Free City Radio broadcast May 5th, 2021

I was lucky to speak again with long time community organizer and activist Tim McCaskell this past week about a layered and complex issue around crystal meth use within the gay community and Tim's concerns for collective community health and well being. In this interview and also generally within Tim's longterm work I see clearly the critical role that community activists and organizers play in articulating the needs and concerns of marginalized communities, it often takes public policy so many years to catch-up to what activists are saying, it doesn't need to be this way. 
An article that Tim wrote for NOW Magazine articulates the frame of what Tim speaks about in this interview in a meaningful and clear way : 
"I lived through the worst years of the AIDS epidemic when nobody wanted to talk about it – once again everybody’s pretending nothing is going on with the explosion of queer people experimenting with crystal meth during sex.
Why?
AIDS service organizations do many things. They have evolved into the guardians of gay men’s health. That’s where people turn for advice. That’s who we expect to warn us if something bad is going on. That’s who you’d expect to sound the alarm. But I don’t hear any alarm.
To be fair, they haven’t all been negligent. The AIDS Committee of Toronto, for example, runs groups for men in trouble with crystal. The work is all based on a harm reduction model. Harm reduction is good. Keeping people alive is good. Having fewer bullets in a game of Russian roulette is good. If you are dead, it’s too late to recover or get your life back.
Even so, there seems to be real reluctance to get involved in the nitty-gritty of harm reduction – safe injection sites, for example. That’s one problem but not my major issue.
What I don’t see is prevention.
I’m an old-fashioned boy. I get my recreational sex in the baths. And I’m constantly coming across people who are using. I’d say about half of them are scared about what the drug is doing to them. I’ve had people tell me their stories and start crying. All that one guy could say over and over was, “I can’t feel anything anymore.”
The other half think they’re fine. That they’re in control. Then I see them a few months later.
The baths are an entry point into the community for lots of guys. I like to talk to people, usually after sex. I’m constantly coming across guys who have no idea what this stuff is. They’re new, they’re experimenting. They think it’s like smoking a joint. And nobody is telling them differently.
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, the baths were full of posters and material warning people not to have sex without a condom. There are no similar messages warning people about crystal meth. Why?
The answer I hear is that we don’t want to tell people that crystal is dangerous because it might stigmatize people who are using. Project that argument back 20 years. We don’t want to tell people they shouldn’t have sex without a condom because it might stigmatize people who don’t use condoms. If we had followed that logic in the 80s, thousands more of us would have died.
It’s strange to find myself making this argument. I was a founding member of AIDS ACTION NOW! (AAN) back in the late 80s, when AIDS education programs focused on prevention – condoms, condoms, condoms – protecting the uninfected from the infected.
But for those of us who were already infected, that wasn’t a particularly relevant message. So we organized around our own needs to demand access to treatment, research and proper medical care. That’s what AAN! was about."

This interview was recorded for broadcast on @radiockut through Free City Radio.

CKUT Radio broadcast May 5, 2021

Listen to the 'The Koliada singers of Montreal' practising traditional Ukrainian folks songs in the fall of 2022. The additional music at the end is by DakhaBrakha. Thank you to Natalia Telentso and Sarah Albu who both participate and work on this project, The Koliada Singers Of Montreal. Natalia also speaks in this broadcast, the practice was taking place at her house.

Broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine on Jan. 16, 2024.

The Koliada singers of Montreal

LOVE FOR PALESTINE
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
2pm-2am, Palestine time
#LoveForPalestine

A broadcast marking Palestinian Independence Day

Live in Bethlehem on :
https://www.radioalhara.net

The accompanying graphic is by Susanna Gonzo.

View the full playlist for this broadcast here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R7jDVEzLWUeexD_2YfNBiMMqfzicH9lp26C9qIp7CmU/edit?usp=sharing

A global radio broadcast to express solidarity and love for the Palestinian people. 

A creative transmission on Radio AlHara and streamed on stations around the world. 

This day-long broadcast will feature sounds from the massive protests around the world, music, poetry and the voices of many globally who are mobilizing with all their hearts and with love for Palestine. 

For this broadcast we encourage people in cities around the world to organize local listenings at cafés, in bookshops, in homes, community centres and beyond. 

FREE PALESTINE, FREE GAZA

LOVE FOR PALESTINE broadcast on Radio AlHara

VOICES FOR PALESTINE

Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023
1-7pm, Palestine time
Live on @radioalhara 
https://www.radioalhara.net

Outline of broadcast contributions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16alctO9dikFeeqp-ZPCzHcUYJcJ9BX_cSr9HujWceYY/edit?usp=sharing

A global broadcast of solidarity aiming to highlight voices from around the world expressing their support, solidarity and love for the Palestinian people. This broadcast takes place as a sonic protest against the Israeli state military bombardment of the people of Gaza that is still ongoing right now.

This broadcast involving contributors from around the world includes music, soundscapes, voices + sounds from street protests globally, interviews and also the voice of many activists around the world expressing solidarity and love for Palestine and calling for an end to the Israeli state policies of apartheid and occupation. 

FREE PALESTINE, END THE OCCUPATION NOW

Original graphic by Josh MacPhee. Content outlined below, the program was edited and mixed by Stefan Christoff for Radio AlHara, if you have any questions about the groups involved or would like to contribute to future such initiatives stefan dot christoff at gmail

Artists Against Apartheid (Montréal Session)

VOICES FOR PALESTINE broadcast on Radio AlHara

PALESTINE FOREVER 
Radio AlHara broadcast, Nov. 30, 2023

Accompanying original graphics is by the wonderful Valantina Gonzo.

This radio broadcast includes sounds from protests around the world to support Palestinian freedom that have taken place over the last month. Also this broadcast includes interviews with artists focused on Palestine, including Palestinian artists in the diaspora and other awesome cultural workers. Finally you will hear the voices of people around the world who have recorded voice notes specifically for this Radio AlHara broadcast and also those recorded to be played at one of the solidarity protests in London through an awesome project called Street Soundsystem. Finally there are also some tracks included in this broadcast that artists have intentionally shared for transmission specifically on Radio AlHara and are happy to share their work in this context of a solidarity radio broadcast with Palestine. Thank you for listening to this four hour mix, below is the track listing! –– Stefan Christoff

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ajyHnqKKg_qJkVAxhp14vHlmktAEGFQb1im-KueUw6A/edit?usp=sharing

01. Badawi - Final Warning (from The Best Of Badawi Vol.1)
02. Le Berger - The Momentary Masters of a Fraction of a Dot (from dat pale blue dot tho IV)
03. Sounds from Brussels Palestine solidarity protest recorded by Stefan Christoff
04. Excentrik - Dark Talents (A Poem) (English)
05. Brodie Conley, a solidarity message from a cultural worker in Ottawa (English)
06. Recordings by Cara Levine of the Jewish Voice for Peace solidarity action with Gaza at the Statue of Liberty in New York
07. Recordings and interviews from New York City protest to support Palestine by musician Jessie Stein of the The Luyas (English and Arabic)
08. A recording by Katie Halper from Jewish Voice for Peace action at Statue of Liberty
09. A message from artist Naima Shalhoub (English)
10. A solidarity message from Syhem Tabet (Arabic)
11. Street Soundsystem recordings from broadcast at London solidarity rallies for Palestine (English and Arabic)
12. Jesica Sarraf - Gringa Chaqueña
13. Fuzz Lewis Soundsystem - techno sequencer
14. dragonchild x Sunken Cages - The Source
15. Sarathy Korwar - Utopia is a colonial project (Radio Edit)
16. Sarjon - ليس لكم ارض الا احتلال
17. Sarjon - At the court of dishonest justice, في محكمة العدل الكذابي
18. Byjayr - embodi
19. Byjayr interviewed by Stefan Christoff
20. Checkpoint 303 interviewed by Stefan Christoff
21. Checkpoint 303 - Illegal Gathering
22. SAWT project, Kamel Badarneh interviewed by Stefan Christoff
23. Tigris Bridge in DIYARBAKIR recorded by SAWT
24. NIEMAND IS ILLEGAAL BENEFIT 5th edition (04.06.2022) with SAWT - Vaartkapoen - Brussels (excerpt) listen to full set here.
25. Nithin Shamsudhin - Mixtape for Palestine

PALESTINE FOREVER for Radio AlHara

For this edition of the Art in Action interview series I am featuring a conversation with printmaker Christeen Francis, a long time collaborator. In this conversation we hear about the exchange of paper and ideas that lead to a series of pasted up street art collaborations in Montreal. Christeen speaks about the symbolism of the animals featured in the prints and the impact of paper based street art as part of a layer of process surrounding building support for social movements struggling for transformative change both locally and globally. Christeen speaks about the collaboration toward a poster focused on supporting a group of non-status Guinean asylum seekers in Canada who are collectively struggling for their asylum claims to be recognized and to be granted status as refugees in Canada.

The accompanying graphic is a photo of Christeen's print pasted up in Montreal by Stefan Christoff

Information on Christeen's work here:

https://justseeds.org/artist/christeenfrancis

Music on this program is "Passage" by Anarchist Mountains.

Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

Art in Action interview - Christeen Francis printmaker

A live broadcast on Free City Radio that took place on Oct. 4, 2022 at Brique par brique in Montreal.

The conversation was facilitated by artist and community activist Stefan Christoff live on Free City Radio, broadcasting on CKUT 90.3FM and also live streamed live on CUTV. The broadcast featured the voices of:

Faiz Abhuani, Directeur chez Brique par brique

Hubert Gendron-Blais, artist and founder of the collective Réverbérations d’une crise en cours : une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal project

Amy Darwish, community organizer at Comité d’Action de Parc-Extension (C.A.P.E)

Nathan McDonnell, community activist with the Comité des citoyen.ne.s de Milton Parc Citizens’ Committee. In the 70s, the CCMP which saved a neighbourhood from destruction and created a complex of 22 housing cooperatives and nonprofits on a community land trust.

Gaurav Sharma, community organizer at The Immigrant Workers Centre focused on working class communities in Parc Extension.

Dru Oja Jay, of Community-University Television (CUTV) and Publisher of The Breach.

Technical support from Spencer the production coordinator at CKUT 90.3 FM, you can find the archive page and photos from the event here: https://ckut.ca/spokenword/free-city-radio-remote-broadcast

Support for this event came from both SEIZE (Solidarity Economy Incubation Zone), Community University Television (CUTV) and Alternatives. The accompanying graphic was designed by Stefan Christoff.

CKUT 90.3 FM broadcast. Standing up for a place to stay: movements confront the housing crisis

On this edition of the Art in action interview series we hear from sound artist, vocalist and community cultural workers Kathy Kennedy. Kathy has been active for many years building community and creating space for vocal works that speak to the emotional landscapes of our time. Kathy's work has particularly focused on creating space for voices that advocate for gender equality and Feminist movements. Learn more about Kathy's work at:

https://kathykennedy.ca

Music on this program is "Passage" by Anarchist Mountains.

Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.

Art in action interview - Sound artist Kathy Kennedy

A January 2024 mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine

Photo taken by Stefan Christoff of a tree in downtown Mexico City.

Track listing 
Artist name / track name

Jordan Christoff - Sun Through the Clouds
A Fish On Land - Lhasa de Sela + Esmerine (Performed at Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal)
Weshida  - 11/8 Balkan (Performed at Artists Against Apartheid in Montreal), an excerpt
Secret Pyramid - Whim (A Vanishing Touch)
Secret Pyramid - Slow Softly 
Midland - Drift In The Algorithm
Secret Pyramid - Broken Wing
the new objective - Over There (Friperietronics Vol. 2 - Archive Fever
Grim Beverage - A Question as to Where
Grim Beverage - Our Time Together is Liquid
Cette lumi​è​re qui surgit des d​é​combres (Jo​ë​l Lavoie remix) (excerpt)

Spirodon 01/2024 mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

A February 2024 mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine

Photo taken by Stefan Christoff of a street in São Paulo.

Track listing
Artist name / track name

Dayin Remix of Seers Theme - Rêves sonores
Aidan Baker & Hyacinth - Embroidering The Earth's Mantle
Ian Ferrier - Juliet Is Drowning 
Marc Monachez - Celestine
Aidan Baker & Hyacinth - Rainy Paradise (excerpt)
Fold Paper - Medical Jargon
Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff - Across Time 1
Edwin de Goeij Remix of Reprise - Reves Sonores

Spirodon 02/2024 mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

On this edition we speak with scholar activist AK Thompson. The conversation revolves around the importance of looking critically at the lack of radical thinking within the public expression and action of many important social movement demands in the west. AK speaks on the ways that the reform oriented frameworks for social action, largely developed in the late 19th and early 20th century do not speak to the urgent need for radical change that exists today, from climate justice, to the extreme colonial violence that persists in places like Gaza. 

Here are links to two collections of works by AK out on AK Press

Premonitions
Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt
https://www.akpress.org/black-bloc-white-riot-anti-globalization-and-the-genealogy-of-dissent.html

Premonitions 
Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt
https://www.akpress.org/premonitions.html

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. 

Image from the Institute of Anarchist Studies page: https://anarchiststudies.org

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

201, AK Thompson on radical activism looking beyond social reforms

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from author, activist and academic Ayesha Vemuri speaking on the project "Solarities, Seeking Energy Justice." The project is described this way:

"Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Far from presenting solarity as a utopian solution to the climate crisis, it critically examines the ambiguous potentials of solarities: plural, situated, and often contradictory."

For information:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/solarities

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. Image taken by Stefan Christoff in São Paulo.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

199, Ayesha Vemuri on the project "Solarities, Seeking Energy Justice"

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Palestinian sound artist and musician SAWT, the Brussels-based producer Kamel Badarneh. In this interview we speak about Kamel's sound art practice that extends between Europe and Palestine. Also we speak about the challenges and problematics that surround mainstream cultural spaces in western Europe opening up to artists from the global south in a symbolic way, while also in parallel blocking space for their honest political expression.  

Listen to the work of SAWT here:

https://soundcloud.com/sawtrecords
https://sawt.bandcamp.com

Music on this edition is by Anarchist Mountains. 

Image taken by Stefan Christoff in São Paulo.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 8:30am on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

200, Palestinian sound artist and musician SAWT

Voices for Palestine - Freedom for Palestine is freedom for all

Live on Radio AlHara 
https://www.radioalhara.net
Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
4-10pm, Bethlehem, Palestine time

Link to outline of all the broadcast content is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4AkJYooXbtnZ68AlV2kSVgQSyUeFlE9SWT_KyHf_CA/edit?usp=sharing

An international mix of soundscapes, poetry, music, spoken reflections and sounds of solidarity demonstrations from around the world. The sounds on this transmission express support for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. 

As Gaza continues to face deadly bombardment at the hands of the Israeli state, it is more crucial than ever to raise our voices together around the world to not only demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but to call for justice in Palestine more generally. In the cultural and music world this means cutting links to Israeli state backed cultural institutions. Now it is as critical as ever to learn about the intergenerational struggle for freedom in Palestine, an anti-colonial struggle that finds a sister struggle in the South African struggle against apartheid. 

A note to say that all the music, protest sounds, poems, mixtapes and sounds in this broadcast are included with permission. It has been great to work with people all over the Earth to bring together this material.

Thank you for listening to this broadcast. – Stefan Christoff.

Accompanying image is by Allison Figueroa Rojas from a solidarity protest in Barcelona, Spain.

Radio AlHara

Freedom for Palestine is freedom for all

Cultural workers for Palestine is an interview series that airs monthly on Radio AlHara and on a network of community radio stations around the world. For the March 2024 edition we hear from cultural worker and musician, Karim, of Checkpoint 303. In this interview Karim speaks on the process that launched the project in the early 2000s and the cross borders collaboration that has involved many artists. This project broke ground in sampling field recordings from occupied Palestine and mixed them with electronic music. For more information on the project, visit: 

https://checkpoint303.bandcamp.com

This interview series airs on the first Monday of each month on Radio AlHara at 5:30pm, Palestine time, 10:30am eastern time. Also this series will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : http://radioalahra.net

Cultural workers for Palestine - Checkpoint 303

Listen to an interview with Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin who are co-editors of "Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century." This book builds on the work of radical historian Howard Zinn to present the voices of contemporary social movements in this time. The book is described this way:

"Twenty-first century social movements come to life through speeches, essays, and other documents of activism, protest, and social change."

https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4479-voices-of-a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-in-the-21st-century

Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

203, Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin on Voices of a People's History of the United States

Listen to a conversation with author Mark Bray speaking about the recently released book "The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France." The book is described this way: 

"The Anarchist Inquisition explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers through this tumultuous era—from backroom meetings in Paris and torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos Aires.

Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well as modern global policing, and international legislation on extradition and migration."

Info on the book is live here:

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501761942/the-anarchist-inquisition

The graphic is for this series via Justseeds artists' cooperative.

https://justseeds.org/product/anarchism-poster-set/

Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

202, Author Mark Bray on The Anarchist Inquisition

A radio mix version of an album created with Joseph Sannicandro called "Across time patched together" out now on Jeunesse Cosmique label. Info on the project here:

https://jeunessecosmique.bandcamp.com/album/across-time-patched-together

This mix for Radio AlHara incorporates the album but also folds in some additional audio, below is the play list.

Playlist 
(artist name / track name)

01. Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff - Across Time I
02. Sam Shalabi and Stefan Christoff - Flying Street
03. Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff - Across Time II
04. Indy Radio London - W.E.F, Jan. 2003 (excerpts)
05. Stefan Christoff - Piano improvisation on Avenida México at Adriana Camacho’s place in CDXM (excerpt)

Across time patched together, mix

This is the first in a series of 10 community arts recordings that I will be working on. These recordings aim to show the under-reported fabric of the arts within communities which are shaped by narratives and experiences which are under represented in mainstream political, cultural and economic spaces. I recorded the material you will hear on this first broadcast in Montreal.

First you will hear Nizar Tabcharani playing Qanun at home and discussing the culture of the instrument. Nizar also speaks about the cultural landscape of Montreal that influences his current playing. Also you will hear a couple of songs and also the words of Nikczar Aguirre. Nikczar, who is a member of Migrante Canada and has worked with the Immigrant Workers Centre, sings in both English and Tagalog. 

Also you will hear some jamming / experimentation that I did with musician Amir Amiri, playing santur, while I played keyboard. Thank you for listening. 

Track listing

01. Interview with Nizar Tabcharani, including live Qanun, recording by Stefan Christoff.
02. Amir Amiri + Stefan Christoff, experimentations
03. Interview and live session with Nikczar Aguirre recorded at the IWC
04. Hossam Ramzy (featuring Samy el Bably, trumpet) - El Malek Farouk
06. Joni Void - Kitsssch Beatsss
07. Joni Void - Non​-​Status (Remix of Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff duet)
08. Alexander Moskos - Moskos Late Winter Mix (excerpt)

Community arts recordings - Nizar Tabcharani and Nikczar Aguirre

ALL IN IT NOW
A mix created originally for broadcast on Radio Kapital Poland, by Stefan Christoff, Feb. 2 at 2pm Warsaw time.

This mix brings together sounds from the streets, specifically protests in support of Palestinian freedom. Also I include piano improvisations and new music from friends around the world. I also share an interview with Refaat Sabbah, a Palestinian educational worker based in the West Bank who is the general director of the Teacher Creativity Center. Below is the playlist, thank you for listening! – Stefan Christoff.

Track listing
(artist name / track name)

01. Stefan Christoff, improvisation on Avenida México at Adriana Camacho’s place in CDXM.
02. Protest sounds from Berlin, Germany recorded by Elizabeth Gallón Droste, sent by Susanna Gonzo.
03. Jordan Christoff, Play
04. cordcore, Bram Dam
05. Evitceles, Can't Escape
06. Fantasma do Cerrado, Catanduva
07. Bella Cuts - Until Everybody Is Free
08. Jordan Christoff, Electric Creation 
09. Stefan Christoff, Interview with Refaat Sabbah of the Teacher Creativity Centre, Ramallah, Palestine. 
10. Alsarah & the Nubatones - Men Ana

Radio Kapital

ALL IN IT NOW, Radio Kapital mix

On this edition of Free City Radio we hard from photographer, designer and curator Roï Saade who speaks about representation and power in the arts today from an anti colonial perspective. Roï also speaks about an awesome project that documents the independent skateboard scene in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. For more information on Roï's work visit:

https://www.roisaade.com

Accompanying photo taken in Beirut by Roï Saade.

Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

205, Photographer Roï Saade

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from South African author, activist and scholar Salim Valley who shares some context and background on the political movements in South Africa which pushed for the government to take action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in support of Palestinian human rights.

The accompanying graphic is by Saiyare Refaei from the Justseeds Palestine graphic care package # 2, info:

https://justseeds.org/graphic/palestine-will-be-free-graphic-care-package-2/

Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

207, Salim Valley on South African solidarity with Palestine

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from Jamal Juma' of the Palestinian project Stop the Wall campaign. Jamal works locally in Palestine and globally to campaign and inform people about the injustice of Israeli state back colonization taking place right now in the occupied West Bank. For more information on the project visit: https://stopthewall.org

Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains. Photo from Wikipedia.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

209, Jamal Juma' on Israeli state backed settler attacks on West Bank Palestinians

A March 2024 mix for Radio AlHara in Palestine

A collaboration between Stefan Christoff and Forward Music in Halifax.

Graphic is from V Adams & andrea ene from Justseeds artists' cooperative care package # 2 to support Palestine which you can find here:

https://justseeds.org/graphic/palestine-will-be-free-graphic-care-package-2/

Track listing 
(artist name / track name)

01. Isador, Suspense Jam
02. Motherhood, Handbreak
03. Motherhood, Shuttered Down
04. Best Fern, World Spins
05. Joshua Van Tassel, Smiles Displaced 
06. Nico Paulo, Time
07. Motherhood, Wandering
08. Isador, Nilsson Groove
09. Özgür Atlagan - Great Looters
10. Open to the Sea - That Room for the Second Death in the Family
11. Open to the Sea - The Room Behind the Secret Door
12. Samsona, Atletas
13. Vic Mars, Pen Y Fan
14. Zyggurat, Broken Circle
15. Alessandro Adelio Rossi - Lunedì mattina

Forward Music + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

Voices for Palestine Forever
Airing on Radio AlHara, February 17, 2024
4-10pm Palestine time.
http://radioalhara.net

The full playlist is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GiXK12jGHJsTU4dRrjI3_IISOrXB04vBaDN2gK87_T4

This global mix of music, interviews, poetry, voice notes and soundscapes includes contributions from around the world. This broadcast includes sounds from the streets and also creative sounds + voices from all over. There is a particular focus on interviews in this broadcast. 

Please note that all material on this broadcast is shared for this show with the permission of the artists and individuals featured here. Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff. 

Accompanying photo by Rickie Leach.

Voices for Palestine Forever

Silver Moon X mix
February 2024

Airing Feb. 27, 2024.

12 PM in Brussels on Radio Panik
https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-heure-de-pointe/silver-moon-x-mix/

8 PM in Milan, Italy, Feb. 27 on Radio Raheem
https://www.radioraheem.it/schedule

This mix draws from a live recording of the Silver Moon X album launch that took place at the Mercerie performance space in Brussels, Belgium in October 2023. For this set I mixed in excerpts from the live set with Julia E. Dyck and also an opening ambient set by Jean Grünewald (Ottoman Grüw). For the live set in Brussels, which you hear, Julia and I played a Moog synthesizer, bells, while also reading texts from our first album, I also incorporated synth created by my brother Jordan Christoff. For this radio mix I included tracks created by friends around the world and shared over recent months, including many artists that I have collaborated with for broadcasts on Radio AlHara in Palestine, or around community arts initiatives in Montreal. Also I included a couple of tracks that were just excellent. Thank you for listening. – Stefan Christoff.

Track listing 
(Artist name / track name)

01. Secret Pyramid - Bloom Nightly
02. SILVER MOON X - Live at Mercerie in Brussels
03. Lori Goldston & Stefan Christoff - Birds in Trio
04. Midland - You Never Take Me Dancing 
05. Morgan Buckley - Call Incoming
06. Grim Beverage - A Question as to Where
07. Grim Beverage - Joffe
08. Jean Grünewald - Live at Mercerie in Brussels
09. the new objective - B1, detritus, live at ateliers le château (excerpt)

A Vanishing Touch

Silver Moon X - mix

En lucha por la justicia territorial, de México a Palestina
Radio Nopal x Radio Nopal

Diseño por Susanna Gonzo

Llevaremos a cabo un panel de discusión en vivo en Radio Nopal, en la colonia San Rafael de la Ciudad de México, sobre las interconexiones entre luchas por la tierra y el territorio desde México hasta Palestina.

Mientras continúa la violencia militar genocida contra el pueblo palestino en Gaza, es fundamental que encontremos formas de compartir información sobre las realidades palestinas a través de las fronteras y, al mismo tiempo, explorar las profundas interconexiones entre las luchas anticoloniales actuales.

En muchas formas culturales, y desde hace más de 500 años, los pueblos indígenas de la Isla Tortuga continúan resistiendo la violencia colonial. Esta transmisión tiene como objetivo resaltar las luchas contemporáneas por #LandBack en México y las formas en que estas luchas en México están inherentemente conectadas con la lucha palestina por la libertad.

El arte y la expresión cultural son una herramienta clave a través de la cual las personas que luchan por la libertad articulan visiones de nuevos mundos moldeados por sueños de territorios liberados de la violencia del neoliberalismo y la colonización, más allá de los horizontes coloniales.

Con las voces de: Ángel Aguilera, CERRUCHA, Romina Hernandez, Beatriz Paz Jiménez, Ana Rosa (BDS Mexico) y Alf Bojórquez

En lucha por la justicia territorial, de México a Palestina - Radio Nopal x Radio AlHara

Produced for broadcast on @radioalhara at 1pm, Monday, March 11, 2024.

An interview with Jouke Huijzer and Jihane Sliti speaking on the unprecedented mobilization to support Palestine that has been taking place in Brussels and throughout Belgium. The interview specifically focuses on the mobilizations that Jouke and Jihane focus on within the academic space and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, but also they speak about the mobilization more broadly.

The music and field recordings at the top of the interview were created by Brussels based Palestinian musician and sound artist SAWT @sawtrecords.

The accompanying photo was taken by Stefan Christoff in Brussels in Oct. 2023.

Brussels mobilizations for Palestine

A mix of tracks from recently released albums on @constellationtatsu label, for more information visit:

This mix is produced for broadcast on @radiockut 90.3FM on If you got ears, for the April 10, 2024 edition.

Thank you for listening! - Stefan.

Track listing
(artist name / track name)

01. Andy Aquarius - U Lisi
02 Glo Phase - Vista Hermosa
03. Glo Phase - Pearl Around Moss
04. Tarotplane - Aeonium
05. Tarotplane - Auximenes
06. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - The Griot
07. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Igi
08. Tarotplane - Omayyad
09. Randal Fisher & Dexter Story - Baki
10. @rfisher89 & @dexterstory - Eburean Dance
11. @iksremusic - we are soaring
12. IKSRE - tail lights
13. IKSRE - pillars
14. @glophase - The Reflecting Pool
15. Glo Phase - Seaflowers
16. Glo Phase - Blink Reprise
17. @andyaquarius - Kyrie
18. Andy Aquarius - La Force Aquarienne
19. Glo Phase - Ugoki
20. Glo Phase - Rewind The Sim
21. Glo Phase - Transient Shelter
22. IKSRE - intention
23. IKSRE - dawn in a foreign city
24. IKSRE - heartburst

The cover image is “DENKENDER EMBRYO72” (1972), a silkscreen by Gernot Bubenik photographed by the artist specifically for this release, Aeonium by Tarotplane. www.bubenikgernot.com/index-e.html

A Constellation Tatsu mix for CKUT 90.3 FM

Voices for Palestine - Open eyes for Gaza

Airing on Radio AlHara
March 31, 2024 12-6pm Palestine time
Original artwork for this broadcast created by Helena Nehme, film photos taken by Ricky Leach.

Full track listing outline here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K88hpBa7_gI3ofvW7N_0v-Y1feA8dYWT8YrENwn6u3I

This mix is an experiment of sounds patched together to express urgent solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza. Throughout this mix are original interviews, never before broadcast, of people actively working, creating and organizing in different corners of the world to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Also we hear original mixes and musical contributions. 

All the works you hear on this broadcast were shared with permission, either the individual songs, interviews or mixes all listed in link above.

Thanks for listening, please share this with a friend and keep supporting Radio AlHara!

Love and solidarity, – Stefan Christoff.

Open eyes for Gaza

This is the second edition of Cultural workers for Palestine, a monthly program focused on highlighting the ways that artists are involved in and expressing support for Palestinian liberation in their respective work. For this edition we hear from London based Palestinian musician Kareem Samara. Kareem speaks about the project Azraq, with Kam Franklin, which is produced by Sama'an Ashrawi. 

In this interview Kareem reflects a lot on the unprecedented mobilization for Palestine on the streets of London over the last months.

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 will start to air on a network of community radio stations. To listen in on Radio AlHara visit : radioalahra.net

Cultural workers for Palestine - Kareem Samara

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear a conversation recorded in Paris, France, with graphic designer within social movements, Sébastien Marchal. This interview speaks about the ways that graphic designers involved in progressive movements in France work at the intersections of design and activism.

(Note a section of this interview is in French)

Here is the website of Sébastien
https://sebastienmarchal.fr

Here is a group platform project that Sébastien is involved in:

https://formesdesluttes.org/a-propos

Music on this edition is Passage by Anarchist Mountains.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

210, Graphic artist Sébastien Marchal speaks on Palestine solidarity designs in Paris

On this edition of Free City Radio we hear about the independent record label in São Paulo. The conversation is with Yann Dardenne who speaks about creating autonomous cultural space within the music scene in São Paulo today. You can find more information about Seloki Records here: https://selokirecords.bandcamp.com

Music on this edition is from a Seloki Records release.

Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Wednesdays at 8:30am. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays. Now Free City Radio will also be broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa on Tuesdays at 2pm, tune-in!

211, Seloki Records in São Paulo

A mix by Passwar D for Free City Radio. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Passwar D is an alien frequency being who fell to Earth from outer space. Fascinated by human experiences and the complex emotions they evoke, it wires itself through human imagination and creates sonic art forms to articulate its earthly observations.

Described as "transcending time" by 432Hz Social Club, and "representing information codes from another planet" by Industrial Complexx, Passwar D's boundless LP release The Dead Of Synthetic Prosody is a mesmerizing blend of cutting-edge dance floor rhythms and immersive soundscapes that oscillate between the up-beat energy of a rave and the contemplative atmosphere of an art space. Released courtesy of Diffuse Reality Records, the forward-thinking state-of-the-art sound focused label. Passwar D forthcoming debut album Personal Cosmology was pe-premiered at Teorema Festival Barcelona, and it is the artist-in-residence at Brooklyn based music collective The DJ's Daughter.

MIX TITLE
Passwar D / Free City Radio

TRACKLIST
1. Dub Phizix - Wasted
2. Azu Tiwaline - Golden Dawn
3. J-SHADOW - Non Euclidean Fantasy
4. Konstrukt - Roel Zweers - Crocodile
5. Foodman - Hoshikuzu Tenboudai
6. Toki Fuko - Depo (Destination Three)
7. Pannotia - Maenad's Trance
8. Bruce - In The Pines
9. Weith - Omen, The Great Cometh
11. Polygonia, Popp - Honsu
12. Raül Refree & Pedro Vian - La Vera Pau II, IV

ARTIST LINKS

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/passwardy/

Bandcamp
https://passwardy.bandcamp.com/

Beatport
https://www.beatport.com/artist/passwar-d/932610

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/passwardy/

Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/passwardy

TAGS
Ambient
Leftfield
Experimental
Techno

Passwar D mix

Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the arts.

The weekly program features interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the world, highlighting creative voices involved in struggles for transformative social change. 

This Free City Radio page also features contemporary music mixes contributed to stations around the world. 

The 30 minute weekly Free City Radio is produced and hosted by Stefan Christoff and airs weekly on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am, as well as Met Radio 1280 AM in Toronto at 5:30am on Fridays.

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