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Welcome to the CKUT Spoken Word Department blog. Here you’ll find segments from our in-house community news team and coverage of Montreal’s arts and cultural scenes. CKUT’s spoken word programming features alternative news, public affairs and arts and culture shows. We cover LGBTQ culture, environmental and social justice issues, feminism, theatre, African and Latin America current affairs, and more.

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June 19, 2026 2026 Fringe Fest Live Event Review

Review: “The Paranoid King” at Montreal Fringe 2026

Olivia Collette’s The Paranoid King focuses on the existential anxieties of King Ashurhaddan–ruler of the Assyrian empire between 680 and 669 BC. By highlighting these emotions, which are rarely associated with an ancient imperial leader, the play centres human empathy and understanding.

June 11, 2026 2026 Ada X ffiles

Interview: Time Travel Has Always Been Possible – HTMlles

Ada X is a feminist, bilingual artistic space based in Montreal, that is centered around the teaching, creation, and reflection in the arts and digital media. Every two years, Ada X hosts HTMIles which is an interdisciplinary feminist art festival that highlights the work of different artists, scholars and activists. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ray, an artist at Ada X, to talk about their project for the festival.

June 5, 2026 2026 Film Haiti

Review: The Fight for Haiti

On Friday May 29, we had the pleasure to screen Etant Dupain’s film The Fight For Haiti - a documentary that emphasizes on the country’s corruption, PetroCaribe, and tainted politicians alongside stories of inescapable crime amongst the community.

June 2, 2026 2026 Film Media Review

Review: KAIROS – the right moment

Canadian artist Jennifer Alleyn’s 2026 film "Kairos" premiered on April 30, 2026 at the 44th Rendez-vous Quebéc Cinema and served as the closing film of the festival. In this review, we explore the impact of listening to the stories of the unseen people in contemporary Montreal society.

May 21, 2026 2026 All Things McGill Anarchist Bookfair

A CKUT Intern’s First Anarchist Bookfair

On May 16th, 2026, at around 10:00 am, I arrived at the CEDA community centre with very few expectations, except of course: Anarchism. I attended the third edition of Constellation, an Anarchist Festival in Montreal.

May 20, 2026 2026 Bursting the Bubble Collab

Scatterbrain Magazine Issue 7 Launch Party – Review

On April 25th, Scatterbrain Magazine hosted a launch party for the 7th issue of their magazine. This issue’s theme was sports, and how the athletic and artistic world converge and diverge from each other. The party was held at La Sala Rossa and featured musicians and different vendors and artists based in Montreal, creating a very community-centred space.

August 20, 2025 2025 Arts & Culture Black Community

World Building Through Sound / Moving Towards Radical Joy | interview w/ Djeity – ffiles Aug. 20, 2025

Djeity premieres their first body of work at Mutek titled “Things Are Not What They Seem” as a spectacle within SAT’s Dome that passes through traditions of negro spirituals, live vocals and instrumentation, audio reactive visuals by al11z and a first look at the expansive Djeity universe containing their past, present and future.

July 30, 2025 2025 Drug Users Rights Special Programming

Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) Fundraiser + Panel Discussion

For one year, DULF sold pure cocaine, heroine, and methamphetamine to drug users on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and no one died. Now, the founders are facing life in prison, and they need your help.

June 4, 2025 2025 Arts & Culture

Arabophonics: A Livebroadcast from Maktaba Bookstore

On May 31, 2025, Funky Revolutions went live from Maktaba bookshop for a special broadcast dubbed Arabophonics.

April 17, 2025 2025 CKUT CKUT in the News

“International Radio Report” featured on Radio World!

One of our longest-running Spoken Word shows was recently featured in Radio World!

April 9, 2025 2025 Community News Migrant Rights

Dawson College New Shit Takeover

On January 17, 2025, CKUT hosted 18 students from Dawson's Social Change and Solidarity Program to learn about the intersections between activism and student/community radio and then take over the waves to talk about what they've learned and play music requests from the community orgs they've visited.

December 2, 2024 2024 Off The Hour Remote Broadcasts

Palestine Solidarity Organizing, live from Casa del Popolo

Sequoia, Kai and Stefan Christoff host a round table discussion with organizers and activists.

November 22, 2024 2024 Free City Radio Remote Broadcasts

Voices for housing justice, live from Parc Ex

A live broadcast highlighting the ways that the extreme wave of gentrification that is taking place in Montréal is having a particularly heavy impact on Parc Ex. and other low income districts in the city.

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November 6, 2024 2024 Interviews Migrant Rights

(No Borders Media) Resisting Trump & the MAGA Movement: Interview with anti-fascist Matthew Lyons

No Borders Media, part of Off The Hour (5-6pm), features an interview with Matthew Lyons, author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire

September 19, 2024 2024 Samedi Midi Inter

Foire santé Montréal-Nord avec Samedi Midi Inter

Chaque année, la Fondation des Médecins Canado-Haïtiens (FMCH) organise la Foire Santé, un événement incontournable qui réunit la communauté de Montréal-Nord autour de la santé.

September 19, 2024 Interviews Sounds of Resistance Special Programming

Sounds of Resistance – Migrant Justice Organizing

Community organizer Samaa Elibyari and long-time CKUT volunteer programmer Stefan Christoff present an extended segment on migrant justice organizing in Montréal.

September 10, 2024 2024 Community News La Voz de los Migrantes

RadioTET and La Voz de los Migrantes

Two new CKUT shows - RadioTET and La Voz de los Migrantes - have been instrumental in empowering temporary foreign workers and migrants with precarious status, especially in the current challenging anti immigrant environment.

September 9, 2024 2024 Arts & Culture Housing

Live Remote: Artists and tenants under attack by real estate monsters

Join us on September 14th for a community radio broadcast to look at the ways that real estate monsters are attacking independent artists in the context of an unprecedented housing and space affordability crisis in the city and beyond.

August 14, 2024 2024 Black Community Education

New Partner Podcast: Black Education In Quebec

Black Education in Quebec is a compelling 9-part podcast series produced by the LaSalle Multicultural Resource Centre, aimed at enriching the Quebec educational landscape.

June 21, 2024 Arts & Culture Fringe Fest Media Review

Fringe Fest Review: Late in Life Lesbian

Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews Shelby Thevenot's "Late in Life Lesbian" at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.

June 19, 2024 Arts & Culture Fringe Fest Interviews

Fringe Fest Review: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews Mother Tongue's production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.

June 14, 2024 2024 Interviews Mental Health

New Podcast Alert: Joy

A new podcast hosted by Sasha Avrutsky explores the interplay between joy and mental health. Learn more and check out the first episode and Instagram page here.

June 12, 2024 2024 Fringe Fest Media Review

Fringe Fest Review: Tandem Jump

Spoken Word Intern Adrienne reviews local sketch comedy group Tandem Jump Live at the 2024 Montreal Fringe Fest.

May 9, 2024 2024 Interviews Palestine

Voices For Gaza Broadcast

Interviews with Sarah Shamy (organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement), Martin Lukacs (investigative journalist and managing editor of The Breach), Norma Rantisi (Academics for Palestine, Concordia), Michelle Hartman (Profs solidaires avec le camp), and a voice from Students In Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).