Blok by Blok

Blok by Blok Chicago

Society EN ↓ 82 episodes

Listen to a podcast featuring candid conversations between two individuals from vastly different backgrounds, recorded live at a local venue. Each episode pairs a curious young student with an adult whose diverse experiences illuminate a student-selected topic. Hear firsthand from city officials, healthcare workers, journalists, parents, immigrants, urban foragers, sanitation workers, bakers, restaurateurs, book lovers, and other fascinating figures who connect to the students' learning quest.

Author

Blok by Blok

Category

Society

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Latest episode

Feb 20, 2026

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Episodes

Sojourner scholars conversation with a penpal from Black & Pink 15.10.2020

Sojourner Scholar group of students reporting from the Imagining America Conference that took place in Chicago the summer of 2018. The goal of Sojourner Scholars is to provide South Side students in public high schools with college-level arts and humanities-based courses and exposure to and engagement with local cultural resources early on in their high school education. Correspondents and produce...

Interviews @ the MCA 04.11.2019

Blok by Blok Podcast Club was invited by Territory to their 'Walk In Our Shoes' gathering at the MCA in Chicago. Territory is young people building voice vision and agency through the practice of design in our communities. For more info visit www.territorychicago.org/

Walk in our Shoes @ the MCA 25.09.2019

Blok by Blok Podcast Club was invited by Territory to their 'Walk In Our Shoes' gathering at the MCA in Chicago. Territory is young people building voice vision and agency through the practice of design in our communities. For more info visit https://www.territorychicago.org/

What is Art? (2 of 2) 07.09.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What Is Art? (1 of 2) 06.09.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What Do You See? (3 of 3) 06.09.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What Do You See? (2 of 3) 05.09.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What do you see? (1 of 3) 04.09.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What Do You See? 03.09.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

Selfportrait, what is that? (2 of 2) 30.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

Selfportrait, what is that? (1 of 2) 29.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

Conversations among youth 27.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What kind of Art do you make? (4 of 4) 25.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What kind of Art do you make? (3 of 4) 24.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What kind of Art do you make? (2 of 4) 23.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

What kind of Art do you make? (1 of 4) 22.08.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

LivePodcast Smyser - Vol 2 21.06.2019

A talented group of seven graders to transform a personal concern –most likely a community issue– into an actual audio project. Throughout the workshop they learned from peer students, teachers members of the community, and facilitators to have more comprehensive perspective on the issue they selected. Workshops and Live Podcast was sponsored in part by CPS Lives https://cpslives.org/. We also rec...

Web Developer 21.06.2019

Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events...

Visual Artist Developer 20.06.2019

Visual Arts and Web development clash together. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's D...

Susan Friel shares her practice 18.06.2019

Susan Friel shares about the artwork that surrounds her life. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant fr...

Solo Realle Hip Hop 10.06.2019

Solo Realle, hip hop artist gets interviewed by a very special person. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Micr...

Marcela speaks about Child labor 28.05.2019

Marcela share interesting facts about Child labor including the life of young activist Iqbal Masih. Literature denouncing Child labor here: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/child-labor Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and ope...

Regin Igloria share his work 07.05.2019

If you want to learn more about Regin's work please visit https://www.reginigloria.net/ Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Cr...

'Nine' Graffiti Artist share her journey 30.04.2019

A challenging art form for sure. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Youth Microgrant from Chicago's Department of Cu...

A Neurologist speaks his mind! 27.04.2019

A neurologist describes in detail his experience working with human's brain. Last Fall Blok by Blok and Lumpen Radio were residents at The Learning Lab –one of the many amazing spaces at the Chicago Cultural Center– where both organizations gave a series of Podcast workshops free and open for everyone. This program including workshops, broadcast and podcast was supported by a Year of Creative Yout...

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