City Arts & Lectures

City Arts & Lectures
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City Arts & Lectures

Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 public radio stations across the country and wherever you get your podcasts. The broadcasts are co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco. Visit CITYARTS.NET for more info.

  1. DEC 15

    Hanif Abdurraqib - Encore

    Since his 2016 debut poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing has earned him numerous accolades as a poet, essayist, and music critic. Easily moving from emotionally riveting examinations of Black identities to academic explorations of punk scenes to analyses of contemporary popular artists, Abdurraqib’s work is full of uninhibited curiosity, revolutionary honesty, and a singular intelligence. His first essay collection, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, Pitchfork, the Los Angeles Review, and Esquire. His new memoir, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, traces his relationship with basketball while uncovering how we decide who is deserving of success.  On April 3, 2024, Hanif Abdurraqib came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk with Shereen Marisol Meraji. Meraji is a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, and a founder of NPR’s award-winning podcast Code Switch.

    1h 15m

  2. DEC 8

    Roz Chast - Encore

    Since 1978, when her very first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, Roz Chast has been chronicling modern life’s anxieties and absurdities. Neurotic characters with frizzy hair and mouths agape sit on sofas or walk along New York sidewalks worrying, observing, and making us laugh. Her more than a dozen books include Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, a memoir about her parents aging, and a collaboration with Steve Martin called The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!.  On November 2, 2023  Chast came to The Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to share stories from her newest book, I Must Be Dreaming.

    1h 15m

  3. DEC 1

    Nikole Hannah-Jones

    Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning journalist known for her groundbreaking work on the history and legacy of slavery, including school segregation and educational inequality.  In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on “The 1619 Project”. A series of articles for a special issue of the New York Times Magazine.  It was part of an initiative to reframe American history by centering the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans.  On November 22, 2024, Nikole Hannah-Jones came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk to Key Jo Lee of the Museum of the African Diaspora.  A new edition, “The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience” which incorporates art and photography, had been published a few weeks before.

    1h 19m

  4. NOV 24

    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s first book, The Undocumented Americans, was hailed as not only a radical experiment in creative nonfiction, but also an important, complex portrait of the lives of undocumented people. Villavicencio melds stark memoir with wide ranging essays, conducting meticulous research through traveling around the country to meet “people who’ve paid a steep price for the so-called American Dream.” Her debut was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times notable book in 2020. Now Villavicencio has turned her attention to fiction, publishing her first novel, Catalina. The book tells the story of an undocumented student at Harvard who faces the deepening harshness of the world while ruthlessly observing the cultures of wealth and power that surround her. The book’s mix of heartbreak and social justice proves Villavicencio is a singular and important voice in contemporary literature. On November 15, 2024, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation with Shereen Marisol Meraji, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism and a founder of NPR’s podcast Code Switch.

    1h 2m

  5. NOV 17

    Yotam Ottolenghi with Samin Nosrat

    Yotam Ottolenghi is a celebrated chef and bestselling cookbook author. He is the restauranteur and chef-patron of six London-based Ottolenghi delis, as well as the NOPI and ROVI restaurants. He is the author of ten bestselling and multi-award-winning cookbooks, including his latest, "Comfort". Ottolenghi has been a weekly columnist for the Guardian (UK) for over sixteen years and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. His commitment to the championing of vegetables, as well as ingredients once seen as ‘exotic’, has led to what some call ‘The Ottolenghi effect’. This is shorthand for the creation of a meal which is full of color, flavor, bounty, and surprise.  On October 10, 2024, Yotam Ottolenghi came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation with fellow writer and cook Samin Nosrat, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and the host and executive producer of the Netflix original documentary series based on her book.

    1h 21m

  6. NOV 10

    Richard Powers with Kim Stanley Robertson

    Across his life, Richard Powers has been driven by an insatiable curiosity for humans and the world around us. This has led him from budding scientist to award-winning author, from Bangkok to the Netherlands, and has helped him win a Pulitzer Prize and a Macarthur Genius Grant. Powers is best known for his novels, including The Gold Bug Variations, named a Time Book of the Year, The Echo Maker, which received a National Book Award, and The Overstory, which received a Pulitzer Prize. Powers’ fourteenth novel, Playground delves into the lives of artists, scientists, and teachers who choose to start seastedding, living on floating cities. On October 30, 2024, Richard Powers came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation with fellow novelist Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future.

    1h 23m

  7. NOV 3

    Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Wendy Whelan

    Spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and dancer Wendy Whelan discuss their remarkable new hybrid performance piece “Carnival of the Animals”, which addresses, among other things, the siege of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, through the lens of Camille Saint-Saens’ 1886 musical composition.   Marc Bamuthi Joseph conceived and wrote the piece, and performs the spoken word portions, and Wendy Whelan performs the dance portions, which are choreographed by Francesca Harper.   Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the vice president and artistic director for social impact of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.  He was formerly chief of programs and pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.  Wendy Whelan is a longtime dancer and now the associate artistic director with New York City Ballet.  They have performed “Carnival of the Animals” in several locations around the US, and will bring the production to New York City in March 2025.  On October 28, 2024, Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Wendy Whelan spoke with critic and author Steven Winn at the studios of KQED in San Francisco.

    1h 4m

  8. OCT 27

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Our guest today is Ta-Nehisi Coates, an outspoken voice on issues of race and racism.  Coates was catapulted to fame after the publication of his book-length essay “Between the World and Me”.  His new book, “The Message”, features essays that intertwine his first trip to Africa, the banning of his books in South Carolina, and his experiences traveling to Palestine.  On October 23, 2024, Coates came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an on-stage conversation with Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, an organization committed to equal justice for all inhabitants of Israel.

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Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 public radio stations across the country and wherever you get your podcasts. The broadcasts are co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco. Visit CITYARTS.NET for more info.

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    City Arts & Lectures
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    329
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