{"id":7530,"date":"2009-04-24T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:23:08","slug":"two-events-benefitting-kpfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/04\/24\/two-events-benefitting-kpfk\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Events Benefitting KPFK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday April 24th: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KPFK and the Pacifica Radio Archives present Amy Goodman and David Goodman, authors of &#8220;Standing Up to the Madness&#8221; on Friday April 24th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 at the door (no advance sales). No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The event is at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd. (@Berendo). Park at the UTLA building across the street. <\/p>\n<p>There will also be a reception hosted by the Pacifica Radio Archives from 5:30 &#8211; 7 pm at Geneva Hall, Immanuel Presbyterian Church. Tickets are $75.00 per person \/ $100 per couple. Call 1-800-735-0230 x 264 for reservations. (Attendees will receive a special gift from the Pacifica Radio Archives). <\/p>\n<p>To celebrate KPFK&#8217;s 50th year of broadcasting, Amy will join KPFK General Manager, Sean Heitkemper and Pacifica Radio Archives Director, Brian DeShazor in a conversation about KPFK&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday April 28th: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join KPFK and celebrate your favorite rebel radio station\u2019s golden anniversary in the first of a series of Global Dance Parties. In what promises to be a night of unforgettable music, two legends will be taking to the stage in a special benefit on April 28th at the Mint, located at 6010 West Pico Blvd. in the city of Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Starting the evening, founding member of War Lonnie Jordan will be helping us sustain our mission by going on the offensive with his jazz\/funk Wartet. Master conguero Poncho Sanchez and his band will continue KPFK\u2019s \u201cGlobal Dance Party,\u201d with his Grammy award winning Latin Jazz sounds. <\/p>\n<p>Hosting the event is our very own cucaracha Lalo Alcaraz heard every Friday on the \u201cPocho Hour of Power.\u201d And special guest DJ&#8217;s spinning dance music and eclectic mash-ups DJ Sanchez starting off the evening and DJ Boxy D spinning between sets and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Order tickets here: http:\/\/themintla.frontgatetickets.com\/choose.php?a=1&#038;lid=30868&#038;eid=36890<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will also be available at the door if they don&#8217;t sell out first. Doors open at 7:30 pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday April 24th: KPFK and the Pacifica Radio Archives present Amy Goodman and David Goodman, authors of &#8220;Standing Up to the Madness&#8221; on Friday April 24th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 at the door (no advance sales). No one will be turned away for lack of funds. The event is at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}