Arts and Culture

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Portland's Animation Industry

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

The Northwest Animation Festival has quickly grown to become the largest animation festival in the country, showcasing features and short films from around the world while focusing on local industry and talent. During this year's festival, we're joined in the studio by ... Read more

defunkt Theatre's The Udmurts

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae features defunkt Theatre's world premiere production of The Udmurts by David Zellnik. The Udmurt people are a diminishing ethnic group in the Udmurt Republic in Russia. The lead character in defunkt's production meets an Udmurt woman and is changed by her friendship. ... Read more

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

In this extended version of our interview with attorney turned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Jenn Chavez asks Mr Wiseman about the subjects that inspire him, his detached style of filmmaking, and his success in producing and distributing films outside the studio system. ... Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

PCS and OSF for Membership Drive

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae Roberts presents a second Membership Drive special featuring a talk with Christopher Acebo, associate artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Chris Coleman, artistic director of Portland Center Stage. We'll find out about the new season at OSF and get ... Read more

Sean The Bus Driver's First Ride on Blues Junction

Airs at: Sat, 04/30/2016 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Blues Junction

Sean Steward hosts his first KBOO Sub show for the Spring 2016 Membership Drive. Yorick Jones pitches for new and renewing members Read more

The sound inside and outside Juniana Lanning

Airs at: Sat, 04/30/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Sound collector, repurposer and creator JUNIANA LANNING hosts The Outside World this Fri midnight til 3:00. What will she put through our radios (and devices) this time? I asked her. She say: I'll start by visiting some 20th century "new music" composers and electronic mu... Read more

Radio Lost and Found

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 10:00pm - Fri, 04/29/2016 at 12:00am

Tonight, we'll pay tribute to the recently departed Negativland member Richard Lyons (Pastor Dick, Dick Vaughn, Dick Goodbody, et al). I'll also have other surprises in store. Hope you can tune in! Read more

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

Frederick Wiseman is an attorney turned filmmaker who has spent half a century offering audiences intimate views of institutions and communities, from state legislatures to boxing gyms to public housing and schools. His first film Titicut Follies (1967) documented abuse... Read more