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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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October 9, 2026 2026 Film Media Review

Film Review: Summer 2000 – The X-Cetra Story (Film POP)

Screened as part of the POP Montréal festival, "Summer 2000 – The X-Cetra Story" documents the creation of Stardust, the DIY girl group X-Cetra’s sole album released in 2000, and the group’s reunion two decades later.
October 5, 2026 2026 Besties Final Cut Film

Film Review: The Eyes of Ghana

The 22nd edition of the Montreal International Black Film Festival opened with Ben Proudfoot’s documentary, "The Eyes of Ghana," which spotlights Chris Tsui Hesse, the personal cameraman of Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana and a revolutionary icon in African history. Seen through the perspective of Chris Hesse, the film captures the power of cinema as a medium that can help shape our history and future generations.
October 1, 2026 2026 Besties Final Cut Film

Film Review: Filipiñana

What is the meaning of Filipiñana? Traditionally, it translates directly to Filipino culture in regards to its history and folklore such as music, literature, and identity. In Rafael Manuel’s "Filipiñana," the film explores these themes while simultaneously breaking down the representation of class disparity in modern Filipino society. 
October 1, 2026 2026 Interviews Theatre

Upstage talks The Sound of Dogs [Transcript]

The Sound of Dogs Collective is composed of Jennifer Roberts, Pamela Witcher, and Micheline Chevrier. The Collective was formed out of the artists’ mutual desire to amplify Deaf voices and experiences, and to share each other’s knowledge and artistic practice.
August 31, 2026 2026 Besties Final Cut Cinéma Sous Les Étoiles

Film Review: “Chronique d’une ville”

Canadian filmmaker Nadine Gomez explores the psychological impact of metropolitan and urbanization cinema by painting portraits of the city life that most of us know. "Chronique d'une ville" is a poetic visual that highlights our human experiences by utilizing rich photography, inviting viewers to an immersive experience of ordinary city life.
August 12, 2026 2026 Film Media Review

Film Review: “Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics”

Our evolving world continues to discover new scientific ways on how to better the lifestyles of our human kind. However, there is one versatile material that can be the end of what we know as our Earth. With continuous hazard waste, environmental crisis, and pollution, microplastics are slowly inhabiting our bodies. Director Ben Addelman and co-director and science journalist Ziya Tong’s "Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics" emphasizes the current evolution of microplastics slowly taking over our society, and terrifyingly enough, the very bodies we inhabit.
July 31, 2026 2026 Black Community Film

Review: Recomposée

"Recomposée" confronts the complexities of biracial identity and how the Self can be found by accepting, but more importantly, confronting the past.
July 10, 2026 2026 Cinéma Sous Les Étoiles Film

Film Review: Wider Than The Sky

In an era where technology is rapidly taking over, Valerio Jalongo’s "Wider Than The Sky" explores how artificial intelligence impacts art, defines our political movement, and how our consciousness is the only human defense we have left to our humankind.
July 10, 2026 2026 Live Event Review Suoni Per Il Popolo

Review: Get Free! at Casa Del Popolo, 23rd June, 2026

Intrepid reviewer Aaron Deck attends a free-flowing jazz jam consisting of twenty three different musicians from around the world forming groups for one night only.
June 25, 2026 2026 Besties Final Cut Film

Film Review: Unidentified

Haifaa Al Mansour’s "Unidentified" is a film that focuses on the hunt for justice from the lenses of an oppressed woman looking for her own truth in a world built to silence her. [CONTAINS SPOILERS]
June 19, 2026 2026 Fringe Fest Live Event Review

Review: “The Paranoid King” at Montreal Fringe 2026

Olivia Collette’s The Paranoid King focuses on the existential anxieties of King Ashurhaddan–ruler of the Assyrian empire between 680 and 669 BC. By highlighting these emotions, which are rarely associated with an ancient imperial leader, the play centres human empathy and understanding.
June 11, 2026 2026 Ada X ffiles

Interview: Time Travel Has Always Been Possible – HTMlles

Ada X is a feminist, bilingual artistic space based in Montreal, that is centered around the teaching, creation, and reflection in the arts and digital media. Every two years, Ada X hosts HTMIles which is an interdisciplinary feminist art festival that highlights the work of different artists, scholars and activists. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ray, an artist at Ada X, to talk about their project for the festival.
June 5, 2026 2026 Besties Final Cut Film

Film Review: The Fight for Haiti

On Friday May 29, we had the pleasure to screen Etant Dupain’s film The Fight For Haiti - a documentary that emphasizes on the country’s corruption, PetroCaribe, and tainted politicians alongside stories of inescapable crime amongst the community.
June 2, 2026 2026 Besties Final Cut Film

Film Review: KAIROS – the right moment

Canadian artist Jennifer Alleyn’s 2026 film "Kairos" premiered on April 30, 2026 at the 44th Rendez-vous Quebéc Cinema and served as the closing film of the festival. In this review, we explore the impact of listening to the stories of the unseen people in contemporary Montreal society.
May 21, 2026 2026 All Things McGill Anarchist Bookfair

A CKUT Intern’s First Anarchist Bookfair

On May 16th, 2026, at around 10:00 am, I arrived at the CEDA community centre with very few expectations, except of course: Anarchism. I attended the third edition of Constellation, an Anarchist Festival in Montreal.
May 20, 2026 2026 Bursting the Bubble Collab

Scatterbrain Magazine Issue 7 Launch Party – Review

On April 25th, Scatterbrain Magazine hosted a launch party for the 7th issue of their magazine. This issue’s theme was sports, and how the athletic and artistic world converge and diverge from each other. The party was held at La Sala Rossa and featured musicians and different vendors and artists based in Montreal, creating a very community-centred space. 
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

For one year, DULF sold pure cocaine, heroine, and methamphetamine to drug users on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and no one died. Now, the founders are facing life in prison, and they need your help.
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.
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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