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Mutual Aid Report • 04-23-2024 • Wicker Park + Bucktown Mutual Aid

The Mutual Aid Report is a radio and live stream series that delves into the concept of mutual aid. Our hosts, Mario Smith and Stephanie Manriquez will unpack its historical significance and its role in local communities by spotlighting individuals who are making a real difference at the grassroots level in the city of Chicago.
Operating on the principles of solidarity and collective action, mutual aid networks like this one aim to address the immediate needs of community members through voluntary cooperation and resource sharing.
Wicker Park Bucktown Mutual Aid offers various activities and services to assist those in need, including food distribution, financial assistance, mutual support, health and wellness initiatives, and community outreach.

SALA • 04-20-24 • Hilesh Patel & Christian Aldana • S2 Ep1

Sala is a show that invites artists, cultural workers, and civically minded people to discuss liberation, education, organizing, community, and practices toward healing, from the perspective of Artists’ and their artistic process. Hosted by Silvia Inés Gonzalez.Airs: 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month from 2-3pm
Sala is back for season 2!
Sala: A Living Room of Ideas on Lumpen Radio 105.5 FM hosts poets Hilesh Patel and Christian Aldana to discuss the personal and political poems that touch on love and building worlds worth living for. What balm do words offer us individually and in our collective struggle?What portals do poems create for us, and how do they connect us to the radical imagination needed in our movements? What is revealed about love in our prose?

Perceptions of the Real • 04-13-2024 • Erisa Apantaku

Perceptions of the Real is an exploration of what swims beneath our consciousness and how it surfaces through writing. Hosts Sarah Conway and Eli Ramirez are joined by a guest who produces a piece of writing live on-air. Together we will detangle the question of why we make what we make.
Airs: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday @ 11AM
This episode features: Erisa Apantaku, black/biracial queer film maker and audio producer/educator.

Lumpen Special • 4-12-2024 • EXPO Chicago 2024: Vanessa Murrell

LUMPEN RADIO SPECIALEXPO Chicago 2024: Vanessa Murrell
Friday 12, 2024 • 12PM
A conversation with independent curator and writer Vanessa Murrell (@vanessa.murrell) and S.Y.Lim (@hithisissy), Programming director at Public Media Institute (@publicmediainstitute), artist, independent curator, and arts organizer. The talk delves into Murrell’s transition from athlete to artivist, emphasizing pivotal moments in her initiatives supporting emerging artists through non-formal, participatory, communal, and collective approaches, including with DATEAGLE ART (@dateagleart) and YE Collective (@yecollective).
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Lumpen Special • 4-10-2024 • EXPO Chicago 2024: Kate Sierzputowski

LUMPEN RADIO SPECIALEXPO Chicago 2024: Kate Sierzputowski
April 10, 2024 • 12PM
A conversation with EXPO Chicago’s Artistic Director, Kate Sierzputowski (k8sierz) and S.Y.Lim (@hithisissy), Programming director at Public Media Institute (@publicmediainstitute), artist, independent curator, and arts organizer. The talk explores the structure and the impact of the programs and events throughout Chicago during EXPO ART WEEK (@expochicago) and how the city embraces Contemporary Art in many of its forms.
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Mutual Aid Report • 04-09-2024 • Truffula Club

The Mutual Aid Report is a radio and live stream series that delves into the concept of mutual aid. Our hosts, Mario Smith and Stephanie Manriquez will unpack its historical significance and its role in local communities by spotlighting individuals who are making a real difference at the grassroots level in the city of Chicago.
Founded in 2021, Truffula Club is dedicated to creating a greener, more sustainable future for everyone. Join host Ariandy Luna as we chat with founding members Rachel Mei, Rachel Tweedle, Ericka Delgado, Cristina Delgado, and program advisor Jesus Sanchez.
Their youth-led initiatives have already led to the planting of 50+ trees in the surrounding area and the launch of five+ environmental projects, including an innovative affordable transportation program providing students with unlimited access to divvy bikes across the city for a whole year!

Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files • 4-3-2024 • La Pocha Crashes México City Art Week

The series Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art and Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border are a multi-lingual live radio and archived audio program by performance artist, writer, activist, and MacArthur fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña addressing the multiple pandemics of racism, sexism, militarism, and colonialism.
Airs: Wednesdays from 6pm-7pm
BienvenideX audio-locas! In this brand new Mex Files episode we take you straight into the heart of the bizarre and outrageous Mexico City Art Week, a global rave that occurs every February despite wars & generalized violence.
This episode features a conversation that originally took place live during Art Week with curator Alex Chellet of Casa Viva. This episode is vocalized re-staging of that dialog featuring La Pocha Nostra’s Artistic Directors Gómez-Peña and Balitrónica on the thorny topic of: Performance Art.

Perceptions of the Real • 03-29-2024 • Sabrina Beydoun

Perceptions of the Real is an exploration of what swims beneath our consciousness and how it surfaces through writing. Hosts Sarah Conway and Eli Ramirez are joined by a guest who produces a piece of writing live on-air. Together we will detangle the question of why we make what we make.
Airs: Every 2nd and 4th Saturday @ 11AM

Eye 94 3-28-2024: Christina Ward and Feral House

Eye 94 is Lumpen Radio's books and literature program, airing every Sunday and Thursday at 11 am CT. This episode featured Feral House author Christina Ward, discussing her book “Holy Food.” This episode first aired on March 28,, 2024.

Art Design Chicago Talk Series • 03/27/2024 • "Native Futures"

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.
Episode 3 - “Native Futures"
A conversation with artists and Center for Native Futures Co-Founders Debra Yepa-Pappan and Monica Rickert-Bolter. They talk with Nick Wylie about their Native artist-run organization, its new space downtown, and the inaugural exhibition Native Futures. They also discuss their own artwork, their history of repatriation victories at the Field Museum, solidarity against genocide and epidemics in Gaza, and the impacts of growing mass media Native representation. Lumpen Radio is grateful for Debra and Monica’s time and thoughtful insights.