📻🎶WATTZ UP!! Season 32, Episode 3: From the Go Fest @ DuSable ‘26 Recap🎶📻

🗓️ Saturday @12 PM–2 PM

Tune in and join us this Saturday as we head out to the 6th Annual From the Go Fest at the DuSable Museum and take you along with us. ☀️ We’ll be joined by artists, organizers, vendors, and festival-goers to give you an inside look at all the action throughout the day. We’ll also be sharing fun facts about DuSable himself, music from young emerging artists playing at the festival, an interview with the organizers and ending with a special set from DJ Albóndigas! 🎤🎶

You won’t want to miss the music, fashion, culture, and unforgettable moments.

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 32 Episode 2: NMMA recap: Magia en el Museo ✨📻

🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM

Join us this Saturday as we head over to the National Museum of Mexican Art for some pretty cool vox pops by Jesus, who interviewed people at the museum about their experience, the art, and just getting to know them!

We also have Ava and Angelica talking about the Xochicago exhibit and sharing some vox pops to understand other people’s responses to the exhibition.

Carolina and Chantal have an interview with Mario, who is in charge of hosting tours at the museum, while talking a little bit about the Images of Faith exhibition.

We have Brenda and Abby doing an interview with Maria about Sonido Fest, with Brenda also having an interview with Vanessa Sanchez, the Director of Education and Yollocalli at NMMA, talking about her role in both spaces.

Alenis also joins us with an interview with two Youth Council members talking about their experience and the process of creating the Xochi Baby art piece for the Xochimilco exhibit.

In addition, Gilbert talks about their experience at the Under Pressure exhibit and more!

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Hey Hey You! Do you like to dance?💃 Do you like Reggaeton?🎵 Well oh boy will you LIKE this week’s episode. But WAIT! If that’s not your forte, no worries. We’ve got philosophy, totems, and woodworking too. Join us in a revolutionary episode as the Wattz Up crew navigate through exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art located right in the heart of the windy city.

This week the crew collected pop vox interviews, audio, and conversations on two main exhibits at the museum, Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón and Kenzi Shiokava 🎤. Listen to Alenis and learn more about reggaeton history! Or join Gilbert as he explores revolutions through music throughout Latin America. Don’t forget about Ava and Lizette’s joint audio on the history of LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 identity in Puerto Rico in relation to Reggaeton. They are not the only duo this episode, join Caro and Brenda as they give us a review of the reggaeton exhibit. But don’t tune out there and listen to Chantal give a full review of her visit to the MCA. Jesus’ piece will also talk about his personal experience and growing up with reggaeton🔊. After some great reggaeton content don’t forget to stay for more on the Kenzi Shiokava exhibit as Angelica reflects on the exhibit and Abby gives us a biopic on his life. Stay tuned for a fun time!🌳💃🎼

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

📡⚡️Ep 6: Wattz Newz !? a Yollo reporting ⚡️📡

⚡️ HEY WATTZ UP YOU GUYS! 🌎

Tune in with the Wattz Up! crew as we deliver the latest headlines, breaking stories and important conversations shaping communities around the world. Bringing you news with energy.

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

📡⚡️Ep 5: Walking on the Mobius Strip: Following the Desire Path⚡️📡

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Take our hand and walk with us as we dive into insightful interviews covering history, the importance of talking among different generations and creating connections. Learn about the impact of customs and culture and how to navigate those topics through elder guidance. Let yourself absorb stories, experiences and wisdom from those who have gotten to be around longer than we have.

Communication is a wonderful tool that has been passed down to us and helps us travel this twisting road we call life. So let’s chat.

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

📡Ep 4: La Mesita Revival 📡🎶🎧

After spring break we were inspired by our archives of La Mesita and the Wattz up team decided to make something special for you !

New music from our devices, music inspired by the Artemis ll space mission, the legacy of Sonidero movement in Chicago, weird music and more styles to explore on this sonorous adventure.

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31 Episode 3: C U C2E2 ✨📻

🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM

Come one come all for our yearly recap of C2E2!

Join us as we interview cosplayers and artists, explore different panels and the artist alley, compare last year’s experience with this year, and listen to our crew review their first time at the greatest convention in the midwest

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31 Episode 2: Wattz Sprouting ✨📻

🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM

Today is the Spring Equinox! Spring means new beginnings, renewals, creation and flourishing. Spring is awakening from the rest of Winter. In light of this, the crew put their heads together to consider some particularly new growth topics to bring to the episode.

This episode will bring you lots of art and music. With Jesus’ dive into history of Drill music, and Julia’s tour of the Depaul Art Museum and an ode to its last scheduled exhibition before it closes, and an interview with the YAHYAH collective by Irma.

We talk about the practice of journaling, the exchange of culture between Asian and Hispanic people, the downfall of cinema-going, and the CTA. Finally, don’t miss out on a chance to immerse yourself in a unique soundscape.

This episode is all about how to reconnect with art and nature in the age of Internet slop, and approach life with a little bit more… spring in your steps. 😉

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31

Episode 1: WOOF UP! PAWS UP!✨📻

🙀Welcome to our first show in this new exciting season of Wattz Up! 🐶

We are going to explore and learn about our pets. How to take care of them, what is a service animal, what to do if you find a fluffy friend on the street, alternative pets, digital pets, interviews, Therians and more !!!

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Take a deeper dive - did you know there is a difference between adopting pets from a shelter vs. finding a stray and decide to take it in? All this and more! We’ll have interviews, pet pointers, and maybe even a sound effect or two.

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 30 Episode 5: Ten Years From Now: Imaging a Better Future!✨📻

🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM

⌚️10 years from now, it’s 2035. Is this the year of flying cars, teleportation, world peace?⏳

As this year ends, we are left with more uncertainty and fear for loved ones and ourselves. While we may be scared, we as people still came together and are rebuilding a better future!

Join us as we create our own predictions about what a greater future would look like for all of us with flying public transportation, easier ways to recycle, the future talk about our current events, different kinds of utopias, and aliens?

This being our last episode of the season we wanted to end on a good note 🤩