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Show 1128: Summer Christmas, from Soundart Radio

This is a story about a bunch of good, independent thinking people who decide to upend the calendar and bring Santa Claus to to the barbecue because, if God is everywhere, then Christmas can be whenever they like.

Why get the fairy lights out just once a year, in the bleak midwinter, when you could sip sangria and sizzle in the sunshine of a luxurious SUMMER CHRISTMAS!


Now, in some parts of the world this would be unremarkable, but for the residents of the Camphill Community, nestled deep in the woods at Hapstead on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in the greyest, dampest corner of England, celebrating Christmas in the Summer is a leap of wild imagination and creativity, which they bring to you now in the form of radio drama, to listen to at any time of the year and in any environment.

Created by Camphill Devon residents with Ergo Phizmiz and Depresstival for Soundart Radio

Thanks to funding from the Clare Milne Trust

Camphill Devon

Soundart Radio

 

 

Show 1126 : “Nous on est là !” par La Collective.be – Radio Campus Bruxelles

Belgium. Since the national protest on October 14, 2025, we’ve been taking our microphones out into the streets to meet the people fighting against the government’s austerity plan. Amid these crowds, unique voices emerge—from people of all ages, backgrounds, and sectors—bearing witness to the harshness of these measures and their social injustice. Together, these voices are rising up in resistance!

Lacollective.be est une initiative de citoyen.ne.s travaillant dans le secteur artistique en Belgique, en dehors de tous partis ou groupes idéologiques.
Le secteur artistique, bien que mis à mal, doit être aussi fédérateur des luttes de tous secteurs.
Nous avons les outils d’expression, de production, d’information, de sensibilisation.
Depuis la manifestation nationale belge du 14 octobre 2025, avec nos micros, nous partons à la rencontre de celles et de ceux qui luttent contre le plan d’austérité des gouvernements.
Nous allons dans les écoles, hôpitaux, institutions, usines, bureaux, associations, administrations et dans la rue pour rendre visible ce qu’il est entrain de se passer.

Nous collectons des sons brutes, des paroles peu montées, nous prendrons le temps d’écouter celles et ceux qu’on entend trop peu et qui subissent de plein fouet le tsunami anti-social.

Au sein de ces foules, émergent des paroles singulières de tous âges, toutes provenances, tous secteurs, témoignant de la violence de ces mesures et de leur injustice sociale. Ensemble, les voix s’élèvent pour résister !

Nous, on est là ! Journal d’une année de luttes en Belgique.

La Collective.be

Curation and production : Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles

Show 1125 | Impro8 by Grand8 | Radio Grenouille



Impro8 with the improvisers·ices of the practice space carried by Grand8.
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In 2016, a handful of musicians, an encounter, a sharing around improvisation, a desire and a pleasure to play together.
Grand8 was born.
Grand8 came out of a hurry, improvising, together, in a big ensemble, without an orchestra conductor·fe.

Grand8 first worked, built his music, crossed his spaces, built his community, initiated his history.
Grand8 has grown to reach a membership of about fifteen musicians·nts.

Grand8 carries improvised music, in a large ensemble, without an orchestra conductor. Based in Marseille, the ensemble brings together musicians from the southern region, both national and European.

Grand8 has been in residence at GMEM-CNCM-Marseille since 2018. The ensemble works on annual creations with multidisciplinary guests and explores the intersections of musical improvisation with dance, text, image, and landscape.
He also positions himself as an actor on the stage in the Southern Region with the organization of the multidisciplinary festival Grand Vertige, as well as music and dance-music sessions.

Bastien Boni (double bass), Olivier Bost (trombone), Sébastien Bouhana (drum, objects), Laurent Charles (soprano saxophone), Emmanuel Cremer (cello), João Fernandes (digital instruments), Catherine Jauniaux (voice, objects), Soizic Lebrat (cello), Magali Rubio (clarinets), Geneviève Sorin (accordion), Katherine Sowerby (percussion, vibraphone), Nicoló Terrasi (guitar), François Wong (baritone saxophone).