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APANO Voices of Change - AAPI Heritage - Live Event

Airs at: Sat, 05/20/2023 at 5:00pm - 7:15pm
  May is nationally recognized as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, we invite you to join us in celebrating the rich history and resilience of Asians and Pacific Islanders in Oregon and support the future leadership and initiatives of our commu... Read more

Premiere: The Global Sail, with TK Kapurura

Airs at: Wed, 05/10/2023 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  The Global Sail
  Exclusively on KBOO 90.7FM Portland.  Welcome to the Global Sail Show on KBOO. I am your host this evening and my name is TK Kapurura. We will sail together and share some experiences for the next hour. I am an immigrant from Zimbabwe. In case you are not familiar with ... Read more

A conversation about the African immigrant experience in America

Airs at: Wed, 06/07/2023 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  The Global Sail
  My name is TK Taparura, and I am an immigrant from Zimbabwe, a country in Southern Africa. Last time I spoke about Zimbabwe. I am thankful to you all for the support. Through various feedback, I am glad to say that many of you enjoyed the show. I am thankful for the show... Read more

Cycling from Alaska to Argentina with Kristen and Ville Jokinen

Airs at: Thu, 06/08/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's special hour-long Jonesy, our guests are Kristen and Ville Jokinen, who cycled from the top of Alaska to the southernmost tip of Argentina, an adventure covering 18,215 miles over 20 months. Kristen chronicles the trip in the new book Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey fro... Read more

Between Two Points

Airs at: Tue, 06/06/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, June 7, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Sima Familant about the show ‘Between Two Points’ which is on now through October 15 at the Lobby at the Ellen Browning Building at 28th and Division Street. Familant spoke by Zoom from her home in Austin about... Read more

Crafting Pinocchio

Airs at: Thu, 06/08/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The Portland Art Museum's new exhibition "Crafting Pinocchio" takes visitors inside the world of Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning version of Pinocchio, created largely in Portland with local stop-motion animators. Pinocchio Co-Director Mark Gustafson and Animat... Read more

The Micro World of Dr Doom

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
This week The Sampler presents another radio adventure of The Fantastic Four. Our heroes reach out to Ant Man to utilize his shrinking ablities to help them track down Dr Doom, now having set himself of as a tryant on a world in the Microverse. Adpated form issue #16 of The... Read more

JoyceChat Comedy Radio E3

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2023 at 11:30pm - Tue, 06/06/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  JoyceChat Comedy Radio
Interviews, skits and stand up comedy. Joyce Nanceinterviews Portland comedians plus skits.  Lewis Sequiera applys for a pre-school teacher job. Erycka Day explains about her life in 2021 Jake Quanbeck is in the middle of getting away from a big bank job he pulled. And lo... Read more

Film at 11 takes on contemporary issues this week on Friday 9 June, 2023

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Jeff Godsil on the play adaptation Proof, from 2005, Britta Gordon on xxxx, Matthew of KBOO's monthly bedtime story program Gremlin Time, on XXX, and in the DVD corner, the new Criterion Blu-ray of Targets, Peter Bogdanovich's thriller with Boris Karloff, from 1968 Read more

Kelly McWilliams: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay

Airs at: Thu, 06/01/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the... Read more