October 2018 - KQED On Q by KQED

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KQED Perks Member Days at the de Young Museum Visit the de Young Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions for free during KQED Member Days on Friday, October 26, and Saturday, October 27! Contemporary Muslim Fashions is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex and diverse nature of Muslim fashion and modest dress codes by spotlighting places, garments and styles from around the world. It examines how Muslim women have become arbiters of style within and beyond their communities. Admission is free to KQED members plus one guest (total of two persons per current KQED MemberCard or membership info from On Q magazine and valid ID). Tickets are based on day-of availability only. deyoungmuseum.org

Enjoy music and culture that will rock the dead, rattle your bones and shake your soul at San Jose’s nineth annual Dia de los Muertos Festival in Plaza de César Chávez on Saturday, October 20. Bring the family to experience the Calavera Camp for kids, hosted by KQED — with the first 200 kids receiving free t-shirts that they can color with fabric ink. Entertainment includes live music, Lucha Revolución wrestling matches, the Artist Colony exhibit and live art by local youth. diasanjose.com

A Special Evening with Martin Yan Join KQED and host chef Martin Yan for a delectable, eight-course banquet at the elegant H.L. Peninsula Restaurant in South San Francisco on Thursday, October 25, at 6:30pm. Come share food and enjoy live entertainment in the form of colorful, behind-the-scenes stories from Martin’s new series, Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan, premiering Wednesday, October 24, at 7:30pm on KQED 9. The new series highlights the many natural and cultural treasures of Malaysia, with classic dishes that embrace three ethnicities — Malay, Chinese and Indian. Admission is $95 for KQED members, $110 for nonmembers and $1,000 for a table of ten. For tickets and more information, visit kqed.org/food.

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massive tunnel beneath a pyramid at the center of one of the largest ancient cities and mapping the heavens in celestially aligned cities. Narrated by Robbie Robertson (Mohawk and member of the famed rock group The Band), each hour of Native America explores Great Nations and reveals cities, sacred stories and history long hidden in plain sight. Watch tribal members and descendant communities, whose ancestors built this world, as they share their stories, revealing longheld oral traditions with a thread that runs through the past to these living cultures today. Inventive animations and 3D computer modeling bring ancient ruins to life, enabling viewers to experience the pre-Columbian world in an immersive way. The result is a new window into a 15,000-year-old story that unifies North and South America and resonates to this day. Native America airs Tuesdays, October 23, October 30 and November 13, at 9pm on KQED 9. pbs.org/native-america

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Who were the Americas’ First Peoples? The new fourpart PBS series Native America, which premieres Tuesday, October 23, aims to answer that 15,000-year-old question by combining ancient stories with modern science. Recent discoveries informed by Native American oral histories have led to a bold new perspective on North and South America — that through social networks spanning two continents, ancient people shared a foundational belief system with a diversity of cultural expression. Native America brings to life a land of massive cities connected by social networks spanning two continents, with unique and sophisticated systems of science, art and writing. Made with the active participation of Native American communities and filmed in some of the most spectacular locations in the hemisphere, Native America illuminates a story that for too long has remained untold. The series highlights intimate Native American traditions and follows field archaeologists using 21st-century tools such as multispectral imaging and DNA analysis to uncover incredible narratives of the past, venturing into Amazonian caves containing the Americas’ earliest art and interactive solar calendar, exploring a

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The new four-part series premieres Tuesday, October 23, at 9pm on KQED 9

Join KQED at the Dancing Feathers Youth Powwow on Saturday, October 20. Presented by the Friendship House Association of American Indians, the Native American Heath Center and KQED, the all-day festivities feature American

Indian arts and crafts, food, music and dancing. Watch youth compete in different dancing groups based on age and gender. For more information, visit friendshiphousesf.org.

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Celebrate Bay Area American Indian community and culture at the 13th annual Dancing Feathers Youth Powwow at Thomas Edison Charter Academy in San Francisco

FIND YOUR TRUSTED COVERAGE ON KQED This year’s midterm elections could dramatically reshape the direction of American politics, and KQED is providing the area’s most trusted news and analysis of regional, state and federal races and measures. KQED will cover the governor’s race and the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives races. Competitive elections from the Central Valley to Orange County could decide the balance of power in the House, and we’ll spend time in those districts talking to candidates and voters about their hopes for how California is represented in Washington.

For the first time in eight years, Californians will elect a new governor, and voters will also decide on a U.S. Senate seat. Also on the ballot are voter initiatives on the gas tax, property taxes and rent control. Measures in Bay Area cities and counties also seek to tackle homelessness, rising rents and cannabis businesses. KQED will cover these races and measures with stories and interviews on the radio on The California Report, Forum and our daily newscasts; on television with KQED Newsroom; and online. Tune in to 88.5 FM each Thursday night for

Political Breakdown to listen to hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos analyze the latest election news and conduct in-depth interviews with candidates and political movers and shakers in the Golden State. You can also listen to Political Breakdown wherever you find your podcasts. When ballots are mailed out on October 8, KQED can help you parse through all the measures and races with our online Voter Guide. On November 6, we’ll have election night analysis and live results on our website. kqed.org/elections

Political Breakdown Presents Ballots and Brews Can California flip the House? What’s at stake with the propositions on this year’s ballot? Join Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos, hosts of KQED’s popular new weekly radio program and podcast Political Breakdown, for a Ballots and Brews voter party! Ballots and Brews will help you make sense of the issues and have a whole lot of fun at the same time. Participate in an election pub quiz, enjoy refreshments, take part in lively conversations with fellow citizens and get familiar with KQED’s 2018 Voter Guide. 4

Wednesday, October 17, 7-9pm (Doors 6:30pm) Studiotobe, Oakland ballotsbrewsoakland18.eventbrite.com Tuesday, October 23, 7-9pm (Doors 6:30pm) The Laundry, San Francisco ballotsbrewssf18.eventbrite.com Tuesday, October 30, 7-9pm (Doors 6:30pm) MACLA, San Jose ballotsbrewssj18.eventbrite.com

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East Bay. And it’s about creating, through their work, not only platforms for their own voices, but also spaces in which others can see their lives and their stories reflected. This last point can be seen clearly in the work of photographer Mia Nakano. She’s the artist behind the portrait and oral history series The Visibility Project, which documents queer Asian American women and trans-identified subjects to break barriers through both imagery and storytelling. Interdisciplinary artist Torreya Cummings looks back further in time. Combining images from California’s history with queer culture, she uses sculpture, performance and installation to bridge the “irreconcilable differences” between urban and rural, gay and straight, natural and artificial. Patricia Berne’s life and work further commit to breaking down boundaries. As the co-founder and director of the

performance project Sins Invalid, Berne develops productions that feature artists with disabilities and others who have been historically marginalized — artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. And printmaker Nicólas Gonzales-Media, an active member of the UndocuQueer movement, demonstrates the power of straddling multiple identities. In work focused on immigration and social justice, he uses his art to advocate for other undocumented youth and their families. The artists of Redefining Pride are examples of the Bay Area’s extraordinary talent, who can serve as introductions, we hope, to a thriving scene of ambitious, radical and queer East Bay-rooted art. Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists is a web series, available only at kqed.org/arts.

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The Bay Area’s LGBTQ community has far more to celebrate than can possibly fit into one month of pride in June. And for the visual artists profiled in KQED Arts’ new web series Redefining Pride: The East Bay’s Queer Artists, the work of creating greater visibility and acceptance doesn’t end at the start of July — it’s a yearlong (and sometimes lifelong) pursuit. In the series, KQED Arts contributor Emily Holmes highlights the work of queer-identified artists of the East Bay who are redefining our understanding of pride, featuring visual artists of color and a wide range of artistic approaches. For these artists, pride is about honoring the people and histories not necessarily included in mainstream presentations of the queer community. It’s about pride of place — how they’ve made homes for themselves and found their artistic support networks in the

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Photo: Nicólas Gonzales-Medina, courtesy Graham Holoch.

Meet the East Bay Artists Redefining Pride

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The Bay Area Science Festival Returns

Fall into science with the Bay Area Science Festival, running Friday, October 26, through Sunday, November 3. Experience 50 inspiring and exciting science and technology events at venues from Santa Rosa to San Jose. Bay Area scientists and engineers will share their passion for what they do with exciting talks. Plus, you’ll enjoy fun, hands-on activities, intriguing exhibitions, behind-the-scenes tours of cutting-edge facilities, guided hikes and neighborhood stargazing at local venues. Also, don’t miss three free outdoor events: North Bay Discovery Day in Santa Rosa on Saturday, October, 27;

Contra Costa Discovery Day in Concord on Saturday, October 27; and Discovery Day at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Saturday, November 3. These large-scale events will feature hundreds of dynamic demonstrations, engaging experiments and geeky games for families all around the Bay Area. The festival is organized and led by UC San Francisco, in collaboration with hundreds of the Bay Area’s premier science, cultural and educational establishments, including KQED. KQED will help to kick off the festival with a special screening of its award-winning science series, Deep Look, on Friday, October 26, from 7-9pm

at the 63 Bluxome Street Gallery in San Francisco. Meet the producers and hear harrowing tales of how they captured the fascinating imagery for some of Deep Look’s creepy critter videos including black widows, flesh eating beetles, ticks, whispering bats and more. Plus, you’ll meet some of the researchers that made these videos possible and enjoy hands-on activities that might test your fear factor! Unleash your inner scientist and find out more about the festival at bayareasciencefestival.org.

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Remembering Nick Donatiello Jr. “Nick Donatiello led the KQED Board of Directors during a pivotal time in our history,” said John Boland, KQED’s president and CEO. “The strategic initiatives and reforms he advocated continue to accrue to the benefit of KQED and the Bay Area community to this day. Nick laid the groundwork for the essential 21st-century public media service that KQED has become.” Gifts in memory may be made to the Nick Donatiello Endowment Fund, the income from which will be used to support KQED’s programs and operations. Find out more at kqed.org/donatiellofund.

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term. During this time, he played an instrumental role in reshaping KQED and transforming the station into the most watched and most listened-to public broadcaster in the country. After leaving the Board, Donatiello continued to serve on KQED’s investment committee. This committee oversees the KQED endowment, which is designed to provide stability for the organization in a changing media landscape. During his tenure, the endowment more than doubled in size, and we could not be more grateful for the role Donatiello played in ensuring KQED’s sustainability for future generations.

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KQED is deeply saddened by the passing of its former Board chair Nicholas (Nick) Donatiello Jr. on June 26, 2018. Donatiello was the founder and CEO of Odyssey L.P., a research company that studies consumers and technology, and he was a leader in our community. His insights and altruism will be greatly missed. Known for his generous and philanthropic spirit, Donatiello championed causes that were important to him throughout his life. KQED is lucky enough to be counted among those causes. Donatiello served on KQED’s Board of Directors from 2001 to 2008, taking on the role of Board chair for the last three years of his

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