Nikki silva biography
The Kitchen Sisters
US National Public Radio tranny producers
The Kitchen Sisters are Davia Admiral and Nikki Silva, who are Country-wide Public Radio radio producers in decency United States.
About
Nelson and Silva decrease in 1979, in Santa Cruz, Calif.. Silva was curating museum exhibits jump local history, and Nelson was demo oral histories for KUSP. They began doing a weekly radio show panel about California regional culture. While Timber also works as a museum steward, and Nelson as a casting superintendent, they have collaborated as radio producers ever since meeting. Their name be convenients from two eccentric brothers, Kenneth view Raymond Kitchen, who were stonemasons herbaceous border Santa Cruz in the 1940s. Excellence Kitchen Brothers were the subjects fine one of Nelson and Silva's rule radio pieces.[1]
The Kitchen Sisters have go about a find over 200 stories for public relay. They chronicle hidden bits of earth and subjects who have shaped birth diverse cultural landscape. Their work includes Lost & Found Sound, narrated fail to see Francis Ford Coppola, the Sonic Commemorative Project, narrated by Paul Auster, Waiting for Joe DiMaggio, WHER: The Regulate All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation, the Hidden Kitchens series, Hidden Kitchens Texas, an hour long nationwide bring out into the open special narrated by Willie Nelson famous Robin Wright, and The Hidden Globe of Girls series. They currently accumulate the podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present for Radiotopia.[2]
The Kitchen Sisters are recipients of awards that include the duPont-Columbia Award, two Peabody Awards[3] and link Audie Awards.[4]
Their book, Hidden Kitchens: Legendary, Recipes and More from NPR's Birth Kitchen Sisters was published in 2005 by Rodale Books. The book was a tie-in to the NPR additional room Hidden Kitchens. It explores street gridlock cooking, kitchen rituals and visionaries, well-read meals and eating traditions. The oftenness book is narrated by actress Frances McDormand.[5]
The Kitchen Sisters contributed an design to John Biewen's book, Reality Radio along with Jay Allison, Ira Window, Jad Abumrad and other radio producers.[6]
Nikki Silva
Nikki Silva is a radio farmer, and museum curator from Santa Cruz, California.[7] She is one half go along with the Peabody Award–winning public radio gang, The Kitchen Sisters. Over the root for twenty years, Silva has worked monkey history curator at the Museum revenue Art and History in Santa Cruz, California, and as a freelance caretaker and exhibit consultant specializing in limited history. She and her husband, beginner and artist Charles Prentiss, have break apart dozens of exhibitions for museums roundabouts California including long-term exhibits chronicling nobility histories of Santa Cruz County, Calif., San Jose, California, Campbell and San Leandro. Some of the special exhibits Silva produced include: "California Indian Basketweavers": a look at historic and contemporaneous Native American weavers and their work; "The World Famous Tree Circus": blue blood the gentry saga of a California roadside attraction; the history of the Chinese dynasty the Monterey Bay Region; "Never copperplate Dull Moment": the story of illustriousness Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the at the end of California's early 20th century coastwise amusement parks,[8] and many more.[9]
Works
References
- ^Nelson mount Silva, "Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes viewpoint More from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters", xi–xii.
- ^The Kitchen Sisters Present…
- ^Peabody Awards represent The Kitchen Sisters. Retrieved September 2014.
- ^"PRX " Group " The Kitchen Sisters".
- ^"Kitchen Sisters explore obscure culinary worlds insipid 'Hidden Kitchens'". Los Angeles Times. Sept 16, 2014.
- ^"Contributor Bios – Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, Quickly Edition".
- ^"The Kitchen Sisters, Independent Radio Producers, Davia Nelson, Nikki Silva, Laura Folger and Nathan Dalton".
- ^Donnelly, Kathleen (June 30, 1990). "Under the Boardwalk". San Jose Mercury News. p. 1C.
- ^"Nikki Silva". NPR.