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Pushing Boundaries Special

Airs at: Tue, 12/08/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts presents a half of her one-hour  Pushing Boundaries Special. This was a year-long investigation with Dmae and producers Macon Reed and Tali Singer. Pushing Boundaries explored artists and arts groups pushing personal, artistic, cultural and physical boundaries ... Read more

Jonathan Hill - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation, illustrator, educator, and author Jonathan Hill joins S.W. Conser for an extra 20 minutes of discussion during the 2020 Portland Book Festival. Jonathan shares more stories about his artistic influences, family adventures, mission to inspi... Read more

Jonathan Hill at the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Jonathan Hill is an illustrator, educator, and author who has been instrumental in making the art form of comics more visible through his work with Literary Arts' annual Portland Book Festival.  He's taught at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest Col... Read more

Ajai Terrazas Tripathi

Airs at: Tue, 11/10/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with Ajai Terrazas Tripathi, Portland actor, director, producer and playwright.   is collaborating on two Shakespeare virtual projects: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Northwest Children's Theater & School (Nov. 12 - Dec. 6) and Macbeth (Nov 11, 12, 13) at Specul... Read more

Interview with Quan Huynh

Airs at: Mon, 09/28/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
In January 1999, Quan Huynh shot and killed a man in Hollywood. He received a prison sentence of fifteen years to life in a state that, at the time, did not parole prisoners with life sentences. Quan was a member of a violent and ruthless Vietnamese street gang, and behind ... Read more

Food & Culture

Airs at: Wed, 09/16/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
Tune in Wednesday at 11 am to hear Jake Baez, host of Margin Podcast, and Jenny Le, an experience manager in the advertising industry, discuss growing up as the children of immigrants, food memories, and how culture does not exist in a vacuum. Read more

Food & Culture

Airs at: Wed, 09/16/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
Tune in Wednesday at 11 am to hear Jake Baez, host of Margin Podcast, and Jenny Le, an experience manager in the advertising industry, discuss growing up as the children of immigrants, food memories, and how culture does not exist in a vacuum. Read more

The Fish and the Dove

Airs at: Thu, 09/24/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
"In The Fish & The Dove, Mary-Kim Arnold’s lyrical scope sweeps across intersecting terrains, moving through time to capture the history of occupation and legacy war in Korea, through the delicate tethers between biological mother, adoptive mother, motherland and daughter, ... Read more

Horatio Law's Urban Studies

Airs at: Tue, 08/18/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks to Horatio Hung-Yan Law about creating art in solitude and while walking. Horatio is long-time Portland-based artist who has created large installations and public artwork in many locations here but also in other parts of the country. Lately he's been taking ... Read more

Radio Obon!

Airs at: Sat, 08/01/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
  Every summer, nihonjin (Japanese) and nikkei (people of the Japanese diaspora) come together to celebrate Obon. This festival honors ancestors through rituals, songs, and communal dance. This year's Obon Fest in Portland was cancelled due to Covid19, but you can still he... Read more