I’ve essentially been celebrating all month – I know so many June birthdays that I’ve been counting each of my friends’ parties as my own. It works quite well: no planning, setup, cleanup, or scheduling, and most of my friends are there already.
Plus, I and all my fellow June 2000 babies have collectively decided that those FIFA “We are 26” billboards in LA are celebrating the fact that we have turned 26.
Even my TAP card says it.
It was a very expensive celebratory campaign, but I hope you’ve all enjoyed it.
Giardinetti has launched as a new, non-commercial playground dedicated to short audio creations in Italian. The project offers an open space for experimentation with short-form audio, inviting creators to play, take risks, and listen.
How it works
• Every two months Giardinetti issues a creative prompt and invites participants to
submit a short audio piece in Italian in response.
• Submissions are listened to collectively and published on the site, gradually building a shared archive of brief audio works.
Giardinetti was founded by a group of independent audio producers who wanted to create a space for experimentation outside market pressures, where works don’t need to belong to a series or conform to preset formats. Inspired by successful initiatives abroad such as Small Audio Art and Audio Playground, the project aims to make entry into the world of audio accessible to everyone and to provide a safe environment for trying new things for the sheer joy of creation.
First prompt and deadline:
• Prompt: Things people do in bathrooms.
• Submission deadline: 15 July 2026.
Visit https://giardinetti.carrd.co for submission guidelines and updates or email talktome@cristinamarrs.com.
Submissions are now open for the International Women’s Podcast Awards (IWPA), hosted by Lauren Passell-led Tink Media.
The IWPAs celebrate and uplift women’s voices across podcasting and are proudly queer and trans inclusive. Open to indie creators and established audio companies alike, the awards are size agnostic, with 11 categories focused on intention rather than audience numbers.
Categories include comedy gold, best storytelling, artistry in advertising, and absolute honesty.
Entries are open through July 31, 2026, and each submission is $50. Scholarship options are available. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in Toronto during the Fall (likely early October).
You can enter now or email awards@tinkmedia.co for more information.
Los Audio reader and producer Jesse Dukes sent along this wonderful opportunity:
Last year I was a recipient of a Kapor investigative reporting fellowship, which allowed me to expand an existing reporting project. It was an excellent experience: flexible structure, solid funding, and a thoughtful, engaged cohort.
The Kapor Foundation focuses on equity in technology and works across multiple areas to make the development and deployment of powerful technologies more inclusive. They offer a $35,000, one-year fellowship for journalists working on AI governance, AI and education, and innovation. The foundation also concentrates its efforts in specific tech hubs, where it has supported initiatives aimed at closing equity gaps in entrepreneurship and access to well-paying tech jobs.
There are both research and reporting fellowships. If you’re working on something in this space, it’s worth considering.
Applicants should have a strong track record, a letter of interest from a publishing partner, and a clear, well-developed reporting plan.
If you can put those pieces together, I think you’d have a strong shot.
Details here: https://kaporfoundation.org/research-fellowship/
Resonate podcast festival will take place October 12-17 in Richmond, VA.
RESONATE Podcast Festival is the place where producers meet their peers and newcomers meet their heroes. Over two days at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA, attendees will be treated to workshops from skilled producers, a special live performance, and the opportunity to get private pitch feedback from industry veterans. Between sessions, you will enjoy snacks, visit our cafe, see our art exhibitions, and converse with people who love podcasts as much as you do.
Sign up for the mailing list, get your tickets, and read more here.
Hi neighbor! Borrow a cup of audio sugar and tune in as hosts Morgan Murphy and Robin Shorr chat with local businesses, politicians, shop owners and dedicated residents of the close-knit Los Feliz.
Very special guests to be announced!
Morgan Murphy has recently written for the new season of Roseanne, the ESPY Awards, and 2 Broke Girls, and has appeared in Bobcat Goldthwait’s films “sleeping dogs lie” “worlds greatest dad” and “god bless America.” Previously, she performed standup and wrote for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” where she was part of the original writing staff and received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing.
Robin Shorr has been writing for sitcoms for the last 21 years. Her various credits include: Samantha Who?, Workaholics, The Middle, Galavant and The Carmichael Show. She served as Showrunner for the Disney+ series Diary of a Future President and as Co-Executive Producer of the Peacock reboot of Punky Brewster. Robin recently co-developed and ran “Forgive & Forget”, an ABC pilot starring Ty Burrell and directed by James Burrows. In addition to being on staff, Robin has developed pilots for ABC, FOX, and HULU and co-hosts “Los Feliz the Podcast” with Morgan Murphy.
📅 July 3rd
⏰ 7:00 PM
👤 The Lyric Hyperion
💰 $17.50
🎟️ Tickets
Join the Los Angeles Reporting Collective and LA’s top journalists and creators to learn about the food coverage that moves the needle.
What’s Cooking In LA? LARC Summit: Food Stories
Los Angeles Reporting Collective invites you to join us for a day-long summit on food reporting & storytelling! We’re bringing together journalists, creators and curious Angelenos from across the region to explore how food stories reveal the people, systems and cultures shaping everyday life.
This summit will include hands-on workshops, one-on-one interviews with the most interesting people in food, and big picture discussions about how journalists and creators talk about food in 2026.
And, of course, there’s food! Breakfast and lunch are included in your ticket. Breakfast will be provided by our friends at Boichik Bagels & Norms and lunch by Regarding Her & Ayara Thai.
Speakers include:
Laurie Ochoa, LA Times; Robert J. Lopez, CCNMA; Javier Cabral, LA Taco; Mona Holmes, Eater LA; Daniel Hernandez, LA Times; Frank Shyong, Lunch Box; Erick Galindo, LA Local; Antonio Diaz, Life & Thyme; Eryn Brown, Zócalo; Tiffany Hinton, Black Owned Food LA; Tien Nguyen, Synonym Mag; Fernando Hurtado, In The Hyphen
📅 July 9th
⏰ 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
👤 LARC, LA TACO, CCNMA, USC Annenberg, Goldhirsh Foundation, The Julia Child Foundation, Regarding HER, life&thyme
💰$15 (student) - $35
🎟️ Tickets
The Art of the Crossfade is a live multimedia experience presented by Professor Josh Kun and DJ/Producer J.PERIOD that explores how music can connect people across cultures, generations, and communities. At the center of the experience is the crossfader — the horizontal slider on a DJ mixer that allows two songs to blend without erasing either. In the hands of a DJ, different sounds, histories, and perspectives can coexist to create something entirely new.
Using live DJ performance, storytelling, visuals, and conversation, The Art of the Crossfade explores how music can become a bridge between people and ideas — showing how connection does not require sameness, and how our differences can become the foundation for creativity, understanding, and community.
Part live mix, part cultural conversation, and part behind-the-scenes journey into the art of DJing, the program invites audiences to experience music as more than entertainment: as a powerful tool for connection.
📅 July 10th
⏰ 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
👤 Grand Performances
💰Free
🎟️ RSVP
The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night’s theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show!
Tonight’s theme is…
REVENGE: Prepare a five-minute story about retaliation. Proportional justice, payback, comeuppance, and laughing last... You can serve it up cold or simply live well, and sometimes Karma steps in and does all the work for you! Tell us about when they got theirs, or when you got yours. Revenge can consume you, ruining you or giving you the satisfaction necessary to move on. Do unto others as they have done to you!
📅 July 7th
⏰ Doors 6:30 PM ; Stories begin 7:30 PM
📍Los Globos (21+)
👤 The Moth
💰 $20
🎟️ Tickets
Party in the Arts District with KCRW and Manuela at Hauser & Wirth!
It’s a free, all-ages night celebrating art and music. Explore the galleries after hours with two standout exhibitions: Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection, featuring more than 80 works reflecting her commitment to social justice and learning, and Keith Tyson’s The Generative Universe, bringing together three decades of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and mixed-media works.
Then head outside and dance the night away as KCRW DJs Olive Kimoto and Jason Bentley keep the energy going.
📅 July 11th
⏰ 6:00 PM
👤 KCRW
💰 Free
🎟️ RSVP
This session breaks down the fundamentals of podcast SEO, covering how search engines and podcast platforms discover and rank shows, and what you can do to improve your visibility.
We’ll walk through strategies to optimize episode titles, descriptions, show notes, transcripts, and more. Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been making your show for a while, this session will help you figure out how to spend your time.
All of our sessions are designed to be straightforward and actionable, so you leave with AT LEAST ONE thing you can try or test today.
📅 June 29th
⏰ 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
👤 Well, It Depends
💰$32 - $44
🎟️ Tickets
An overview of experimental options for audio producers to make visually compelling video. Bonus, they’re fast and cheap!
Video podcasting does NOT mean you are doomed to film people talking into microphones. This moment is an opportunity to invent a whole new medium and discover what video podcasting could be for narrative producers.
Do you want your show’s video and social clips to have their own unique visual identity, instead of looking like every other video podcast out there? There are ways to take your podcast’s video to the next level – where it adds to the experience, without taking away from the audio – and you don’t have to spend a billion dollars.
In this course, drawing on experimental cinema, video games, and underground rave culture, filmmaker and podcast producer Andrew Callaway (99% Invisible, You Feeling This, Reply All, This American Life) will open up some of his project files and show you video techniques you can use that will not dominate audio-first storytelling.
This is not a comprehensive tutorial on video editing. Instead, you will get introduced to specific techniques within programs such as Adobe Premiere, Character Animator, After Effects, Resolume, Descript, TouchDesigner, & Reaper.
You will leave the first class with concrete ideas, references, and techniques to help you dream up a video version of your show that you can be excited about – and two weeks later, you’ll have the opportunity to present some of your work in a hands-on feedback session where Andrew will give you more customized tips and tricks for your shows and clips.
📅 July 9th & July 23rd
⏰ 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
👤 Radio Boot Camp
💰 $125
🎟️ Register
The Moth's Story Lab College program provides the space, tools, and expertise for College Students to practice the art and craft of personal storytelling with students from across college campuses.
This application is open for for current college students, undergraduate and graduate!
The summer workshop meets for one week, daily from 12:30 to 3:30pm ET. The weeks of July 20th and July 27th.
Applications will close on July 3rd at 11:59pm. Groups fill up quickly so apply soon! Application decisions will be released on July 10th.
This application is for both the Story Lab In Person Program for participants in the NYC area AND the Story Lab Virtual Program for folks outside of NYC. Story Lab Virtual is a free, in person and virtual, out-of-school storytelling project for students throughout the country.
The program is open to rising 9th-12th grade students and is 8-weeks long. Please read scheduling details about both programs at their respective links and apply for the program(s) that make the most sense for you and your location.
Do you know of (or host!) a radio, podcasting, journalism, or audio event in LA? Shoot an email to losaudio@substack.com with the details! Include the date, time, location, any applicable links, and whether or not the event is recurring (along with any other relevant info, and maybe a photo of the best LA sunset you’ve seen recently.) Any kinds of events, meetups, and workshops are applicable.
Los Audio is a biweekly (every two weeks) newsletter – if your event is time-sensitive, please mention the timeframe you’d like it to appear and I’ll do my best to accommodate your request!
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