Arts/Culture

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Threshold Shift

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  Hear the Earth You're Missing Threshold Shift is a collection of field recordings created and contributed by sound professionals, scientists, and student-citizens from across the globe. Why do we record? By many accounts, there is less than 2% of the Earth that is free ... Read more

Spells: A Novel within Photographs

Airs at: Thu, 09/21/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Twenty years ago, while working as a security guard in an art museum, Peter Rock staved off the job’s inherent boredom and loneliness by trying to make up a story for each photograph, painting and object in the museum. A few years ago, reminded of the pleasures and play ... Read more

Cannibal

Airs at: Thu, 09/14/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Safiya Sinclair, a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award–winner, crafts her stunning debut collection around the beauty and brutality of the word cannibal, whose origins derive from Christopher Columbus’s belief that the Carib people he encountered consumed human flesh. Attacking... Read more

Interview with Artist Alex Chiu

Airs at: Fri, 08/25/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
Portland artist Alex Chiu joins us to talk about his recent work and what inspires his latest style.  Read more

Morphosis in Blue, 1997 by Heriberto Montes de Oca

Airs at: Fri, 08/25/2017 at 10:00pm - Sat, 08/26/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
  Following the investigation of American-Mexican border musician Heriberto Montes de Oca (Aristeo), a pioneer in the area.   Tuesday I met with his son Aristeo Montes de Oca in Eugene at a parking lot, who gave me unedited material from his dad: twelve tapes and a box full... Read more

President Trump Gives His Blessing to "Trump TV"

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
The 45th President has recently given his blessing over brand-new television programming intended to counteract what he has dubbed, “Fake News” in a January 11th press conference last winter. Over the last several weeks, the presidents Facebook page has begun to feature sho... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 5

Airs at: Wed, 08/23/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Combined Culture Radio
Local Portland Artist Blossom, Foday, and Covi disuss the emerging music scene in PDX.  Read more

The Underground: EMOTIONS

Airs at: Wed, 08/23/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
Feelings. Nothing More Than Feelings. Lets see what the youth have to say> Read more

One Hundred Hungers by Lauren Camp

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Jake Vermaas speaks to poet Lauren Camp about her collection One Hundred Hungers. In her new collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells overlapping stories of food and ritual... Read more

Direct Cinema - Part One

Airs at: Thu, 08/24/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  In the early 1960's a revolution in documentary filmmaking took root, inspired by both cultural uprisings and new audio-visual technologies.  The movement known as Direct Cinema rejected authorial voiceovers and other narrative devices, opting instead for immediacy, ambi... Read more