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Hip Hop Past, Present, Future, and your place in it

Hip Hop Past, Present, Future, and your place in it Explore Hip Hop History locally and nationally including the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan, KBOOs Hip Hop Programming and on air battles, How Hip Hop influences art, culture and political consciousness, How struggles for liberati... Read more

Writing Groups

Airs at: Thu, 04/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Conversation with local writers about the advantages of being part of a writing group. Co-hosts Emma Jackson Ford, O B Hill and Patricia Welch review works in all genres by well-known and emerging authors. Occasional call-in shows allow audience members to talk directly... Read more

Lullaby Road by James Anderson

Airs at: Thu, 04/05/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with James Anderson, author of the new novel Lullaby Road, and actor and activist Cosme Skywalker Duarte. James is a native of the Pacific Northwest, born in Seattle, raised in Portland, and a graduate of Reed College. He founded Breitenbush Books, a pu... Read more

This Land is Our Land

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  For those who missed the Friday night airing of Threshold Shift, the audio is now streaming. Hear the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and perspectives from... Read more

Buscando America on 04/03/18

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa, desde la Cd. de México Jose Luis Santillan entrevistó a Areli quien es parte de la campaña Luis Fernando Libre. También trasnmitimos un paisaje sonoro de Griselda Sánchez Lluvia Obsidiana, elaborado por los niños y niñas del taller Voces del Tren en la Sa... Read more

Delicate Moments: Gregory Grenon

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Eric Bartels interviews the longtime Portland painter Gregory Grenon, whose nearly exclusive devotion to images of women has generated misconceptions for decades, and artist Mary Josephson, his wife of 27 years. Grenon's new show Delicate Moments, opens at the Russo Lee ... Read more

Trans People of Faith/Spirituality Radio Show

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Tuesday, April 3rd, 6pm Transpositive PDX  on KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM in Portland or online at kboo.fm Please join us this Tuesday at 6pm for the first of a two part series exploring the theme of Trans people of faith and spirituality show. So we are dedicating two sho... Read more

Counternarratives

Airs at: Thu, 04/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what constitutes “real” or “accurate” history. His writing is at turns playful and erudite, lyric and coldly diagnostic, but always compl... Read more

Up Up Down Down

Airs at: Thu, 04/12/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down has the uncanny, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white, masculinist, Christian, frat boy, and so on—appear newly strange, and newly open to analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist, a joyousl... Read more

3 Indigenous playwrights

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features three Indigenous, female playwrights whose plays are being produced by the three top theatre companies in Oregon this spring. We'll hear about Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival Mar. 28 - Oct. 27. And we'll feature in-stu... Read more