Playwrite

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Playwrite

Learn about PlayWrite, a local non-profit founded 10 years ago which works with youth ‘at the edge’ to create original plays, powerful vehicles through which the voices of young people are heard. We welcome in the studio Lyndsay Hogland, program director, Alyson Osborne, coach/actor  and Ryder Lynn and Francesca, 2 young women who recently participated in a play writing workshop.

"PlayWrite coaches are drawn from the Oregon theater community, and are trained to work one-on-one with each young person. Within the intense structured activities of PlayWrite workshops, these young writers create original art. In the process, they learn to trust, manage, and heal their own emotional experiences; to work collaboratively; and to contribute positively to their communities.

It's a special mostly unplugged version of SOUNDS UNSOUND as we listen to FREAK FOLK and related stuff like Anti-Folk, Psych-Folk, New Weird Americas and more..   

What the hell is "Freak Folk?" Also known as Free Folk or avant folk, this confusingly-defined genre arose about a decade ago, inspried by 1960s acid folk and hippy culture revivification. On Sounds Unsound we travel to the extreme ends of Freak Folk and experimental acoustic music, with contemporary material as well stuff from the 1960s and 70s that inspired it.  

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Our guest will be Robert Jensen, professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.  We'll be discussing critical thinking and meaningfully engaging each other in our conversations, going beyond thinking in terms of sound bites and actually connecting with one another. Jensen’s new book, "Arguing for Our Lives," will be available as a thank you gift during our show for those who contribute to the membership drive. The book draws on Jensen’s extensive classroom experience and community organizing to share strategies on how to challenge "conventional wisdom" in order to provide a framework for channeling our anxieties and frustrations into fruitful analysis and action.

NICK JAINA goes back to lil ol' KBOO, where he has been playing live on The Outside World over the last 20 years (!) PRE-Binary Dolls era..
His newest work PRIMARY PERCEPTION (coming out soon on FLUFF & GRAVY- the local family-run label run by the wild children known as Aryana, Jarvi, Cash and Maybelle and their willing parents Jennifer, John, Chad and Juniana) is being received enthusiastically by the press and media, and he will be playing his CD release next week around the corner from KBOO studios, at the DRUG FIR. Nick likes playing there. Maybe you will go.

Join DJ Sesqui this Sunday as he spotlights the great German record label MPS. From George Duke to Baden Powell, MPS productions were the cutting edge of funk, jazz and outernational productions. Sampled by many Hip-Hop producers and covented by record collectors world wide. We'll be bringng out the best of the so called "Butters" this label from the Black Forest had to offer!

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Joe Clement hosts and we hear:

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It's April Fools day on the Ubu Hour.. so instead of the usual absurdist comedy and silliness,  we bring you THE UNCEASING SEA, a dark, serious radio drama about a couple near the end of their life, as they listen to the ocean and ruminate about life and death, language and climate change. 

And we bring you the plunderphonic radio theater peice BREATH DEEP.. which delves deep into madness and psychological thrills...

And as an extra special treat, we have BATTLE OF THE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE PITCHERS, where you'll hear many of your favorite KBOO fund raisers duke it out on the playing field raising money for the station and giving out the phone number in an exciting sports competition...

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Join Dmae Roberts for a membership drive edition with author Cheryl Strayed and Portland Story Theatre’s Lynne Duddy.

First up, Dmae has part one of her extended interview with author Cheryl Strayed about her best-selling hit novel WILD (and in the future a major film!) and her thoughts on writing, family and fame. We’ll have signed copies of the newly released softcover edition of WILD to offer for memberships.