This month, we’re focusing on dreaming and interbeing. My body, and all its dreams become your body and all its pleasures:
Broadcasting live with gratitude from Alexis Mitchell's studio in Toronto's West End. This month, we’re focusing on pain and release, release and pain, repeat. Looking, listening, feeling, watching, wailing. By loving ourselves through struggle and mourning, we find the deepest compassion we know:
Broadcasting live with gratitude from Alexis Mitchell's studio in Toronto's West End. This month, we’re focusing on pain and release, release and pain, repeat. Looking, listening, feeling, watching, wailing. By loving ourselves through struggle and mourning, we find the deepest compassion we know:
Winter Solstice - the shortest day, the longest night. The 6th light of Chanukah, our festival of sacred reclamation, resistance, die-hard faith and service. How will you transcend your own darkness? Broadcasting live, just up the street from Lake Ontario. This month, we’re highlighting the kind of love that comes charging out of us when we commit to deep, delicious, pleasureful, joyful, righteous self-love. This love transforms us and our communities. It allows us to escape to freedom. It lifts itself up from lying in the street, immobilized to reaching transcendence, through the signal of song.
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It's a new secular year, with new moon in Aquarius and another Mercury Retrograde riding her coattails. The Republic is ready to roll, come what may - broadcasting from Radiodress' new apartment in the century old, Garden City-style Spruce Street co-op, just up the street from Regent Park.
This month, we're thinking about home in all its shapes: housing stability/precarity, nation-states and our sacred temple-bodies. We're paying homage across the winter airwaves to the 4 and counting deaths of homeless folks in Toronto. We're longing for a progressive Jewish articulation of diaspora and how violence in Paris doesn't have to translate into support for the Zionist project. We're trying trying trying to open our hearts, and make a move to heal through our communities, our interconnectedness and some fine transformative beats.
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This episode, we're racing towards vernal equinox with a new moon and a solar eclipse for this part of the world to boot. Time to get all our generative, new life processes in order. Time to choose ease and love over struggle and separation. Go, team.
This month, we're thinking about the incredible challenges that love energy presents. Are we ready for it? I mean, really ready? When love comes to town, it's easy to catch that train, but when love comes with vulnerability, pain, history and fear of loss, how do we dance with that? How do we dance with an idea/emotion/sensation we can barely hold? Spring in the Republic is all about Holy Insecurity; kind and curious, gentle and waiting. We're exploring all the forms of love that MLK taught makes us whole: Eros, Agape, Philia.
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This episode, the Republic of Love is exploring relations and relationship. We're shedding ourselves of shame and self-pity in order to make space for a shift in perspective. Or, if not a shift – the simple awareness that we are living in just that: our perspective. Taking the Kabbalistic invitation to choose positive over negative by turning your point of reference upsidedown, your loyal host Radiodress, will careen through questions of hir-self, The Self, and this political body we all live inside of. Plus the usual mix of unusual music and mystical musings.
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A *special live* performance/broadcast Friday, August 14 2015 at 5:30pm. This new moon, the Republic of Love is migrating to Jess Dobkin's Artist-Run Newstand kiosk at Chester Subway in Toronto.
Celebrating the eve of Panagia in our host neighbourhood of Greektown, in that odd colonial habit of naming a handfull of city blocks by the settlers that once lived there. Panagia is the Greek name for the Virgin Mary, and she is lauded across the country with feasts and assumptions large and small.
The Republic hails her humble power by featuring a live set of Rebetiko vinyl, lovingly collected by DJ Zora. This Greek urban folk form beautifully hybridizes European melody with Byzantine form and modes – ah; hybrid is just how we like it. We'll also have a fabulous interview with Trinidadian artist Marlon Griffith and Emelie Chhangur, curator at the Art Gallery of York University on Marlon's incredible cultural hybrid, positively political processional, Ring of Fire. Also, as always music and mystical musings from your humble host-Priestess-in-training, Radiodress.
This episode is devoted to return in all its depths and multitudes: Earth's birthday, fall equinox, and the brutal seeking that so many migrants from the Middle East are facing. In this month of repair and redemption, The Republic of Love is holding space for the fragility of our spaceship earth, our lovable alien hearts and the little flying souls that circle and re-circle. All the pain and all the elation our human bodies can handle, one hand in the other.
We'll be celebrating the Jewish high holy days with an inspired Haftarah creation by Kohenet Shoshana Bricklan; civil servant, crocheter of vulvas and singer of prophecy. We'll be feeling into the grief, confusion and great loss of the recent murder of artist Nadia Vera in Mexico alongside 4 other artists and cultural workers with an interview with a friend and colleague of Nadia's. Finally, we'll be weaving readings from Olie Stephano's fabulous, poetic 'zine, Star Frosting with the music of electronic wizards Sam Shalabi and Stefan Cristoff. As always, expect mystical musings from your humble host.