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Welcome to the CKUT Spoken Word Department blog. Here you’ll find segments from our in-house community news team and coverage of Montreal’s arts and cultural scenes. CKUT’s spoken word programming features alternative news, public affairs and arts and culture shows. We cover LGBTQ culture, environmental and social justice issues, feminism, theatre, African and Latin America current affairs, and more.

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August 20, 2025 2025 Arts & Culture Black Community

World Building Through Sound / Moving Towards Radical Joy | interview w/ Djeity – ffiles Aug. 20, 2025

Djeity premieres their first body of work at Mutek titled “Things Are Not What They Seem” as a spectacle within SAT’s Dome that passes through traditions of negro spirituals, live vocals and instrumentation, audio reactive visuals by al11z and a first look at the expansive Djeity universe containing their past, present and future.
July 30, 2025 2025 Drug Users Rights Special Programming

Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) Fundraiser + Panel Discussion

Based in Vancouver, DULF ran a compassion club that provided tested, pure drugs to users to prevent overdoses. Not a single person died. Now, their founders are facing life in prison. Co-founder Eris Nyx spoke about drug user rights, harm reduction, and the criminalization of care, on Thursday June 26, 2025, in the SSMU Ballroom at McGill University.
June 4, 2025 2025 Arts & Culture

Arabophonics: A Livebroadcast from Maktaba Bookstore

On May 31, 2025, Funky Revolutions went live from Maktaba bookshop for a special broadcast dubbed Arabophonics. 
April 17, 2025 2025 CKUT CKUT in the News

“International Radio Report” featured on Radio World!

One of our longest-running Spoken Word shows was recently featured in Radio World!
April 9, 2025 2025 Community News Migrant Rights

Dawson College New Shit Takeover

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.
December 2, 2024 2024 Off The Hour Remote Broadcasts

Palestine Solidarity Organizing, live from Casa del Popolo

Sequoia, Kai and Stefan Christoff host a round table discussion with organizers and activists.
November 22, 2024 2024 Free City Radio Remote Broadcasts

Voices for housing justice, live from Parc Ex

A live broadcast highlighting the ways that the extreme wave of gentrification that is taking place in Montréal is having a particularly heavy impact on Parc Ex. and other low income districts in the city.
November 6, 2024 2024 Interviews Migrant Rights

(No Borders Media) Resisting Trump & the MAGA Movement: Interview with anti-fascist Matthew Lyons

No Borders Media, part of Off The Hour (5-6pm), features an interview with Matthew Lyons, author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire
September 19, 2024 2024 Samedi Midi Inter

Foire santé Montréal-Nord avec Samedi Midi Inter

Chaque année, la Fondation des Médecins Canado-Haïtiens (FMCH) organise la Foire Santé, un événement incontournable qui réunit la communauté de Montréal-Nord autour de la santé.
September 19, 2024 Interviews Sounds of Resistance Special Programming

Sounds of Resistance – Migrant Justice Organizing

Community organizer Samaa Elibyari and long-time CKUT volunteer programmer Stefan Christoff present an extended segment on migrant justice organizing in Montréal.
September 10, 2024 2024 Community News La Voz de los Migrantes

RadioTET and La Voz de los Migrantes

Two new CKUT shows - RadioTET and La Voz de los Migrantes - have been instrumental in empowering temporary foreign workers and migrants with precarious status, especially in the current challenging anti immigrant environment.
September 9, 2024 2024 Arts & Culture Housing

Live Remote: Artists and tenants under attack by real estate monsters

Join us on September 14th for a community radio broadcast to look at the ways that real estate monsters are attacking independent artists in the context of an unprecedented housing and space affordability crisis in the city and beyond.
August 14, 2024 2024 Black Community Education

New Partner Podcast: Black Education In Quebec

Black Education in Quebec is a compelling 9-part podcast series produced by the LaSalle Multicultural Resource Centre, aimed at enriching the Quebec educational landscape.
June 21, 2024 Arts & Culture Fringe Fest Review

Fringe Fest Review: Late in Life Lesbian

Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews Shelby Thevenot's "Late in Life Lesbian" at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.
June 19, 2024 Arts & Culture Fringe Fest Interviews

Fringe Fest Review: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews Mother Tongue's production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.
June 14, 2024 2024 Interviews Mental Health

New Podcast Alert: Joy

A new podcast hosted by Sasha Avrutsky explores the interplay between joy and mental health. Learn more and check out the first episode and Instagram page here.
June 12, 2024 2024 Fringe Fest Review

Fringe Fest Review: Tandem Jump

Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews local sketch comedy group Tandem Jump Live at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.
May 9, 2024 2024 Interviews Palestine

Voices For Gaza Broadcast

Interviews with Sarah Shamy (organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement), Martin Lukacs (investigative journalist and managing editor of The Breach), Norma Rantisi (Academics for Palestine, Concordia), Michelle Hartman (Profs solidaires avec le camp), and a voice from Students In Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).
May 1, 2024 2024 Community News McGill

Live from the Popular University

We are live at the Popular University encampment on the McGill lower field. Tune it at 5 every day this week for a live broadcast.
April 29, 2024 2024 Remote Broadcasts Soul Perspectives

Soul Perspectives – Teen Talk Live – April 30

This Tuesday April 30, Soul Perspectives is back live from Westhaven Community Centre for Teen Talks with guest host Zip Loks our Teen rep: Nefetari, Phenomenal and a lineup of guests for the evening.
January 24, 2024 2024 Black Community Remote Broadcasts

Soul Perspectives – Teen Talk Radio Live

Join us this Tuesday January 30 as we prepare to open a new Black History Month and speak to the youth live from Westhaven Community Centre.
January 9, 2024 2024 Community News Palestine

Media Criticism Panel Conversation Jan 20th

Join us for a media criticism panel conversation with special guests tabling from Palestinian Youth Movement, The Breach Media, CKUT 90.3FM, The McGill Daily, Sierra Club Canada, the Solidarity Economy Incubator and more,
January 4, 2024 Interviews No Borders Media Off The Hour

No Borders Media: What’s Going Down? A look at the upcoming year of resisting the far-right & fascism in the USA (with It’s Going Down)

No Borders Media, part of Off The Hour (5-6pm), features an interview with Mike of It's Going Down. Together, we explore the upcoming year of politics and resistance in the USA.
December 4, 2023 Amandla

Farewell Amandla!

On the air since 1987, Amandla is a weekly African current affairs program founded in response to racist and misleading mainstream media coverage of apartheid Southern Africa-- or it WAS, until November 15, 2023.