kamau Bell, Host William Helgeson, Sana Saleem, Producer Max Jacobs, Producer Operations Manager Ben Trefny, News Director Phil Surkis, Producer Phil Hartman, Engineering Jen Chien, Managing Editor Becca Hoekstra, Producer Annette Bistrup, Jeremy Dalmas, Producer Maia Harris, Producer Development Director Ninna Gaensler-Debs, Producer Eric Jansen, Announcer Truc Nguyen, Membership Angela Johnston, Producer Debi Kennedy, Announcer Chris Hambrick, Membership Judy Silber, Producer Damien Minor, Announcer Olga Volodina, Membership Lisa Morehouse, Editor Colin Peden, Announcer Shipra Shukla, Program Andrew Stelzer, Editor Bob Sommer, Announcer Information James Rowlands, News Engineer Kevin Vance, Announcer Ashleyanne Krigbaum, Hana Baba, Host/Reporter Eric Wayne, Announcer Announcer Hannah Kingsley-Ma, Producer Jeanne Marie Acceturo, David Latulippe, Announcer Liza Veale, Producer Announcer JoAnn Mar, Announcer Holly McDede, Reporter Rose Aguilar, Host Eli Wirtschafter, Reporter ABOUT KALW KALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting since September 1, 1941 — the oldest FM signal west of the Mississippi. Mailing address: KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121 500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125 San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134 KALW program guide edited by Matt Martin, David Latulippe and Shipra Shukla, designed by Georgette Petropoulos. © Contents KALW ON THE COVER: Clockwise, from upper left: Yvette Cornelia Holzwarth, performing in KALW’s Studio A (credit: Dore Stein); Ladia Yates, dancer performing at Sights & Sounds of Richmond (credit: Dance Mogul Magazine); W. Kamau Bell and audience (credit: John Orvis); Evelyn Glennie, featured artist at this year’s Cabrillo Festival (credit: Caroline Purday). 2 Manager’s Notes KALW is a creative community en- Healthy Communities. terprise. Publicly-owned and powered We’re also growing our effort to by listeners, we strive to continuously develop journalism behind the walls of develop new programming and new California’s state prisons. San Quentin talents. And we work with a spirit of Radio is going strong, bringing stories enterprise, thriving on partnership and of life inside California’s oldest prison to exchange. the public airwaves. This summer, the We’re now formaliz- station is in high gear, ing our training pro- collaborating with gram at San Quentin diverse partners to and will soon begin expand the range of work with prison- voices and perspec- ers at Solano State tives at KALW and in Prison in Vacaville. public media. KALW’s 2017 SFUSD Interns: Susanna Luo, In 2016, listener KALW’s Audio Kasey Che, Eloisa Herbert, and Allison support made it Academy recently Ajpop-Perez. possible for us to graduated its fourth class. The Audio undertake a significant renovation of our Academy is an intensive, nine-month studios, with a focus on making them training program in audio journalism more welcoming for musical perfor- that is supported by the Association for mance. The result is more live music Continuing Education. Its alumni have than ever in Studio A, bringing artists gone on to work at Snap Judgment, AJ+, from across the community and around The Washington Post – and KALW. the world directly to you. And it means The enthusiasm and diverse per- JoAnn Mar, Kevin Vance, and Peter spectives the Academy fellows bring to Thompson can once again host KALW’s KALW make a huge contribution to the On-Air Folk Festival (see p.4). life of the station – as do our summer We are also very pleased to renew news interns from San Francisco’s public our partnership with the Cabrillo Fes- schools. This summer, we’ve expanded tival of Contemporary Music. One of our cohort of SFUSD interns, and begin- the world’s great music festivals takes ning in the fall, we’ll be going in to class- place just down the road every August, rooms to do focused trainings at Galileo and you’ll be able to hear its complete and Burton High Schools. orchestra concerts on KALW (see p. 6). That training is supported by the Cali- This is only a sampling of the exciting fornia Arts Council, as is an ambitious things happening at KALW right now. new project we’ve embarked on in East In our next program guide, you’ll read Oakland, a part of the Bay Area that has about the award-winning work of our been poorly served by the news media. Spiritual Edge reporting project and the KALW News’ Hey Area project will give reinvention of Inflection Point Lauren people who live in East Oakland the op- Schiller has undertaken in partnership portunity to identify key questions about with PRX. their neighborhood and participate in Stay tuned, and thank you for being the reporting that answers them. part of the community that powers Local To engage East Oakland’s diverse Public Radio. communities, we’re collaborating with Sincerely, partners who have strong roots there: Oakland Voices, the East Oakland Youth Development Center, the Oakland Pub- Matt Martin lic Library, and East Oakland Building [email protected] 3 Live from Studio A Studio A is KALW’s main broad- cast studio. It’s where our announc- ers keep the station on the air, and where our local music hosts do their work. It’s also where most live musical performance at the station hap- pens. For the past 20 years, that meant musicians crowding into Zeb Early & Will Magid on Fog City Blues narrow spaces behind the micro- phones, or our hosts craning their necks to speak with their perform- ing guests. Now, thanks to renovations that have upgraded our equipment and reorganized the space, Studio A is far more welcoming for live musical performance. The result is more live music at KALW than ever. With the advent of our refur- bished studios, we are also reviv- ing a Saturday afternoon tradition: KALW’s On-Air Folk