FREQUENCY UPLIFT!

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 11.08.2024

A noontime reading and interview with poet KIMI SUGIOKA, … mother, educator, songwriter and poet AND Bay Area poetry scene mainstay, author of two books of poetry; the newest of which is Wile & Wing on Manic D Press and in numerous anthologies. Kimi is the poet laureate of Alameda and curates and hosts readings throughout the Bay. She believes that creating community through art is a revolutionary act.

... and on the hour US radio-premieres from the UK's JONATHAN ENSER / MATTERS UNKNOWN and from the Bay Area's OPIUM SABBAH…

more sounds for resilience and resistance, and for our common home, from more sounds for resilience and resistance, and for our common home, from El Khat (Yemen/Berlin), Bhutan Balladeers (Bhutan), Dal:um (Korea), Waaju/Majid Bekkas (London / Morocco), Bagedai (Yunnan, PRC), Àtandá (London / Lagos) ... and more beyond all borders

+ our poet’s playlist …

… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

FREQUENCY UPLIFT! _ Fri. 11.08.2024_poet KIMI SUGIOKA, +music beyond borders