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Soundboard Saturday is the pulse of Chicago's performing arts scene, representing working artists with discussions around creative culture, open-stage events, and artist resources. Expect a colorful lineup of special guests who represent our vast ecosystem and featured performances. Join the conversation with your host, Sam Thousand, artist advocate and founder of the ChiBrations App. --- Airs: Fi...

Part 6 focuses on borders, race & multiculturalism. This program is dedicated to Palestinian freedom and the liberation of indigenous people everywhere. The poem Affirmation, written by Assata Shakur, was read by Samantha Rodgers and Lujain Al-Saleh. Karla Cisneros read Gloria Anzaldua’s poem Borderland. Joseph Young read Open Roads, a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. Bassam, Nabil, and Mr. Lou share...

Joining on this week’s episode, the visionaries from Brave Space Alliance: Nikki Patin (Interim Executive Director), Ebony Thompson (Senior Facilities and Operations Team Specialist), and Jaheim Jones (Outreach Coordinator), Chicago’s first Black- and trans-led LGBTQ+ center. Born from the urgent need to bridge the resource gap between the North and South Sides, Brave Space Alliance provides essen...

On this episode, our host Kamilah Rashied  @shesgotta  will be in conversation with producer, arts administrator, and consultant Kendall Karg  @kendallkarg  along with curator, educator, and arts administrator J. Gibran Villalobos  @thegibran This week's theme, "can I get a witness" explores the art of capturing the illusive "industry" friend (who actually becomes a real one). this promises to be...

On this episode of Dish with David: our guest is Tony Priolo of Piccolo Sogno. One of the kindest, hard working and most genuine people, Tony is a proud Italian Chicagoan. He and his partner Ciro Longobardo bring the best of Italy and the Midwest to the intersection of Grand, Milwaukee and Halsted where everything is made in house from scratch including all of their breads, pastas, and gelato! ---...

Chicago-based production designer, set decorator, and artist Aaliyah Shae (@theaaliyahshae) for a conversation about world-building on and off-screen. We’ll get into art direction, storytelling through space and detail, Chicago creativity, community care, and the work happening through The People’s Panther Party ✨ Basically… we’re talking about the worlds we inherit, the ones we imagine, and the...

Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, and Tia Lessin, co-director and producer of Steal This Story, Please!, join Ed Marszewski, Founding Director of Public Media Institute and makers of Lumpen Radio, for a conversation on the power of independent media, the importance of telling our own stories, and the daily work of building journalism that refuses to look away. Their new d...

🌟 Ashley Barlow and Tracy Evans, founders of Ragbagalia, join Sandra Treviño in the studio to discuss their inaugural festival taking place on May 16 at Sleeping Village. Joining the conversation are two performing artists: MCAmy of She’s Crafty and the legendary Renee of ESG. Inspired by the radical space-making of the Riot Grrrl movement (specifically the histories of Girls to the Front and Hun...

🛸 MACHOMAN VS. SUPERGIRL Welcome to the newest episode of the Mex Files... MACHOMAN vs. LA SUPERGIRL, an epic battle of the sexes at the End Of Times. For this week’s show we have invited two amazing poets who have been analysing the myths and projections about gender both in the US southwest and Mexico. Logan Phillips, poet laureate of Tucson Arizona is here to rant about growing up in Tombstone...

In this episode or Preserving Disorder, we go to Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee! Featuring interviews with musicians Cleo Reed and Wu Fei, WUTK radio director/festival worker Sherleen Mwaura, and historian Jack Neely. Music based on guest recommendations. A shorter version of this episode aired on May 24. 2026. 0:00 Intro + Cleo Reed. “Always The Horse Never the Jockey” by Cleo Reed 13:...

¡Bienvenidxs al 27° episodio de Boletín Migrante: del Darién a las calles de Chicago. En el programa de hoy hablaremos de movimiento y resistencia: juventud, trabajadorxs y comunidades migrantes organizándose y exigiendo vivir sin miedo. Conversaremos con la investigadora Soledad Álvarez Velasco (@soledadalvarezvelasco) sobre políticas migratorias y las redes de solidaridad que las enfrentan. De i...

Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues. --- Airs: First and Third Saturdays from 11AM CST on 105.5 FM Chicago, Lumpen Radio dot com, and the Lumpen mobile app

Talismxn Radio offers an earnest musing on the labor of being creative and the process of becoming oneself. It serves as a dialogue between the world we currently inhabit and the future we desire, exploring the creative and healing modalities that imagining a new world might require, one conversation at a time. --- Airs: Second and Fourth Sundays from 3:00pm-4:00pm on 105.5 FM Chicago,  Lumpenradi...

On this episode, Jason Rice of SUGOi Sweets and MOKOMA Tea joins the show! --- Airs: Second and Fourth Sundays at 2:00PM-3:00PM CST on Lumpen Radio  

On this week’s episode, Sarah Tang, director for programs at Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community in Chicago’s Chinatown (@cbcacchicago), and 11th Ward Alder Nicole Lee (@votenicolelee11) speaks on the Chicago Fire FC’s planned stadium at The 78 and what it could mean for Chinatown, Bridgeport, and Chicago’s riverfront. We dig into development, community impact, and who benefits as th...

On this week’s episode, Sarah Tang, director for programs at Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community in Chicago’s Chinatown (@cbcacchicago), and 11th Ward Alder Nicole Lee (@votenicolelee11) speaks on the Chicago Fire FC’s planned stadium at The 78 and what it could mean for Chinatown, Bridgeport, and Chicago’s riverfront. We dig into development, community impact, and who benefits as th...

community radio interview radio español CoAmp en Español. En este episodio del podcast Lit & Luz, nos adentramos en la 12a edicion del festival, celebrada en la Ciudad de Mexico en marzo de 2026, a traves de una conversacion con la artista visual Magali Lara y la escritora Margarita Saona, grupo de colaboracion 2025-2026 Desde la relacion entre cuerpo, lenguaje e imagen hasta la escritura como...

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Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality. This week's guest is Aoifie Josie Clements, author of...

WHAT’S GOOD, CICERO? Interview with Michelle Ramirez 🌟 Local writer Michelle Ramirez sits down with Cicero Independiente’s April Alonso to share about the many identities she holds, how to do things WITH community and not for, how our Latine community is getting better at de-stigmatizing mental health, the ways to empower community and how in community, we can heal one conversation at a time. 🌟

Co-Hosted and co-produced by Jhonathan F. Gómez and Dr. Lydia Saravia, Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón is a space for multigenerational dialogue, political education, and cultural reflection centered on Central American and the Chicago diaspora. A place to “remember out loud”. --- Airs: First and Third Sundays at 3:00PM CST on WLPN-LP Chicago 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio,  lumpenradio.com,  and the Lumpen Radio mob...

This episode, my guests are Elizabeth Gartelos Morris and Beth Salentiny, co-owners of Meze Table. Since 2020 the two have grown their catering business while doing pop-ups, Monday Night Foodball (more than once), multiple farmers markets across the city and most recently they celebrated the grand opening of Meze Table Market in the Bridgeport neighborhood. --- Airs: Second and Fourth Sundays at 2...

Join me in conversation with Eric Von Haynes : artist, publisher, and one of the spokes at Love Fridge Chicago. We’ll talk about the difference between mutual aid, charity, and fundraising, why reciprocity matters, and how community fridges across Chicago are quietly helping people get the food and resources they need. Come hang for a thoughtful conversation about community care, dignity, and what...

Artist John Carson, who came up in the north of Ireland during the Troubles, sits with Nick Wylie to discuss his piece in the exhibition, “American Medly,” which is showing for the first time in 43 years. They discuss his travels across the states in the early 80s, listen to some significant songs tied to them, and John finishes with a virtuousic 10 minute rapid performance of 50 songs. 🌟
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Feral Citizen is a short run series of conversations with western great lakes, regional ecologists, scientists, makers and activists who center Land in their interdisciplinary practice. Conversations are curated by Nance Klehm, chief ecologist and director of Social Ecologies. For our fifth episode, we have urban ecologist, scientist, educator, & adviser ––Alison E. Anastasio, Ph. D. Alison E....