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Radio LUMI provides exclusive content of Luminato Festival Toronto, with live-from-location reporting, behind-the-scenes content, audio descriptions of festival programs, artist interviews, and deep dives into each Festival event, as well as other exciting content created by members of the blind and low vision community, along with two audio describers.  Station ID composed by G.R. Gritt. 

  1. 02/07/2024

    427: The R.A.V.E. Experience

    One of the most intriguing, high-energy performances in Toronto’s early summer season was R.A.V.E., produced by Outside the March in association with Luminato Festival Toronto. As an immersive, participatory experience merging narrative and dance, staged in an unused office building, accessibility was a concern for producers and festival goers alike. To provide notes and recommendations, Radio Lumi’s JJ Hunt and Ramya Amuthan were called in to join the party and check out the show!To learn mo...

    49min

  2. 25/06/2024

    426: SPACED Audio Tour

    This year Luminato is heading underground with a series of murals, paintings, and photographs adorning the walls of Toronto subway stations. SPACED, curated by Branded Purple, celebrates the notion that art can be found in every corner of our lives. As strong believers in that philosophy — and avid transit users! — hosts Christine Malec and JJ Hunt spend a day on the TTC, checking out SPACED artwork and describing the visuals of the popup subway station galleries.Standalone visual description...

    58min

  3. 17/06/2024

    425: LIVE at 360 ALLSTARS

    Radio Lumi goes back on location to David Pecaut square for an amazing display of acrobatic skill and circus swagger with the internationally acclaimed 360 Allstars. To help describe the troupe’s outrageous BMX, breakdancing, and basketball tricks to host Christine Malec, JJ Hunt gets a big assist from guest describer Janis Mayers. Buckle up for a wildly energetic crowd-pleaser! the show featured in this episode was a showcase production of 360 all-stars, recorded on June 15th, 2024 in Toront...

    48min

  4. 10/06/2024

    424: LIVE at I Am From Reykjavik with Sonia Hughes

    In I Am From Reykjavik, artist Sonia Hughes invites us to forge meaningful connections in unexpected places, and examine our relationship with time and space, by building and dismantling a small home in public places. To capture the day-long, lived performance, host JJ Hunt followed Sonia and the Luminato crew to Toronto’s Withrow Park on a recent Saturday morning. Listen in as he records sounds of the park, chronicles Sonia’s construction project, and describes her visits from picnickers, do...

    47min

  5. 09/06/2024

    423: LIVE at Luminato in the Square

    On Friday June 7, Luminato in the Square at David Pecault Square swung into action with the opening night of nine days of music, art, food, crafts, and that urban festival feel. JJ Hunt was on hand to describe the scene, with Christine Malec joining in from her home studio. Listen in for performances from the main stage by Elder Duke and Jeremy Dutcher!

    1h8min

  6. 07/06/2024

    422: LIVE at the AGO with Miles Greenberg

    Recorded live at the Art Gallery of Ontario on June 5th, 2024, this on location episode documents and describes Miles Greenberg’s RESPAWN, co-commissioned and co-presented by the AGO and Luminato Festival Toronto.With a microphone in hand, describer and host JJ Hunt captures the chest-rumbling thrums and excited audience chatter that accompany Greenberg’s nine hour fight with an imaginary foe, located behind a robot-mounted camera.Special thanks to Bojana Stancic and Lamesha Ruddock.

    1h10min

  7. 04/06/2024

    421: Walker Court and RESPAWN

    Miles Greenberg is a sculptor and performance artist based out of New York. His Luminato performance, RESPAWN, where he features as the primary performer, is a strikingly lengthy 7 hour durational performance piece inspired by first person shooter video games. Only wielding a sword, he defends himself from a moving camera on a crane. Listen to learn about the deeper meaning behind this piece. Rebecca Singh shares a detailed description of the venue and Christine Malec sits down for an in...

    36min

  8. 04/06/2024

    420: Afrikan Party

    In this episode host, Theodore Walker Robinson Theodore interviews the world class Ivory Coast choreographer Oulouy about his career and the story of the dance crew Supa Rich kids ahead of their presentation of Afrikan Party at the Luminato Festival Toronto.Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha Womack The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling Jackie Ormes: The First...

    1h14min
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Radio LUMI provides exclusive content of Luminato Festival Toronto, with live-from-location reporting, behind-the-scenes content, audio descriptions of festival programs, artist interviews, and deep dives into each Festival event, as well as other exciting content created by members of the blind and low vision community, along with two audio describers.  Station ID composed by G.R. Gritt. 

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