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One of our longest-running Spoken Word shows was recently featured in Radio World!
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.
Sequoia, Kai and Stefan Christoff host a round table discussion with organizers and activists.
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.
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
Community organizer Samaa Elibyari and long-time CKUT volunteer programmer Stefan Christoff present an extended segment on migrant justice organizing in Montréal.
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.
Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews Shelby Thevenot’s “Late in Life Lesbian” at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.
Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews Mother Tongue’s production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.
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.
Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews local sketch comedy group Tandem Jump Live at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Off the Hour to Under the Olive Tree, CKUT is committed to broadcasting pro-peace, pro-Palestine voices. Listen to interviews and coverage from the past week and dive into the archives for a deeper perspective on the ongoing conflict.
On Saturday, September 30, 2023, CKUT joined more than 540 other stations throughout Canada to broadcast the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) annual A Day to Listen programming. We also re-aired the entire program on Monday, October 2, 2023. Listen to the whole thing here.
Join us for a discussion about the housing crisis in Montreal and the movements organizing to confront rising costs.
An update on Free City Radio, an arts and culture show that is now broadcasting across Canada
At issue on Amandla this week: Context and analysis of civil unrest in Kenya
This week on Amandla, long-time activist and radio host Samaa Elibyari brings us two important stories—she covers the efforts led by the UK-based organization Reprieve to have the death penalty abolished in Malawi with Mr. Mishek Jere, and also discusses Gamal Abdel Nasser’s legacy with Egyptian political analyst and activist Mohamed Sherif Kamel.