[grc] Accepting Pitches for KPFA's International Women's Day broadcast

Wed Jan 12 01:28:02 PST 2022

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******Calling all podcasters, radio producers and enthusiasts, and audio 
artists!******

You're invited to pitch a 29-minute or 58-minute radio program for 
KPFA's International Women’s Day programming.

March 8 International Women’s Day 2022 will be here before we know it. 
On that day folks all over the world will be further exposing the 
terrible conditions facing women and celebrating achievements and 
successes of women’s movements and women-led movements. Once again, KPFA 
94.1FM will be a media presence.

We are now soliciting pitches for women-centered programming that will 
air during our 24-hour International Women’s Day special on Sunday, 
March 13th 2022.  This will be after the actual date, so we will be able 
to include news of events that happened on the day around the world.

UN Women has chosen as this year’s theme, “Gender equality today for a 
sustainable tomorrow.” We at KPFA also add #FeministsResistTheRight; 
#ImagineFeministFutures; and #FeministsforGenuineSecurity. You can use 
those to frame your pitch and choose any topic you think will compel 
folks to listen and learn, to imagine possibilities, and, ultimately, to 
get involved in shaping the future of the Bay Area and the worlds beyond.

We welcome a variety of formats: Public Affairs, Music, Poetry, Art, 
Culture, Radio Theater, Documentary.

WE ARE SEEKING:

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    Creative programming that incorporates voices and perspectives of
    women, particularly those not typically heard (or produced) on the
    airwaves.

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    ORIGINALLY produced audio that incorporates or considers topics
    below BUT please feel free to invent your own. As you conceptualize
    your show, please keep in mind two things—the complexity of race,
    class, gender, nationality, sexuality, ability, language, for
    example, and the ways folks are organizing and creating change.

Possible topics include:

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    Updates of the impacts of COVID pandemic on women in both the global
    North and South. This could include such topics as pandemic
    parenting, women as essential workers, vaccine apartheid,
    militarized responses and gender, for example.

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    Global warming specifically and climate change generally

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    Women’s reproductive justice and freedom

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    Housing crisis and houseless-ness Bay Area/nationally

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    Militarism, military spending, China, Korean Peninsula

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    Women’s  Rights is Human Rights: housing, criminalization and
    incarceration, reproductive justice; guaranteed income and liveable
    wages; migration and immigration.

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    Visions of a gender equitable and enabled world that would address
    the interests of ALL women

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    Gender Non-binary and Trans Inclusion

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    White women's anti-racist activism

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    Women of Color perspectives

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    Islamophobia and Muslim perspectives

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    Faith-based feminist activist leadership

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    Girls, childhood, motherhood, our mothers

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    Feminisms:  transnational feminism, abolition, womanism,
    eco-feminism, Black feminism, for example.

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    History of Feminism-Feminism 101

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    Women Firsts or Feats (did men take the credit?)

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    Rape culture, sexual violence, and feminists creating
    change:  transformative justice as response?

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    State-sanctioned violence

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DEADLINE TO PITCH US YOUR SHOW: FRIDAY JANUARY 21, 2022: 1 PM PST.

SEND PITCH TO: iwdpitches at kpfa.org

WHEN WILL YOU HEAR BACK? You will get an email or call within 1 to 3 
days after the submission deadline so you will have about 4 weeks to 
produce your show.

DEADLINE FOR FINAL RADIO-READY SHOW: February 25, 2022 (More details to 
follow once your pitch is accepted).

YOUR PITCH CHECKLIST: Send us a pitch that is 1-2 paragraphs at most. Be 
CREATIVE.  Be SPECIFIC.  Be CONCISE. Include the following:

1.     Name, email, and phone for all producers/hosts.  Include any way 
that you wish to be addressed.

2.     Working title of show (if you have one)

3.     Time: 29-minute show or 58-minute show

4.     Theme or subject

5.     Why is it important/what is unique about your show’s perspective?

6.     Content and sounds: Who will the voices be and what other sounds 
will we hear? What is your back-up plan if you can’t interview specific 
people? What other sounds or audio do you plan, or hope, to use?

7.     If you already aired this show (or aired the majority of the 
material) elsewhere: let us know where and when.

COPYRIGHT: Please adhere to strict copyright guideline. NO LEEWAY. 
Copyrighted music, images (for publicity), recordings, etc., are not 
allowable for including in your production and its promotion, unless you 
have written permission. The only exception is if you will be producing 
a music show. In this case, the show will become publicly unavailable 
after the time limit.

RESOURCES: Here are a variety of websites that may help you produce more 
compelling, insightful and or creative radio for International Women’s 
Day, 2022. The sites provide access to free, copyright free or creative 
commons, archived audio, like sound effects and ambience or you can 
record your own.

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk

https://catalog.archives.gov/

https://creativecommons.org/

http://www.openculture.com/

https://freemusicarchive.org/

https://freesound.org/browse/

Also learn about new media that's just entered the public domain for 
copyright free use:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whats-entering-the-public-domain-on-january-1-winnie-pooh-ernest-hemingway-180979299/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR0h2hdXKRGQJUbzVEZhGYnjJyTSmQRJwvsBa6QJ07jGbsvHEyjEl4Kl89w

SPREAD THE WORD: Pass this call for pitches along to any interested 
parties. If you want to help other programmers with editing or advising 
but don’t want to pitch, also let us know. If you have questions, email 
us at iwdpitches at kpfa.org

COMPENSATION: Please know that KPFA is a solely listener-sponsored radio 
outlet.  The women who are producing this special are doing it for the 
love of the work and we are not being paid to do so.  This means we will 
not offer any monetary compensation for your work either. However, if 
you are chosen, you will get the chance to be a part of an amazing 
community of women and as our signal reaches roughly 1/3 of the state of 
California, your work will be shared widely with our listenership here, 
nationally, and internationally on kpfa.org. AND, all our shows are 
archived, so you and anyone can listen long after IWD!

GO FOR IT!

In solidarity,

The 2022 KPFA International Women's Day Planning Committee
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