On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Istanbul based photographer Larissa Araz speaking on contested identities as expressed in Istanbul's artistic archives. Larissa focuses on the work of some particular artists, including those who were expelled to Greece in the context of Greek / Turkish population exchanges in the 20th century. Overall the particular stories that Larissa highlights can be viewed as little windows into understanding a more complex and diverse reality that makes up both the past and present of Istanbul, a diversity expressed by artists like Larissa in both their work and identities.

Learn more about Larissa's work here:

https://www.larissaaraz.com

This interview program is supported in 2025/2026 (winter/spring) by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am

CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am

CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm

CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am

CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am

Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am

CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm

CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Tuesdays at 4pm

CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

Hoy tejemos este espacio de escucha colectiva gracias a todas las voces que participaron y enviaron sus audios desde distintos territorios.

Gracias por compartir memorias, reflexiones, emociones y resistencias frente a la violencia imperial y el largo historial de intervencionismo en nuestra región.

Esta transmisión existe por y para ustedes.

Today we weave this collective listening space thanks to everyone who participated and sent in their audio pieces from different territories.

Thank you for sharing memories, reflections, emotions, and acts of resistance in response to imperial violence and the long history of interventionism in our region.

This broadcast exists because of you and for you.

Here is the playlist for the broadcast with all the artist / contributor info and also links:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19EYjj8UXU82XxUYcj-7aYpZ8ZN7Zf9Y2K4HR9znyKnc/edit?usp=sharing

Broadcast timing:

11h30-15h30 - Mexico City, Chicago

12h30-16h30 - New York, Montreal

13h30-17h30 - Venezuela

14h30-18h30 - Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

18h30-22h30 - Paris

19h30-23h30 - Palestine

Radio CASo (AR), Radio Tsonami, Chercan Radio & Radio Granizo (CL), Radio Flouka (FR), Radio Nopal, Radio Tropiezo, Ojalá (MX), Montez Press Radio (NY), Radio alHara (PS), Radio Monteaudio (UY) and Lumpen radio (US)

A 1 hour radio broadcast for the album Tonality in Motion, out on Élan Vital label in North Macedonia, airing on Radio AlHara, on Jan. 15 at 8am eastern time, 2pm in Macedonia and 3pm in Palestine, streaming at radioalhara.net

Learn more about the album here:

https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/tonality-in-motion

Recorded by René Pierre Allain at Scholes Street Studio, August, 2023

Mixed by Pietro Amato, March 2024

Mastering by Ryan Morey, March 2025

Cover artwork by Stefan Mladenovski

Design and inlay photo by Toni Dimitrov

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from photographer André Penteado on the textures of Brazilian life today and in the past. André's projects have focused on both the personal and the social, visiting unaddressed points of Brazilian history, like uprisings of Indigenous and formally enslaved Black communities in the North of the country, to taboo topics like the impacts of contemporary suicide rates on families, a point that André has experienced directly when his father took his own life. André is also an educator and has worked hard to create collective spaces of learning surrounding contemporary photographic practices in Brazil today.

Learn more about André Penteado's work here:

https://andrepenteado.com

This interview program is supported in 2025/2026 (winter/spring) by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am

CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am

CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm

CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am

CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am

Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am

CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm

CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Tuesdays at 4pm

CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

A joint mix with Chicago based artist, musician and community worker Damon Locks for Radio AlHara, the first six tracks were selected by Damon and the remaining by Stefan. Airing on Radio AlHara on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 6am eastern time, 1pm Palestine time at radioalhara.net

Accompanying artwork from Damon Locks website: https://damonlocks.black/

01. Eddie Gale - A Song of Will

02. Duke Ellington - Afrique

03. El Michels Affair & Black Thought - I'm Still Somehow

04. Chicago Underground Quartet - Strange Wing

05. New Future City Radio (Damon Locks and Rob Mazure) - New Future

06. Broadcast - Follow the Light

07. Sijya (Leather And Brass) - do i know

08. melondruie - It's Raining Again (via Cruel Nature Recordings)

09. Stefan Christoff and Jarrett Martineau - Eclipse (via Pyramid Blood)

10. spalarnia - Taka (via Präsens Editionen)

11. Esse Ran - System Failure

12. Dissociative Identity Quartet - A spark of hope (via Mahorka)

13. Rinnovare - Fall Away (via Pyramid Blood)

14. Selective Hearing - Dreams of Milk (via Mahorka)

15 .Herbaceous Borders - H.B. - Part 3

On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine I feature different content from the usual broadcast, focusing on the mobilizations for Palestine that took place in Belém, Brazil during the COP30 UN summit on climate that took place in Belém, Brazil. As there is a stunning amount of creativity that goes into the thinking, organizing and actions within such institutional spaces which are often cold, or openly hostile to addressing the voices of peoples and struggles that are marginalized.

Badra speaks about the on-the-ground alliances between Palestinian activists and Indigenous people in Brazil, both involved in critical struggles for land rights. Also Badra speaks about the ways that the climate justice struggle and the Palestinian struggle are critically interwoven at this time.

Badra works with the Palestinian Institute of Public Diplomacy.

https://www.thepipd.com

This interview series hosted by Stefan Christoff airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series airs on CKUT 90.3 FM on the third Friday of each month at 11:30am. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from artist Emiddio Vasquez speaking on the current and historical dynamics on the ways that colonial forces, particularly the British, have used the territory of Cyprus for colonial and now neo-colonial transmissions projects. This interview speaks to a collective presentation and publication project that Emiddio worked on for the Cyprus pavilion at the Venice biennial in 2024 called "On a wildflower-lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare..."

This project visits both this transmission history that addresses colonial dynamics and the scandal in Cyprus surrounding the presence of an Israeli government connected intelligence gathering operation discovered not far from the international airport in Cyprus. Learn more about the project and publication here:

https://emiddiovasquez.info

https://foreverinformed.com/artists-bio-1

This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Thank you to artist Julia E. Dyck for making the connection surrounding this broadcast.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am

CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am

CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm

CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am

CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am

Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am

CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm

CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

On the Jan. 2026 edition of Art in Action we hear from Dan Taulapapa McMullin an American Samoan multidisciplinary artist. Info on Dan's awesome work here: https://www.taulapapa.com

Thank you to the filmmaker Mary-Ellen Davis for helping to set-up this interview.

Stefan Christoff produces this artist interview series, Art in Action, the theme music is by Anarchist Mountains. This program broadcasts monthly on:

Radio AlHara, Palestine

On the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem and 9:30am eastern time (radioalhara.net)

CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal

On the third Friday of each month at 11am (ckut.ca)

CJLO 1690 AM, Montreal

On the second Thursday of each month at 8:30am. (cjlo.com)

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Brazilian educator and author Henrique Parra in Sao Paulo. Henrique raises a key and important critique surrounding the urgency of understanding and engaging with the demand for digital sovereignty. In the context of Brazil this is important, as US based tech giants want to impose and influence politics in Brazil, this equals repression.

Recently Henrique supported the publication of an important paper: THE DIGITAL AND THE SOUTH: QUESTIONINGS

Thank you to Mariana Marcassa for your support in making this connection.

This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am

CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Thursdays 8am

CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm

CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am

CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am

Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am

CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm

CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from photographer Mahmoud Khattab, who reflects on Egypt today. Mahmoud has recently published a beautiful photo book, that also includes some writing, which is drawn from Mahmoud's experiences as a conscript in the Egyptian army. Mahmoud subtly documented his experiences in Egypt, facing conscription time, through a set of intimate and beautiful photographs.

The book is described this way:

"The Dog Sat Where We Parted is a photography book: a visual narrative of my time in conscription as I venture into the desert as a soldier with a dog, a head shaved and a camouflage that appealed to sand. Questioning times of following orders and sharing a plate and a story with strangers who dressed and shaved their heads just like me. Through photographs discretely taken together with journal writings, I echoed my solitude as I pay my debt to a country with servitude of my body and time."

Learn more about Mahmoud's work here:

https://mahmoudkhatab.com/Books

This interview program is supported in 2025 by the Social Justice Centre at Concordia University. The music track is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan Christoff and broadcasts on:

CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal - Wednesdays at 11am

CJLO 1690 AM in Montreal - Wednesdays 8am

CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg - Tuesdays 8am, Fridays 1:30pm

CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston - Wednesdays 11:30am

CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria - Saturdays 7am

Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto - Fridays at 5:30am

CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa - Tuesdays at 2pm

CJSF 90.1 FM in Vancouver - Thursdays at 4:30pm

CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville, New Brunswick - Tuesdays at 10am