Neighborhood Public Radio
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Neighborhood Public Radio is an independent, artist-run radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members. The group was founded in 2005, is based out of Oakland, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. It is currently run by Lee Montgomery
Lee Montgomery
Lee Montgomery was a child actor in the 1970s, best known for his role as a lonely little boy who befriends a pack of killer rats in the film, Ben .-Hollywood:...

, Jon Brumit, and Michael Trigilio, along with an ever rotating list of ad-hoc contributors.


"If it’s in the neighborhood and it makes noise .. we hope to put it on the air."


Along with many self-initiated projects, NPR has collaborated on works with many non-profit arts spaces, museums, festivals, and fellow artist collaboratives such as:
  • Southern Exposure
    Southern Exposure
    Southern Exposure may refer to:*Southern Exposure - a San Francisco non-profit art space.*Southern Exposure - a 2007 album released by FireHouse guitarist Bill Leverty...

  • Artists' Television Access
    Artists' Television Access
    Artists' Television Access is a non-profit art gallery and screening venue in San Francisco's Mission District in the United States of America. ATA exhibits work by emerging, independent and experimental artists in its theatre and gallery space as well as on its weekly Public-access television...

  • 21 Grand
  • of Novi Sad
  • Serbia
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

  • ZeroOne Festival
  • Red 76
    Red 76
    Red 76 is a multi-artist collective started in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000 they have produced numerous projects and appeared in The New York Times, Art Forum and Modern Painters, and shown at Southern Exposure and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and in projects by Creative Time.-Themes:Red 76's...

  • Hasan Elahi
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