Arts and Culture

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Songs of the People

Airs at: Tue, 09/22/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae presents Songs of the People: Indigenous Roots of Black Folk Music is a 28-minute program hosted by Benjamin Mertz, a song leader in the Black Spiritual tradition. The program will look at pre-20th Century Black music as a folk tradition, exploring its connections... Read more

Catching Up! Film at 11 on 26 June 2020

Airs at: Fri, 06/26/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

This week the team catches up with films new and old, including current political films such as Wasp Network and Mr. Jones, and older films such as Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, and the comedy A Thousand Clowns. Read more

Juneteenth Special: a conversation with N.K. Jemisin

Airs at: Fri, 06/19/2020 at 10:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Juneteenth Special

N.K. Jemisin is the first black writer to win Science Fiction & Fantasy's most prestigious prize, the Hugo Award, for best novel. And Jemisin is the first writer ever, in the history of the genre, to win the Hugo Award for best novel three consecutive times. She has be... Read more

A Two Hour Special with National Book Award winning poet Nikky Finney

Airs at: Thu, 06/18/2020 at 10:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2020 at 9:00am - 9:30am

Produced for: Art Focus

Sorry about the sideways photos: it's a content management system thing. On Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland which then became a ... Read more

James Dixon: EDI and Beyond

Airs at: Tue, 06/16/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae features James Dixon, actor, director, EDI consultant and activist who recently joined the Fuse Theatre Ensemble. James and Dmae have a frank discussion about how Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) can create a safer and more equitable creative environment while... Read more

The Sampler presents Sherlock Holmes and The Demon Barber

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Fortunato returns with some 1920's Sweet Jazz, classic R & B and some surprises to help get through the day. Featured today is another episode from the long running radio drama series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce entitled The Adventure of The Demon Barber of Fle... Read more

Escalón, Gerardo Enciso, Hongo, Mask

Airs at: Fri, 06/12/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 06/13/2020 at 12:00am

Produced for: La Ruleta

Música de Guadalajara de los 80's. Escalón con la voz de Jaramar Soto con Carlos Esege en los teclados con el disco Hermano de la Muerte. Gerardo Enciso y el Poder Ejecutivo con el disco A Contracorriente. El grupo Hongo de 1980 y el grupo Mask con José Fors en los vocales,... Read more

Keith Knight, Gentleman Cartoonist - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 06/11/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Rapper, cartoonist, and social activist Keith Knight is a longtime fan of the Portland comics scene as well as community radio. He was delighted to make a detour to the KBOO studios during his visit to the 2006 Stumptown Comics Festival, where his slideshow and stage pe... Read more

Shalanda Sims

Airs at: Tue, 06/09/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae presents a feature conversation with Shalanda Sims, actress, writer, director and founder/artistic director of World Stage Theatre. We'll hear about their new film "Growing Up Black in Oregon: A Conversation" and about the work she's doing as an essayist and artisti... Read more