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On this edition of the Art in Action interview series Mexico City based artist Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba's speaks about contributions to a collective exhibition at Biqini Wax ESP during art week in Mexico, 2024. Daniel's work explores ideas and expressions through frenetic drawings and sketches that are shaped by understandings of the world and humanity as an experience of multitudes not a world shaped by a universal framework of conception. Biqini Wax ESP is a collectively run art space in Navate district in Mexico City that has long explored the creative intersections of art and activism within the space in both militant and playful modes.
This interview explores, in conversation, Daniel's work as relating to the realities of the survival of pre colonial cultural narratives and artistic landscapes that continue to shape Mexico. The cultural multiplicity that exists in Mexico that can been understood as standing as an existing challenge to the sustaining dominant frameworks of universalism that continue to define the major narrative arcs of mainstream artistic practice in western Europe and North America. Daniel specifically speaks about Mexican cultural modes that challenge the notion of death as shaped by dark forces, while articulating reflections about alternative cultural vantage points of looking to death as a pathway to listen to the voices and heritages of the past, of ancestors, a cultural framework within which death can be best understood a bridge that connect you to eternities.
The accompanying artwork is by Daniel, photos taken by Stefan.
Music on this program is "Passage" by Anarchist Mountains.
Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal. -
This is the second edition of Voices from Beirut which I have produced for Radio AlHara in Palestine. On this edition we hear from Omar Abi Azar, the co-artistic director and theatre creator at Zoukak Theatre company in Beirut, Lebanon. Omar speaks critically about the decision to keep the theatre company open in Lebanon during this time of war, which includes of course Israeli airstrikes in south Lebanon and throughout the country which has resulted in many killings and the widespread destruction of major agricultural lands and nature reservations in the south of the country. Info on Zoukak Theatre here: https://zoukak.org
Also we hear from Lena Merhej, one of the founders of the Samandal comic art project in Lebanon that has long created space for the expression of social movement voices through drawing, comics and the arts in Lebanon. Lena speaks about giving drawing workshops this past year, including to a student in Gaza who was killed within the context of the ongoing Israeli state genocidal military action in Gaza, Palestine. Information on the Samandal comics project here https://samandal-comics.org
Finally we got directly to Palestine and hear from Ahmad Jaradat who works with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. Ahmad speaks about the realities that face Palestinian political prisoners today and over the last generations. Information about Ahmad's work at AIC here: https://www.aicpalestine.org
Finally we hear a radio documentary that I co-produced in 2005 with Sawsan Kalache about the realities facing Palestinian refugees living in the refugee camps in Lebanon, particularly in the community of Burj Shemali Camp in southern Lebanon. Although this documentary was produced almost twenty years ago it speaks to some critical issues that remain, namely the lived realities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who are living in camps waiting for their Right to Return to historic Palestine to be enforced. It should also be noted that many services within a community like Burj Shemali Camp, including health and education, are administered by UNRAW. Info about this specific camp is here: https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/lebanon/burj-shemali-camp
The music on this edition is by the artist Badawi and PJS. I took the accompanying photo was taken in the borderlands between Lebanon and Palestine in 2005. -
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On this edition of the program we hear from Chicago based filmmaker and community activist Merawi Gerima who speaks on the intersections of art and activism around #BlackLivesMatter and the movement for freedom in Palestine. Also Merawi speaks about alliance work with The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
Follow Merawi's work here: https://www.instagram.com/gerima_gang and find information about The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression here: https://naarpr.org
Song at the end of the interview is Simo Cell - Orange Fluo from the ENOUGH! compilation, learn more here https://dreaminglive.bandcamp.com/album/enough
This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net -
On this edition of Free City Radio we feature a conversation with researcher and writer Laura Carlsen who shares some important reflections on the state of social movements in Mexico today. This conversation gets into exploring the dynamics of tension between transformative social activism and the current government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador who is set to leave office this month, June 2024. Learn more about Carlsen's work with MIRA project that lifts up Feminist analysis on Mexico and social movements in the Americas, they are at https://www.americas.org/we-are
Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. The image is by Antonio Gritón.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
Listen to an interview with Brussels based researcher and activist Omar Jabary Salamanca. In this interview Omar speaks about the ways that Brussels has become an important hub for Palestinian solidarity organizing in Western Europe. Beyond only speaking about the organizing over the last months this interview situates strands of popular organizing history in the city within different diaspora communities representing, both culturally and politically, territories in the global south that are shaped by struggles against colonization.
This interview is broadcasting on Radio AlHara on Tuesday, May 28 at 7am eastern time, 2pm Palestine time, streaming at https://www.radioalhara.net
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On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from community organizer Yvonne Yen Liu who is based in LA and speaks about organizing counter power at a city based level. Yvonne talks about efforts to create popular assemblies that can connect different local struggles throughout the larger LA area. I thought to feature this conversation because it is an interesting example of organizing counter power at a city wide level, while speaking to interesting ideas and points around organizational process.
Find more information on the projects highlighted in this conversation here:
https://losangelesassembly.org
https://solidarityresearch.org
Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. The image is by Antonio Gritón.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
Stefan's monthly mix for Radio AlHara, for May 2024, "Beyond borders" mix. Below is the track listing, track name and then artist(s) name(s).
Stefan took the photo in May 2024 inside the Gaza solidarity encampment at McGill University.
01. Matteo Uggeri - Observing, Waiting for...
02. Notnef Greco - Mannequins Road
03. Stefan Christoff - Mirrors
04. Dear Ocean - The Narcicyst and Stefan Christoff
05. Stefan Christoff - Sounding Worlds 1
06. Godspeed you! black emperor - Sleep
07. Matteo Uggeri - ...for the Little Silver Stars -
On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a recording of a panel discussion that took place at Concordia University in Montreal, entitled Voices of the Immigrant Workers Centre. The panel focuses on the grassroots organizing in one of Montreal's former garment districts in the city around supporting garment sector workers at Lamour Inc. who were facing mass layoffs. This panel highlights a campaign that took place at a grassroots level, largely outside of the formal labour sector and took place at the intersection of many points of systemic violence targeting workers, all of whom were racialized immigrant textile workers. Information on this panel can be found here:
https://storytelling.concordia.ca/event/voices-of-the-immigrant-workers-centre
On the program we hear from the event host Lauren Laframboise, IWC activists and organizers Yumna Siddiqi and Mostafa Henaway, as well as the host of this program, Free City Radio, Stefan Christoff.
Background information on the oral history interview series that aired on Free City Radio for this project to document the campaign that the Immigrant Workers Centre organized to support Lamour Inc. workers can be found here:
https://deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc
Stefan's work on this event was supported by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University and took place at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS).
The accompanying photo was taken by Amru Salahuddin.
Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
Broadcast on Monday, May 13 from 6-8 in Palestine / 11-1 eastern time on Radio AlHara, a set of interviews with artistic and media voices from Beirut, Lebanon. These interviews speak to the devastating impacts of the Israeli governments military attacks on south Lebanon and also serious attacks on other regions of the country, including the capital region.
On this program we hear from Hashem Adnan an independent theatre performer // Racha Najdi, a long time filmmaker, originally from South Lebanon //
Public Works Studio in Beirut
Music on this edition is by Badawi.
With this I am sharing a photo that I took on my last visit to Beirut in May 2019. Thank you for listening. - Stefan. -
On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Indigenous artist and musician Status/Non-Status. For more information about the work of this important artist working today visit: https://www.statusnonstatus.com
Music on this edition is by Status/Non-Status. Thank you to my friend Jessie Lauren Stein for helping to set up this interview!
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
Voices for Gaza
Thursday, May 9, 2024
2-3pm live on CKUT 90.3 FM
www.ckut.ca
A live community radio broadcast on CKUT 90.3 FM that aims to highlight the ways that the Gaza solidarity encampment at McGill University creates political space in both the media landscape and within the city to lift up Palestinian life.
This broadcast will also underline the ways that media workers in the Gaza context are facing deadly danger at the hands of the Israeli state military machine. At least 92 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza due to Israeli military strikes since October 7th according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Featuring the voices of
Sarah Shamy, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.
Martin Lukacs, an investigative journalist and the managing editor of The Breach.
A representative from Students in Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights.
Norma Rantisi, Academics for Palestine, Concordia University.
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On this edition of the program we hear from Palestinian sound artist and musician Byjayr. This interview was originally included in a major broadcast for Radio AlHara in Bethlehem, but I thought it would be also important to share this conversation as a stand alone exchange. Byjayr (Jeena) speaks about her creation process, journey as an artist and shares reflections on the critical importance of speaking up for Palestine today.
Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
On this edition we hear an interview with Terry Weber of Friends of Freedom Theatre, which is a project that exists in different countries to support the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine. Terry is one of the co-founders and organizers of the project in New York City. On this edition we also hear music shaped by Palestinian culture created by Badawi.
This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net -
Listen to an interview with Tsvetan Tsvetanov a cultural worker in Bulgaria who is a host on the Alarma experimental radio show on Bulgarian National Radio. Tsvetan also hosts Alarma Punk Jazz concerts, which is a series focusing on sounds from around the world and experimental music. Tsvetan's project are open to giving space for activists and in the Bulgarian context works to create links between the Bulgarian music scene and the world.
Here is an article on Tsvetan's work:
https://vijmag.bg/en/article/radioman-tsvetan-tsvetanov
The accompanying photo was taken at Fabrika Avtonomia (Фабрика Автономия) where I first met Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
Music on this program is "Passage" by Anarchist Mountains.
Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal. -
On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from long time Vancouver based community activist Garth Mullins about the project Crackdown, which is a podcast that explores the voices of drug users and particularly the intersections of community activism in Vancouver around the voices of drug users as an important element within broader movements for progressive social change in the city. Info on the podcast here:
https://www.crackdownpod.com
Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. The image is from the Crackdown podcast. Thank you to my friend, the journalist Dawn Paley, for suggesting the idea of highlighting Crackdown project on this program.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
Stefan's monthly mix for Radio AlHara, below is the track listing, track name and then artist(s) name(s).
Stefan took the photo while walking in Montreal in spring 2020.
01. Тoni Dimitrov & @cecchitellidemetrio - Absorbed
02. TAMTAM - 虹の彷徨
03. Ogle - Mosaic
04. Thanya Iyer @thanyaiyermusic - slow burn
05. TAMTAM - Doors
06. Richard Dawson @richard-dawson - Beyond the city walls
07. Stefan Christoff and Joseph Sannicandro - Orbiting Mercury in a dream
08. krāllār vs сбогом хиляди - 10:19
09. Ogle - Ancient Fountain
10. EVITCELES @evitceles - Infinite Night
11. Anarchist Mountains Trio - But Who, We (@jordanchristoff + @spirodon + @thenewobjective)
12. Ogle - Atrium
13. Chaz Jankel - Questionnaire
14. @dylanhenner-music - Two Trains Came Through the Station at Once and It Felt Like a Hurricane
15. SAWT @sawtrecords - Entrance To Castle (DIYARBAKIR) -
A series of voices recorded at Palestine solidarity actions in Mexico City on January 7, 2024 and January 21, 2024. This soundscape was mixed and produced by Stefan Christoff to air on Radio AlHara, it broadcast on Tuesday, April 23 at 10:30am eastern time, 5:30pm Palestine time. The accompanying music is by Jordan Christoff. The speakers we hear:
1. Chanting and drumming during a walk from the US embassy to the British embassy in Mexico City, Jan. 7, 2024.
2. Christian Nader speaking on the context for the protests, Jan. 7, 2024. (English)
3. Elsa Belmont, speaking in Arabic on the importance of solidarity between Mexico and Palestine, Jan. 7, 2024. (Arabic)
4. Karina Zamorategui speaking for Palestine, Jan. 21, 2024. (English and Arabic)
5. Antonio speaking to support Palestinian human rights, Jan. 21, 2024. (English)
6. Alex and Zayuri speaking to support Palestine (French and Spanish), Jan. 21, 2024.
7. Teresita Galvan, speaking to support Palestine (English and Spanish), Jan. 21, 2024.
8. Carolina speaking to support Palestine (Spanish), Jan. 21, 2024. -
On this edition of Free City Radio we hear about the independent record label in São Paulo. The conversation is with Yann Dardenne who speaks about creating autonomous cultural space within the music scene in São Paulo today. You can find more information about Seloki Records here: https://selokirecords.bandcamp.com
Music on this edition is from a Seloki Records release.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a conversation recorded in Paris, France, with graphic designer within social movements, Sébastien Marchal. This interview speaks about the ways that graphic designers involved in progressive movements in France work at the intersections of design and activism.
(Note a section of this interview is in French)
Here is the website of Sébastien
https://sebastienmarchal.fr
Here is a group platform project that Sébastien is involved in:
https://formesdesluttes.org/a-propos
Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.
Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in! -
A mix of tracks from recently released albums on @constellationtatsu label, for more information visit:
This mix is produced for broadcast on @radiockut 90.3FM on If you got ears, for the April 10, 2024 edition.
Thank you for listening! - Stefan.
Track listing
(artist name / track name)
01. Andy Aquarius - U Lisi
02 Glo Phase - Vista Hermosa
03. Glo Phase - Pearl Around Moss
04. Tarotplane - Aeonium
05. Tarotplane - Auximenes
06. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - The Griot
07. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Igi
08. Tarotplane - Omayyad
09. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Baki
10. @rfisher89 & @dexterstory - Eburean Dance
11. @iksremusic - we are soaring
12. IKSRE - tail lights
13. IKSRE - pillars
14. @glophase - The Reflecting Pool
15. Glo Phase - Seaflowers
16. Glo Phase - Blink Reprise
17. @andyaquarius - Kyrie
18. Andy Aquarius - La Force Aquarienne
19. Glo Phase - Ugoki
20. Glo Phase - Rewind The Sim
21. Glo Phase - Transient Shelter
22. IKSRE - intention
23. IKSRE - dawn in a foreign city
24. IKSRE - heartburst
The cover image is “DENKENDER EMBRYO72” (1972), a silkscreen by Gernot Bubenik photographed by the artist specifically for this release, Aeonium by Tarotplane. www.bubenikgernot.com/index-e.html - Mehr anzeigen
