NPR Will Be Broadcasting out of the Ghosttown Clothing Exchange and Welcoming Center (338 NW 6th Ave.) January 5 - 10th

For quite a while we’ve been interested in the power of media frameworks and their ability to inspire change, share stories, and create new environments in the paths they travel; be that hand to hand, word of mouth, or just a glimpse or listen while passing by. To share the accumulated stories of Ghosttown, as well as document the life of the project, we’ve invited our friends Neighborhood Public Radio, from Oakland, Califronia, to be the Ghosttown media source. NPR is an “independent, artist-run radio project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members.” Their motto, “if it’s in the neighborhood and it makes noise... we hope to put it on the air.”

NPR will be in town for one week collecting and broadcasting stories and ideas from a wide breath of Portlanders; public defenders, musicians, artists, restaurant owners, retired bike mechanics, writers, curators, copy shoppers, and layabouts alike. NPR will set up shop in the Ghosttown Clothing Exchange and Welcoming Center at 337 SW Pine. Feel free to drop in and say hello, or tune in on the lefthand side of the FM dial.

In conjunction to the live material you’ll hear broadcast by NPR for Ghosttown you’ll be able to catch segments compiled from the ever-growing Ghosttown Know Yr. Radio Archive. We’ve been canvassing neighborhoods garnering audio material from across Portland– your musical selections, voices, shout out’s, hit mix’s. For NPR’s stay in town we’ll be broadcasting some of this material back into the neighborhoods in originated from. If you’ve got audio to add t o the archive, come down to the Ghosttown Clothing Exchange and Welcoming Center and give it to us.