Saturday, Feb. 13th, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.    San Francisco
$95 members/$110 non-members

Attention: Online registration deadline is Thursday, Feb. 11th, 6 p.m. (to register later than this, you must call first: 609.2468)

Are you a public radio fiend? Do you turn up the volume for commentaries the way you once turned it up for rock ‘n’ roll? How would you like to hear your own voice and views being broadcast over the air waves? This workshop will show you how to make that happen — by focusing on one specific goal: writing a two-minute piece for KQED’s Perspectives series.

This series is not just about politics—anything you have an opinion about can be turned into a piece for Perspectives.  “We’ll talk about how to dig for interesting and unusual subject matter, how to pare unnecessary words, and how to pack your personality into two minutes of air time,” says instructor Jesse Loesberg. “Our goal for the end of the day will be for every workshop participant to have a commentary ready to submit: something that flies off the page, takes your listener by the ears, and refuses to let go.”

Jesse Loesberg’s voice first appeared on the radio waves of WRBC, a tiny college station in Lewiston, Maine in 1990. Since then he has graduated to KQED-FM, where he has held forth on such diverse subjects as Microsoft and cyberterrorism, knitting, poetry and school violence, and his own struggles with stuttering. He holds a masters of fine arts in writing from Goddard College, and many of his essays and poems have found their way into print as well as onto the air waves.

“. . . instant payoff!”. . .

“. . . I really liked the KQED Perspectives class . . .”

“. . . a wonderful class . . .”

” …I would definitely take a class with Jesse again…”