A Privacy Chat with XRAY.fm's Oh My Dollar and The Credentialed featuring World Privacy Forum
Join two of your favorite XRAY.fm podcast hosts, Lillian Karabaic of Oh My Dollar! and Kate Kaye of The Credentialed for an intimate evening chat with Pam Dixon, executive director of World Privacy Forum. We'll talk privacy in personal finance, digital and social media, self-quantification and more! Come say hello, meet Lillian, Kate and Pam, and have a snack or a great Red E beverage at this XRAY.fm podcast neighborhood event from 6:30 to 8pm!
Believe it or not, Hack Oregon doesn’t really do a lot of Hackathons. We form specialized teams to build software and open data stories on important themes in the public interest, while working and iterating incrementally over months to create a product.
The “Buildathon” is the one day where we open up our project teams for guest contributors that want to be part of the magic and build something amazing, but might not have the time to participate in our months-long project season.
What’s the goal?
The Buildathon is a production sprint to create data stories for the upcoming launch of our CIVIC Platform. We’ve laid the groundwork to do research, visualizations, and data storytelling quickly, and we need your help to bring our projects to the next level. Be prepared to make friends and be an instant part of our Hack Oregon family!
How can I get involved?
By joining our sprint, you’ll be placed with a team that needs extra hands on deck in your particular skill set. We’re working toward a big public Demo Day in June, where you can proudly present alongside your team.
Here’s a list of the technical and creative skills our teams are looking for:
Front End Developers with experience in React and Redux
Data Visualization experts
Cartographers
Geospatial analysts, engineers, and architects
Experienced Data Scientists with comfort in Python tools
Data Scientists with advanced Machine Learning skills
Database Architects and Programmers with experience in PostgreSQL
Developers with experience building APIs in Django
Documentarians
Experienced DevOps Engineers
Visual Designers
Illustrators
UI/UX
Graphic Designers
Photographers
Researchers (with interest in policy)
Domain experts in subject matter relating to this year’s themes
Sprint for a Healthy Internet
We're excited to join forces with Mozilla to bring our teamwork to their Global Hackathon Sprint. Mozilla is bringing together a global community of scientists, educators, artists, engineers, students and others to work on projects that make the internet a better place—from board games to promote online privacy to apps for sharing research data to coding languages for artists.
We'll have special opportunities to collaborate on our CIVIC Platform story collection, including technical and non-technical support at all skill levels.
There will be lots of food, caffeine, and camaraderie for the full two-day event.
No need to apply, you can RSVP and save your spot with us.
RSVP to Global Sprint!
We're back! Every first Saturday Misdemeanor Meadows hosts the IMPACT! Hi-Fi for an evening of reggae, rocksteady, boss sounds, ska, and roots! Come down to to the toned down Felony Flats for the night of a lifetime. It's an early show so perfect for getting your night started right or just poking your head out before the babysitter has to leave. Guaranteed good music, good food, good beer, and good times!
More information at https://www.facebook.com/events/325819091281104/
The World’s Best Bike Movies!
May 4-6, 2018
Portland, Oregon
The 16th Annual Filmed by Bike is a film festival featuring the world’s best bike movies.
- 80 independent films
- 6 distinct movie programs
- Street party
- Filmmaker Saturday Chat
- Visiting filmmakers
- Awards ceremony
- Filmmaker Ride + Tour of Breadwinner Cycles
- After parties
- Speed raffle with $6,000 in prizes
Base Camp Opening Night Street Party
Friday, May 4 // 5:00-10:00 p.m.
With DJ sets from Jené of Everyday Mixtapes and DJ Serious Moonlight & DJ Palm Dat of Intuitive Navigation
21+ / 8:30PM / $10
Join us for a special screening of And And And & the Philosopher's Stoned, a short film comprised of five self-made, connected story-line, absurdist music videos that And And And has been working on since 2014. Screening at 8:30pm. DVD's for sale at event.
AND AND AND
https://andandand.bandcamp.com/
Thick Business
https://thickbusinessband.bandcamp.com/
Bryson Cone
https://brysoncone.bandcamp.com/releases
Ah God
https://ahgod.bandcamp.com/
Kittybot plays a sort of variety of post punk, electronic, minimal, experimental, and stuff that fits even though it may not seem like it.
Catch DJ Kittybot on XRAY.FM Mondays from 3-5 AM!
For our triumphant return, we bring you Hour co-creator/headhunter, Willamette Week music correspondent and frontman of the internationally touring Doom-Metal act Witch Mountain, the great Nathan Carson; the unforgettable performance Fiction of fellow Cafe Lena veteran Jennifer Robin; a classically Portland poet with whom we are lucky to share a decade, one-woman show Amy Temple Harper; Bizarro/Noir God Garrett Cook, who will command a room like a Baptist preacher when he gets going, except lots more fun... and Oral Storyteller/Folklorist Ilana Hamilton, who memorizes classic stories and tells them dramatically on the fly. Ilana is an Hour favorite, and NOT TO BE MISSED. As well, I will be warming up the stage with a few poems some of you may remember, one of which I actually wrote. Bring your friends, tell everyone you can think of, and let's pack the house and KEEP LIVE SPOKEN WORD ALIVE IN PORTLAND. We're back. Alea Iacta Est.
The Hour That Stretches was conceived by Edward Morris, Justin Montgomery, Ann S. Koi, Nathan Carson and several other members of Morris' writing workshop in August of 2013. No genre restrictions or style restrictions. No fourth wall. Performers get up to half an hour to bring their A-Game. We want rappers. Slam poets. Litfic people. Bizarros. Blues people. Electronic musicians. As long as there is spoken word somewhere in the performance. Morris, a veteran SpecFic/Horror author and poet, hosts and occasionally reads.
More information available at https://www.facebook.com/events/164141170956874/
Featuring Ron Funches, Judah Friedlander, Laurie Kilmartin, Jeff Dye, Shane Mauss, Ron Lynch, and many more. For three days, from April 26th through April 28th, over 25 hilarious comedians from across the nation will perform for you in three of Lincoln City’s beautiful, historic buildings.
More information at https://undertowcomedy.com
WEDS APRIL 25 | 21+
DOORS 6:30 | SHOW 7:30
CURIOUS COMEDY |
5225 NE MLK Blvd
FEATURING: JASON ROUSE The Winner From Our January Show Actor/Writer, Once Spoke To Mike Myers For 5-mins Before Realizing Who he was.
CAITLIN WEIERHAUSER Returning Two-Time Russian Roulette Winner, Portland’s Funniest Person 2017, Member of Lez Stand Up, Voted Most Opinionated in High School.
NICOLE J. GEORGES Author of the Award-Winning Graphic Novels Calling Dr. Laura and Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, Teaches MFA In Comics Students at California College of the Arts, Hosts the Podcast Sagittarian Matters, Her Life Partner Is a Half-Blind Chomeranian Named Ponyo.
KIRSTEN KUPPENBENDER Finalist in Portland’s Funniest Person Competition, Founder of Lez Stand Up, Extreme Jigsaw Puzzler.
EUGENIE FONTANA works in the Creative and Arts Communities, Founder of Gather & Garner/Co-Founder of w(HERE), Loves Riding Quads AKA 4-Wheelers, SAMIRA SAHEBI Real Estate Broker, Snuck Into The US Before Her People Were Banned, Loves Every Aspect of Living in Portland Except How Often She’s Asked “Where She’s Really From?”, A Mean Cook.
Hosted by B. FRAYN MASTERS& MINDY NETTIFEE
Music by DJ BOBBY D from XRAY.FM
Join DJ Yoni of XRAY's The Impact Sound, DJing at The Secret Society along with sets from The Bandulus, and Buddy Jay's Jamaican Jazz Band!
The Bandulus are the brainchild of Jeremy Peña, formerly of Los Skarnales and The Trenchtown Texans. After the 2006 break-up of Los Skarnales and leaving Trenchtown Texans in 2010, Jeremy decided to venture out on his own and create the traditional ska, reggae, and soul sensation that is The Bandulus.
Buddy Jay's Jamaican Jazz Band was formed in 2012 by Saxophonist Buddy Jay Kieffer and Trumpeter John England Fisher. A deep respect for all music Jamaican brought them together. After amassing an all star line up of Portland based musicians, they set out to do the ska. Writing original Jamaican jazz and rocksteady tunes designed for dancing has been the delight of both band members and audiences.
The LA based pop duo Chaos Chaos is made up of sisters Asy and Chloe Saavedra. Asy and Chloe began their careers as preteens in Seattle as the band Smoosh touring and performing with the likes of Bloc Party, Sleater Kinney and Cat Power. Now, as Chaos Chaos, the sisters have composed music for TV shows including Rick and Morty and Lucifer, released the charting single Terryfold in collaboration with Justin Roiland co-creator of Rick and Morty, and released their first single Dripping with Fireoff their debut LP to be released early 2018.
This show is all ages!
Tickets available at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1650998-chaos-chaos-portland/
Join Bright Moments and the Camas High School Choir for an unforgettable concert that explores the exponential advancement of human technology and the notion of human progress.
This concert is a collaboration of the Camas High School Choir and choral director Ethan Chessin, indie-rock musician and composer Kelly Pratt, and Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington.
The choir will be performing new music composed by Bright Moments, Pratt’s solo project, specifically for this collaboration. The concert is an original, hour-long performance for a rock band, horns and 200 high school singers, blending together a wide array of styles and genres — from afrobeat to metal to more traditional choral music — into a compelling intergenerational musical experience.
The music will be accompanied by original video projections created by the Camas students working with director Alicia J. Rose. This is the only opportunity to experience this concert in Portland.
Supported by the Camas Educational Foundation, CD Baby, Oregon Arts Commission and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).KBOO Community Radio and XRAY.FM are media sponsors.
Tickets $10 in advance / $12 day of show
https://ya-or.ejoinme.org/April13
(Logistical and accessibility details coming soon.)
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About the Camas High School Choir: The Camas High School Choir program has earned praise around the Northwest for its engaging performances of unique, diverse repertoire, including collaborations with local musicians SAMA DAMS, Alan Singley, Point Juncture, WA, AU/Luke Wyland and more.
About Kelly Pratt: From 2006–2012 Kelly Pratt was a full-time member of indie-pop outfit Beirut, contributing arrangements, brass/woodwinds, and vocals. He has performed and recorded with hundreds of artists including Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Coldplay, The War on Drugs, and Passion Pit. In 2012 and 2013, he collaborated with David Byrne and St. Vincent, providing arrangements for their album “Love this Giant,” as well as serving as arranger and musical director for their world tour. He is currently touring with Father John Misty as an arranger, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist.
About Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington: Young Audiences offers a full range of educational arts programming in multiple disciplines and cultures. The organization connects a roster of talented teaching artists with schools for artist residencies, workshops and performances; and partners with local schools, arts organizations, artists and community members to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts.
About the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: PICA’s programming supports the experiments of vital and provocative artists. PICA is unique among institutions for working right alongside artists at the increasingly blurry boundaries between forms and at the edge of new ideas. Throughout the year, audiences have myriad opportunities to interact with artists, curators, critics, and cultural visionaries in a direct, in-depth way. From performances to exhibitions to lectures to the annual Time-Based Art Festival, PICA's programs catalyze conversations about contemporary culture.
The IMPACT! Hi-Fi, a hand built soundsystem inspired by the legendary systems of the 60's, is making its debut at Misdemeanor Meadows for an evening of ska, rocksteady, boss reggae, and roots. Two turntables and some big old speakers will be shaking the house for an early evening of reggae music. Start your evening off right with a trip through the Meadows and an ear full of reggae.
On April 7th, join Portland Underground Grad School (PUGS) and explore a multitude of topics related to ENERGY at the third-annual PUGSfest! Local experts will speak on a variety of subjects, including hip hop and social justice activism, sexual connection, the maker movement, and digital accessibility. Come exercise your brain in a friendly, inclusive environment.
XRAY listeners can save 20% on PUGSfest: ENERGY! registration with the code: XRAY20. Sign up at PUGSpdx.com.
‘Criminal’, The Soft Moon's fourth studio album, is a confessional work. Through the stark lens of shame and guilt that has followed Luis Vasquez since a violent childhood growing up within the humming ambient sprawl of 80s Mojave Desert, here he documents the gut-wrenching sound of going to war with himself. Battling with his own sanity, self-hatred, insecurity, self-entitlement and grappling with the risk of these things transforming him into a person he despises, Vasquez has laid his feelings bare with this: his confession and most self-reflective work to date.
Tickets available at: https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1601829-sold-out-soft-moon-portland/
Some of Portland's finest dark synth artists join forces for an amazing evening with Austin-based artist Josh Mills aka Missions, signed to S U R V I V E's own Holodeck Records.
The fourth annual Out From the Shadows festival, featuring 24 post-punk and darkwave bands from around the US and Europe. Besides being a benefit for both XRAY.FM and the LBGTQ organization SMYRC (Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center), this year each night's festivities will be preceded by a mini-record show with vendors offering the finest in dark musics from a multitude of genres. In other words, OFTS 2018 is an utter dark music extravaganza. Accept no substitutes...Tickets here:
3-day pass: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307474
Day one: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307475
Day two: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307477
Day three: https://holdmyticket.com/event/307478
The music of Sama Dams steals from you most virtuously — it will rob your sense of time and leave you wondering how long you’ve been awash in sound, rhythm, and ether.
On their fourth release, “Say It” — released on Friendship Fever on April 6 — Lisa Adams emerges from the background to deliver commanding lead vocals in her clarion soprano alongside partner Sam and the highly textured drumming of Chris Hermsen.
Almost in answer to the muted ambivalence that marks movements from the band’s previous “Comfort in Doubt,” “Say It” features the trio striking boldly throughout, both musically and thematically. According to Sam, “It’s about being more honest about what we’re thinking and feeling.”
SAMA DAMS // https://samadams.bandcamp.com/
KELLI SCHAEFER // https://kellischaefer.bandcamp.com/
POOL BOYS
Loud guitars + pretty harmonies
https://www.facebook.com/poolboysband/