The Memory Project

Weekly

14:00

The Memory Project explores Chicago’s past, present and future through an ongoing collection of oral histories and narratives with longtime Chicago residents. This series illuminates Chicago’s eclectic makeup of different peoples and cultures and documents the past and current landscape of the city’s many communities.   The Memory Project is powered by South Side Weekly […]

The Garbage Transmissions

Monday, April 14th, 2025

13:00

One artist’s trash is another’s treasure. Rubbish, refuse, leavings, litter, trash and basura. The things leftover and left behind. The discarded and disused. UIC’s Sonic Sorcery presents to you a soundscape of these forgotten bits and pieces reassembled into a beautiful mess. Welcome to The Garbage Transmissions.   Created and Produced by: Salma Abdelhady, Mary Amelia, […]

Neighborhood Audio Portraits: Bronzeville

Saturday, September 27th, 2024

00:00

Tune into for a special broadcast – September 27, 2024 – featuring gathered audio portraits voicing artists, residents, and entities that highlight the Bronzeville neighborhood. And join us at Blanc Gallery for a community celebration and live radio experience with music, conversations, art, food and more.   Saturday, September 27th, 2024 Broadcast Full Schedule: 12:30 […]

Neighborhood Audio Portraits: Back of the Yards

Saturday, September 21st, 2024

00:00

Tune into for a special broadcast – September 21, 2024 – featuring gathered audio portraits submitted by Little Village artists and residents, which highlight the diverse voices and compelling stories of this dynamic neighborhood. And join us at the Little Village Library for a community celebration and live radio experience with music, conversations, art, food […]

Neighborhood Audio Portraits: Little Village

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

00:00

Tune into for a special broadcast – September 12, 2024 – featuring gathered audio portraits submitted by Little Village artists and residents, which highlight the diverse voices and compelling stories of this dynamic neighborhood. And join us at the Little Village Library for a community celebration and live radio experience with music, conversations, art, food […]

We Decide: America at the Crossroads

Limited Series

00:00

Live Coverage of the DNC 2024 from Chicago on Pacifica Network’s “We Decide: America at the Crossroads” Date: August 19 – 22, 2024 Time: 7pm – 9pm Pacifica Network, in collaboration with WORT, WBAI, WZRD and WLPN-LP, proudly presents “We Decide: America at the Crossroads”. This special broadcasting initiative will feature a comprehensive two-hour live […]

Entrelazadas

Seasonal

00:00

Entrelazadas is a conversation space with activists, writers, academics, and artists about the challenges they face in everyday life and how different feminisms respond to current issues. “Entrelazadas” is a series by Contratiempo and Amplified Communities of Lumpen Radio within the Contratiempo Radio air-time.

Lumpen Radio Specials

Weekly

12:00

Lumpen Radio Specials showcase a variety of content featuring interviews, conversations, performances, panels, special coverages and more. With no set air time, this program focuses on individuals who aim to educate, share, and explore different concepts, themes, and artistic expressions. This non-regularly scheduled programming is meant to diversify our air waves and introduce content that […]

How to Make a Scene

Limited Series

00:00

How to Make a Scene is a conversation series about artist-run cultural ecosystems of the 1980s and 1990s in Chicago, running from June 2024 to October 2024; connecting veteran artist organizers with those working today to offer audiences trailheads for further exploration of Chicago’s storied history of alternative gallery spaces, independent publications, and socially engaged […]

Men I Have Ever Met

Limited Series

00:00

The radio show Men I Have Ever Met is a program in relation to the group exhibition with the same title at Co-Prosperity, presenting 6 queer Asian artists: Sungjae Lee, Club Chow, Eugene I-Peng Tang, Jay Carlon, Jinu Hong, and Vincent Chong. Responding to Lee’s redacted text installation, DJ Club Chow creates music employing words […]