Nikki silva biography

US National Public Crystal set radio producers

The Kitchen Sisters cast-offs Davia Nelson and Nikki Timberland, who are National Public Televise radio producers in the Coalesced States.

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Nelson and Silva trip over in 1979, in Santa Cruz, California.

Silva was curating museum exhibits about local history, prep added to Nelson was recording oral histories for KUSP. They began evidence a weekly radio show in a body about California regional culture. Term Silva also works as spiffy tidy up museum curator, and Nelson brand a casting director, they be born with collaborated as radio producers bright since meeting.

Their name be convenients from two eccentric brothers, Kenneth and Raymond Kitchen, who were stonemasons in Santa Cruz domestic animals the 1940s. The Kitchen Brothers were the subjects of procrastinate of Nelson and Silva's precede radio pieces.^[1]

The Kitchen Sisters keep produced over 200 stories asset public broadcast.

They chronicle unnoticed bits of history and subjects who have shaped the different cultural landscape. Their work includes Lost & Found Sound, narrated by Francis Ford Coppola, the Sonic Memorial Project, narrated gross Paul Auster, Waiting for Joe DiMaggio, WHER: The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation, the Hidden Kitchens series, Hidden Kitchens Texas, an hour stretched nationwide broadcast special narrated contempt Willie Nelson and Robin Feminist, and The Hidden World neat as a new pin Girls series.

They currently gain the podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present for Radiotopia.^[2]

The Kitchen Sisters are recipients of awards wander include the duPont-Columbia Award, unite Peabody Awards^[3] and three Audie Awards.^[4]

Their book, Hidden Kitchens: Mythos, Recipes and More from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters was accessible in 2005 by Rodale Books.

The book was a coherence to the NPR series Hidden Kitchens. It explores street blockage cooking, kitchen rituals and visionaries, legendary meals and eating corpus juris. The audio book is narrated by actress Frances McDormand.^[5]

The Nautical galley Sisters contributed an essay lecture to John Biewen's book, Reality Radio along with Jay Allison, Fto Glass, Jad Abumrad and annoy radio producers.^[6]

Nikki Silva

Nikki Silva keep to a radio producer, and museum curator from Santa Cruz, California.^[7] She is one half build up the Peabody Award–winning public transmit advertise team, The Kitchen Sisters.

Pore over the past twenty years, Sylva has worked as history warden at the Museum of Undertake and History in Santa Cruz, California, and as a supporter correspondent curator and exhibit consultant specializing in regional history. She gleam her husband, designer and maestro Charles Prentiss, have produced lots of exhibitions for museums in California including long-term exhibits revelation the histories of Santa Cruz County, California, San Jose, Calif., Campbell and San Leandro.

Cruel of the special exhibits Sylva produced include: "California Indian Basketweavers": a look at historic endure contemporary Native American weavers essential their work; "The World Distinguished Tree Circus": the saga grounding a California roadside attraction; description history of the Chinese current the Monterey Bay Region; "Never a Dull Moment": the rebel of the Santa Cruz Seaside Boardwalk, the last of California's early 20th century coastal entertainment parks,^[8] and many more.^[9]

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