Local News from KSQD
The Cabrillo Festival nurtures a world of music in Santa Cruz, part 1 of 2
Festival Executive Director Ellen Primack, poet-in-residence Farnaz Fatemi, and composer Kevin Puts join host Suki Wessling for a discussion of the return of the annual Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, a local gem with an international luster. This...
Please allow us to introduce ourselves: A Poem in Honor of KSQD/KSQT Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Please allow us to introduce ourselves … Welcome to the ribbon-cutting for the beginning of a new era in KSQD/ KSQT, a community radio station for the Monterey bay area … I’m here with the pod, I’m here with a whole pod of squids out here at Window on the Bay in...
Full Circle: Sankofa on The Sunday Dinner
For this month's Sunday Dinner the theme is Full Circle: Sankofa. DJ Dupsie interviews two marvelous guests: Angel Riotutar shares some of her story growing up in Santa Cruz and how she came to be the Director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz....
The Carmel Public Library Foundation
Carmel Public Library Foundation keeps the Carmel Library open, relevant and thriving and ensures free library service in perpetuity by providing funding for 100% of the books, materials, programs, equipment and services. The library is an essential part of life on...
Retiring County Health Officer Dr. Gail Newel Reflects on the State of Local Health
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling interviews Dr. Gail Newel about her career, which spanned a tumultuous period in public health. Dr. Newel reflects on the county's response to Covid and how the local culture was reflected in how locals stepped up to help or to...
Alaya Vautier and Abi Mustapha on restorative justice, racial healing, and seeing the “other”
Alaya Vautier is the Restorative Justice Programs Director at the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County (CRC). The CRC has been providing restorative justice services, mediation, training, facilitation and other conflict resolution services in the...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 9th, 2023: When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud
When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud When is the safety, health and well-being of people a concern for homeland security? Jackie McCloud, Watsonville’s Environmental Sustainability Manager in Public Works, has been accepted into the Naval...
Alan Ritch – What’s That Name?
Alan Ritch struggles with a place name.
“A perfectly good body”—a conversation about transmasculine pregnancy
The Babblery is a podcast about women's lives, and though identified female at birth, transgender men are not women. Recent events underscore, however, that LGBTQ rights and women's rights are deeply entwined. And people's views of pregnancy and birth are...
Finding Home: The Veterans Transition Center of California
What does it mean to be free? Independence Day is just around the corner and on Monday’s Talk of the Bay Christine Barrington sits down with Veterans who tell their stories of transformation achieved through the support of the Monterey-based Veterans Transition Center...