Hear Here is a project of KALW 91.7FM Local Public Radio, designed to illuminate life in Oakland and San Francisco. Our producers are asking residents to tell us about their favorite places – and their lives – in these two cities. We’ll share what we’ve learned on air, online, and on stage, drawing out the common threads that tie us together.

_How does it work?_
You tell us about one of your favorite places in your OAK or SF neighborhood by recording a short audio message on the Hear Here website, and we follow up and schedule a time to meet you at that place. We’ll bring our microphones; you bring the story! We’ll ask why this place matters to you and spend some time recording its natural sound. The stories we collect will go on our Listening Map for visitors to hear and explore. Some will even air on KALW 91.7FM.

It’ll be fun! And you’ll get to know the Bay Area through the people who shape it, day in and day out.

New ways of thinking about the world, brought to you by the humanities and The World According to Sound. 

We’re working with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. You’ll never hear the same kind of thing twice.

We’re independent and ad free. Patreon is the best way to support our work. https://www.patreon.com/theworldaccordingtosound

Soft vowels + strong sense for story making. Producer & curator for #CurrentSoundscapes. Podcast doula & digital producer. Former Bay Area producer for @mothstories

This is The Stoop podcast and we're dialogin' about the diaspora with hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba.

For more: www.thestoop.org

A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation, NPR creates and distributes award-winning news, information, and music programming to a network of 975 independent stations. Through them, NPR programming reaches 26 million listeners every week.

Were you a backseat baby? Were you strapped into your car seat and forced to listen to NPR in the 80's and 90's? 

It's time for us to get better at finding you: where you are and what is most relevant to your lives. And when we get there, we want to hang out — whether in cyberspace, over the air, or through events — and exchange ideas and smart conversation.

Join us on a new on-ramp to NPR that is quietly gaining speed: Generation Listen.

KALW is local public radio from the San Francisco Bay Area. Tune into 91.7FM or find some of KALW's fine programming here, from shows like our nightly newsmagazine Crosscurrents. And check out the sounds from special projects like Audiograph, which is out to capture the sonic signature of the Bay Area. 

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