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Caregiving Isn't Just a Job | Lolo's Story

Caregiving Isn't Just a Job | Lolo's Story

As part of a new PBS initiative that explores the challenges and joys of caregivers in America, NorCal Public Media is highlighting two care workers in Sonoma County who are part of the Fijian communi...
A Community of Care | Solomoni's Story

A Community of Care | Solomoni's Story

As part of a new PBS initiative that explores the challenges and joys of caregivers in America, NorCal Public Media is highlighting two care workers in Sonoma County who are part of the Fijian communi...
Connect The Bay: Niles Canyon Railway

Connect The Bay: Niles Canyon Railway

All Aboard for History! Ride the rails with NorCal Public Media and the volunteer-run Niles Canyon Railway, which operates excursion and holiday trains from Sunol to Niles (in Fremont) in the East Bay...
Connect The Bay: D Herrera Dance

Connect The Bay: D Herrera Dance

Dancing to the beat! The David Herrera Performance Company has been celebrating innovative dance that promotes Latinx voices since 2007. We visit a rehearsal in San Francisco to find out what inspires...
Connect The Bay: AI Dream Garden

Connect The Bay: AI Dream Garden

“Dream Garden” is an AI-Powered immersive exhibit at San Jose’s The Tech Interactive which invites visitors into a whimsical world where imagination and movements bring a surreal ecosystem to life. De...
Connect The Bay: Pride Flag Raising

Connect The Bay: Pride Flag Raising

Pride & Progress – for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, Redwood City marks their commitment to embracing all community members at an annual flag raising ceremony at historic Courthouse Square. This year the mayo...
Connect the Bay: Rising Phoenix Lion Dancers

Connect the Bay: Rising Phoenix Lion Dancers

Rising Phoenix Dragon and Lion Dance Association practices the art of modern lion dancing with team members mostly from San Jose’s Eastside neighborhoods. They are a young and dynamic multicultural gr...
Connect the Bay: Lakeshore LGBTQ Cultural District

Connect the Bay: Lakeshore LGBTQ Cultural District

Chairperson Jeffrey Myers leads us on a walking tour through an exciting area of Oakland: the newly formed Lakeshore LGBTQ Cultural District. This district will foster a community where every Oakland...
Connect the Bay: Indian Health Center

Connect the Bay: Indian Health Center

Culture is Medicine—that’s the belief of Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley, where American Indians and Alaska Natives can find high quality, culturally competent medical and wellness services...
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Donate to Northern California Public Media

Call and donate to the remarkable programs you can only find here on KRCB and KPJK. Science, art, music, nature, information and news…Northern California Public Media is your source for the very best....
Connect The Bay: Smuin Contemporary Ballet

Connect The Bay: Smuin Contemporary Ballet

Last year Smuin Contemporary Ballet was supposed to celebrate 25 years, but instead, the company saw in 2020 an opportunity to go abroad. Artistic Director Celia Fushille and her team help each other,...
Six String Duende

Six String Duende

What is the secret to handcrafting a guitar that lasts a lifetime? Step into the workshops of Sonoma County luthiers Maegen Wells and Bruce Sexauer to see what it takes to build these instruments. (Pr...
Bay Area Arts During the Pandemic

Bay Area Arts During the Pandemic

Arts directors talk about how local government can help artists throughout the Bay Area during the pandemic. Grants are available to help artists, and in San Francisco, about 130 artists will receive...
Connect The Bay: Brava Theater

Connect The Bay: Brava Theater

Brava For Women in the arts is getting ready to welcome live audiences this month.
Connect The Bay: Tulio Flores

Connect The Bay: Tulio Flores

Tulio Flores. The Latino artist based in San Jose, used the time during the pandemic to focus and paint.
Connect The Bay: Clapper Stick

Connect The Bay: Clapper Stick

For this Connect the Bay segment, Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Indian Canyon Mutsun) offers a song about Hummingbird while demonstrating the indigenous California instrument, the clapper stick. She reminds vi...
Connect The Bay: Sculptor Matthaus Lam

Connect The Bay: Sculptor Matthaus Lam

Matthaus Lam is an accomplished young artist with a playful sense of humor that pours out of his amazing sculptures. Lam's creativity sparked early–he has created works of art since he was just five y...
Connect The Bay: Coming Out

Connect The Bay: Coming Out

BAYMEC Community Foundation Executive Director Ken Yeager tours his recent exhibition "Coming Out: 50 Years of Queer Resistance and Resilience in Silicon Valley." Included are mementos and artifacts f...
Connect The Bay: Author Naheed Hasnat Senzai

Connect The Bay: Author Naheed Hasnat Senzai

Naheed Hasnat Senzai is a successful Bay Area author of Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction. She specializes in writing stories that feature diverse characters with lives rooted in rich cultural heri...
Connect The Bay: San Jose Taiko

Connect The Bay: San Jose Taiko

Taiko, or Japanese drum performance, is thrilling contemporary entertainment rooted in deep cultural traditions. Founded in San Jose's Japantown in 1973, San Jose Taiko has grown to become one of the...
Connect The Bay: The Sons of the Soul Revivers

Connect The Bay: The Sons of the Soul Revivers

James Morgan, Dwayne Morgan and Walter Morgan Jr. are The Sons of the Soul Revivers, who have been singing gospel music together with family in the Bay Area since they were kids. Inspired by deep fait...
Connect The Bay: Sculptor Alicia N. Ponzio

Connect The Bay: Sculptor Alicia N. Ponzio

Stepping into Alicia N. Ponzio's North Beach, San Francisco studio is a little like time traveling to a renaissance European workshop. With daylight streaming in through high windows, paintings on eas...
Connect The Bay: Parangal Dance Company

Connect The Bay: Parangal Dance Company

With a name that means "Tribute," Parangal Dance Company’s mission is to honor Philippine heritage by preserving and promoting ethnic attire, music, and dance through research, workshops, and performa...
Connect The Bay: Sonoma TrainTown Railroad

Connect The Bay: Sonoma TrainTown Railroad

A Bay Area treasure since the Sixties, TrainTown brings the art of model railroading to a new level. Passengers on this scaled-down train take a 30-minute journey through tunnels and across bridges to...
Connect The Bay: SWEA Christmas Fair

Connect The Bay: SWEA Christmas Fair

The San Francisco Chapter of the Swedish Women's Educational Association holds a festive Christmas Fair every year, this season in Palo Alto. It is the place to find all things Swedish: from crafts, t...
Connect The Bay: The Crucible

Connect The Bay: The Crucible

Young artists Tobias and Sharay are part of the Fuego Youth Leadership Program at The Crucible in Oakland. After being mentored by adult artists, Fuego youth leaders instruct their peers in industrial...
Depth of Field: Jeff Kan Lee

Depth of Field: Jeff Kan Lee

After working for more than 45 years as a photojournalist, Jeff Kan Lee still finds joy in documenting and giving back to the community in his retirement. From hobbyist to pr of essional, photographer...
Connect the Bay: San Jose History Park

Connect the Bay: San Jose History Park

Original and reproduced historic buildings make up San Jose's History Park, revealing a fascinating glimpse of Santa Clara Valley’s past. Complete with paved streets, running trolleys, and an old-fash...
Independent Lens Rialto Screening of "Try Harder!"

Independent Lens Rialto Screening of "Try Harder!"

Northern California Public Media is pleased to host Independent Lens documentaries with free screenings at Rialto Cinemas. In April, come to a viewing of “Try Harder!” produced and directed by Debbie...
Connect the Bay: Cellist Daniela Gonzales Siu

Connect the Bay: Cellist Daniela Gonzales Siu

San Francisco Conservatory of Music cellist Daniela Gonzales Siu shares with Connect the Bay that "being in a quartet is one of the things that I love doing." Traveling from the Peruvian Andes to atte...
Connect The Bay: Montalvo Ohlone

Connect The Bay: Montalvo Ohlone

Join us for a visit to Saratoga’s Montalvo Arts Center to experience “A Path Forward: Honoring Ohlone Land & Spirit.” This brand-new work includes both actual and virtual artwork in a cutting-edge com...
A.I. Advice from Silicon Valley Leadership Group | Connect The Bay

A.I. Advice from Silicon Valley Leadership Group | Connect The Bay

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group was established by Hewlett-Packard founder David Packard in 1977. CEO Ahmad Thomas has worked extensively in the field of artificial intelligence policy, and offers...
Connect The Bay: Artist Elba Raquel

Connect The Bay: Artist Elba Raquel

Native San Jose artist Elba Raquel empowers women through her work and hopes her viewers can find the strength within them to follow their dreams as she has done in her artistic career. We visit MACLA...
Connect The Bay: Prince Among Slaves

Connect The Bay: Prince Among Slaves

“A story that is important…to know who made this country what it is today” is how the children’s picture book Prince Among Slaves is described by its author. The captivating tale of Abdulrahman begins...
Connect the Bay: AACSA - African American Community Service Agency

Connect the Bay: AACSA - African American Community Service Agency

Though there’s no specific black neighborhood in the City of San Jose, there is definitely a home for the African American community: the African American Community Service Agency. Since its founding...
Connect The Bay: AbilityPath

Connect The Bay: AbilityPath

At nonprofit AbilityPath in Burlingame, the staff works toward creating a world where people of all abilities are fully accepted, respected, and included. Among their many programs for the development...
Connect the Bay: Peninsula Family Service

Connect the Bay: Peninsula Family Service

Loneliness is an epidemic*, especially among older adults. Nonprofit Peninsula Family Service has partnered with San Mateo County to address what they are first in the nation to recognize, that loneli...
Connect the Bay: Unsung Hero Millicent Grant

Connect the Bay: Unsung Hero Millicent Grant

Unsung Hero Millicent Grant Working tirelessly as a volunteer assisting her aging neighbors, Millicent Grant says “I love helping other people.” For decades she has been involved with the East Palo Al...
Connect The Bay: Unsung Hero Jackson Aldrich

Connect The Bay: Unsung Hero Jackson Aldrich

As a kid, lifelong athlete Jackson Aldrich had the idea to collect, clean, and re-distribute sports equipment and clothing before it was thrown away after kids grew out of it. Now his nonprofit --Spor...
Connect The Bay: San Mateo County Parks Spanish Outreach

Connect The Bay: San Mateo County Parks Spanish Outreach

Raquel Henriquez is Bilingual Community Engagement intern for San Mateo County Parks. She spends her days making sure that all in the Spanish-speaking communities of the county feel welcome—since the...
Connect The Bay: Unsung Hero Nilou

Connect The Bay: Unsung Hero Nilou

After arriving from Iran, Niloufar Khonsari was inspired to pursue becoming an immigration lawyer to help newcomers through the complex and often daunting U.S. immigration system. As the founder of Pa...
Flag in the Map: Charting Rainbow Flag Stories

Flag in the Map: Charting Rainbow Flag Stories

"Flag in the Map" is a remarkable collection of photographs and stories celebrating the universal power of the Rainbow Flag to inspire LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly in countries where their existen...
Bay Area Bountiful: ALAS Half Moon Bay

Bay Area Bountiful: ALAS Half Moon Bay

Dr. Belinda Hernandez Arriaga is Executive Director of Half Moon Bay Latino-centered nonprofit ALAS, Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (Helping Latinos Dream). Now 10 years old, this coastside agency provides...
Connect the Bay: Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs

Connect the Bay: Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs

LGBTQ Pride Season lasts from June all the way through August, according to Santa Clara County Office of LGBTQ Affairs Manager Sera Fernando. We join Sera taking part in the County’s Pride Parade cont...
Bay Area Bountiful: Sung Lee "The Bee Charmer"

Bay Area Bountiful: Sung Lee "The Bee Charmer"

East Bay beekeeper Sung Lee has been creating a real buzz on social media lately. He is an enthusiastic spokesperson for taking good care of our important pollinators. At a time when honeybee populati...
Connect the Bay: San Jose Pinoytown

Connect the Bay: San Jose Pinoytown

Connect the Bay joins Robert Ragsac as he gives a walking tour of San Jose’s historic Pinoytown. Endearingly known as “Manong (Elder) Robert” to Filipino community members, he delights tourgoers with...
Connect the Bay: Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley

Connect the Bay: Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley

A NorCal anchor partner at Open San Jose, Latina Coalition Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that has been providing Latinas with civic engagement and leadership development in Silicon Valle...
Connect The Bay: Artist Caleb Dowdell

Connect The Bay: Artist Caleb Dowdell

San Jose State art major Caleb Dowdell began exhibiting his artwork at an early age. For the artist/actor/singer, art is about freedom of expression, discovery, and balancing spontaneity with focused...
Connect the Bay: Mosaic America

Connect the Bay: Mosaic America

Mosaic America is a NorCal Public Media anchor partner with Open San José. Mosaic America’s mission is to activate social cohesion by connecting people to place and each other. They present multicultu...
Connect the Bay: Chopsticks Alley Art

Connect the Bay: Chopsticks Alley Art

Chopsticks Alley Art promotes Southeast Asian cultural heritage through the arts. Based at Open San Jose, they celebrate the cultural diversity of Southeast Asian contemporary art to foster greater un...
Sonoma County Suffragist Stories: Petaluma Black Pioneers

Sonoma County Suffragist Stories: Petaluma Black Pioneers

The names of eight Black Petalumans, all married couples, were found on a suffrage petition that was presented to the California state legislature in 1870. Some of these individuals were trustees of t...
Sonoma County Suffragist Stories: Anna Morrison Reed

Sonoma County Suffragist Stories: Anna Morrison Reed

Anna Morrison Reed was a poet, lecturer, journalist, and publisher from Ukiah -- and she became a leading advocate for women's suffrage in Sonoma County and statewide. Anna's story is a fascinating on...
Sonoma County Suffragist Stories: Abigail Haskell

Sonoma County Suffragist Stories: Abigail Haskell

Abigail Haskell lived in Petaluma, California in the mid- and late 1800s. She was a champion of women's education and equal pay for equal work, a fierce and opinionated writer, and a leader in the wom...
Connect the Bay: San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Connect the Bay: San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

The vision of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to preserve, celebrate, and promote knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their beauty, and their relationship to human culture...
Connect The Bay: College of Adaptive Arts

Connect The Bay: College of Adaptive Arts

For eleven years the College of Adaptive Arts, in San Jose, has been teaching adults with special needs. The College offers 74 classes. Four years ago, they got a grant from the Adobe Foundation for a...
Connect The Bay: Martin Zuniga Old Courthouse Square Sculpture

Connect The Bay: Martin Zuniga Old Courthouse Square Sculpture

Artist Martín Zuñiga has a new sculpture in Santa Rosa. The sculpture is titled Ollins, which means movement. It was designed just before the election to encourage people to vote. Six students and two...
Connect The Bay: Icarus

Connect The Bay: Icarus

New short movie brings a ballet dancer to the streets of San Francisco. Starringh @angelAllan , directed by Pietro Pinto
Connect The Bay: Live Theatre

Connect The Bay: Live Theatre

Our Gleidson Martins spoke with Lisa Mallette , Susi Damilano and M. Graham Smith about how they are adapting live performances to their online audience. It may be shocking to see an empty theater but...
Connect The Bay: Chinese New Year

Connect The Bay: Chinese New Year

With the pandemic still going on, there will be no in person Chinese New Year parade this year in San Francisco, but wanting to celebrate the year of the ox, parade organizers had to pivot and come up...
Connect The Bay: Women of the Black Panther Party

Connect The Bay: Women of the Black Panther Party

A mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party was unveiled last weekend in Oakland. Located at the corner of Center and 9th Streets in West Oakland, just a few blocks away from the original Bl...
Connect The Bay: New Arts Fund Story

Connect The Bay: New Arts Fund Story

On this episode of Connect the Bay, we feature two artist that are struggling to get by in these difficult times. Help may be on the way for some, through new city sponsored grants.
Connect The Bay: Van Gogh

Connect The Bay: Van Gogh

A New vision and certainly a new form of exhibition opened in San Francisco. The Immersive Van Gogh virtual show features stunning projections that illuminate the artist’s 2,000 + lifetime masterpiece...
Connect The Bay: New Ballet

Connect The Bay: New Ballet

Santa Clara County is now on orange tier, meaning Many indoor businesses may open with up to 50% capacity. The decision to move to a less restrictive tier is based on new cases rate up to 3.9% per 1hu...
Connect The Bay: We Create 408

Connect The Bay: We Create 408

As part of Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month in April, the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs announced WeCreate408 2021 edition, a virtual festival that will inspire creativity and celebrate San J...
Santa Rosa Symphony - New Season

Santa Rosa Symphony - New Season

KRCB FM Radio 91 presents award-winning pianist Garrick Ohlsson *performing* Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Santa Rosa Symphony. Francesco Lecce-Chong's program also includes Strauss' Also...
PENNY: Champion of the Marginalized

PENNY: Champion of the Marginalized

PENNY is a multi-dimensional portrait of Penny Cooper, a celebrated criminal defense attorney, art collector, supporter of female artists, and protector of the underdog. Cooper's life brims with stori...
Mi Tierra

Mi Tierra

Are you worried about getting priced out of Sonoma County? During this year’s Cinco de Mayo festivities, residents in Santa Rosa’s Roseland expressed their hopes and fears for the neighborhood to La P...
Arts Education: ArtQuest at Santa Rosa High School

Arts Education: ArtQuest at Santa Rosa High School

See how the ArtQuest program at Santa Rosa High School shapes young learners through visual and performance arts, and creates a safe place for students to express themselves. Through their artwork, st...
Housing and Health

Housing and Health

When you think of health, housing may not be the first thing that jumps to mind. But where you live may actually determine a number of health outcomes. We explore the issue in the Roseland neighborhoo...
Bay Area Bountiful: Sustainable Communities

Bay Area Bountiful: Sustainable Communities

On this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we ask the question, “What makes a community sustainable?” There are many facets of sustainability, from energy use and human capital, to transportation and futu...
HUMBLE BEAUTY: SKID ROW ARTISTS

HUMBLE BEAUTY: SKID ROW ARTISTS

HUMBLE BEAUTY documents the ability of art to calm, inspire, ask questions or provide answers, and even help forge entirely new identities. The one-hour documentary follows a group of talented homeles...
Parents’ Survival Guide: Childhood Obesity

Parents’ Survival Guide: Childhood Obesity

Although the causes of childhood obesity vary, the effects do not: obesity compromises a child's growth, health and quality of life. THE PARENTS' SURVIVAL GUIDE: CHILDHOOD OBESITY addresses the multi-...
The Cinema Travelers

The Cinema Travelers

As the harvest arrives in rural India, it also heralds the season of cinema. The fields lie bare, and the villagers gather breathless, anticipating the cinema lorries that have brought them the magic...
Butterfly Town

Butterfly Town

This film centers on a community of activists in Pacific Grove, California, who take dramatic action to save their famous Monarch Butterfly Grove Sanctuary. Disagreements about how best to take care o...
Science & Nature - Northern California Public Media

Science & Nature - Northern California Public Media

The Science and Nature programs on KRCB and KPJK are made possible by viewers like you. Without your financial support, we won’t be able to continue presenting the very best that television has to off...
Stories from the Fire: ART

Stories from the Fire: ART

Three local artists, whose work is featured in the Museum of Sonoma County exhibition, "From the Fire: A Community Reflects and Rebuilds" talk about the impact of the wildfires on their artistic proce...
Stories from the Fire: MUSIC

Stories from the Fire: MUSIC

Musician Eki Shola, who lost her home in the 2017 Sonoma County fires, is among a group of local musicians who have recorded music to help heal those recovering after the disaster. The music is part o...
Faces of My Community - Mariana Martinez

Faces of My Community - Mariana Martinez

In this Roseland profile, we meet Mariana Martinez, a longtime resident of the area. She is proud of how the community is growing in economic development, but is disappointed in the lack of opportunit...
From the Fire

From the Fire

Northern California Public Media News Director Steve Mencher and Museum of Sonoma County Director Jeff Nathanson visit three local artists whose work is featured in the museum's exhibition, "From the...
Faces of My Community - Isabel Ontiveros

Faces of My Community - Isabel Ontiveros

Isabel Basaldua Ontiveros lives in Cloverdale and has a job cleaning houses. Her family has transportation challenges and would benefit from better public transportation. “We are looking for something...
Faces of My Community - Adrian Reyes

Faces of My Community - Adrian Reyes

In this Cloverdale profile, we meet Adrian, a construction worker. He is dedicated to learning in order to help further his place in life. “I want to learn, I don’t get tired of learning.” He sees tha...
The New Normal: Visions of Healing

The New Normal: Visions of Healing

This special looks at our community one year after the October fires that killed 44 and obliterated neighborhoods in Santa Rosa and the surrounding towns. We visit musicians, poets and visual artists...
Out of the Fire

Out of the Fire

Musicians Eki Shola and Allen Sudduth lost their homes in the Sonoma County fires. They are among a group of local musicians who are raising money to replace instruments lost in the fires with a speci...
Bay Area Bountiful: Transportation

Bay Area Bountiful: Transportation

Explore transportation options to protect the environment. A unique food distribution trucking company looks for technological solutions to reduce emissions; a San Mateo organization seeks to promote...
Drama & Performance - Northern California Public Media

Drama & Performance - Northern California Public Media

Quality TV comes at a price, and that price tag gets higher every year for KRCB and KPJK. We are committed to bringing you the best drama and performance programs that public television has to offer,...
News & Documentary - Northern California Public Media

News & Documentary - Northern California Public Media

It’s more important than ever to pledge your financial support for the news programs on KRCB and KPJK. Your generous gift ensures that the programs you have come to rely on for news, information, and...
End of Year Giving - Change & Challenge

End of Year Giving - Change & Challenge

These last 12 months have brought change and challenges, but we’re also a year older and hopefully a year wiser. Through it all, KRCB and KPJK have been important windows on the world for you and our...
End of Year Giving - Inform & Inspire

End of Year Giving - Inform & Inspire

You are the reason we present the very best in programs that inform and inspire. The shows on KRCB and KPJK take you to new places and offer experiences and knowledge that you don’t find anywhere else...
Faces of My Community - Patty Bird

Faces of My Community - Patty Bird

Patty Bird is a third generation Cloverdale resident. She is involved in a group that supports youth sports and outdoor spaces. A former student athlete herself, she says, "I think more things to do f...
Faces of My Community - John Gastineau

Faces of My Community - John Gastineau

This Cloverdale Profile introduces us to John Gastineau. He is a teacher and coach at Cloverdale High School. He is proud of the students at his school and thinks they have a bright future. “Your voic...
Faces of My Community - John Sawyer

Faces of My Community - John Sawyer

This Roseland community profile explores the inspirations of Santa Rosa Mayor, John Sawyer. He believes in the power of volunteering. “It creates an environment where you’re learning all the time.” Th...
Faces of My Community - Anna Solano

Faces of My Community - Anna Solano

Roseland educator Anna Solano grew up in Mexico and moved to the United States at 17 years of age. She was inspired by the American education system. She worked hard, learned English and got a college...
Faces of My Community - Julia Carranza

Faces of My Community - Julia Carranza

Julia Carranza has worked for the Rosalind school district for 22 years. She believes in good nutrition for children and devoted her life to providing healthy food for youngsters so they can grow up h...
Faces of My Community - Rose Lyle

Faces of My Community - Rose Lyle

Rose Lyle is a lifetime resident of Cloverdale. She loves the community. Although she remembers better years for her community, she sees a lot of hope and promise for the people of her town. “There wa...
Faces of My Community - Ali Samii

Faces of My Community - Ali Samii

Ali Samii believes in the future of Roseland, and works for the Northern California Center for Well-Being. He is a graduate of Santa Rosa Junior College and getting a further degree at Sonoma State Un...
Voices Beyond the Wall

Voices Beyond the Wall

Spencer Reece, an award winning American poet and Episcopal priest, comes to live and teach poetry at Our Little Roses, the only girls’ orphanage in Honduras, for one year. The poems that emerge revea...
Bay Area Bountiful

Bay Area Bountiful

Cultivate. Celebrate. Connect. The San Francisco Bay Area enjoys an incredible bounty of resources—both natural and creative—that enrich all our lives. Northern California Public Media presents the st...
Fire Recovery Reporting

Fire Recovery Reporting

Since the October 2017 North Bay Fires, Northern California Public Media has been reporting on the recovery of the community. From housing challenges to mental health and self expression, this video e...
Los Olvidados (The Forgotten)

Los Olvidados (The Forgotten)

On the night of the October wildfires, many Spanish speakers in our community were left to make life or death decisions with little to no information in their language. "Los Olvidados" tells the story...
SLOVAKIA: TREASURES IN THE HEART OF EUROPE

SLOVAKIA: TREASURES IN THE HEART OF EUROPE

A country of lush forests and mountains surrounded by hidden hills, Slovakia is a land rich with historical and cultural treasures. Centrally located in Europe, Slovakia was obscured for centuries wit...
Bay Area Bountiful: Sustainable Communities

Bay Area Bountiful: Sustainable Communities

“What makes a community sustainable?” There are many facets of sustainability, from energy use and human capital, to transportation and future strategic planning. Sustainability is the goal of many co...
Rebels with a Cause…

Rebels with a Cause…

Narrated by Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand, REBELS WITH A CAUSE spotlights a group of dedicated conservationists who fought to preserve open space, protect agriculture and wildlife, and estab...
MoneyTrack Money For Life

MoneyTrack Money For Life

In MONEYTRACK: MONEY FOR LIFE, Pam Krueger presents a "Money for Life Action Plan," which gives viewers a step-by-step strategy for building and maintaining a financially secure future for their retir...
Arts Education: Music at Lawrence Jones Middle School

Arts Education: Music at Lawrence Jones Middle School

The music program at Lawrence Jones Middle School teaches young students perseverance and structure, as well as inspiring the students to succeed in their academic life. Music teacher Oliver Fraenkle...
Arts Education: Theater at Analy High School

Arts Education: Theater at Analy High School

The Theater Program at Analy High School teaches students collaboration and team-working skills. Drama teachers Jonathan Mazer and Starr Hergenrather encourage students to embrace their individuality...
Sonoma Inspired: Erik Castro

Sonoma Inspired: Erik Castro

Erik Castro is a photojournalist that takes beautiful and thought-provoking images of the fields and vineyards of Sonoma County and the people who work in these environments. The photos appreciate the...
Sonoma Inspired: Peter Krohn

Sonoma Inspired: Peter Krohn

Peter Krohn is in the forefront of a new artform - "scanography." Using a high quality scanner, Krohn arranges natural material including fruits, vegetables and flowers. These "blessings of the Earth"...
Sonoma Inspired: Bruce Johnson

Sonoma Inspired: Bruce Johnson

Bruce Johnson is a sculptor/craftsman who works with redwood material. These "elders" of Sonoma County serve as his inspiration for pieces that exude the energy and vitality of the region. These falle...
Sonoma Inspired: Upside Dance Company

Sonoma Inspired: Upside Dance Company

Tanya Tolmasoff choreographs contemporary dance inspired by, and performed within, the dramatic landscapes of Sonoma County. The Upside Dance Company's work is defined by the towering redwoods, the me...
Sonoma Inspired: Jack Stuppin

Sonoma Inspired: Jack Stuppin

Jack Stuppin is a painter that thinks of his landscape paintings as an environmental statement. His background in geology brings new insight to his work. He celebrates the beauty of Sonoma County land...
Sonoma Inspired: Ned Kahn

Sonoma Inspired: Ned Kahn

Ned Kahn is an environmental artist. He is inspired by natural phenomena, including the waves and water of Sonoma County. Water becomes a changable mirror to what the atmosphere is doing. A response s...
Sonoma Inspired: Sandy Eastoak

Sonoma Inspired: Sandy Eastoak

Sonoma artist, Sandy Eastoak, is inspired by the waterscapes of Sonoma County. The creeks, the Russian River and the Pacific beaches. She is obessed with nature, ecology and how we can be in a more he...
Sonoma Inspired: Agriculture

Sonoma Inspired: Agriculture

Sonoma County is a place of beauty and agricultural bounty. Photojournalist Erik Castro captures images of this beauty and studies the faces and experiences of the people who work the fields and viney...
Sonoma Inspired: Landscape

Sonoma Inspired: Landscape

Many artists find inspiration in the landscapes of Sonoma County. Tanya Tolmasoff and the Upside Dance Company create performances that speak to the majestic redwoods and reflect the waterways of the...
Sonoma Inspired: Water

Sonoma Inspired: Water

Artists Ned Kahn and Sandy Eastoak create artwork inspired by the waterscapes of Sonoma County. Water often appears in, and influences, their work. Kahn creates environmental sculptures. Eastoak paint...
Radio Version: Theater at Analy High School

Radio Version: Theater at Analy High School

Arts Education - The Theater Program at Analy High School teaches students collaboration and team-working skills. Drama teachers Jonathan Mazer and Starr Hergenrather encourage students to embrace the...
Radio Version: ArtQuest at Santa Rosa High School

Radio Version: ArtQuest at Santa Rosa High School

Arts Education - See how the ArtQuest program at Santa Rosa High School shapes young learners through visual and performance arts, and creates a safe place for students to express themselves. Through...
Radio Version: Music at Lawrence Jones Middle School

Radio Version: Music at Lawrence Jones Middle School

Arts Education - The music program at Lawrence Jones Middle School teaches young students perseverance and structure, as well as inspiring the students to succeed in their academic life. Music teacher...
All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn't Open

All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn't Open

Across the Caucasus, Azerbaijani men labor to build a new railroad promising to bring glory to a new generation, while across the closed borders in Armenia, a lonely stationmaster sits idle in an aban...
All The Wild Horses

All The Wild Horses

All the Wild Horses follows international riders as they compete in the Mongol Derby in Mongolia, the longest and toughest horse race in the world. In this race across one thousand kilometers of Mongo...
Among Wolves

Among Wolves

The Wolves are no ordinary biker club, as is revealed in this gorgeously shot, surprisingly intimate portrait of trauma and survival. Still struggling from the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi...
Futbolistas 4 Life

Futbolistas 4 Life

Futbolistas 4 Life is about Oakland teens from immigrant families and the healing power of soccer. The film offers an intimate look into the lives of two high schoolers: one is a college hopeful and D...
Knife Skills

Knife Skills

Academy Award® nominated Knife Skills follows the launch of an haute cuisine restaurant in Cleveland, staffed by men and women recently released from prison. In this improbable setting, we discover th...
No Vacancy

No Vacancy

No Vacancy explores the struggles of San Francisco artists as they contend with exorbitant rent prices, developers looking to convert art spaces into luxury condos and a city that isn’t paying attenti...
Right Between Your Ears

Right Between Your Ears

Many people have a strong sense that their views are right and couldn’t possibly be wrong. So how do we come to hold an unshakable belief and why is it hard to consider that we could be mistaken? This...
Three Red Sweaters

Three Red Sweaters

A filmmaker explores memory and the way that we use technology to record our lives; sometimes at the expense of being present for them. She uses her grandfather's 16mm home videos as her medium. This...
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