Signal Hill: On Another Rock

A night of listening & conversation with Lou Cornum, Signal Hill & The Kitchen Sisters overlooking Downtown SF at Warfield Commons from KALW On November 19th, 1969, two American astronauts set foot on the moon. The next day, eighty American Indians landed on Alcatraz Island. Join us for a live presentation of "On Another Rock," a feature length audio essay written and reported by Lou Cornum, produced and sound designed by Jackson Roach for Signal Hill. Hear this compelling, sound rich story in full, accompanied by a conversation with Cornum, Nikki Silva of the Kitchen Sisters, and Jackson Roach of Signal Hill. Live, overlooking Downtown San Francisco from the top of the Warfield Commons, at KALW. Lou Cornum is a writer, editor, and professor living in New York City. They are an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Nikki Silva, one half of The Kitchen Sisters, with her radio partner Davia Nelson, has produced hundreds of stories for NPR, and for the award winning podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present. Their work includes the Peabody Award-winning NPR series Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial, The James Beard Award winning series Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls and more. Their latest series, The Keepers, chronicles activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, historians, collectors—guardians of culture, history and the free flow of information. Their four decades of recordings and archives have been acquired by the Library of Congress. Signal Hill is an audio magazine. Every issue contains a wide range of stories by a wide range of contributors in a wide range of styles, all carefully and collaboratively crafted for the ear: longform reporting, dispatches, essays, profiles, fiction, poetry, and more. Signal Hill was named one of the best podcasts of 2025 by The New Yorker, the BBC, and The Atlantic, and took home the top prize at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2026. Listen and find out more at signalhill.fm or on any podcast app There is a $20 suggested donation for this event. KALW and Signal Hill members get in free. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. If you would like to volunteer, or request a community access ticket, please email [email protected]. Please become a KALW member and a Signal Hill member today. 📍 988 Market St., San Francisco, 🚪 Reception doors open at 5:30 🗣️ Event begins at 6:00