Series Information:
The Making Of… is a new multimedia series that looks across the Bay Area to chronicle the art and innovation going on in the backyards, workplaces, cultural hotspots and public spaces throughout one of the most diverse and innovative regions in the country. The Making Of… includes stories created from listener submissions and recommendations. What are you making? How about your grandmother? Your next door neighbor, the guy you sit next to at work?
The Making Of… radio features air on KQED 88.5 FM as part of Morning Edition. All features and the brand new Zeega tool are available online at kqed.org/makingof.
Event Information:
On January 17, 2013, The Kitchen Sisters, KQED and AIR join forces with Zeega, the revolutionary interactive storytelling platform whose mission is to remake the Internet, for an evening of creation and experimentation at SoundCloud.
The Zeega platform enables anyone to easily author beautiful immersive experiences combining personal content with media curated from across the web. This brand new tool allows users to create their own digital stories using already existing media on the web and share their creations and stories through The Making Of… site.
Collaborators:
The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) are duPont-Columbia and Peabody Award-winning radio producers, who have previously produced Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project for NPR. Their most recent NPR series, The Hidden World of Girls, hosted by Tina Fey, aired on All Things Considered and Morning Edition. The Kitchen Sisters are also involved in educating and training new voices for public media in an imaginative, artistic approach to storytelling.