Join us for two conversations this episode! In the first half hour we have Mel Holtzer-Benitez (@melina_beni), Isabetta Bleu (@genderlessgod), Margarette McKenzie-Ray (@gorgossia) of @peoplespridefm from Fargo, ND.

And in the second half hour, we have an interview with Sean Lim (@seanlimmn) of Spill Paint Not Oil From Minnesota.**

**These conversations were recorded and gathered September 11th - 13th, 2026.

The MdW Itasca Gathering was designed around the open studio and open space concepts, providing space for artists to connect, share, and create in a non-structured environment. It was hosted in collaboration with Manoomin Arts Initiative, MdW Coalition, The School for Rural Culture and Creativity, Racing Magpie, and the Region 2 Arts Council.

Airs: Every Thursday @ 11AM CST on WLPN-LP 105.5FM Chicago or online at lumpenradio.com

The Memory Project

Ep 1 - Ed Marszewski with Malik Jackson

The Memory Project is a hybrid radio and print series featuring the voices of longtime Chicagoans. The Memory Project explores Chicago’s past, present, and future through an ongoing collection of oral histories and narratives with longtime Chicago residents.

Powered by South Side Weekly and Lumpen Radio as part of Alliance Matters Temperature Check. This work was made possible in part by funding from the Alliance Matters campaign, an initiative of Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA) and the Field Foundation.

The series Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art and Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border are a multi-lingual live radio and archived audio program by performance artist, writer, activist, and MacArthur fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña addressing the multiple pandemics of racism, sexism, militarism, and colonialism.

This week's special new episode of the Mex Files: a Capella with Cabaret Chanteuse Angela LaFlamme (From San Francisco to Mexico City) and our extra special guest: Joseph Keckler, the storyteller vampire from New York city. Please join us on this flamboyant episode. Tonight 's show is co-hosted by yours truly Gómez-Peña & Federico Tello. Don’t dare to miss it!!!!!

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A selection of GP’s poetry, favorite songs, sound art, dedicatories in “Phone Calls, voice messages and extraterrestrial memos” from friends and Pocha members. Tonight with our special guest, host Francesca Carol Rolla (@francescacarolrolla), directly from Venice, Italy.

Please join us for this touching and full of birthday wishes episode of the Mex Files. Guillermo Gomez Peña prepared a special playlist that no one should miss.

This fonoteca special is co-hosted by Gómez-Peña and by Federico Tello, and mixed live by Charly Garcia in the Lumpen Chicago studios.

(This project is part of the full sound archives that are featured at Saint Joseph’s Art Society in San Francisco from September 12 through mid- December, 2025.)

Art as activism. Storytelling as healing.

📻 2 PM CST on 105.5 FM or stream at LumpenRadio.com

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality.

une into @lumpenradio to hear me chat with @beerbatteredcod @elizabethmoenmusic @lonesomeandrew about their upcoming Bruce Springsteen tribute show, happening next Monday night (MY BIRTHDAY Y’ALL) at Martyr’s! So excited for the show, and loved getting to chat with these three talented souls about their work and love of Bruce. Tune in online at lumpenradio.com and 105.5 fm!

🎶 Asimismo, nos complace presentarles un episodio especial de 10 a 11 am donde les presentaremos una conversación con Sebastián Torogoz cantautor y fundador del legendario grupo Los Torogoces de Morazán, parte viva de la historia salvadoreña, de la memoria popular y de la resistencia a través del arte y la guerrilla.

🌎Desde Boletín Migrante, queremos realzar las voces de otras luchas, conectar nuestras batallas por la dignidad y los derechos humanos, y fortalecer una red de solidaridad entre comunidades migrantes y trabajadoras.

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

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

🎙️✨ ¡Bienvenidxs al 17° episodio de Boletín Migrante. En este show nos acompañan miembros de Unión Latina de Chicago. Desde el diálogo guiado por nuestras presentadoras, @latinounion_chicago nos compartirá cómo ha sido su historia en relación al trabajo que realizan desde hace más de 15 años con jornaleros, trabajadoras del hogar y sus familias — acompañando y defendiendo sus derechos en las calles, en los centros de trabajo y frente a las autoridades.

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

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

Preserving Disorder is the new book show at Lumpen Radio. Hosted by Jeremy Kitchen, author, and purveyor of all that is weird, offensive, and obscene, amateur literary scholar Susie Swanton, the curious minded Tim Werner. Join us as we try and figure out the Midwest literary landscape and beyond. Produced by Julie Wu, and music by RXM Reality.