Cohousing briefly mentioned on some NPR/public radio stations this week on today's West Coast Live | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Raines Cohen (rc3-coho-Lraines.com) | |
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:46:26 -0700 (PDT) |
On the Bay Area-originating show "West Coast Live" here at Yoshi's sushi restaurant and jazz club in Jack London Square in Oakland, CA, I submitted my audience adventure, and host Sedge Thompson read it on the air, a little past an hour into the 2-hour program recorded and live-broadcast this morning (Sat 3/17). I've been a longtime fan of the weekly variety show, and some friends have volunteered there, so the host knows me and knows to expect something a little unusual when he comes across my audience-adventure cards (in which audience members "describe an adventure on the way to the show -- legibility and plausibility count"). The show is like a San Francisco Bay Area-regional version of "Prairie Home Companion," but with just one on-air host and a pianist, no band or performance troupe (and produced at a fraction of the cost), airing on a few dozen stations nationally. I managed to work in a mention of the upcoming national cohousing conference, to be held up the street at the hotel and conference center across from my former home in community, Swan's Market Cohousing. And I submitted my adventure on a card from a tool used for building community and practicing consensus in cohousing and other groups working together -- but more on that in a separate post. Some stations air it delayed, so you can listen on your radio (at around 4 PM in the Southwest Oregon area today, for example... next Saturday morning in parts of Colorado) ... for others, tune in via the web link on the KALW website, with live streaming this week starting this afternoon/evening, by following links at: http://www.calcoho.org/cohousing-events/cohousing-on-the-radio.html Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach & Cohousing California community organizer P.P.S. I really didn't advise, consult, or pass notes with my visiting 50th-anniversary-celebrating friends, Barbara and Richard Kohlhaas from Casa Verde Commons in Colorado Springs, who also promoted cohousing in their adventure (written by Barbara) and included an asterisked explanation of the concept that got read on the air -- it just goes with the territory! A delightful surprise at the end of the segment. On Twitter, follow: @CohousingCoach, @CalCoho (for Cohousing California), and @Cohousing Fun last week: a cohousing talk in Dallas (TX) and an "(Un)Common Meal" Cohousing Experience at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing Featuring this week for the over 1500 members of East Bay Cohousing: A games potluck, a talk about senior cohousing at an Ecovillage under development in South Africa, a cohousing conference preview, and more. Follow @ebcoho or visit http://www.ebcoho.org/
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