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Buscando America on 04/03/18

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa, desde la Cd. de México Jose Luis Santillan entrevistó a Areli quien es parte de la campaña Luis Fernando Libre. También trasnmitimos un paisaje sonoro de Griselda Sánchez Lluvia Obsidiana, elaborado por los niños y niñas del taller Voces del Tren en la Sa... Read more

Counternarratives

Airs at: Thu, 04/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what constitutes “real” or “accurate” history. His writing is at turns playful and erudite, lyric and coldly diagnostic, but always compl... Read more

Up Up Down Down

Airs at: Thu, 04/12/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down has the uncanny, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white, masculinist, Christian, frat boy, and so on—appear newly strange, and newly open to analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist, a joyousl... Read more

3 Indigenous playwrights

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features three Indigenous, female playwrights whose plays are being produced by the three top theatre companies in Oregon this spring. We'll hear about Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival Mar. 28 - Oct. 27. And we'll feature in-stu... Read more

La Ruleta presents Tay and The Janglahdahs and Chonk!

Airs at: Fri, 04/13/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/14/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Join Sean The Bus Driver as he takes you on yet another painted bus ride on a Friday night across time and space with live talent from Oakland, California, Tay and The Janglahdahs Tay and Gregg host a monthly event in Berkeley called Bay Area Arts Mixer on the Third Thursda... Read more

Bunkie Spills by Bradley K. Rosen

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Bradley K. Rosen, author of the novel Bunkie Spills, which chronicles one very long and eventful day in the life of a group of Los Angeles teenagers in 1976. The book was selected as a Powell’s Bookstore Staff Top Five Pick for 2017. Bradley’s wor... Read more

SuperButch!

Airs at: Thu, 04/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland alt-comics heavyweights Barry Deutsch (Hereville) and Becky Hawkins (French Toast Comix) have teamed up to create SuperButch, the adventures of a lesbian superhero and the citizens whose lives she transforms.  Set in the 1940's when many gay Americans led double... Read more

PAC + Gambatte

Airs at: Tue, 03/27/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features two projects created by women. First up we talk with Beth Harper, artistic director who founded of Portland Actors Conservatory more than 25 years ago. Today PAC is producing not only multicultural works but also young actors, many of color, who go on to co... Read more

This Land is Our Land

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  Get ready, my friends, as Threshold Shift will be coming back on air in the wee hours between Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31 with a VERY special episode featuring recordings by Dr. Bernie Krause recorded in Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the Arctic N... Read more

This Land Is Our Land

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift. I am your host Nicole Martin. We have weathered the winter and now we are back on the air for every fifth Saturday of the year bringing you more long-form soundscape immersion. On this our first episode of 2018, we have a very spe... Read more