Arts/Culture

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The Stop Shopping Choir ... Amen

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
The Environmental Movement needs humor and music, and activists ready to risk arrest. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir brings all of that.  This band of Earth-Lovers sang at Standing Rock in North Dakota, in Ferguson, during the early days of black lives matter, ... Read more

Meet the Artists-2017 Burning Man Art Tour Review

Airs at: Fri, 10/06/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Recap of this year's Meet the Artists Tour with excerpts of the interviews with some of the artists from this year's Burn!   Recorded Live Burning Man 2017 from the deck of the Christina: Queen of BRC by Dazzel!, Diablo & G-Spot!   Facebook Event: https://www.facebo... Read more

CAUGHT at Artists Repertory Theatre with Director Shawn Lee

Airs at: Tue, 10/10/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Host James Dixon talks with Shawn Lee - the director for Caught which is being produced at Artist's Repertory Theatre. Caught is a show centered around a Chinese dissident artist that combines visual art and live theatre installations. Caught is presented in partnership wit... Read more

Hip Hop and Mass Incarceration: Continued

Airs at: Mon, 10/09/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Yen, Oregonian Hip Hop artist based out of Salem, Oregon.  Yen's music talks about the realities of life and his experience being formerly incarcerated as well as having several close friends currently incarcerated.  This show furthers the discuss... Read more

This is a Black Spatial Imaginary: Sharita Towne

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  As an artist, Sharita Towne’s interests lie in unpacking the inherited struggles of past burdens and in affording collective catharsis. Through collaboration, stereo-photography, printmaking, video, and community art projects, she’s worked at memorials in Germany; in the... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 10

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Combined Culture Radio
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Tiki Torch Torch Club and Love Me Don't

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/05/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Ubu Hour
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Library Ladies' Fall Reading Suggestions

Airs at: Thu, 10/05/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Looking for family-friendly programs and some curl-up-and-read ideas?  Then our North Portland Library Ladies -- manager Kirby McCurtis and outreach/programming specialist SyNova Blackwell-- have ideas for you!   From fall programs for all ages to must-read suggestions, the... Read more

Drug Addiction

Airs at: Sat, 09/30/2017 at 8:00pm - Sun, 10/08/2017 at 8:00pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
In this episode we talk with Tasha and Wendy two former drug addicts about what their life was like addicted to crack cocaine and what it cost them. Read more

"You in Midair" with Danna Schaeffer

Airs at: Tue, 10/03/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Host James Dixon talks with Writer, teacher, therapist, lobbyist and actor Danna Schaeffer will present her one-woman show, You in Midair, from October 5th through 15th, at New Expressive Works. You in Midair is directed by Julie Akers. Previously titled My Little Jezebel, ... Read more