CKUW was one of the 35 stations airing part of this years homelessness marathon. Mainly produced by Montreal’s CKUT the 14 hour marathon provides an opportunity for homeless people & their supporters to take to the airwaves, and allow a nationwide discussion on homelessness issues and possible solutions. CKUW’s the beat will be airing highlighs of the marathon on Tuesday Feb. 27th at 8:00 a.m. but you can catch the whole marathon right here…www.ckut.ca/homeless.html
I haven’t posted in awhile and haven’t received anything as well. Remember you can always send us your stuff and links you want posted to [email protected]. I’ll make sure they get posted. Anyway, I’ve been asked repeatedly where I get all the crazy album covers for some the posters around CKUW. Here’s the link to one of the webs best resources if you are into the novelty records game: http://www.bizarrerecords.com/
You might hear some stuff the site on CKUW as well.
In these cold days i’ve been thinking about the summer and getting out on the water any water, river, lake, stream as long as it’s not ice. Recently one of our former volunteers told me about a group of anarchists rafting down the Mississippi river. I thought I’d spread the word of these art-freaks who are living the dream. If you have a summer to kill I recommend this….
The Miss Rockaway Armada is a group of approximately 25 performers and artists from all over the country including members of the Toyshop Collective, Visual Resistance, The Amateurs, The Floating Neutrinos, The Infernal Noise Brigade, The Madagascar Institute and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. This July we converged in Minneapolis to construct a flotilla of rafts that will journey down the Mississippi River. We’re stopping in towns along the way, hosting musical performances and vaudeville variety-theater in the evenings, along with workshops and skill-shares centered around arts and environmental issues during the day. In our travels we intend to share stories and to solicit dialogue around subversive and constructive ways of living. We are a group of intrepids who believe in a hands-on, live-by-example approach to creating change within our culture. We are taking cues from Johnny Appleseed, traveling medicine shows, nomadic jewel box theater, and of course that old radical Mark Twain.
As the smoke cleared on Friday the total for Fundriove 2007 is well over $50,000!! Our biggest Fundrive ever! Thanks so much to everyone who pledged their support to Winnipeg’s only Listener Driven Station.
Pledges can pe paid at the U of W info Booth between 10am and 7pm every weekday to March 23rd. We’re still happy to accept new pledges! For more information, call or email us – 204-786-9782 / [email protected]
Atr Noon on Thursday we’ve got $32,000 pledged to support ‘listener driven radio!
Keep calling and pledging, we need to surpass our goal to keep CKUW growing!
Look for Fundrive photos on the Flickr stream coming later today.
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