Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves

July 11 - September 29, 2019 Opening reception: Thursday, July 11, 6-9pm Our current exhibition focuses on the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly when these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing.

Resistance Radio Closing Party & Film Screening

Sunday, September 29, 2019 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Sunday, September 29, 5pm - 8pm On the final day of Resistance Radio, we will show a series of short films related to stations and movements included in the exhibition.

Film Screening: Citizen Provocateur

Friday, September 13, 2019 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Friday, September 13, 7pm This 2007 documentary follows some of the individuals whose lives were touched by “The Prison Show,” and follows the long journey Ray Hill made from surviving prison himself as a gay, white collar criminal to becoming an ACLU award-winning activist.

Reportando desde las Bases

Friday, September 20, 2019 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Friday, September 20, 7pm New York-based radio broadcasters Leobardo Ambrosio Ajtzalam, Tadii Angeles, and Charlie Uruchima will talk about using radio as an educational tool to activate indigenous languages and cultures, mobilize communities, and connect grassroots, local, and transnational movements for indigenous resistance and sovereignty.

Resistance Radio Wikipedia Editathon

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Tuesday, August 27, 5-9pm

In recognition of our current exhibition, Resistance Radio, we are holding a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on the theme of pirate radio and community broadcasting.

“Yo Yo Mon Brooklyn!” New York City’s Pirates of the Air

Friday, July 26, 2019 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Friday, July 26, 7pm Radio producer and audio archivist David Goren will explore the cultural and political forces driving underground radio in NYC since the late sixties via live tuning, archival recordings and excerpts from his recent BBC radio documentary. David will be joined by a very special guest: Joan Martinez, a filmmaker, an avid listener to the Kreyol language pirates of Flatbush’s “Little Haiti” and an occasional broadcaster on them.

Reflecting the Airwaves: the Microbroadcasting Movement Then and Now

Saturday, July 13, 2019 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Saturday, July 13, 5pm Join us for a conversation with radio broadcasters, activists, and academics about the microbroadcasting movement in the US and its legacy and influence today.

Advocacy On-Air: Listening Party + Discussion on Radio Activism

Monday, October 16, 2017 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

When: Monday, October 16, 7pm Where: Starr Bar, 214 Starr Street, Brooklyn Panel discussion on the use of radio as an activist tool, with Sylvia Ryerson, of Appalshop's Calls from Home, Charlie Uruchima, of Kichwa Hatari New York, and Naomi Brussel of Out-FM.