In this first episode, your hosts Courtenay & J dive into their backgrounds, the racist history of a chain comedy club, recent protests and how mutual aid keeps us safe.

Introduction, Helium Comedy, Rapaport protest & mutual aid

In this exclusive episode, your hosts Courtenay & J share all about the upcoming 8th Annual NW Black Comedy Festival at Curious Comedy Theater Portland from Feb 15-Feb 18th 2024. Featuring Special Guests: The Real Hyjinx and Armaan Singh

NW Black Comedy Festival 2024

In this episode, your hosts Courtenay & J share the space talking about feeling + moving through grief, and the importance of simultaneously making space for joy. Sharing some much needed wisdom about the grief of Palestinians, building community, and cultivating joy as a liberation practice.

Grief & Joy

This episode is all about accountability! Get ready to sit in the discomfort with us while we discuss the elusive A-word, the various layers of accountability, what it looks like for us as individuals and as a community, and how we apply it to our daily Liberation praxis.

Accountability

In this episode your hosts Courtenay and J interview Portland based film maker, stand up comedian, and artist, Esau Hamadanyan. Esau is one of the few comedians taking a liberation centered approach to his art. We sit down with him to learn more about his experiences in LA to Portland as an Iranian-American artist with a passion for community.

Get to Know Esau Hamadanyan

Burning the table is a comedy-adjacent + Liberation-centered podcast series based in Portland, Oregon and hosted by Courtenay Collins (aka DJ Wildchild) and JC Troopa.

Tune in as they talk about their own experiences within the comedy scene in Portland (as two non-comedians), the struggle of local Black and brown comedians and comedy organizers, the culture and systems within the scene that perpetuate and maintain violence, and what a community and Liberation centered comedy scene could look like. The podcast also features comedians and other guests from community.

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