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📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

🌹 Ep 5: Her Story, Her Way 🌹

Join the Wattz Up! team this week as we explore the National Museum of Mexican Art’s annual Sor Juana Festival, Pop Up Youth Radio style! Join the team as we learn about the history of Sor Juana and analyze some of her impactful writing. Hear from some of the Wattz Up! team as they explore the NMMA for the very first time! Plus, we have a novel worth of interviews! Tune in as we interview artists, performers, creatives, and so much more! You’ll hear from artist Maria Gaspar on what goes into making incredible art (@maria__gaspar ), musician Rosalba Valdez (@rosalbavaldez_) on crafting fantastic hits, Ruidosa founder Stephanie Herrera (@stxphxni_ & @ruidosa.artcollective) on how Ruidosa came to be and what it means to create a safe space, Chicago’s first all women mariachi, Mariachi Sirenas (@mariachisirenas ) on all their accomplishments, and the Sor Juana planning team on what goes into making such an impactful event!

This is one creative-filled episode you don’t want to miss!

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

⚡️Ep 4: C2E2 2025 coverage ⚡️

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…no, it’s a recap?

Join us this week on Wattz Up! as the team recounts their time at C2E2 2025! In this episode, you’ll hear us talk about our experience from the convention from meeting notable names in the worlds of anime, comic books and much more. We’ll also share our tips in surviving a fest like this and our interviews with cosplayers and indie and mainstream artists

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

⚡️Ep 3: Earth….you good?⚡️

Reduce, reuse, repost??? OOPS!

Thought about “going green” before? Worried about what “going green” even means? Whether it is changes with your food and diet or reconnecting with nature, in this week’s episode of “Earth… you good?” we will address and explore the variety of ways you can go green!

From going back to our basics on what recycling means to learning about the impact of renewable energy, the Wattz Up! crew will take an informative dive into how going green is not only good for the environment, but for you as well. With Stephanie guiding us on how nature can play a healing role in our lives, we can learn to appreciate those intimate moments when we are surrounded by nature.

Join us as we uncover what going green in 2025 means for our planet and our future…

🎲Wattz Up Season 28 Ep 2: That’s the Game of Life 🎳

Worried about life in higher education, adulting, and every other extrasessential-crisis-causing factors that comes in life? No worries, because everyone is! Join the Wattz Up! crew as we tackle life after graduation, college, jobs, bills, moving out, and so much more! (life gets hard when you’re older)

Tag along with Salman and Sue the T-rex as we hear how life is for a dinosaur in the modern era. Save money with Layla as we learn all about budgeting with do’s and don'ts. Move along with Stephanie to gain knowledge of how to move out and the different challenges that persist. Plus, Chantal talks with the Little Village Reconnection HUB (@lvrh_ser) to grasp the matter of the egregious job market and steps you can take to find your next career! Not to mention, we have a slew of vox pops with multiple different age demographics and get advices from a variety of different people!

📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28✨📻

🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM

⚡️Ep 1: Yollo Jamz⚡️

Yollocalli is back with a new radio season!! Our first episode: YOLLO JAMZ 🪩 We’ll be sharing our love to music in a deepest way, from pop, rock, electronic and experimental, 🔊 we are gonna make your speakers blast your ears !!!

Tune in as we dive into the local and international music talent. Join the Wattz Up! team this Saturday from 12 PM to 2 PM on 105.5 FM @lumpenradio and LumpenRadio.com

As summer starts to dwindle down, so does the Wattz Up! crew. Join us for this season finale as we connect with our roots and travel to Mexico (kinda!)

The Wattz Up crew tackle a special project highlighting the trajineras-filled world of Xochimilco! For this special presentation, the students created unique, original audio pieces to immerse you. Tune in and listen to soundcapes of the waters and boats that fill the canals, or get scared as we learn about the "Island of the Dolls" urban legend, or how pollution is killing off one of the most famous animals in the world, the ~axolotl~ Don't miss what is sure to be an engaging and mesmerizing show to end off the season!

This season we've been going to different coffee shops around the city and getting energized by learning with community leaders, artists, entrepreneurs , and so much more! Join us for the final coffee run of the season in the west side as we sip back with Bueno Days Coffee. We talk to the founders, Alma and Cristobal, about what goes into a community-centered coffee shop. Irma converses with Tania Unzueta, political director of Mijente; learning how we can advocate for Latinx, Chicanx, and LGBTQ+ people. Angel gets buff with Fernando, a trainer at Connected Fitness; a community-based gym inclusive to everyone. Jesus has a deep dive with Martin and Rosi from Chicago Community and Workers Rights to speak up and help those affected by disputes. Join us for the coffee without the crash as the final Cafecito episode will be one to enjoy!

Are you a fellow coffee lover? If so, tune in for episode 2 of Wattz Up!: Cafecito Edition! Join us as we visit all kinds of coffee chops across Chicago and have conversations with the very people who help them run, Find our how they add their own drip of uniqueness to their shops and engage with our communities. This week we are visiting Drip Collective. Listen as we talk jazz, funk, and coffee shop DJ-ing with Yukiko Koizumi, Got a green thumb? Pick some flowers as you hear from florist John Pendleton talk about flowers and his community. If visual arts are more your thing, muralist Damian has just the segment for you. But if coffee is your everything join our conversations with Ty Banks and Christopher with Tizo Coffee as we cover everything from diverse drink combos to the art of coffee making.

Sip back, relax, and tune in to the Season 29 premiere of Wattz Up!: Cafecito Edition! This season, we're focusing on different coffee shops around Chicago and the neighborhood they call home. This week, the Wattz Up crew is heading to the south side at Back of the Yards Coffee House and learning about the rich history and community neighborhood. Drink some coffee as Chantal interviews public performer Nicolas Moreno, or maybe in a latte with Angel as he chats with Jesse Iñiguez; owner of BOTY Coffee House. Stephanie and Irma do a tag-team interview with Joy from Renaissance and Selva from Marimacha Monarca Press. Not only that, but Michelle is brewing up a caffeine-fueled conversation with DJ La Spacer, co-founder of Trqpiteca. This jam-packed premiere sets the ingredients for what is going to be a hot season!

The final episode of the season! Are you an artist or an aspiring entrepreneur? Have you ever thought about starting your own brand or creative business? Then you won't want to miss this episode!

Tune into Wattz Up! as we dive into the creative economy, exploring its impact on Chicago communities and its growing presence in emerging industries.

We'll hear from young creative entrepreneurs launching their businesses, gain insights into creative education and career paths, and learn from experts about the expanding opportunities in the psychedelics and cannabis sectors. Plus, we'll share practical advice on hoe to navigate this economy and launch your own creative venture!

Get your notepads ready for some valuable advice!