Mar 28 Watch 4:05 To draw fresh crowds, symphony offers modern take on classical music By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 25 Lawrence Ferlinghetti recounts more than six decades of life in San Francisco By Joanne Elgart Jennings The first time I met Lawrence Ferlinghetti was unforgettable: It was early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and Elizabeth Farnsworth and I were working on a story about him for the PBS NewsHour. Continue reading
Mar 03 Artist builds a wind-powered soup-serving soil-testing kitchen in Philadelphia By Joel Wanek, KQED For one week in 2011, North Philadelphia residents could see a windmill atop the roof of a formerly abandoned building. Test tubes of soil floated in the downstairs window of what was advertised as "Soil Kitchen," a place where you… Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 5:47 Artist Amy Franceshini wants to confuse you … and that’s a good thing By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 03 San Francisco dance troupe bears witness to history of human trafficking By Joel Wanek, KQED Lenora Lee, the artistic director of her dance company Lenora Lee Dance, creates large-scale interdisciplinary choreography that combine video projection, martial arts, music and text to talk about culture, history and human rights issues. Continue reading
Jan 06 California artist draws on long tradition of socially conscious printmaking By Kristin Farr, KQED From migrating butterflies to ancestral faces, visual artist Favianna Rodriguez uses printmaking to inspire social change. Continue reading
Sep 09 Watch With rakes and ropes, beaches become momentary, giant works of art By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch Documenting gay rights activists at dawn of the movement By PBS News Hour KQED presents a report on photographer Anthony Friedkin and his efforts to document gay life more than 40 years ago. Friedkin's photographs were ahead of their time and most galleries wouldn’t show them -- until now. The culmination of Friedkin’s… Continue watching
Jun 04 Five big takeaways from California’s primary elections By John Myers, KQED 1. The Brown Bomber: No one received more votes on Tuesday than Gov. Jerry Brown, and it’s hard to see the veteran Democrat biting his fingernails about the fall contest to come. Neither of his main GOP challengers came… Continue reading