Dmae Roberts talks with Director Megan Kate Ward tells us about "Fool For Love" by Sam Shephard at Coho Productions.  (Photo: Val Lundrum and Chris Harder)

Comics artist  Josh Neufeld met and talked with survivors of Hurricane Katrina while volunteering with the Red Cross in 2005.  The result of these conversations is the graphic chronicle A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a critically-acclaimed collection of first-person accounts from the Crescent City's various cultures, races, income groups, and neighborhoods.  S.W. Conser spoke with Josh during the 2009 Wordstock Literary Festival.

Special thanks to Emily Young for her invaluable production help on this program.

Dmae Roberts talks with Actor, Writer, Filmmaker, Monologuist Josh Kornbluth of "Haiku Tunnel" fame. He's in Portland performing his one-man show "Ben Franklin: Unplugged" at Portland Center Stage.  

 Dmae Roberts talked with Stephen Marc Beaudoin and Michael Herman creators of "The Beggar's Opera" from Opera Theatre Oregon. They're joined by singer Beth Madson Bradford to give an in-studio concert just for KBOO during our membership drive. If you're still interested in those tix, call KBOO. 

As part of KBOO's Africa Special, artist Rupert Bazambanza joins Words & Pictures by telephone from Kigali, Rwanda, to talk about his graphic novel Smile Through the Tears, a memoir of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi population of Rwanda.

Special thanks to Trillium Shannon for her invaluable production help, as well as Jenka Soderberg and Mimi Villarqui for their excellent translation skills.

KBOO COMMUNITY CALENDAR TUESDAY October 13th 2009

This is Paula with the KBOO Community Calendar for Tuesday, October 13th 2009.

Today from 10 am to 5 pm, visit the Portland Art Museum for the Joseph Park exhibit. There you can view six of the artist’s oil paintings inspired by film noir and animation.

http://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/series/APEX/APEX-Joseph-Park