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Hear Here’s story installation to pop up at the Oakland Museum of California Friday Oct 26

Erica Mu — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:51:46 +0000

KALW’s community storytelling team Hear Here is showcasing stories from the residents of Oakland and San Francisco in a larger-than-life installation at the Oakland Museum of California next Friday, October 26 from 5pm-12am.

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Put your story on the Hear Here map

Audrey Dilling — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:17:08 +0000

At KALW, we believe that telling the story of a city means telling the stories of the people who live there. That’s what our community storytelling project Hear Here has been doing in San Francisco and Oakland – and now they want to get to know the places that make these cities what they are by asking a simple question:

What’s a place in your neighborhood that means something to you – and why?

Hear Here: Take part in an Ethiopian coffee ceremony with Guenet Sebsibe

Audrey Dilling and Anne Huang — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:55:51 +0000

Our Hear Here team has been interviewing people in libraries throughout San Francisco and Oakland about their lives and memories. Now they want to know about the places that make those memories what they are. They’re asking a simple question: what’s a place in your neighborhood that matters to you, and why?

Hear Here: Meet the future skaters of Balboa Skate Park

Ben Trefny — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:56:04 +0000

If skateboards are your thing, you have a new place to thrash in San Francisco: the new Balboa Skate Park. And that brings us to another installment of our community storytelling project, Hear Here. KALW's Ben Trefny swung by the Balboa Skate Park, before its official opening, to meet some of the skaters there. He met edn Bowater-Skelly, Mario Mancini, Sirdenzel Lumsey, and Vivan Nguyen there.

Hear Here: Meet John Stangl

Audrey Dilling — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:11:59 +0000

Finding food can be hard for some families in the Bay Area. The producers of Hear Here, KALW’s community storytelling project, paid a visit to Oakland’s Laurel Elementary School during a monthly food distribution service for Laurel families. Hear Here producer Audrey Dilling spoke with Laurel Elementary Principal John Stangl about the challenges his students have getting enough to eat – a challenge he experienced firsthand as a child.