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What is The Courtyard?
From the Executive Producer of The Courtyard, Debo Kotun.
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Song for Night
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Courtyard In The News:
At UCI on April 7, 2005, Debo Kotun,
producer of the radio program The
Courtyard, recorded the ICWT event
“Out of English: Korean, African, and
Irish Visions.” The following Saturday Kotun broadcast the event, and, because of great interest and response to that show, he scheduled additional appearances of the participants from “Out of English....”
Source: From Here to There:Newsletter of the International Center for Writing and Translation
University of California, Irvine, Volume 1 | Number 2 | Spring l 2004-05
Review of The Courtyard by Geo Beach of Airmedia.org:
"Wow. This is radio soup, and there's something in here that's good for your soul. Actually, it's more like a goulash, a gumbo, a masala. And it's good for your chakras and chi too....Think of Labalaba as a hitchhiker's guide to your very own orb. EP Debo Kotun is some kind of magician, letting you get to know some of your neighbors "in local universe" (as Bucky Fuller would say) with a unique, back-porch ease....Engaging, Quirky, Suprising"--Geo Beach.
Courtyard In The News:
....'As I am speaking to you now, there is a Radio station in the United States (U.S.), which devotes a programme (Courtyard) on the Anambra matter. It is a public debate programme'--Prof. Wole Soyinka.
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:45:05 -0500 (EST)
I am a City Letter Carrier for the US Postal Service. I try to listen to "The Courtyard" every Saturday as I deliver mail on my route. Quite often I find myself telling every customer I come across while delivering mail, how great your show is and that they should listen.This past Saturday you asked
listeners to call and comment on what we don't like about the show...
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News & Press Releases
January 6, 2009
The Courtyard is off on nine- months hiatus
POGROM IN KENYA
AVOIDABLE OR INEVITABLE?
The recent tragedy in Kenya is yet another evidence that the African Continent is awash in its own blood. The hitherto poster-country of tranquility and peace on the oxymoronic "richest continent with the poorest people in the world" has been forced out of hibernation.
Join host:
Debo Kotun
and
Special guests:
Professor Ngugi wa'Thiong'O
Director, International Center for Writing and Translation, UC, Irvine
and
Peter Kimani (in Kenya)
Phillip Ochieng (in Kenya)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
1:00 to 2:00 PM (PST)
on
Pacifica Radio
KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles
98.7 FM in Santa Barbara
and
www.KPFK.org
A Labalaba Rediffusion Theatre Production
Producer:
Selome Araya
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Pakistan in "The Courtyard"
PAKISTAN AFTER BENAZIR BHUTTO
Can Peace reign in Pakistan, and between Pakistan, India, and China, all in possession of nuclear weapons, after the gruesome assassination of Benazir Bhutto?
Join Host:
Debo Kotun and
Co-Host: Ahmed Ali
Saturday, January 12,2008
1:00 to 2:00 PM (PST)
Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles and
98.7 Santa Barbara
Special Guests:
Consul General Syed Ibne Abbas
and
Dr. Majjida Ahmed
A Labalaba Rediffusion Theatre production .
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A radio broadcast of a new play by award-winning dramatist Rick Mitchell. As Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, a man stands in a rapidly flooding attic, trying to break through the roof. Inadvertently, he travels back in history, to New Orleans and California, ending up in the midst of other disasters, both “natural” and otherwise, while discovering that natural catastrophe and racial conflict are never far removed. Performances directed by Hope Alexander, music and musical direction by Max Kinberg, engineered by Jeehyun Lee, produced by Debo Kotun. (Note: this new play is based, in part, on recent interviews with disaster survivors, as well as on archival research.)
Tune in for a two-hour special with
Host: Debo Kotun
and Guest:
Rick Mitchell
Saturday, May 12, 2007
12:00 to 2:00 PM (PST)
Pacifica Radio
KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara
and
www.KPFK.org This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative. The Council is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the Nationa Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit
www.californiastories.org .
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NIGERIA !
RENAISSANCE OR BUST?
PART II
Since 1914 when the Northern and Southern protectorates were amalgamated, has NIGERIA done well enough as a viable sovereignty with her wealth of natural and human resources?
Tune in for the second in a five-part special discussion with
Host:
Debo Kotun and Guests:
Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program Brooklyn College , CUNY
Bolaji Aluko, Ph.D. Howard University, Washington, D.C.
And a special surprise guest from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
1:00 to 2:00 PM (PST)
Pacifica Radio
KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles 98.7 FM Santa Barbara and
www.KPFK.org
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NIGERIA !
RENAISSANCE OR BUST?
Since 1914 when the Northern and Southern protectorates were amalgamated, has NIGERIA done well enough as a viable sovereignty with her wealth of natural and human resources? Tune in for the first in a five-part special discussion with
Host:
Debo Kotun
and Guests:
Adigun Agbaje, Ph.D.
Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan ; Visiting Scholar, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, Graduate Faculty, The New School, New York Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program Brooklyn College , CUNY O. Akin Adubifa, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Nigerian Academy of Science; Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Medgar Evers College, New York . Julius Kpaduwa, MD.
Medical Practitioner and a former State Gubernatorial Candidate in Nigeria .
Saturday, December 2, 2006
1:00 to 2:00 PM (PST)
Pacifica Radio
KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles 98.7 FM Santa Barbara
and
www.KPFK.org
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FIRST ANNIVERSARY NATIONAL BROADCAST
From the Gulf Coast to the West Coast: Katrina Before and After
Check your local Pacifica Station or Affiliate for Air Times
A KPFK-produced documentary explores the underlying humanity beneath news reports and images through the personal stories of ten Katrina families and individuals who have relocated to Northern and Southern California . Ten survivors, devastated and traumatized by Katrina, who willingly share their journey of struggle and hope.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
4:00 to 6:00 PM (PDT)
Pacifica National Radio Foundation
Join in the conversation by calling:
(800) 979-6791.
Sister Stations:
KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles www.kpfk.org
KPFT 90.1 FM Houston www.kpft.org
WBAI 99.5 FM New York www.wbai.org
WPFW 89.3 FM www.wpfw.org
"This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the Council's statewide California Stories Initiative. The Council is an independent non-profit organization and a state affiliate of the Nationa Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Council and the California Stories Initiative, visit www.californiastories.org."
Listen To An Archive Of This Broadcast Online: [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ]
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GUESTS:
NOBEL IDEA:
Debo Kotun in Conversation with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.
How often have you heard, "It doesn't take a rocket scientist or Nobel Laureate to get it?"
Professor Wole Soyinka, (Literature - 1986) has something to say about that.
And much more!
Tune in for a memorable one-hour interview with the indomitable
"KONGI"
Saturday, August 19, 2006 1:00 to 2:00 PM (PST) Pacifica Radio
KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles
98.7 FM Santa Barbara
and
www.KPFK.org
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Debo Kotun and Presley Chweneygae, the actor from Tsotsi, winner of 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
From the left Lt. Gen (Retd) Jahan Dad Khan, President of the Al Shifa Eyes Hospitals; Chairman, Pakistan Red Cross and Former Governor of the Pakistani state of Sindh, Debo Kotun, Executive Producer/Writer of the Courtyard, and Noor Jadmani, Pakistani Consul General in Los Angeles.
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Images from 2006 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books @ UCLA.
Debo Kotun and all the wonderful young poets:
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Hon. Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat, The Pakistani Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs with Debo Kotun.
Dr. Lee Baca, Chief of Los Angeles County Sheriff, Sandra S. Hutchens, Chief of Homeland Security Division, Ahmed Ali and Michael Grossman, Commander of Homeland Security Division.
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The Courtyard:
The Inside Look
Courtyard: Inside Look
Promos:
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- The Courtyard congratulates Alexis Rhee for her performance in the movie, "Crash"
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In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster
By:
Elizabeth, Royte, Bill McKibben, Susan Zakin, & Chris Jordan (Photographer)
In this powerful collaborative project, photographer Chris Jordan and acclaimed writers Bill McKibben and Susan Zakin combine their perspectives on the causes and consequences of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Jordan 's photographs portray the storm's devastation on a personal scale, framing poignantly desolate details in the ruined landscape. Richly crafted essays by McKibben and Zakin probe into the complex human factors involved in the catastrophe. Victoria Sloan Jordan 's poems touch the emotional terrain with an eloquent spareness that echoes the austere visual landscape. Taken together, these four viewpoints bear witness to this profound tragedy and raise challenging questions about the cultural conditions that contributed to its unprecedented severity.
For more information contact Liam Collopy at
310.300.0950 x 232
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Nobel Laureates:
Dr. Wangari Maathai
The first African woman and Environmentalist to win the coveted Nobel Peace Prize (2004)
Professor Wole Soyinka
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986)
Secretary General Kofi Annan
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and Head of the United Nations (2001)
and
Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1984)
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RAPE, A 90-MINUTE SPECIAL!
With Njeri Wa Thiong'o.
HANDICAP/PERSON/DISABLED PERSON OR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY?
Special Guest:
Shawn Casey O'Brien
Host of KPFK's "Access Unlimted".
OCTOGENERIAN?
Interviewed three octogenerians:
Sophia Haimovitz John Williams and George Meinig.
PARTICIPATORY NATIONHOOD A POSSIBILITY IN NIGERIA?
PAKISTAN!
With Lee D. Baca, Chief of Los Angeles County Sheriff Department, Sandra S. Hutchens, Chief of Homeland Security Division and Michael Grossman, Commander of Homeland Security Division.
LINKS:
California Stories
Segun Oguntola:
Labalabarediffusiontheatre.org
kashmirrelief
www.prcs.org.pk
Omo Yoruba
Windows to the Soul
The Other Side of AIDS
Take an unflinching look into an issue the mainstream media doesn't dare touch:
Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives
Alive & Well provides information that raises questions about the accuracy of HIV tests, the safety and effectiveness of AIDS drug treatment, and the validity of most common assumptions about HIV and AIDS.
- The Courtyard congratulates one of our own, Rajeev Chhibber:
Keira
Knightley,
the beautiful lead star of Bend It like Bekham, Pirates of the Caribbean & Pride & Prejudice and Rajeev.
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Rajeev Chhibber on IMdB
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EMERGENCY RESCUE INFORMATION FOR VICTIMS OF KATRINA
For immediate assistance, please call the US Coast Guard's Rescue Line at
800-323-7233
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
FEMA, along with its federal partners, state governments and voluntary agencies, are all working to keep meals ready to eat (MREs), food, water, ice, medical supplies, generators, and other critical commodities flowing into hurricane-hit areas.--FEMA.COM
- Register for disaster assistance over the phone: 1-800-621-FEMA
- Family News Network of the International Committee of the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina
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WHAT IS IRISH POETRY?
The Courtyard is proud to bring you the poetic words of:
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
live from Cahiratrant, Ireland
and
Laura O'Connor , Department of English, UC Irvine
will help with the translation.
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Images from Word & Peace event @ Bovard Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles:
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SPECIAL EVENT:
The Courtyard
presents
Word & Peace
Live Radio Dramatization of Israeli/Palestinian Conflict:
@
Bovard Auditorium
University of Southern California
3551 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089
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"Prejudice still exists in America. It is real and palpable"
So said Chip Conley
Founder & CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality
The hotel that doled out a piece of American palpable prejudice on our guest:
Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'O, Director
International Center for Writing and Translation University of California, Irvine
Join Host: Debo Kotun
and
Guest-Host:
Ayuko Babu
For a discussion on the idiocy and stupidity of contemporary American hospitality.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
1:00 to 2:00 PM (PDT)
KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7 FM Los Angeles
98.7 FM Santa Barbara
and
www.KPFK.org
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