Voices of the Community
By George Koster
Welcome to Voices of the Community, we strive to amplify solutions facing where we live through featuring residents like you, along with change makers, and thought leaders to support our fellow residents and people visiting or working in our area. “Our goal is to feature the unheard comments and stories from communities across our region in hopes to create dialogues to address our common problems and support the change of the status quo.” - George Koster, Creator/Host
Latest episode
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Ralph Remington of San Francisco Arts Commission - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
This interview with Ralph Remington is part of our co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023. You can watch the wonderful interview conducted by our roaming reporter team of Isa … -
Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit – “Economic Recovery in the Arts: Regaining Patrons and Artistic Engagement” Ep 3
This is our second episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit "Rebuilding Our Communities," on June 28th, 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the importance of arts an… -
Maria Jensen of SOMARTS Cultural Center - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
Maria asks What Doom Loop? Someone's got the story wrong because counterculture roots in San Francisco are alive and well and breaking through the concrete that we are feeling right now that is creating this idea and this very image of a doom loop. -
Jonathan Moscone Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
Jonathan Moscone shares why we should celebrate both the messiness of San Francisco’s politics and all the things that make San Francisco and its arts community so resilient. -
Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit - Opening & Keynotes Ep 2
Welcome to the second episode of our special series of community dialogues “The State of Our Arts & Culture Organizations,” We worked with Arts for a Better Bay Area to co-produce their State of the Arts Summit 2023, on June 28th, 2023 with the theme… -
“The State of Our Arts & Culture Organizations” - Ep 1 Board & Governance
This community dialogue focuses on board development, operations, and governance through the lens of an arts and culture nonprofit as it works on coming back from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our guests for today's show are Michelle "Mush" Le… -
Foundations for Social Change
Learn how direct cash transfers to unhoused folks are a preventative strategy to prevent people from becoming entrenched in homelessness and save the government money. In this episode, we feature the voices of the Associate Professor and Canada Resea… -
San Francisco's Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing
As we enter 2023 and the third year of the covid-19 pandemic we wanted to hear from one of our government departments about the housing and wrap around support services they are providing to our unhoused neighbors. In this episode we feature the voic… -
Miracle Money Pilot Program Update
Welcome to our annual holiday show and fundraiser. As we bring this year and our special series on Covid-19’s impact on nonprofits to a close, we wanted to go back to Episode One in the series when we introduced you to Miracle Messages and in Episode… -
SKYWATCHERS Ensemble
This episode features the voices of the founder of ABD Productions and the Sky Watchers Ensemble program, Anne Bluethenthal, along with the members of the Sky Watcher Ensemble, Shavonne Allen and Joel Yates who share about the power of people, from…
