Morbid or life-affirming? Last month Holly Pruett initiated Portland's first-ever Death Cafe. Modeled on similar gatherings taking place in Europe, participants were encouraged to talk freely about life, death and dying while sipping tea and enjoying delicious treats at the Bijou cafe. Over 60 people attended and another event is planned for June. Learn more and join the conversation with host Stephanie Potter and her guests, Holly Pruett, Life-Cycle Celebrant and PDX Death Cafe organizer, Kate Brassington, who co-hosted the PDX Death Cafe, and Karen Paule, paticipant. 

Host Sarika Mehta interviews best-selling author Jean Kwok, who is best known for her novel Girl in Translation. Jean Kwok visited Portland in April as part of PCC Reads 2012-2013: Girl in Translation.

Jean Kwok immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She won early admission to Harvard, where she worked as many as four jobs at a time, and graduated with honors in English and American literature, before going on to earn an MFA in fiction at Columbia.

Don Merrill will be inerviewing KBOO Station Navigator Lynn Fitch.

They will contine the discussion began Sunday May 19th on Lynn's history in community media and development work, other experiences in her past, and where she is leading KBOO in the future.

Calls are welcome. (503) 231-8187

On Tuesday May 21, 2013, Joseph Gallivan will interview Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Associate Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, about the exhibition Object Focus: The Bowl.

The show looks at the humble bowl in the context of Art, craft and everyday life.