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  • ‘Pass the Mic’ is coming!

    Posted by Rob on October 15th, 2008

    Pass the Mic is a seven day on-air live event that dedicates the first week in November to expose and celebrate listener driven radio. During Pass the Mic, CKUW 95.9fm radio hosts will be inviting members of the community to participate as broadcasters, creating some truly unique radio programming. Tune in to hear real grass roots, listener driven radio!

  • Shades of Classics

    Posted by Robin on October 8th, 2008

    Giselle Minns is an award winning composer, professional soprano, pianist and cellist. She has starred in many opera roles in both Canada and the Europe. Join John Iverson for a live via telephone interview with this Canadian soprano. She will be talking about her recently released debut album Turning Circles, which she categorizes as “Classicaltronica”.

  • Bike to the Future

    Posted by Robin on October 6th, 2008

    CKUW is proud to partner with Bike to the Future for a live broadcast of the panel discussion from the 2008 Annual Fall Forum: Why not Winnipeg?

    Panelists include:

    Kerri Irvin-Ross, Manitoba’s Minister of Healthy Living.

    Marilyn McLaren, CEO of Manitoba Public Insurance.

    Jenny Gerbasi, Chair of City Council’s Environment Committee.

    A high-ranking member of the Winnipeg Police Service.

    Janice Lukes, Winnipeg Trails Association Coordinator.

    It will be moderated by Bartley Kives, City Hall reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. Together they will answer your questions about cycling infrastructure and issues in Winnipeg and Manitoba.

    Click here to submit your question for the Fall Forum panelists.

    We hope you can join us for this lively idea exchange between movers, shakers, and policy makers.

  • send + receive

    Posted by Rob on October 3rd, 2008

    Full festival details have been released. send + receive is the premier sound-art event in Winnipeg. Learn more here:

  • Archive Outages

    Posted by Rob on October 3rd, 2008

    We are experiencing periodic problems with our audio archive. Some programs over the last few days have not been properly archived. We are monitoring the problem and I’m hoping we’ll fix the bug shortly. If you have any problems downloading programs, please email us and we can try to help: [email protected]