June 27, 2025 - 2:24 pm

On a leafy street in Seattle’s Central District, a two-story family home has welcomed visitors as a gallery space since 2019. Wa Na Wari, which means “our home” in the Nigerian language of Kalabari, is featuring art from the Black Prisoners’ Caucus from June 6th – July 13th, 2025. The center for Black art and belonging is showcasing beadwork, poetry, sketches, paintings, and video work centered on incarceration.

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June 10, 2025 - 11:48 pm

Bellevue College and the King County Library System are partnering to celebrate alumnus Ross Ishikawa, a Northwest artist who illustrated the graphic novel, “We Hereby Refuse,” at an event on July 31 on the campus of Bellevue College. As part of King County Library’s 2025 One Bellevue One Book: Intergenerational Book Club, Ishikawa will discuss

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May 18, 2025 - 2:45 am

Join KBCS at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival, taking place May 23-26 at Seattle Center. The theme and cultural focus for this year’s festival is Ikigai (Pronounced: Ee-kee-guy), meaning “A life worth living”. The concept of Ikigai marks the next phase in our cultural focus exploration that began by looking inward at our personal …

May 13, 2025 - 11:59 am

The White House has put forth an annual budget that requests eliminating public media funding at the federal level for FY26. The proposal asks Congress to eliminate nearly all $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports more than 1,500 non-profit stations across the country, including KBCS. As it stands,

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May 8, 2025 - 8:46 pm

We’re excited to announce that long-time KBCS program, The Caravan, hosted by John Gilbreath, will return to KBCS on Tuesday, May 13th.  

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May 2, 2025 - 1:44 pm

We are deeply concerned by the executive order to cut NPR and PBS funding. On May 1, 2025, the White House directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and federal agencies to end funding for NPR and PBS. While KBCS is not directly affiliated with NPR, we stand firmly with our colleagues in public media

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April 30, 2025 - 6:00 pm

  April 30th marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army and the end of the Vietnam war.   Many thanks to Nam Nguyen, Executive Director of WA State Commissions on Asian Pacific Affairs, and Jennie Cecil Moore, Independent Journalist and Producer and KBCS Contributor for this interview featured on our

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April 24, 2025 - 5:00 pm

91.3 KBCS presents on Saturday from 12 AM to 1 AM, a weekly LATE NITE showing of The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre! This week, your host Jack Newman presents two classic, historical radio dramas from the Golden Age of Radio! The Columbia Workshop: “They Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease” – Written and

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April 24, 2025 - 6:00 am

In 2001, Mary Anne Moorman (Auntmama) was awarded a contract with Bellevue College to create an operational plan for KBCS. Consulting led to telling stories on Walkin’ the Floor and in 2003 she began co-hosting Sunday Folks on Sunday’s, 9am to Noon. “Playing music for the KBCS community is an honor.”

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April 17, 2025 - 5:00 pm

The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre, only on 91.3 KBCS, presents a LATE NITE show this Saturday from 12 AM to 1 AM! Tonight, we have two really awesome radio shows from the Golden Age of Radio! The Columbia Workshop – “Radio Primer” – Written and Directed by Norman Corwin! Original Air Date: 05/04/1941 Inner Sanctum

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