Partners & Friends
PRA began digitizing recordings and re-mastering or restoring material in 1999. Since then Pacifica has restored hundreds of historical recordings initiated by partner projects or guided by customer requests.
Pacifica Stations
BBC Radio 5: Up All Night
Beginning in September 2007, PRA’s weekly radio series From the Vault, now in its second year of production, expands its listening audience to a worldwide audience on BBC Radio 5.
This transatlantic sharing of talent and material will further highlight the work of the Pacifica Radio to a UK audience. From the Vault will be included on BBC’s Up All Night, a four-hour world news and current affairs show with contributions from correspondents around the world. More than half a million listeners — as well as more than seven million BBC Radio 5 Web site users — will be introduced to the rich broadcast history of Pacifica Radio.
Allee Willis and the Sound of Soul
Multimedia artist and composer Allee Willis hosted a benefit for the Archives at her historic Los Angeles home! The fundraiser, in honor of Black History Month, raised over $37,000 dedicated to the preservation of Pacifica programs that chronicle African-American history and the civil rights movement. Read about it in Billboard magazine. Review the Sound of Soul Collection, view Photos, Video, become and Adopter.
The UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project
Since 2002 the Pacifica Radio Archives has partnered with the the Media Resource Center (MRC), Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley Libraries to assess, digitize, and make available on the worldwideweb for research and study, audio recordings including broadcast tapes, unedited original source materials, and reporter's notes covering seminal movements in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1960's and 1970's: The Free Speech Movement, The Black Panther Party, and the Anti-Vietnam War protest movement.
This project has been made possible by the support and dedication of Pacifica Radio staff, the staff and volunteers of KPFA-Berkeley, and the University of California, Berkeley Libraries. We are especially indebted to the visionary Gary Handman, Head of the UCB Media Resource Center, and to Nicole Sawaya.
ABC-CLIO
In 1999 Pacifica Radio Archives began a relationship with ABC-CLIO whose history reference books — essential resources for both students and scholars — have won more than 70 awards over the past five years. Audio licensed from Pacifica Radio Archives has been included in the CD-Rom Encyclopedias and subscription Web sites for the Civil Rights Movement, The Native American Rights Movement, American Social Issues, The Environmental Movement, The Vietnam War, The Korean War. www.ABC-CLIO.com
The Quentin Crisp Memorial
In 1999 when Quentin Crisp passed away, the Pacifica Radio Archives partnered with the Quentin Crisp archives to share recordings PRA had of Mr. Crisp as well as recording and producing the recording of the memorial celebration held in his honor. The memorial recording went on to win the 2000 National Federation of Community Broadcasters Golden Reel Award for best local coverage. www.crisperanto.org
The Margaret Mead Centennial
The Institute for Intercultural Studies, inc. that sponsors the Margaret Mead Centennial celebration has listed Pacifica Radio Archives as a valuable resource for relevant recordings of Dr. Mead from 1958-1978. www.mead2001.org
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