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, Star Barrios, Michael Cunningham, Carson Day, Aaron Estrera, Jean Herard, Mo Hersh, Yuky Konno, Danny Lugo, Erin Lynch, Naeemeh Naeemaei. Josephina Opsenica + exhm.nwhr, Melissa Ragusin, Sal Ramirez, Ramin Takloo-Bighash. Billy Tucker, Mando Vergara, Justyna Wąsik, featuring Julio Ledezma
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 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
“Good afternoon Pastor” Reverend Ernest F. Ledbetter
“K-Fleye!” Kelley Mosley
“Why Intonation chose Bronzeville” Tonya Howell
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
“King Drive traffic”
“Pemon speaks! The history and beauty of Bronzeville”
“A night out”
“Chicago Historian Dilla here!”
“Bronzeville Beats: The Sound of Youth Empowerment” Janet Rodriguez
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
“So you want to know about Bronzeville?” Patric McCoy
“I grew up in this neighborhood!” Felicia Preston
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
“Poets in cars talking history” Khari B.
“Be Bronzeville BLK! (Black)” avery r. young
Live Broadcast Schedule
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Invited Guests: Pemon Rami (Film Producer), Tayvon Kelly (Blanc Gallery), Cecilia Cuff (Bronzeville Winery), Ben LaMar Gay (Artist & Musician)
Music by: Ben LaMar Gay
Location: Blanc Gallery, 4445 S Martin Luther King Dr
Neighborhood Audio Portraits: Bronzeville was curated by poet, educator, and radio personality, Mario Smith.
**Lumpen Radio is proud to present *Neighborhood Audio Portraits* – a project spotlighting three vibrant Chicago neighborhoods—Little Village, Bronzeville, and Back of the Yards-New City. Through community interviews, music, and art, this project celebrates the unique culture of each neighborhood.
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 and more.
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Saturday, September 21st, 2024
Broadcast Full Schedule:
9am – 10am
“The plant, in circles” Talia Howe
“Sueños de esperanza” Sarah Conway & Eli Ramirez
10am – 11am
“The artistic journey of Alexis Villagomez”
“Tacos Don Cuco”
“Grano: A talk with Freddy Granados”
11am – 12pm
“Leaving to come back: storytelling with America Campos”
“Incantation and bullets: a conversation with Nancy D. Sanchez”
“Increase the Peace: Evelyn Aguayo”
12pm – 1pm
“The world’s best historian: Ivan Guzman” Ariandy Luna
“Tacos y un Raspado Rojo” Nancy D. Sanchez
“A neighborhood walk” Natalie Murillo
Live Broadcast Schedule
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Invited Guest: David Escobedo & Remy Guzman from Marimacha Monarca Press, Lucero Flores, Plant Chicago, Quinto Imperio, Ruth Guerra & Free Street Theater.
Location: Mercadito de Intercambio “Plant Chicago” – 4459 S. Marshfield Avenue
Neighborhood Audio Portraits: Back of the Yards was curated by artist, educator, printmaker and longtime Back of the Yards resident, Selva Zafiro Luna.
**Lumpen Radio is proud to present *Neighborhood Audio Portraits* – a project spotlighting three vibrant Chicago neighborhoods—Little Village, Bronzeville, and Back of the Yards-New City. Through community interviews, music, and art, this project celebrates the unique culture of each neighborhood.
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 and more.
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Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Broadcast Full Schedule:
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
“El Viento y La Calle” Benjamin Kruse
“Washtenaw & 19th” Nicole Alonso
“Remembering My Grandmother” Thais Beltran
“Little Village, My Memoir” Leo Guzman
“Leila, Leila” Katalyn Solis
“Little Village Veins” Jonathan Guzman
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
“Osito’s Tap”
“Little Village 2600 S Kedzie” Todd Carter
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
“Mercado de Colores”
“Un Domingo por la Villita” Fabiola Rivera
“Sitting on Millard” Thais Beltran
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
“The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization”
“Random Conversations”
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
“Growing up in Little Village”
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” August Abitang
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
“What is Little Village?”
”A Tribute to Ken Nordine, Little Village style”
Live Broadcast Schedule
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Panel featuring: Demo Ramirez, Karla Olvera, Jonny Fadez and Mariel Zavala
Live performance by: OvejaNegra
Location: Little Village Library – 2311 S. Kedzie Ave.
Neighborhood Audio Portraits: Little Village was curated by journalist, writer, radio host and Little Village resident, Sandra A. Treviño.
**Lumpen Radio is proud to present *Neighborhood Audio Portraits* – a project spotlighting three vibrant Chicago neighborhoods—Little Village, Bronzeville, and Back of the Yards-New City. Through community interviews, music, and art, this project celebrates the unique culture of each neighborhood.
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 show each evening from August 19th to 22nd, directly from the event. The coverage will include detailed reports from the protests, insightful debates from the convention floor, and thorough analysis of the political developments that shape the nation. Broadcasting live from WLPN-LP Lumpen Radio’s studios in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, “We Decide” aims to capture and convey the critical issues impacting both Chicago and the United States at this pivotal time in American politics.
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.
Bi-Weekly (1st & 3rd Days Above)
14:00
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 is easily accessible for even the most casual listener.
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 collectives.This series is a collaborative effort between the Public Media Institute and MdW, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of the city-wide initiative, Art + Design Chicago.
Limited Series
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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 or sentences from the text as musical elements. Tune in to listen to the full context of the text in an ASMR style and queer Asian themed music! Every Friday, from March 15 to April 12, 11pm – 12am. An hour-long episode is composed of 4 or 5 stories and music in between.
More info about the exhibition Men I Have Ever Met at CoProsperity
Sungjae Lee: sung-jae-lee.com
ClubChow: soundcloud.com/clubchow
Limited Series
00:00
The Art Design Chicago Talk Series by Lumpen Radio is set to explore and celebrate Chicago’s rich artistic heritage and its diverse creative communities. This series will examine the intersections of art, design, and activism and the city’s relationship with indigeneity, migration, and displacement.
Through a series of broadcasted conversations in Spanish and English with the artists, curators and cultural organizers behind the exhibitions featured as part of Art Design Chicago, Lumpen Radio hosts will highlight the evolution and impacts of these projects. This initiative promises an extensive exploration of Chicago’s cultural and artistic identity, broadening the narratives of American art.
The Art Design Chicago Talk Series is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
*Art Design Chicago Talk Series is an original production of Lumpen Radio. Produced by Stephanie Manriquez, Charly García, Nick Wylie, SY Lim and Ariandy Luna.