Podcast appearances and mentions of eleanor wearing

On January 17th, artists around the world celebrate Art's Birthday and CiTR will join them with a marathon of Radio Art. Our celebration, 24 Hours of Radio Art, will broadcast Midnight to Midnight on CiTR 101.9FM and www.citr.ca.

On January 17th, artists around the world celebrate Art's Birthday and CiTR will join them with a marathon of Radio Art. Our celebration, 24 Hours of Radio Art, will broadcast Midnight to Midnight on CiTR 101.9FM and www.citr.ca.

Since its invention in the 1970s, voicemail has gone through a broad fluctuation in popularity. What was perhaps once seen as a convenient and time-saving function of the telephone is now massively regarded as an annoying and cumbersome way to get a message to someone. This is likely due in-part to the rise of text messaging as many people’s primary method of communication. But what have we lost in this shift? Is there any value to having small recorded pockets of someone’s voice, regardless of whether the message sent is inane or important? This piece is a collection of sounds and voicemails from the CiTR Radio and Discorder Magazine main office line, from 2016-2018.

'On Comedy' is a rebroadcast of an interview between Femconcept host Eleanor Wearing and Comedian, Musician and Academic Cheryl Hann. Cheryl plays in Heaven For Real, Old and Weird, is a comedian who was previously part of Picnicface, and is working on her PhD in Halifax!

'On Poetry' features an interview between Femconcept host Eleanor Wearing and Sam Nock. Sam is a Metis poet, writer, and all around extraordinary woman who runs the blog "A Halfbreed's Reasoning" - https://halfbreedsreasoning.com/. You can also find her giving great commentary on twitter @sammymarie.

For this Doc series, CiTR producers used digitized audio from our reel-to-reel and cassette tape archive to make documentaries about UBC and CiTR's history. The fourth in our series, this is "Waiting for Godiva, Conversations about Sexism at UBC 1980-2013", produced by Eleanor Wearing.Throughout history, the university campus has served as a major site of controversy and discussion on topics of sexism. At UBC, student media such as CiTR Radio and the Ubyssey newspaper have provided essential coverage of these issues. This documentary uses this coverage to investigate how conversations about sexism and sexual violence have changed at UBC in the past thirty years, from 1980-2015. The first half of the documentary explores the history of the UBC Engineers’ “Lady Godiva Ride” in the 1980s, using historical audio from CiTR’s archives and interviews with UBC alumni. Following this, the documentary examines the Sauder frosh chant incident that happened at UBC in 2013, drawing on perspectives of UBC students, the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC), and archives from the student newspaper the Ubyssey.

Before airing her documentary, "Waiting for Godiva - Conversations about Sexism at UBC 1980 - 2013", Eleanor sat down with Madeline Taylor to talk about the process of making her doc. They chat about choices Eleanor made in the production of her doc, issues of rape culture, and the UBC administration's response to sexual assaults on campus.

Welcome to Tick Talk, formerly known as Talk Time! Tick Talk is CiTR's weekly spoken word check-in. This week, we have excerpts from a lecture about women who fight in the guerilla militia's of Kurdistan, as well as a poetry reading by a CiTR volunteer. David Usher has been a volunteer with CiTR for over one year. He is one of our most senior volunteers, and wants to share stories from his life through his passion for poetry. His experience is rich and varied, exploring themes of familial love, self-exploration, patriarchy, and pain. He writes and selects the poems he would like to share, and then we record them together and I edit them for air. The poems we heard today were: My Friend David - By Toni McGregor Tyra at two, already an artist Thirteen, a birthday poem for Ella Eric Two Hours Domineer On Sunday September 13th, Simon Fraser University’s Institute for the Humanities hosted A panel discussion about the power of female fighters in Kurdistan from both the Canadian and Kurdish perspective. Female fighters in Kurdistan are called the YPJ, which is a branch of the leftist People’s Protection Unit militia. This group is quite controversial, but they have been one of the most effective units actively fighting ISIS on the ground in the MIddle East for the last few years. The presentation centered around the story of the Kurdish people, and a photo and video presentation done by Hanna Böhman, a Vancouverite who volunteered and fought for the YPJ militia this year. In this piece, you will hear excerpts from the panel discussion. Hanna Bohman and Nissy Koye, a Kurdish activist, discuss Hanna’s experiences in Rojava, and the way women are treated in the militia. Following this is a short interview by Eleanor Wearing with Nissy Koye.

Interview with UBC Film Society and CiTR Student Execs Nellie Stark and Eleanor Wearing.

Eleanor Wearing hosts an all-female ‘Student Special’ featuring a live performance by UBC student Olivia Madden, as well as a feature on influential female musicians from the past, present and future.