A Look Back
Over the past 18 months, the KQED events team has worked to provide spirited streaming events to help keep our audience feeling connected through live virtual programming despite the distance. As we prepare for the opening of our new headquarters we invite you to take a look back at some of our favorite virtual programming...
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| What Will Bay Area Life Be Like in 2021? | | January 2020 |  |
| | | With the start of the new year, Devin Katayama, host of KQED’s podcast The Bay, assembled reporters covering the breadth of our community and its concerns to forecast what the most significant stories 2021 was poised to bring. Check out this video to see how their predictions turned out! | | |
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| Night of Ideas | | January 2020 |  |
| | | Our annual collaboration with the San Francisco Public Library, SFMOMA and Villa SF brings thousands of Bay Area residents together for an all-night cascade of big thinking, creative expression and civic spirit. This year — joined by California Humanities — we brought together more than two dozen artists, leaders, poets and organizers together for a streaming program to collectively imagine how we close the distances we faced in a year that challenged us to think about how we care for each other as a community. | | |
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| ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? | | April 2020 |  |
| | | Each quarter, we immersed in the art, song and poetry of the Bay Area’s Latinx communities, in this virtual cabaret hosted by the charismatic Baruch Porras-Hernandez. | | |
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| | | Blackhawk Museum |
The Spirit of the Old West Gallery at Blackhawk Museum weaves the story of the American West, depicting the challenges, successes, and failures of both Native Americans and American Settlers. Bring the whole family to explore life in the American frontier. Now open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Visit blackhawkmuseum.org for tickets!
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| Stronger, Higher, Faster: Big Wave Surfing and Climate Change | | May 2021 |  |
| | | KQED Science reporter Kevin Stark gave us a look at how global warming is changing swells like the Mavericks — the legendary surf breaks near Half Moon Bay — that the most daring surfers ride. | | |
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| Reclaiming Our History As Asian American Women | | May 2021 |  |
| | | Faced with a surge in anti-Asian American violence, KQED Forum host Mina Kim gathered a discussion with filmmaker Grace Lee, journalist Cecili Lei and spoken-word artist Michelle Mush Lee to process the distress and trauma that many AAPI women were feeling by looking to a history of power and resilience, including stories recounted in the PBS documentary series Asian Americans. | | |
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| Art of Conversation: Cartoonists Liz Montague and Chris Ware | | June 2021 |  |
| | | Amid the shelter in place doldrums, KQED Live Events Producer Lance Gardner conceived a series of probing and thoughtful conversations with - and between - artists about what goes into their creative output. Here, New Yorker cartoonists Liz Montague and Chris Ware explore the psychology and racial context behind their 2-D depictions of human depth. | | |
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