program sound fm is an internet radio station for storytellers and storylovers.

programsound.fm’s second broadcast is ‘the radio station show’ running june 19-25, 2023.

hosted by a motley crew of eccentric radio hosts, ‘the radio station show’ is a whimsical one week digital broadcast that will feature audio stories of all shapes, sizes and textures from storytellers of all kinds, from all over the world!

what is programsound.fm?

instead of an analog frequency dial, the stream of sound comes through an audio player on a website and, in our case, the sounds you hear are filled with stories from all across turtle island. 

programsound.fm uses the medium of radio to foster connection across distance, offering an invitation to listen and maybe even get to know each other a little better. while the pandemic has kept us apart, it also has brought us together by pushing us further online and creating the conditions for accessible, national collaboration. what if we stayed connected? 

from beneath the prairie skies of treaty one territory to the unceded coast salish lands on the west to the unceded mi’kmaq lands to the east and all the way into inuit territory in the north, this is an opportunity to tune into a constellation of stories that beam through the void to let us know we are not alone.

who are you and why are you doing this?

we are a collective of diverse, equity-seeking theatre artists working together to explore the potential of an online radio station dedicated to storytellers on turtle island.

when the pandemic began and all the theatres closed, creator and performer bahia watson came up with the idea for a radio station for storytelling, as a way for theatremakers to keep making theatre. she reached out to outside the march theatre and together they successfully applied to the canada council for the arts’ digital strategies fund to develop the idea further. lucy coren came on board as project manager and together they assembled an advisory council of artists from across the land to investigate all that an online radio station dedicated to storytelling could be. the initial research and consultation phase culminated in an experiment: a one day pilot broadcast, to test the idea and prove the concept. the experiment was a great success, and now they are back with another idea: THE radio station show. this will be a one week broadcast june 19-25, 2023.

the hope is that this radio station can become a permanent platform for creativity and connection.

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bahia watson (artistic director) + lucy coren (executive producer)

some thank yous

we are so thankful for all the support and encouragement we have received for this project as it continues to develop. we are especially grateful for generous support from: outside the march theatre and the canada council for the arts, with additional artist support from volcano theatre, theatre artaud, crows’ theatre and soulpepper theatre company.