Asian Pacific American

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Chitra: The Girl Prince

Airs at: Tue, 02/06/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features  Chitra: The Girl Prince co-directed by Sarah Jane Hardy and Anita Menon. We'll hear from both artists about their second epic collaboration which began with their critical success The Jungle Book. They worked with writer Avantika Shankar who travelled from... Read more

Lunar New Year - Year of the Dog

Airs at: Fri, 02/02/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
  Lunar New Year is often referred to as Chinese New Years here in the United States, which erases the fact that many Asian cultures bring in the New Year according to the Lunar Calendar. Being lumped together as one big "Asian" demographic also means that many people assu... Read more

Ashamed of being Asian and embracing identity

Airs at: Fri, 01/26/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
  Until a few months ago, Nadya Okamoto was ashamed of being Asian but didn't really realize it. We talk to her about how her upbringing in New York and Portland affected how she viewed herself and how a recent run for city council brought her identity issues to light. We ... Read more

Milagro's 'Bi' & Prince Gomolvilas

Airs at: Tue, 01/09/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features  the 2018 world premiere of Bi– Milagro Theatre's newest devised work. We'll talk with actor and co-developer Ajai Terrazas Tripathi and assistant director/choregographer Gabriela Portuguez to talk about Bi- running Jan. 11-20 at Milagro Theatre. Bi- is pre... Read more

Warmongering against North Korea

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
  This is a re-broadcast of Positvely Revolting from July 7th, 2017    Lyn and guest co-host Linda Olsen Osterlund will be talking with Christine Hong Associate Professor at USC Santa Cruz and executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, about her piece "The Long,... Read more

Gospel of Regicide

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of non-intersectional understandings of identity a... Read more

Joe Kye

Airs at: Tue, 12/26/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae welcomes Violinist-looper/composer Joe Kye into her home studio for a personal concert and conversation with this talented musician. Joe Kye releases his new album, Migrants, on Jan. 8, 2018 which kicks off his international tour. (Aired 11am 12/26/17 on KBOO 90.7 FM ... Read more

Obon Society Flag Return Program

Airs at: Thu, 05/04/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO News reporter Tom Flynn visited the Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon and was surprised to find that one of the exhibits was about the work of a local non-profit, the Obon Society, that returns "trophy flags" that soldiers captured during World War II to Japanese fami... Read more

Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  Sarika Mehta talks to Nidhi Chanani about her celebrated graphic novel Pashmina Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom le... Read more

Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s have gone from quietly farming to organizing daily protests and blockades to stop THAAD. THAAD is part of a missile defense system that... Read more