Free City Radio

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Free City Radio

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.

  1. 241, Vocalist Macadi Nahhas sings across colonial borderlines

    3 DAYS AGO

    241, Vocalist Macadi Nahhas sings across colonial borderlines

    On this edition of Free City Radio we hear the reflections of Amman based singer and songwriter Macadi Nahhas speaking about the ways that music in the Arabic speaking world exists beyond borderlines. The work of artists like Macadi is important in this moment of the extreme enforcement of colonially shaped territory lines as pushed by the Israeli state project. The accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program. Also thank you to my friend Mazen Chamseddine for helping to arrange this interview. 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!

    30 min
  2. 'Transmission in silver' mix - Stefan Christoff and Joseph Sannicandro

    NOV 13

    'Transmission in silver' mix - Stefan Christoff and Joseph Sannicandro

    A mix for Radio AlHara that features the latest collaborative album between Joseph Sannicandro and Stefan Christoff. This mix also includes some drones and live recordings from Palestine solidarity protests in Mexico City to round out the hour, an excerpt of a protest participant, recorded in Spanish. Information on the album via OKLA records in Poland: https://oklarecords.bandcamp.com/album/transmissions-in-silver The album will be released on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, to get a physical or digital copy visit the link above. Broadcast in full on Radio AlHara on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 4pm eastern / 11pm Palestine time, streaming at radioalhara.net This is the write-up on the project: The next chapter in the ongoing artistic conversation between two friends, shaped and built upon live improvisations weaving instruments, radio captures, and punctuated by binaural field recordings of cityscape walks. Joseph’s synth work enhances circular, frantic guitar lines laid by Stefan as footsteps ground the work in a natural rhythm of bodies resonating with stimuli of time and space. Two lives intersecting in a room - mourning the dead, raging against injustices, channelling homeland lullabies to synthesize healing waves to pass forward. “Take a walk at night, and walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” – Pauline Oliveros

    1 hr
  3. Interview with Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch on mass displacement in Lebanon

    NOV 12

    Interview with Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch on mass displacement in Lebanon

    Listen to an interview with Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch's office in Beirut, Lebanon speaking on the massive displacement of people from south Lebanon that has been ongoing since fall 2023. This interview gives some context to the current Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the ongoing work of Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/lebanon This interview was recorded, produced and edited by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on Radio AlHara in occupied Palestine. It aired on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. The accompanying graphic is by Roger Peet, view the work here: https://justseeds.org/graphic/solidarity-with-lebanon/

    30 min
  4. Norman Nawrocki mixtape

    NOV 11

    Norman Nawrocki mixtape

    This is a mix that features both unreleased practices and experimentations, as well as recorded tracks. This mix is an homage to a long musical relationship with Norman Nawrocki, a Ukrainian-Canadian musician and activist. I felt that it would be nice to share the lo-fi tracks on this mix and also put them in a context of broader collaborations. Norman and I have played many fundraising events, recorded for albums. Also I have included tracks from many of Norman's projects, below is the track listing. The accompanying photo is of Norman Nawrocki reading a poem, playing violin and speaking at the Gaza solidarity encampment that took place at McGill University in Montreal. The photo is by Hamza. 01. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff duet experiment, guitar and violin, March 2024. 02. Norman Nawrocki solo track from the ne pas plier - Artists Against Austerity project, recorded at La Sala Rossa by Adrian Roy Taylor, produced by Stefan Christoff. 03. Bakunin's Bum, People Already Know (Adian Girt and Norman Nawrocki), from the album, Fight to Win! 04. Rhythm Activism, Venimos a la guerra, from the album Blood and Mud. 05. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff duet experiment, piano and violin, recorded 2023. 06. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff, Duet for Abdelrazik (from the album Duets for Abdelrazik), recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango. 07. Palestine String Solidarity, by Norman Nawrocki, recorded for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. 08. Stefan Christoff explains the mixtape. 09. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff, Duet for Abdelrazik live at La Sala Rossa for benefit concert to support the Awan family who was facing deportation and took sanctuary in a church as a political action to demand status, the family won their status in the end as a result of their action and a major community mobilization. 10. Norman Nawrocki plays the song of Giovanni Passannante in Italy, video recording. 11. Helen Armstrong, Rhythm Activism (an excerpt) from the album Jesus Was Gay. (extended excerpt)

    1 hr
  5. 240, Mexico City's Anarchist Black Cross

    NOV 10

    240, Mexico City's Anarchist Black Cross

    On this edition of Free City Radio we hear from the frontline prisoner support collective, Anarchist Black Cross collective, which campaigns both locally and globally. In this interview with collective member, Jaime, we hear the case of UNAM students who continue to hold the at Okupa Che, also we hear about the Feminist movement action to hold Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission building and the case of an Indigenous activist Miguel Peralta who is facing jail time. This program takes place within the ongoing struggle of non-institutional struggles for social justice, in Mexico City and beyond in Mexico. Thank you to Scott Campbell for helping to arrange this interview. Info on Miguel Peralta: https://itsgoingdown.org/political-persecution-continues-against-miguel-peralta-in-oaxaca The accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program. 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!

    30 min
  6. Interview with Shir Hever on the call for an arms embargo on the Israeli state

    NOV 6

    Interview with Shir Hever on the call for an arms embargo on the Israeli state

    Listen to an interview with researcher, organizer and author Shir Hever speaking on the critical importance of the continued push for an arms embargo on the Israeli government. This interview was recorded for broadcast on Radio AlHara. Learn more about Shir's work here: https://www.shirhever.com This interview was recorded, produced and edited by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on Radio AlHara in occupied Palestine. It aired on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. The accompanying graphic is an excerpt of a design from the second graphic care package for Palestine from the Justseeds artists' cooperative and is by Aaron Hughes. Info on the project: https://justseeds.org/graphic/palestine-will-be-free-graphic-care-package-2/

    30 min
  7. Cultural workers for Palestine - Author Zahra Ali

    NOV 4

    Cultural workers for Palestine - Author Zahra Ali

    On this edition of Cultural workers for Palestine we hear from author and educator Zahra Ali who wrote the critically important book "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation" Zahra speaks about the connections and parallels between the reality on the ground in Palestine today and the media narratives that devalue and dehumanize Palestinian life. Zahra connects this reality to the post 9/11 political atmosphere that worked to undercut and dehumanize Iraqi lives, the cultural context that created conditions for the 2003 invasion. Info on Zahra's book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-and-gender-in-iraq/B0AA03350B9131073429EF0CFF7059B1 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

    30 min
  8. 239, Cindy Barukh Milstein on Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice

    NOV 3

    239, Cindy Barukh Milstein on Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice

    On this edition we hear from author and community activist Cindy Barukh Milstein speaking on their latest book "Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice." The book is described this way: "What do we do when the state has abandoned us? From failing health systems to housing crises to cascading ecological collapse, it's increasingly evident that state-centered politics do not protect us from the violence of colonialism and capitalism, fascism and patriarchy. In fact, they actively work to harm us. Anarchist feminism—or anarcha-feminism—shows us that the ways we tend to our social relations can build a new world inside the old one. We can take care of each other when nothing else will, supplying communal well-being and liberatory horizons. From communitarian kitchens to medic collectives, squatted social centers to queer theater troupes, Ljubljana to Mexico City, Constellations of Care powerfully underscores that we already have everything we need and desire in one another to carve out lives worth living." Information: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349954/constellationsofcare The accompanying music is by Anarchist Mountains. Thanks to the Social Justice Centre for supporting my work on this weekly program. 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!

    30 min
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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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    Free City Radio
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
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