This week at Interference Archive:
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Resistance Radio Closing Party & Film Screening
Sunday, September 29, 5pm – 8pm
September 29 will be the final day to view our current exhibition, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves, which looks at the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements and their organizing work. Join us for a closing party and film screening, as we show a series of short films related to some of the stations and movements included in the exhibition.
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A Quest for Home Zine Launch & Party
September 28th, 2019, 5–8pm
Join us for the launch of a new zine filled with writing, personal pictures, and artwork from participants of A Quest for Home—a series of writing workshops presented by Arts & Democracy for the South Asian diaspora and led by Pakistani writer, Roohi Chowdhury. For six weeks, the participants joined together to write away their mythic journey towards home and identity.
From stories about being queer, relationships with their brown mom, magical kingdoms to bad dates, join us for a magical night and celebrate the launch of this new zine.
All attendees will also get a copy of the zine. Read more here.
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Radical Playdate presents: Let’s Make Posters!
September 28th, 2019, 2–4pm
Recommended ages: 12 and under
If you had a radio show, what would you say on it? What kind of music would you play? Who would listen to your radio show? Inspired by our current exhibition, Resistance Radio, we’ll design and make posters about pirate radio, listening, music….and even pirates if you want!
We’ll have stamps and stencils with (kid-safe and washable) stamp pads and spray markers, and lots of paper. Just bring yourselves!
There's a suggested donation of $5 but no one will be turned away. Read more here.
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Last Chance to see Resistance Radio: The People's Airwaves
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Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves
Open through September 29, 2019
Interference Archive is pleased to show, Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves, which looks at the history of radio as a medium for grassroots movements and their organizing work. Radio has remained a consistently popular form of communication over the past decade, in part because of certain unique features: it is relatively cheap and accessible, it is a form of media that is inherently tied to its location and its local community, and it reaches populations not served by online media, including those for whom language or literacy is a barrier. Radio, both past and present, has been attractive to those who wish to embrace a DIY ethos and a spirit of resistance, and to others as a platform for community building and the development of a political consciousness. This exhibition focuses on radio endeavors created to reach communities not served by mainstream outlets. We’re interested in the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly in cases where these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing. Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves tells some of the stories of these rebellious broadcasters.
Read more on our website. Poster design by Peter Kaplan.
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Coming up at Interference Archive:
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Cataloging Party!
Saturday, October 5, 2-5pm
Help us catalog our collection! Join catalogers—old and new—to learn the ropes of cataloging in our online Collective Access catalog. Bring your own laptop and cord, if possible; unfortunately we don’t have enough to go around. No experience is required. Come learn with us!
If it’s your first time, please email Jen at info@interference.org to get set up with an account. Read more here.
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Art Workers’ Inquiry: Who are the Gatekeepers?
Sunday, October 6, 4-6pm
Hosted by Red Bloom: A Communist Collective
Join us and hosts Red Bloom: A Communist Collective for an art workers gathering where we’ll identify who controls the resources in our different sectors of the arts industry, and discuss how we challenge them in our industry and in the streets! As workers in the arts, we labor in an industry where a tiny group of (overwhelmingly white, cis-male) gatekeepers control the resources that we all need to live and create. These gatekeepers often stay out of the spotlight, but they wield the power to exploit and coerce us, to make or break our projects, and to endanger our livelihoods. As communists, socialists, and anti-capitalists, we want to build a broad struggle for worker power in the arts.
Join us to meet up with other arts workers and discuss how we can build a cross-craft, cross-media arts workers’ struggle. Read more here.
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New on Audio Interference:
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Audio Interference 67: Interference Archive on Radio Survivor
Audio Interference is excited to be bringing you an episode from a guest podcast, Radio Survivor. Radio Survivor is a group of individuals organized to shed light on the ongoing importance of radio. They have a weekly podcast where they interview people involved in wide-ranging and international community radio efforts.
Interference Archive volunteers Celia Easton Koehler and Elena Levi spoke with Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein of Radio Survivor about our latest exhibition at Interference Archive: Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves. They spoke with Radio Survivor about the stations, communities and contexts featured in the exhibition, and the process, labor, and networks involved. Some of the seeds of our research actually came from Radio Survivor interviews!
Listen here!
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