Last night, Youth Radio celebrated the graduates from their Core, Bridge and MATCH programs. It was a beautiful evening full of storytelling, good food, and great music.
The event featured several performances from Remix Your Life, a youth-driven project that uses critical analysis, song-writing, poetry, and recording to help young people “remix” the stories of their lives. Check out the above video of Jaylyn Burns’ performance from last night.
Learn more about the Remix Your Life here.
Hi all, We launched The Making Of… on KQED on Tuesday and the calls and notes and tweets and videos have been pouring in. This email caught our eye and we thought it might catch yours as well:
kimchi is at least 4000 years old — I am proposing the making of kimchi by sunhui chang of fusebox in west oakland — kimchi has traditionally been women’s work — men rarely entered the kitchen and were usually not even allowed in the area when women make kimchi a time for them to share knowledge and gossip. sunhui (this is a female name chosen for him after his grandfather visited a fortune teller) is breaking many traditions with his name, and his work with kimchi absolutely hands on and hands deep in the process which takes hours he makes his own gochu jang also time intensive and a lost art — korean women are now coming to try his kimchi and remark how wonderful it is — in korea kimchi is spoken when taking a picture to get the big smile like us saying cheese — kimchi is it a pickle or a salad? sunhui is a humble but amazing storyteller especially about kimchi — kimchi in west oakland, ca.
-ellen sebastian chang (Sunhi Chang’s wife)
We received a call from Dr. Elliot Gann who is the co-founder of Today’s Future Sound, a non-profit that teaches beat making classes and workshops in schools and camps throughout the Bay Area. Here’s his message:
And watch the video above to see the class in action.
More beats from students can be heard at todaysfuturesound.bandcamp.com
