Arts/Culture

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LAS CAFETERAS: POLITICAL FOLK FOR THE SOUL

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Las Cafeteras, the Chicano band from LA, and what I like to think of as unapologetic political folk music for the soul! They brilliantly mix traditional son jarocho with contemporary issues. Las Cafeteras hail from the Zapatista-inspired EastSide Cafe in East LA. Thei... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Shawn Creeden, Xi Jie Ng, and Ralph Pugay from Portland Tropical Gardens

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
  Art Focus host Amanda Clem speaks with Shawn Creeden, Xi Jie Ng, and Ralph Pugay — a few of the artists who have conceived of the Portland Tropical Gardens  — a temporary public art space and oasis in the middle of Director Park in Downtown Portland, on SW Park and SW... Read more

Queering Christianity: A Conversation with Angela Yarber

Airs at: Mon, 04/30/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Progressive Spirit
  Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber discusses the revolutionary work of the Holy Women Icons Project. As an intersectionally ecofeminist organization, the Holy Women Icons Project seeks to empower marginalized women and to be an accomplice in the work for justice for ethnic and ra... Read more

New World Aviation Committee and Dubious Move Live at KBOO 05/25/18

Airs at: Fri, 05/25/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 05/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for La Ruleta

KBOO Recollections: The Early Years, 1968-1982

Airs at: Thu, 05/31/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
  Hear the voices of volunteers, staff and board members from the early days of KBOO as they discuss the beginnings of the station, the moves from one location to another, and the struggles and triumphs they experienced while keeping KBOO on the air. The program is host... Read more

The Film Show

Airs at: Thu, 05/24/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Film Show
   Our guests are Baba Wagué Diakite and Ronna Neuenschwander, Cascade Festival of African Films mainstays, who are holding a fundraiser for KBOO and the Ko-Falen Center at the Clinton Street Theater, and a couple of teenage filmmakers, Henry Craddock and Mackie Malliso... Read more

Silk Poems

Airs at: Thu, 05/24/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  Silk is compatible with body tissues; our immune system accepts it on surfaces as sensitive as the human brain. In conjunction with Tufts University’s cutting edge research on liquefied silk, Jen Bervin mixes poetry with medical technology in the form of a silk bio-se... Read more

Craig Thompson returns to Words and Pictures

Airs at: Thu, 05/10/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
Craig Thompson took the comics world by storm in 2003 with his epic graphic memoir Blankets, a poignant recollection of young love and lost innocence, and cemented his literary reputation with 2011's Habibi. Now, Craig has re-issued his 2004 sketchbook travelogue Carnet d... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Alyson Provax about her exhibition you i everything else

Airs at: Tue, 05/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
Art Focus host Amanda Clem speaks with Portland artist Alyson Provax about her artistic practice, The Bachelor, and her exhibition you i everything else — on view at Wolff Gallery May 2nd - July 1st, 2018     ARTISTS STATEMENT: you i everything else   Sometimes I have... Read more

Buscando America on 05/15/18

Airs at: Tue, 05/15/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
En este programa podrás escuchar el proyecto sonoro Pedimento de Griselda Sánchez, Radioasta Mixteca, Huemac Olivares y Oscar Peña. Un registro de memoria oral contada por los abuelos de las comunidades de Tilantongo, Apoala, Magdalena Jaltepec, y San Isidro Jaltepetongo... Read more