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KQED PerksMember Days at thede Young MuseumVisit the de Young Museum’s groundbreakingexhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions for freeduring KQED Member Days on Friday, October 26,and Saturday, October 27! Contemporary MuslimFashions is the first major museum exhibition toexplore the complex and diverse nature of Muslimfashion and modest dress codes by spotlightingplaces, garments and styles from around the world.It examines how Muslim women have becomearbiters of style within and beyondtheir communities.Admission is free to KQED members plus oneguest (total of two persons per current KQEDMemberCard or membership info from On Qmagazine and valid ID). Tickets are based onday-of availability only.deyoungmuseum.orgEnjoy music and culture that will rock the dead,rattle your bones and shake your soul at San Jose’snineth annual Dia de los Muertos Festival in Plazade César Chávez on Saturday, October 20.Bring the family to experience the Calavera Campfor kids, hosted by KQED — with the first 200 kidsreceiving free t-shirts that they can color withfabric ink. Entertainment includes live music,Lucha Revolución wrestling matches, the ArtistColony exhibit and live art by local youth.diasanjose.comA Special Eveningwith Martin YanJoin KQED and host chef Martin Yan for adelectable, eight-course banquet at the elegantH.L. Peninsula Restaurant in South San Franciscoon Thursday, October 25, at 6:30pm. Come sharefood and enjoy live entertainment in the form ofcolorful, behind-the-scenes stories from Martin’snew series, Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan,premiering Wednesday, October 24, at 7:30pm onKQED 9. The new series highlights the many naturaland cultural treasures of Malaysia, with classicdishes that embrace three ethnicities — Malay,Chinese and Indian. Admission is 95 for KQEDmembers, 110 for nonmembers and 1,000 for atable of ten. For tickets and more information, visitkqed.org/food.Photos (top to bottom): courtesy de Young Museum; courtesy Dia de los Muertos Festival; courtesy KQED.San Jose Dia delos Muertos Festival

On Q October 2018KQED Public RadioPhotos (cover; inside): courtesy Getty; courtesy Providence Pictures.massive tunnel beneath a pyramid at the center of oneof the largest ancient cities and mapping the heavens incelestially aligned cities.Narrated by Robbie Robertson (Mohawk and memberof the famed rock group The Band), each hour of NativeAmerica explores Great Nations and reveals cities, sacredstories and history long hidden in plain sight. Watch tribalmembers and descendant communities, whose ancestorsbuilt this world, as they share their stories, revealing longheld oral traditions with a thread that runs through thepast to these living cultures today. Inventive animationsand 3D computer modeling bring ancient ruins to life,enabling viewers to experience the pre-Columbian worldin an immersive way. The result is a new window into a15,000-year-old story that unifies North and South Americaand resonates to this day.Native America airs Tuesdays, October 23,October 30 and November 13, at 9pm onKQED 9.pbs.org/native-americaGet magazine online: kqed.org/OnQWho were the Americas’ First Peoples? The new fourpart PBS series Native America, which premieres Tuesday,October 23, aims to answer that 15,000-year-old questionby combining ancient stories with modern science.Recent discoveries informed by Native American oralhistories have led to a bold new perspective on North andSouth America — that through social networks spanningtwo continents, ancient people shared a foundationalbelief system with a diversity of cultural expression.Native America brings to life a land of massive citiesconnected by social networks spanning two continents,with unique and sophisticated systems of science, art andwriting. Made with the active participation of NativeAmerican communities and filmed in some of the mostspectacular locations in the hemisphere, Native Americailluminates a story that for too long has remained untold.The series highlights intimate Native Americantraditions and follows field archaeologists using21st-century tools such as multispectral imaging andDNA analysis to uncover incredible narratives of the past,venturing into Amazonian caves containing the Americas’earliest art and interactive solar calendar, exploring aKQED Public TelevisionThe new four-part series premieresTuesday, October 23, at 9pm on KQED 9Join KQED at the Dancing Feathers Youth Powwowon Saturday, October 20. Presentedby the Friendship House Associationof American Indians, the NativeAmerican Heath Center and KQED,the all-day festivities feature AmericanIndian arts and crafts, food, musicand dancing. Watch youth competein different dancing groups based onage and gender. For more information,visit friendshiphousesf.org.KQED.orgCelebrate Bay Area AmericanIndian community and culture atthe 13th annual Dancing FeathersYouth Powwow at Thomas EdisonCharter Academy in San Francisco3

FIND YOUR TRUSTEDCOVERAGE ON KQEDThis year’s midterm elections coulddramatically reshape the direction ofAmerican politics, and KQED is providingthe area’s most trusted news and analysisof regional, state and federal races andmeasures. KQED will cover the governor’srace and the U.S. Senate and House ofRepresentatives races. Competitive electionsfrom the Central Valley to Orange Countycould decide the balance of power in theHouse, and we’ll spend time in thosedistricts talking to candidates and votersabout their hopes for how California isrepresented in Washington.For the first time in eight years,Californians will elect a new governor, andvoters will also decide on a U.S. Senate seat.Also on the ballot are voter initiatives onthe gas tax, property taxes and rent control.Measures in Bay Area cities and counties alsoseek to tackle homelessness, rising rents andcannabis businesses.KQED will cover these races andmeasures with stories and interviews onthe radio on The California Report, Forumand our daily newscasts; on television withKQED Newsroom; and online. Tune in to88.5 FM each Thursday night forPolitical Breakdown to listen to hostsScott Shafer and Marisa Lagos analyze thelatest election news and conduct in-depthinterviews with candidates and politicalmovers and shakers in the Golden State.You can also listen to Political Breakdownwherever you find your podcasts.When ballots are mailed out onOctober 8, KQED can help you parsethrough all the measures and races with ouronline Voter Guide. On November 6, we’llhave election night analysis and live resultson our website.kqed.org/electionsPolitical Breakdown PresentsBallots and BrewsCan California flip the House? What’sat stake with the propositions on thisyear’s ballot? Join Scott Shafer andMarisa Lagos, hosts of KQED’s popularnew weekly radio program and podcastPolitical Breakdown, for a Ballots andBrews voter party! Ballots and Brewswill help you make sense of the issuesand have a whole lot of fun at the sametime. Participate in an election pub quiz,enjoy refreshments, take part in livelyconversations with fellow citizens and getfamiliar with KQED’s 2018 Voter Guide.4Wednesday, October 17, 7-9pm(Doors 6:30pm)Studiotobe, , October 23, 7-9pm(Doors 6:30pm)The Laundry, San Franciscoballotsbrewssf18.eventbrite.comTuesday, October 30, 7-9pm(Doors 6:30pm)MACLA, San Joseballotsbrewssj18.eventbrite.com

On Q October 2018KQED Public RadioKQED Public TelevisionEast Bay. And it’s about creating, throughtheir work, not only platforms fortheir own voices, but also spaces in whichothers can see their lives and theirstories reflected.This last point can be seen clearly inthe work of photographer Mia Nakano.She’s the artist behind the portrait andoral history series The Visibility Project,which documents queer Asian Americanwomen and trans-identified subjects tobreak barriers through both imageryand storytelling.Interdisciplinary artist TorreyaCummings looks back further in time.Combining images from California’shistory with queer culture, she usessculpture, performance and installationto bridge the “irreconcilable differences”between urban and rural, gay andstraight, natural and artificial.Patricia Berne’s life and work furthercommit to breaking down boundaries.As the co-founder and director of theperformance project Sins Invalid,Berne develops productions that featureartists with disabilities and others whohave been historically marginalized— artists of color and queer andgender-variant artists.And printmaker NicólasGonzales-Media, an active memberof the UndocuQueer movement,demonstrates the power of straddlingmultiple identities. In work focused onimmigration and social justice, he uses hisart to advocate for other undocumentedyouth and their families.The artists of Redefining Pride areexamples of the Bay Area’s extraordinarytalent, who can serve as introductions,we hope, to a thriving scene of ambitious,radical and queer East Bay-rooted art.Redefining Pride: The East Bay’sQueer Artists is a web series,available only at kqed.org/arts.KQED.orgThe Bay Area’s LGBTQ community hasfar more to celebrate than can possibly fitinto one month of pride in June. And forthe visual artists profiled in KQED Arts’new web series Redefining Pride:The East Bay’s Queer Artists, the workof creating greater visibility andacceptance doesn’t end at the start ofJuly — it’s a yearlong (and sometimeslifelong) pursuit.In the series, KQED Artscontributor Emily Holmes highlightsthe work of queer-identified artists ofthe East Bay who are redefining ourunderstanding of pride, featuring visualartists of color and a wide rangeof artistic approaches.For these artists, pride is abouthonoring the people and histories notnecessarily included in mainstreampresentations of the queer community.It’s about pride of place — how they’vemade homes for themselves and foundtheir artistic support networks in theGet magazine online: kqed.org/OnQPhoto: Nicólas Gonzales-Medina, courtesy Graham Holoch.Meet the East Bay Artists Redefining Pride5

Photo: courtesy Bay Area Science Festival.The Bay Area ScienceFestival Returns6Fall into science with the Bay AreaScience Festival, running Friday,October 26, through Sunday,November 3. Experience 50 inspiringand exciting science and technologyevents at venues from Santa Rosa toSan Jose.Bay Area scientists and engineerswill share their passion for what theydo with exciting talks. Plus, you’ll enjoyfun, hands-on activities, intriguingexhibitions, behind-the-scenes tours ofcutting-edge facilities, guided hikes andneighborhood stargazing at local venues.Also, don’t miss three free outdoorevents: North Bay Discovery Day inSanta Rosa on Saturday, October, 27;Contra Costa Discovery Day in Concordon Saturday, October 27; and DiscoveryDay at AT&T Park in San Francisco onSaturday, November 3. These large-scaleevents will feature hundreds of dynamicdemonstrations, engaging experimentsand geeky games for families all aroundthe Bay Area.The festival is organized and ledby UC San Francisco, in collaborationwith hundreds of the Bay Area’s premierscience, cultural and educationalestablishments, including KQED.KQED will help to kick off thefestival with a special screening of itsaward-winning science series, Deep Look,on Friday, October 26, from 7-9pmat the 63 Bluxome Street Gallery inSan Francisco. Meet the producersand hear harrowing tales of how theycaptured the fascinating imagery forsome of Deep Look’s creepy critter videosincluding black widows, flesh eatingbeetles, ticks, whispering bats and more.Plus, you’ll meet some of the researchersthat made these videos possible andenjoy hands-on activities that might testyour fear factor!Unleash your inner scientist andfind out more about the festival atbayareasciencefestival.org.