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Current City with Ivy Lin, Portland: Trains, Diaries, Parking Lot

 

Current City


Hosted by Ivy Lin
Airs 1st+3rd Thursdays, 10-11am (PST)
Episode #5: Portland-trains, diaries, parking lot

Current City is a series of radio documentaries inspired by Ivy's recent travel to Scandinavia, featuring architecture, music, film, places, and people from Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Reykjavik. Current City will begin with episodes featuring one city per show, then Portland, Ivy's current city will come into the mix for the purpose to create dialogues/exchange between Portland and these cities by "pairing up" architects, urban designers, musicians, film directors, cultural houses, local record stores/labels, etc.

It's about time to bring Portland into the mix!!
Portland, Ivy's current city, source of inspiration for "Current City".

In this episode, you will hear a rare parking-lot interview with Jonathan Raymond, the writer of the film "Wendy & Lucy", an instant Portland classic.
 
You will also meet artist Abraham Ingle (aka DJ Invisiboy) , a RACC grant recipient, and his podcast project "Neighborhood Diaries".

Jonathan Raymond
"Wendy & Lucy"
http://www.wendyandlucy.com/index.html
"Livability"
http://www.amazon.com/Livability-Stories-Jon-Raymond/dp/1596916559/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238062625&sr=8-1

Abraham Ingle
http://hoodturkey.com/
http://hoodturkey.com/neighborhood-diaries/

Current City is not only an opportunity or Ivy to share what's cool happening in places afar, an excuse for Ivy to keep in touch with friends she made in Scandinavia, but also a labor of love and very little sleep from having to get up early for phone interviews with Scandinavia (Portland is 9 hours behind).
 
THANK GOD for Skype, THANK GOD that Scandinavians speak perfect Egnlish.  There's something cool about talking to Reykjavik at 8am and then Copenhagen at 8:30am, there's even someting cool about listening to phone greetings in Nordic languages (when they forget to answer the phone for interviews).  The main reason why Ivy is burning up for Current City is because it is way so cool to be able connect sounds and voices of cities from almost opposite sides of the globe. 

As Ivy continues to travel, more cities will join Current City, including Taipei, Zurich, possibly Hong Kong.

Ivy Lin is origionally from Taipei, Taiwan.  She has been living in the U.S. since 1989.
 
As an independent documentary producer, Ivy has produced two documentaries about Portland's communities in the past two years.

Her most recent work "Pig Roast & Tank of Fish", a documentary about Portland's Chinatown-its legacy, its current struggles in revitalization, and its future.

Ivy is a classical musician by training and she is a member of Portand Cello Project.


 

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