ColumCreations

WCRXFM had the privilege of attending the Nascar Chicago Street Race Weekend 2024! This was the second year for the race as well as WCRX’s second year in a row covering the event. Here’s the scoop on how the weekend went!

Reporters include: Madison Blancas, Mya DeJesus, Jazlynn Edwards, Leonardo Esparza, Leah Flanigan, Adriah Hedrick, Samantha Ho, Kate Julianne Larroder and Izzy Smith

Spring 2023 Columbia College Chicago Audio Drama Class Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash

In this series, students from the Department of Communications’ spring 2023 oral traditions class explore West African cultures and the African American diaspora. Students draw comparisons between their own cultures and that of the Maroons, formerly enslaved Africans who fled imprisonment and formed close-knit communities throughout the americas. Professor of history and humanities, Robert Hanserd...

In this series, students from the Department of Communications’ spring 2023 oral traditions class explore West African cultures and the African American diaspora. Jazz originated in African American communities as a means of expression. In this episode, students speak with musicians and experts of Chicago's rich jazz scene and discuss topics from the birth of the free jazz movement to the modern a...

Every Voice Chicago Archive Project Columbia College Chicago Oral History Model Case Study , a product of this CIC grant.

Every Voice Chicago Archive Project Columbia College Chicago Oral History Model Case Study , a product of this CIC grant.

Anxious America Parts 1-3 This is an audio documentary on the alarming rise of anxiety and depression among Americans, and especially the young. Students in the Audio Documentary Class at Columbia College Chicago took on the subject and spoke with numerous experts on mental health, and with those who are or have suffered with anxiety and/or elements of depression. They looked at the growing number...

We welcome you to the Radio Storytelling Showcase! — produced by the Spring 2022 Radio Storytelling class taught by David Berner. Radio Storytelling Showcase Spring 2022 WCRX Story Descriptions & Time Stamps "Pool Days" by Lauren Holt (0:50) “Pool Days” by Lauren Holt is about the recollection of one of her favorite childhood memories. This sweet story will bring you smiles and laughs and remi...

Radio Storytelling Showcase – produced stories by students of the Fall 2021 Radio Storytelling course.

This past year has been a hard time for everyone, and it’s important that we are able to hear a wide range of experiences from various perspectives. So, we will be hearing a variety of Personal stories of family and friends.  Erin McCarthy, interim chair of the Communication Department at Columbia College Chicago, shares stories by students of the 2021 Oral Traditions Class.  In this episode, we e...

This past year has been a hard time for everyone, and it’s important that we are able to hear a wide range of experiences from various perspectives. So, we will be hearing a variety of different interviews and stories centering the COVID-19 pandemic. Erin McCarthy, interim chair of the Communication Department at Columbia College Chicago shares more stories by students of the 2021 Oral Traditions...

This past year has been a hard time for everyone, and it’s important that we are able to hear a wide range of experiences from various perspectives. So, we will be hearing a variety of different interviews and stories centering the COVID-19 pandemic. Erin McCarthy, interim chair of the Communication Department at Columbia College Chicago, shares stories by students of the 2021 Oral Traditions Clas...

Students of Columbia College Chicago Audio Documentary class explore their lives during the pandemic.

In this episode, nine students from the Communication Department of Columbia College Chicago will present stories crossing cultures and generations. From as immigrant from a small town in Mexico talks with his daughter about his decision to leave for Chicago at age 16, to a grandmother talking about the loss of her brothers in WWII these stories will bring us a little more closer.

From a member of the gospel group, The Joy Lights, traveling America in the 1970s and 80s to a mother and daughter having to go to great lengths to survive in the city, these stories bring us closer through understanding.

When was the last time you told a story? What are those stories that your family tells at every gathering? Life stories are not only fascinating, but they are important because they reinvent, reform and refashion personal and collective identities. Stories bring to light different communities, practices and purpose women-identified people inhabit, create and participate in. Produced by students in...

Students of the Covering Elections Course update us on the outcome and on-going count of the 2020 election from Illinois House races to the Presidential Race.

A collaborative student documentary created at the beginning of the world-wide coronavirus Pandemic and authored by the radio and audio documentary capstone class at Columbia College Chicago. It includes several stories of everyday people dealing with the effects of virus, including families dealing with members who’ve contracted Covid-19, medical professionals, first responders, a woman trying to...

Radio Stories is a collection of audio documentaries from Students at Columbia College Chicago. This episode of Radio Stories sent the students out into the world to document somebody else’s experience. Hear about maintaining an animal boarding facility, an account of homelessness, the tournament scene for a popular video game, what therapists do to destress, and much more in this episode of Radio...

Radio Stories is a collection of audio documentaries from Students at Columbia College Chicago. This episode of Radio Stories continues the tellings of experiences that impacted students’ lives. Whether it be a surprising experience at church, an opportunity presented at a coffee shop, a heartfelt experience with a pet, or understanding the imperfections of parents, this episode is an emotional ro...

Radio Stories is a collection of audio documentaries from Students at Columbia College Chicago. This episode of Radio Stories focuses on the tellings of experiences that impacted students’ lives. Whether it be an account of childhood, coffee roasting, a first time experiencing a college party, childhood adventures in the swamp, trying out for softball, or a less-than-desirable nannying experience,...

Imposter's Gate Students produced an original CCC Audio Drama thriller about a company on its yearly business retreat that quickly turns against them. They don’t know what is real or who they can trust. Listen to find out who survives, but don’t believe everything you hear.