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The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the first  Holy Crowley Hour of Summer 2018. While Carl Crowley and I should be wearing flip flops, shades, and a Speedo, and playing the Beach Boys all night, we'll instead be focusing on radio theater, as is our wont. And wearing a Speedo. Only a Speedo. Tonig... Read more

Our Voices Will Be Heard

Airs at: Tue, 06/26/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
    Warning: this play features dialogue about childhood sexual abuse and family violence. This program is not produced by KBOO. Our Voices Will Be Heard is a 59-min radio theater adaptation of a play written by Tlingit/Dena'ina Athabascan writer Vera Starbard and direct... Read more

Gamelan Wahyu Dari Langit Live in Studio

Airs at: Fri, 06/22/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 06/23/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for La Ruleta
We are a 15 member ensemble of the ONLY Balinese Gamelan in the Pacific Northwest. We play a genre known at Baleganjer, used in ceremonies of cremation and battle songs. We have been playing in Portland for about a year. There is more information about us in the links below... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/29/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the first monthly Holy Crowley Hour. Formerly known as the Holy Crowley Hour, or Two. We’ll be on 12 times a year now, rather than four. And each show will be only one hour, rather than two. So you’ll be getting a little more of us and a little less. More or less... Read more

John Frame - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with artist and animator John Frame, we learn more about his design work for Charles Gounod's Faust, a co-production of Portland Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.  John talks about his fascination with the centuries-old characters of Doctor ... Read more

Vera Starbard + Our Voices

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
  Dmae features Alaska Native Playwright Vera Starbard and her play Our Voices Will Be Heard that was first produced at Perseverance Theatre and adapted into a radio play by Native Voice One. The play focuses on the journey of a mother and daughter and infuses Alaska Nativ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about the sculptor Lee Kelly

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about the sculptor Lee Kelly, whose show Lee Kelly: Six Decades is on now at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery Peabody talks about how Portland legend Kelly, age 86, still does much of his own wor... Read more

Valley Of The Lost by Robert E. Howard

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/19/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Valley of the Lost, a short story by Robert E. Howard, is one of the first weird westerns that combines elements of  fantasy adventure within the setting of the wild west.  John Reynolds is the last surviving member of his family , after a deadly ambush due to a longstandin... Read more

What The Festival?! Retrospective

Airs at: Fri, 06/15/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  We were extremely blessed to have 6 phenomenal years of What The Festival here in the NW, such an incredibly ingenious and innovative event, there had been NOTHING like it before and nothing will ever come close to replicating this uniquely immersive and entertaining and... Read more

Tonight I'm Somone Else

Airs at: Thu, 07/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
  Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. Starting with Hodson’s own work exper... Read more