Upstage host Sarah kicks off the Fringe with live interviews featuring playrights, performers, and stage managers from five shows: An Uncomfortable Dinner Party, A Love Unbecoming, Little Star: Born of Desire, Harlem of the North and Mr Potts.
The Montreal Sessions – Suoni Per Il Popolo Takeover #3 w/ Kiva and Stefan
Join Kiva and Stefan for another Suoni Per Il Popolo takeover of The Montreal Sessions, a monthly artist-in-residency program highlighting local musicians, labels, and festivals.
CKUT's in-house journalist Jules details local news stories from this week, on topics such as climate, safe-consumption, and Quebec's latest language and culture bill.
Meaning both “library” and “bookshop” in Arabic, MAKTABA is an artist-run, deeply-rooted space invested in representation and culture. In this special broadcast, we hear a mixtape that includes sounds from a recent cultural event at La Sala Rossa to support the Sudan Solidarity Collective as well as material from the Make Fuzz Not War compilation released to support Doctors Without Borders work in Palestine and the Middle East Children's Alliance.
Batty Bwoy starts from a place of play and desire, entangled in violence and charming cruelty. Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “Batty Bwoy” (literally, butt boy), slang for a queer person, Harald Beharie’s work twists and turns the myths of the black queer body unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety.
Off the Hour: The trans care snitch list and the state of gender-affirming care in Quebec and Canada; Stefan Christoff interviews Samar Alkhdour (May 14, 2025)
Lawrence and the Community News Collective speak with members of The Breach and the Trans Patient Union about Canadian care providers showing up on the American government's snitch list plus the state of gender-affirming care in Canada, and Stefan Christoff interviews Samar Alkhdour
Funding Drive Special: Off the Hour Off the Rails / Talk Shit O’Clock / Harbinger of Doom – LIVE from Casa del Popolo (May 7, 2025)
For the first time ever, CKUT's Community News Collective, Jules and Jack, and members of the Harbinger Media Network and Unrigged.ca joined forces for a 3-hour live news broadcast from Casa Del Popolo.
World Skip the Beat: Kalahari Surfers and Warrick Sony (Pt. 1) – November 25, 2024
Part 1 of Estee and Louise's interview with South African composer, producer, musician and sound designer Warrick Sony, the founder and sole permanent member of the Kalahari Surfers, who made politically radical satirical anti-apartheid music in 1980s South Africa.
World Skip the Beat: Kalahari Surfers and Warrick Sony (Pt. 2) – February 10, 2025
Part 2 of Estee and Louise's interview with South African composer, producer, musician and sound designer Warrick Sony, the founder and sole permanent member of the Kalahari Surfers, who made politically radical satirical anti-apartheid music in 1980s South Africa.
On January 17, 2025, CKUT hosted 18 students from Dawson's Social Change and Solidarity Program to learn about the intersections between activism and student/community radio and then take over the waves to talk about what they've learned and play music requests from the community orgs they've visited.
We got a late start on the episode but we've updated the archive file accordingly. The first hour is the live show and the second hour is the playlist of all the song requests.
