Program

  • The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller, and Lauren Pillsbury

    The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller and Lauren Pillsbury, interspersed with music by Joanna Brouk. Broadcast on Christmas Day, 1972. Rebirth of Innocence. Produced by Joanna Brouk.

  • Jean Ritchie in concert (Part 1 only)

    Jean Ritchie performs folk music in concert at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, California, April 26, 1972. Songs performed: Darby Ram — One I Love — John Riley — Sean O’Reilly from the County Leitrim — What’ll I Do With the Baby-O — The Bluebird Song — Cold Mountains — On Jordan’s Stormy Banks —…

  • Teresa Trull live at the West Coast Women’s Music Festival (year unknown)

    Teresa Trull performing at the West Coast Women’s Music Festival, September 13-16, 198?. Among the songs performed are Let It Be Known, Get Up, and Give It Up. Backing vocalists: Najla Id-Deen, Lady Bianca and Linda Tillery. Piano: Susan Muscarella. Bass: Joy Pené Julks. Guitar and percussion: June Millington. Drums: Bernice Brooks. Traps and percussion:…

  • Poet Rosalie Moore reads her work

    Bay Area poet Rosalie Moore (1910-2000) reads from her work and talks about her life. Poems read include Fog Crossing, Catalog, The Mind’s Disguise, Fear by Hanging, Dirge for the Living, and excerpts from her book Year of the Children (1977).

  • Three plays: What Have You Done For Me Lately, Pas De Deux, and Small Change

    Three plays about women, produced by the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective. Play #1: “What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Kathy McAnally; Play #2: “Pas De Deux” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Vera Houdek; Play #3: Scenes from “Small…

  • Women poets reading at Cody’s Bookstore (Part 1 only)

    Women’s poetry reading sponsored by the Berkeley Poets Commune, at Cody’s Bookstore on April 18, 1972. The poets are: Sharon Ulrich, Lynda Koolish, Barbara Gravelle, Judith Stevens, Susan Griffin, Jeanne Lance, Maggie Cloherty, and Rachel Nahem. Note: This is the first half of the reading. The second half of the same reading was scheduled for…

  • The Woman and the Carpenter (Part 2 only)

    Linda Schiffman interviews four tradeswomen, all employed in non-traditional work and enrollees in the Women in Apprenticeship Program, about sexism on the job and the kinds of problems they encountered getting used to this different kind of work. The women interviewed are Priscilla Danzig, a carpenter’s apprentice and member of Carpenters Local 305, Marin County;…

  • Flying Lesbians

    A copy of the German band Flying Lesbians’ self-titled album from 1975 (Frauen Offensive). Tracks: Side One: 1. battered wife; 2. trebermadchen; 3. arbeitslos; 4. fur frau dr. a.; 5. frauen kommt her frauen erhebt euch; Side Two: 1. I’m a lesbian, how about you?; 2. die bisexualitat; 3. wir sind die homosexuellen frauen; 4.…

  • San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, 1974

    Recordings from the 1974 San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, recorded at the First Unitarian Church in January 1974. Contents: Reel A: A brief rap by one of the festival’s organizers (from San Francisco Women’s Center) to be used as an introduction to the music tape. Reel B: Performances from the concert: Susie and Selby perform…

  • Audioprose: Tillie Olsen

    Tillie Olsen was born in 1913 into a working class family and saw much suffering in her early years. Olsen reads from her book, “I Stood There Ironing,” her first person narrative of a working woman explaining to a visiting social worker what went wrong with her talented but emotionally restricted daughter. Kay Bonetti interviews…