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AL-ANDALUS ENSEMBLE SEEDS OF PEACE

KBOO is proud to co-sponsor AL-ANDALUS ENSEMBLE: Seeds of Peace Experience the powerful elegance of the Al-Andalus Ensemble in this poignant performance of contemporary Andalusian music & Flamenco dance “A delightful proposition of exquisite music.” (El Pais, Madrid, Spain)  ... Read more

Rest in Peace, Lloyde Livingstone and Marty Soehrman

We are very sorry to announce the passing of two KBOO volunteers: Lloyde Livingstone and Marty Soehrman. Lloyde Livingstone, the co-founder of KBOO, has died. She came to Portland as a teenager, entering Lincoln High School as a junior. By the next year, she won the com... Read more

The BOO sent me to the Untied States Social Justice Forum, and I got an amazing tee shirt!

Thank you KBOO board members for having the fore sight to send someone (lucky me) to the USSJFSJ.  From the momont I stepped into Adam Carparelli's car until three days later when I wave goodbye to Michael (Strike Debt Willson's house, he so generously gave to the for o... Read more

20--TEXT--NOTES for Cesaire's NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND

Hi, Here is the promised collection of notes for NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND which should assist you in understanding some of the words and phrases and names which are unfamiliar. love raf Read more

Donations Are Down, But Nonprofit CEO Pay Goes Up

Despite donations to nonprofits dropping amid the American recession, salaries for nonprofit CEOs are on the rise, and expected to rise even more in 2011. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that 31 percent of nonprofit organizations gave a pay increase to their exec... Read more

Programming Volunteer Spotlight: DON MERRILL

Don Merrill is a relatively new volunteer here at KBOO, and has been on the air mostly as a news reporter. However, he’s also taken it upon himself to do a web only show called “The Talk”, where he interviews some of the more famous people who request air time on KBOO, a... Read more

Plein Air Smackdown

Listen to the interview here. From May 14th through the 17th Portland will host Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse. This conference says it will challenge our traditional ideas of what art is and does. It will present artists, proj... Read more

Portland Fruit Beer Festival 6/11-6/12

KBOO is a proud media sponsor for the Portland Fruit Beer Festival Saturday June 11th 11-9pm Sunday June 12th 11-6pm Burnside Brewing 7th and E. Burnside Portland, OR http://burnsidebrewco.com/ Portland, OR -  A new kind of beer festival kicks off this June outside of one of... Read more

Campus Equity Week

Campus Equity Week is dedicated to addressing one particular inequity among the many inequities of life in the neoliberal age, and on the neoliberal campus: the increasing turn toward part-time and temporary positions among university teaching faculty.   I draw here chie... Read more

27--CALL--Audio of Codrescu reading poem seeking additional audio/ideas

Available only to those participants of Desolo Luna Vox Theatrum who are signed on the the email site.  If you would like to be signed on to receive the emails send an email to DLVTheatrum@yahoo.com.   Read more