La Raza Chronicles

17 October 2011

Cronicas De La Raza
18 October 2011 - KPFA FM

La Raza Chronicle is helping raise funds for KPFA. We hope you will donate as much as you possibly can. This week we bring you:

Julieta Kusnir and Nina Serrano discuss the Occupations in NYC and Oakland.

Interviews with the leading Bay Area artists including Rene Yanez about the upcoming Dia de los Muertos events and the opportunity to receive thank you gifts for your KPFA subscriptions- including a print by Jos Sonces and a private guided tour of the SOMARTS exhibit by the curator, Rene Yanez.

Flamenco singer and cultural promoter Nina Menendez will discuss flamenco : it's history and practice. She will also be offering tickets to the Diego el Gigalo concert, with a Flamenco Cd and DVD to listeners who subscribe and support Free speech radio and la Raza Chronicles.

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La Raza Chronicles - Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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La Raza Chronicles- Tuesday, October 18, 2011

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11 October 2011

Cronicas De La Raza
11 October 2011 - KPFA FM

Tonights program is a special funddrive program featuring Cuba/US relations including:

Alicia Jrapko speaking on the Cuban 5 - Cuban political prisoners in the USA.
We offer tickets to La Colmenita , a production of the National Children's Theatre of Cuba to be held in San Francisco Oct. 28 and 29. The live production is written and performed by 30 Cuban children.....as a premimum to those who donate to KPFA and support La Raza Chronicles.
Saul Landau discusses his many conversations with Fidel Castro over the decades.
We offer dvd copies of Landau's film "FIDEL" produced in 1968 when the filmmaker traveled the island with the historic revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro.... as a premimum to those who donate to KPFA and support La Raza Chronicles.

"El Fireboy y el Mingo"
by Gilbert "Magu" Lujan

Mp3 Playback (iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media):
La Raza Chronicles- Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

04 October 2011

Cronicas De La Raza
04 October 2011 - KPFA FM

Tonight's program features:
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Oscar Hijuelos reading from his memoir, "Thoughts without Cigarettes." Listeners can obtain a Cd of his reading and the conversation with Nina Serrano recorded live at la Pena in Berkeley in June 2011 as a premium for subscribing to KPFA.
Hijuelos' novel "The Mambo Kings" became a major Hollywood movie starring, Antonio Banderas and Celia Cruz making a guest appearance. Hijuelos chronicles his life as the child of pre- revolutionary Cuban immigrants in the rough part of New York City in the early 50's and his coming of age. He discusses identity, family, love, Latin music and jazz.
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Mp3 Playback (iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media):
La Raza Chronicles- Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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27 September 2011

Cronicas De La Raza
27 September 2011 - KPFA FM

Noted Mexican American Journalist, Maria Hinojosa of NPR radio fame, speaking about immigration and privatized prison industry.

5- time Grammy Award nominee, music producer, Greg Landau discusses his new album, “Calma” featuring Afro-Cuban composer/pianist Omar Sosa. The album is up for the Latin Grammy’s this November. In this conversation with Nina Serrano, Landau discusses his process as a music producer in working with Omar Sosa to create “Calma”. We hear the track Aguas and then Post-Modern Cumbia from their earlier album “D.O. Day Off”