Future Signals / Señales Futuras Listening Session #2
07/26/2023
Future Signals / Señales Futuras Listening Session #2
Saturday, July 29, 2023, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Reyes (Guadalupe) Park 821 W. 19th St., Chicago, IL 60608
Join us for the opening program of Andres L. Hernandez’ Future Signals / Señales Futuras mobile radio/recording station at Dvorak (Anton) Park! This program part of the festivities for the Dreaming of a Future exhibition on the occasion of Threewalls’ 20th anniversary. Learn more about the program below!
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Transportation: Participants are encouraged to use CTA public transportation and/or bikes to reach the event location. Reyes (Guadalupe) Park is approximately a 2 min walk from the #8 and #18 CTA bus stop at Halsted & 18th Street. If traveling by car, there is parking in the surrounding neighborhood.
What to bring: Please bring a folding/camping chair or blanket for seating on the lawn, and don’t forget your water, insect repellant, and sunscreen (if needed).
Andres L. Hernandez will host a live online radio broadcast on TUFF BOPP Radio and facilitate an intimate listening session and discussion around possible futures for the Pilsen neighborhood and the City of Chicago.
Andres L. Hernandez’ Future Signals / Señales Futuras takes form as a mobile radio/recording station with on-site broadcasts and public listening sessions in Chicago’s historic Pilsen neighborhood. Future Signals / Señales Futuras is inspired by the histories of community-based radio stations which previously broadcast from Pilsen and Little Village, as well as neighborhood street cart food vendors, and the mobile DJ sound systems of sonideros. Future Signals / Señales Futuras creatively appropriates the radio format to publicly consider and imagine a one-hundred-year span of neighborhood history, from the founding of the WCYC community radio station in 1970, to the not-so-distant future of 2070. Future Signals / Señales Futuras looks backwards in history to imagine and signal more affordable, equitable, and just futures for the Pilsen neighborhood and its residents.
Future Signals / Señales Futuras is additionally sponsored in part by TUFF BOPP Radio and the Center for (E)utopian Imagination.
Image description: A graphic with the Future Signals / Señales Futuras project logo rendered in fuchsia and white colors on a dark blue colored background. The logo is a pushcart with the words “Future Signals” and “Señales Futuras” on its side, two small wheels on its bottom, and a small radio antenna and radio waves emerging from its top.