Talismxn Radio offers an earnest musing on the labor of being creative and the process of becoming oneself. It serves as a dialogue between the world we currently inhabit and the future we desire, exploring the creative and healing modalities that imagining a new world might require, one conversation at a time.

Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues.

Been a minute since I’ve been on air, so stoked to share a lovely conversation with @liorphillips and @nina_corcoran_ Listen in to hear us chatting about Chicago’s ever-collaborative music scene, some tips on putting on your own DIY programming, and how we’re all lucky just to be on the same earth as Björk 😎

🎙️✨ ¡Bienvenidxs al episodio 28 de Boletín Migrante!

En este episodio hablamos sobre la juventud migrante y el futuro de DACA. Escucharemos a Adriana Velázquez y Cassandra Gutiérrez de Southwest Organization Project (@swoporg) y testimonios de personas beneficiarias del programa.

Reflexionaremos sobre los retos que enfrenta DACA hoy, compartiremos recursos para jóvenes migrantes y hablaremos de una nueva generación de jóvenes que continúa persiguiendo sus metas sin acceso al programa.

Acompañanos a una conversación sobre educación, organización comunitaria y las realidades de la juventud migrante en la actualidad.

Escúchanos en 105.5FM Chicago o en lumpenradio.com. También disponible en nuestra app

**Una iniciativa del Chicago Community Workers Rights y Lumpen Radio.

Juan David Ruiz Borbón (@juandavidruizborbon) speaks with artists Javier Viñuela (@_javiervinuela) and Christian Varela (@christian_varela___) about their practices and their upcoming performance Against the run of play, as part of the Chicago 21 minus program, which is run by Museum of Contemporary Art’s Teen Creative Agency. They will perform under the pseudonyms Nagual and Piuchen.

Their conversation covers the materiality, locality, communality, and food sovereignty aspects of their practices. They had a dialogue around the role of soccer and myth in the arts and politics, as Against the Run of Play will feature soccer matches played with repurposed objects from Chicago’s Trump Tower. The performance will take place on the MCA’s front plaza on June 20th, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

This final program focuses on caste and is dedicated to Dalit people everywhere, and all those oppressed by and fighting against a caste system. Sheetal Mehta read Rohith Vemula's suicide letter.

We want to thank Yashica Dutt, S. Shankar, and Amrita for their participation in this program.

🎶 Music by Sarah Hopkins, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Aaradhna, and Moby.

¡Bienvenides al Ep. 3 de Interzona! En este episodio conversamos sobre la obra del cineasta iraní Jafar Panahi y su más reciente película, It Was Just an Accident (Fue sólo un accidente). A partir de su trayectoria, marcada por la censura y la prohibición, exploramos cómo el cine puede convertirse en una forma de resistencia y una ventana hacia las grandes preguntas de la condición humana.

Por: Camila Perdomo, Katalyn Solís y Dani Suárez

Co-Hosted and co-produced by Jhonathan F. Gómez and Dr. Lydia Saravia, Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón is a space for multigenerational dialogue, political education, and cultural reflection centered on Central American and the Chicago diaspora. A place to “remember out loud”.

Lumpen Radio had the opportunity to host a rare alignment of the literary world — “The Live Frequency: Verse & Vision.” ⚡️Hosted by Lumpen radio lifer Mario Smith, this milestone event brought together past and current Poets Laureate from Illinois and Chicago on the same stage for the very first time. 📝

🎧 Audience members and listeners were treated to an intimate conversation and impassioned readings from Mark Turcotte, Mayda Del Valle, avery r. young and Angela Jackson. 🎉

💙 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the unforgettable evening in Studio A or tuned in live, and thank you to support from our booksellers at Time and a half Books! 📚

Signal Hill is an audio magazine. We publish audio documentaries of all kinds: reporting, essays, shorts, profiles, dispatches, reviews, and other things we haven’t named yet. Tune into the Signal Hill Radio Hour for selected stories from our issues.