The ffiles is committed to validating and disseminating the voices and work of artists who face systemic barriers as a result of their race, sexuality, gender, lifestyle, class, ability. Through their programming, the collective seeks to create space for marginalized artists within the local scene, while mindfully trying to resist processes of tokenization and commodification in their efforts to participate in and contribute to anti-oppressive community networks.
The collective hosts a weekly radio show on CKUT every Wednesday, as well as a monthly show on Montréal’s N10.AS. They program and present live audio-visual performances, artist talks, pirate radio installations and DJ sets.
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Started by Deborah VanSlet and Kathy Kennedy, The ffiles first aired in 1996. In 1997, Valérie d. Walker joined the show and fuelled it for over 16 years along with co-hosts Anita Cotic, Bérengère Marin-Dubuard. In 2010, she welcomed Britt Wray to the team. In 2011, the co-hosts were Maia Iotzova and Maya Richman, and in 2014, Stéphanie Dufresne, aka Fanie de la Fresne, Amanda-É. Clément and Nnedimma Nnebe, aka The Urban Dweller all joined.
The current team is composed of Amanda Harvey, and Sophie Marisol, Lizz Khan, Josh Marquis and Désirée Nore Duchesne.
To learn more about the history of the ffiles, listen here.
Archives from 2024
- November 27, 2024: | Listen | Download
- November 13, 2024: | Listen | Download
- November 6, 2024: | Listen | Download
- October 30, 2024: Désirée make a field trip in New York with Swan Kiss | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Listen | Download
- October 23, 2024: Sam Blake & Khan Mix | Archive | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Listen | Download
- October 16, 2024: | Listen | Download
- October 9, 2024: Sound in Solidarity | One Year of Resistance | Ellen Gabriel Speech | Playlist | Listen | Download
- October 2, 2024: | Listen | Download
- September 25, 2024: Repeat: Contemporary Lakota Mythologies Interview with Suzanne Kite | Playlist | Listen | Download
- September 18, 2024: Equinox Episode | Shout-Outs, Sharing + Poetry w/ Sophie Marisol | Playlist | Listen | Download
- September 4, 2024: Soft Chew Interview | ASMR Artists | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- August 28, 2024: Visible Speech with Diana Duta | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- August 21, 2024: GLYPHORIA | Interview with Ashley Obscura | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- August 14, 2024: Interview w/ Cornelia Sollfrank | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- August 7, 2024: Guest Mix | Runa and Asha | Playlist | Listen | Download
- July 24, 2024: Interview w/ Olesia Ponomarenko | Playlist | Listen | Download
- July 17, 2024: | Listen | Download
- July 10, 2024: | Listen | Download
- July 3, 2024: | Listen | Download
- June 26, 2024: Synth Library Prague with Mary C | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- June 19, 2024: Summer forecasting with the ffiles crew | Listen | Download
- June 12, 2024: Contemporary Lakota Mythologies | Interview with Suzanne Kite | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- June 5, 2024: Sound in Solidarity | Featuring Zaidybaby | Archive | Playlist | Listen | Download
- May 29, 2024: | Listen | Download
- May 22, 2024: | Listen | Download
- May 15, 2024: The Sacred and the Sensual in Performance Art | Interview with Mie Beers | Playlist | Listen | Download
- May 8, 2024: Guest Mix | 00stains | Playlist | Listen | Download
- May 1, 2024: Sound in Solidarity | From the Sidelines of the McGill Student Encampment | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 24, 2024: Between Borders and Bodies | Interview with Ella den Elzen | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 17, 2024: Slices of Life w/ Special Delivery | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 10, 2024: Guest MIx | Desert Bloom | Listen | Download
- April 3, 2024: | Listen | Download
- March 27, 2024: | Listen | Download
- March 20, 2024: funding drive special | Playlist | Listen | Download
- March 13, 2024: Guest Mix | Digital Polyglot | Listen | Download
- March 6, 2024: Interview with Sarah Feldman | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 28, 2024: Re-Run | Octavia's Brood and Interview with Ytasha Womack | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 21, 2024: Interview with Claire Pearl | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 14, 2024: Sounds from Dweller 5 | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 7, 2024: Interview with éli del | Playlist | Listen | Download
- January 31, 2024: Guest Mix | To sing with all the women who have ever sung | Playlist | Listen | Download
- January 24, 2024: GLYPHORIA | Interview with Ashley Obscura | Playlist | Listen | Download
- January 17, 2024: | Listen | Download
- January 10, 2024: | Listen | Download
- January 3, 2024: | Listen | Download