What's new at The Numberz FM
Happy April everyone! And a huge thank you to all our subscribers, members, followers, partnerships, listeners and readers!
With our 5 year anniversary happening later this year, we look forward to sharing all the new updates, projects and plans that have occurred, and will continue to occur in the months to come with you all!
UPCOMING EVENTS & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS
*MARKET BY PALLET- APRIL 15TH, 11AM-7 PM AT LLOYD CENTER MALL
Join The Numz Bodega at the Pallet pop up Market happening at the Lloyd Center Mall! We will be a participating booth at this event, with our latest in merchandise, in addition to items from our clearance sale selections. There will also be music for the event, with local Numberz affiliated DJs. We will be on the first floor of the old H&M, near the bar, with other local businesses and food vendors on site. Support local businesses, shop, eat, drink and come hang with us Saturday the 15th at Lloyd Center Mall.
This is a free event, and we hope to see many of you there!
SUBMIT YOUR VOTES!
With your help, The Numberz FM can be nominated for best radio station of 2023 within “Willamette Weekly’s Best Of 2023“!
Every year, Willamette Weekly puts out several categories of “Best Of”, as a way for local Portlanders to nominate, submit and cast their votes of who they think should be considered the best, within each category.
With us reaching our 5th year anniversary at the end of the year, we’d love to see the ability to potentially win this nomination with your support!
It has truly been an honor to be a radio station for our community, and look forward to continue to serve you all and build on our networks! Thank you all for your continuous support and participation
Click here to cast your vote, and write in “The Numberz FM” to nominate us!
DID YOU KNOW?
The Numberz’ own DJ Ambush & DJ Klyph have a new monthly happening every 4th Sunday of the month! Yup, and this new event is for the hip hop lovers. No requests happens at White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russel ST once a month.
It’s been a different theme each month, but still focused on the straight boom bap, 90’s era and inspired hip hop vibes that these two amazing DJs collaborate on sharing out! So far, there has been a J Dilla tribute themed night, a Women’s history month tribute night, highlighting the music of powerful women throughout the hip hop ages, as well as opportune moments for vinyl record exchanges.
This is a free event, held at a 21+over bar, from 6-9 PM, 4th Sundays of the month.
FEATURED ADVERTISER & PARTERSHIP HIGHLIGHTS
"Community partnerships are extremely important for the type of work that we do at The Numberz FM. We’ve been fortunate to have some of the partnerships that were essential to the early stages of our growth, still be a part of what we do today. As the station has grown into several different facets of media, we’ve been able to forge new alliances and have picked up some truly inspiring partnerships along the way.
Imagine Black's work here in Portland has been a shining example to our team. By prioritizing the political and social concerns of the Black community and organizing on behalf of us. They've been working tirelessly to increase Black voter engagement, making sure we have well informed participants. We had the pleasure of sitting down with their team last year, and hosted their executive director Joy Elise-Davis in our studio as a guest on the Bruce Poinsette Show, resulting in a partnership that led to members of Imagine Black leading a couple of sessions during the fall edition of our Black Podcast Festival at Alberta Abbey.
Being mission aligned will always be prioritized over any financial relationships that might be laid before us. The gratitude that we have for the blessing of being able to work with Imagine Black is immeasurable. Find out more about this amazing organization by visiting imagineblack.org"
-Ambush
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
There are a lot of new shows that have been added into our weekly programming that we are excited to share with you all. Currently, we have two new segments we’d love to highlight!
The First, is a show that takes place Monday-Thursday from 4-5PM, and its called Traffic Jam, curated by Portlands own Trailblazers DJ, O.G. One.
Outside of DJing for The Portland Trailblazers, DJ O.G. One is a Music Producer | VP of PNW Recording Academy | Founder/Speaker/Coach of Leadertainment & Co-Founder of PDX Hip Hop Week/PBME
Tune in during your drive home from work, with or without the traffic- to enjoy one of our city’s amazing DJs as he gives you the fun tunes & blends to help pass the time.
Click here to also stay on top of DJ O.G.Ones events, collaborations, and upcoming projects.
STAFF PICKS is another new segment added to our weekly schedule. It takes place Monday-Fridays from 12-1PM.
Tune in to hear some of the top picks from The Numberz FM team. We’ll be highlighting some of our favorite tracks that we are currently vibing to. You may hear a combination on New Singles, as well as old favorites from each of us, all within a combined rotating playlist.
PREVIOUS HIGHLIGHTS
We recently had some important holiday months in which we had the opportunity to highlight some amazing people. For Black History Month, we had the opportunity to share out an amazing playlist, curated by Lauren McKnight (she/her/hers)
Lauren is a Brooklyn-based, DC/Maryland raised creative, former makeup artist, and current podcast host for treasurehunterspodcast, who hopes to create a space that feels warm, non judgmental, and encourages curiosity to explore all the twists, turns, ups and downs of growth and the human experience. Self-proclaimed extroverted / introvert, she's alwavs been someone who is in constant reflection of an experience, interaction, and moment. In 2017, after experiencing extreme burn out and navigating a mental health crisis, she was forced to, for the first time in her life-take a step back to ask different questions, slow down, and seek different tools to navigate a life and healing journey authentic to her needs. Inspired by many professionals in the realm of mental health and wellness - specifically those catering to the lens of Black, Brown, and Indigenous folx; who are often left out of the conversation of exploring these tools, she started this podcast to add another space for revelations, healing, and continued growth.
Treasure Hunters is named as such, inspired in honor of her beloved maternal grandparents, Nana and Poppy, who always seemed to have a pearl of wisdom, story, or treasure to share, for it seems just about EVERY human experience. They also happened to call the occasional trip to the thrift store, or drives to pick up old furniture to face lift for fun-
"treasure hunts".
Listen to her playlist here!
FOR OTHER CURATED PLAYLISTS
We have community playlist segments played several times throughout the weeks, but now have a Mixcloud account- that archives all the previous playlists, curated by our community members.
Community playlists are the heart of The Numberz FM history. It was one of the segments that helped create the foundation on which this station is built on. These playlists are curated and helped put together from song choices our POC community members select themselves. They range in genres & vibes, but are true to the diversity of what we enjoy sharing out on the airwaves. They are a wonderful way of learning new music, reminiscing on nostalgic track selections, and a great way to get to know each community member through the selection of their choices.
To hear back on some of the previous submitted playlist click here!
Learn how to submit a playlist of your own by clicking here!
TALK CONTENT
The Bruce Poinsette Show is back!
It airs on Wednesdays, 7PM on The Numberz FM Twitch channel. This witty, fun, and diverse show combines in-depth interviews and commentary for a unique experience that can only be described as the world’s most dangerous infomercial.
Portland Metro-based writer Bruce Poinsette talks with the people that shaping Portland and the state of Oregon, by exploring equal parts important news and big ideas, while also taking time to have fun with the latest in pop and nerd culture, along with producer Edo, within the Numberz FM studio at the Portland Art Museum.
Many episode snippets from the last season are up and available to watch on our Youtube Channel.
THE NUMBERZ FM ON YOUTUBE/TWITCH
Our Youtube Channel is perfect for catching up on amazing archived episodes from several associated to our Talk Content shows, such as:
Our Twitch Channel is where you can catch live streams of some of these shows as they are happening, and a great way to tune into our upcoming ticket giveaway to different events, concerts, and more!
NUMZ BODEGA
The Numberz Bodega, also known as, “NumzBODEGA'', has been through many different iterations since inception. Originally an accompanying gift shop (featuring various Portland BIPOC artists, businesses, merch and art)- to the “AUX/MUTE Gallery” on what was the 4th floor of the Portland Art Museum, NumzBODEGA now serves primarily as an online store. Since then, the 4th floor of the museum has now been closed for construction currently happening within The Portland Art Museum until further notice.
We do still participate in pop up events throughout the city with our latest in merchandise for sale, as well as sell art from affiliated artists on our website. Our upcoming event will be in participation of Pallet Portland’s Market, held within Lloyd Center Mall, Saturday April 15. (Details at the top of the page)
Browse our site to see the latest in apparel, art, and more.
Our newest designs feature beautifully colored roses, featuring images of roses captured at Peninsula Park right here in Portland. These fun designs come in Tees, Crew & Hooded sweat shirts.
We currently also have a Spring Clearance Sale on our Original Collection T-Shirts with various designs to choose from for 50% off!
Separate from our online store and occasional pop up events, The Numz Bodega has featured archived video interviews with the artists and business owners featured in Bodega.
This fun interview series gives the viewer insight on the local businesses that reside here within our city, and highlight the amazing artists behind those businesses. This fun interview series is known as “Live from the Bodega'‘ and can be viewed on our YouTube Channel.
For this months highlights, we wanted to share with you PDX artist Rob-O, owner of RootsnRooftops
ROB O from ROOTS N ROOFTOPS
PDX artist Rob-O is the master mind behind RootsnRooftops.
Rob-O has been a part of NumzBODEGA since the beginning and has collaborated with THENUMBERZ.FM and the Portland Art Museum (PAM) on many events and projects such as the 2022 Juneteenth Celebration, the Rooftop Display Exhibit, and the Black Lives Matter tote bags. Rob-O is a wonderfully talented artist specializing in handcrafted goods and indigo dyeing. Please check out the Roots N Rooftops collection whithin the Numz Bodega to support Rob-O, and to learn more about the brand by checking out his personal website!
Watch his “Live from The Bodega Interview” here!
THANK YOU ALL-
For your continuous amounts of love and support.
A HUGE thank you, from The Numberz Team to:
Robin Beavers
Forest Healy
Melinda Kowalska
Eric Ward
Jonna Papaefthimiou
Jess Morgan
For being our newest subscribers. We appreciate you all very much!
Stay tuned for our next newsletter in May, to learn more about upcoming events, projects and collaborations!