Synopsis
Yollocalli Arts Reach is the award-winning youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art, we offer FREE arts and culture programming to teens and young adults. Located in the heart of Chicagos Little Village neighborhood, we serve as an open community center with studio spaces, computer lab, radio production studio, a large art library, and a creative, supportive staff and teaching artists who are always around to help, encourage, and inspire. We aim to strengthen the students creative and cultural capital by engaging them with their own cultural discourses through art making.Thank you to the McCormick Foundation for their continued support.
Episodes
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Wattz Up! - Suspicious Expedition
11/05/2023 Duration: 56minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Join Diego and Angel on one of the weirdest and mysterious shows yet! Learn all about wacky religions, Illuminati dolphins, and even a money laundering scheme with mattresses. Not only that, but join vloggers Sam and Ariandy as they traverse through a mysterious forest with unique audio pieces appearing throughout their journey. Complete with audio pieces from Jasmine and Jeremiah!
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Wattz Up! - Poli/Talks: Existence, Resistance, and Everything in Between
11/05/2023 Duration: 01h19minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. This episode is all about politics! But don’t be scared, we’re here to break it down. We talk all about what politics is and how they impact our everyday lives. From our identities to the communities we live in, politics is in everything! Most importantly, we talk about joy as a form of resistance to these unjust politics presented to us every day, especially with the upcoming elections so be sure to tune in because you might hear something you like!
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Wattz Up! - Art-n't You Glad We Didn't Say Crafts?!
11/05/2023 Duration: 01h51minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. This episode is all about the arts! Whether you sew, crochet, or illustrate, there’s bound to be something for you on our show! Discussing fashion, art and illustration, house parties, burn out, and the gaming industry.
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Wattz Up! - MINDSCAPES
10/05/2023 Duration: 01h18minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Wattz Up! Season 22 kicks off with soundscapes created by the Wattz Up! crew to immerse you into their happy places and favorite moments they hold dear
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La Mesita - Techlado
17/01/2023 Duration: 50minLa Mesita is a feature series of live performances and interviews from Wattz up! produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth, broadcast live through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Techlado, is a music producer from Chicago, Illinois who blends dark Cumbia and experimental reggaeton. He is a member of the industrial black metal punk band Ozzuario, as well as being the creative force behind the dark techno artist known as LNR TMB.
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La Mesita - La Janesita
15/01/2023 Duration: 13minLa Mesita is a feature series of live performances and interviews from Wattz up! produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth, broadcast live through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. La Janesita is a Latin American electronic producer from Chicago and is a member of JukeMx, a Mexican community inspired by footwork. Their purpose is to generate a Hispanic circle to create and promote a culture faithful to 160 bpm, not only in Mexico, but in Latin America and the world!
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La Mesita - Mila La Morena
14/01/2023 Duration: 40minLa Mesita is a feature series of live performances and interviews from Wattz up! produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth, broadcast live through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Mila La Morena is a fusion of r&b, Latin, and alternative. She incorporates all the genres she grew up with to tell her story of being Latine in the US, with heartbreak, and queerness. They have been performing in Chicago since 2018 and songwriting since the age of 5. Not to mention she has the best fits on the gram!
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La Mesita - LOS SKIN
12/01/2023 Duration: 27minLa Mesita is a feature series of live performances and interviews from Wattz up! produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth, broadcast live through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Los Skins is a chicane punk band from the south/west side of Chicago. They play all sounds from punk to cumbia, and take lots of influence from their roots and where they come from. Did we mention their drummer is only 14 years old!?
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Wattz Up! -Xmas Edition 2022
11/01/2023 Duration: 01h30minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. We are ending our season 21 with our annual holiday special! And this year it’s a reunion, featuring all the students of the YSYW Class and Sonic Vibez! Santa & company are visiting the students at Yollocalli to see if they are worthy of meeting her and going through any previous encounters they may have had with her in the past. Hopefully, some of these students can go through some of their holiday traditions, music, movies and teach us a little bit about Christmas!
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Wattz Up! - Walkable Cities
15/12/2022 Duration: 01h51minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. On this episode the team wanted to know what exactly makes a city good to walk around, so we all took on some key aspects of our neighborhoods and tried to determine what our communities need to make it better suited for a higher quality of living. We’re talking about small businesses, safety, public transportation, and of course, asking “what is a walkable city?”
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RADIO-ACTIVE: No Littering on this Show
26/11/2022 Duration: 01h51minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. On this week’s episode of Wattz Up! The team talks trash about the forsaken act of LITTERING. What happened with all the trash we produce lately? And how can we be more aware of it? We did some research for you, conduct some vox populi, dumpster dive with Yolo, learn how to recycle with Angel, and listen in on an interview with community org LVEJO by Sebastiana and Brian!
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2 Stressed 2 B Blessed
16/11/2022 Duration: 01h11minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. On this episode of Wattz Up!, the crew discusses the lows and highs of their lives. The roads, the rides, tips on how youth can balance stress and lastly, they take a trip back to the past with affirmations and letters to their younger selfs!
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Consu-Media: U R What U Watch
11/11/2022 Duration: 01h43minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. On this episode of Wattz Up!, the crew dives into their fav and most hated tropes in shows/movies, gives their media picks that helped them get through the pandemic, and sit with Polo Vega aka Trillones, therapist and meme creator, to analyze some scenes from pop culture.
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Your Horror, Your Way! 8.0
31/10/2022 Duration: 01h44minThe Fall 2022 studio and class of Your Story, Your Way! and Sonic Vibes produced this annual Halloween special edition: "Your Horror, Your Way! 8.0: Invasion". Listen to original harrowing tales and soundscapes centering around the theme of “Invasion”, from government conspiracies, privacy, environmental screams, to generational curses, wars and other horrific truths of the human kind! *Some content may be considered disturbing to some audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
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Yollo X Apple Creative Studios Recap
25/10/2022 Duration: 01h26minListen as we present a series of 15 audio stories produced by the young participating creatives in a collaboration with Yollocalli Arts Reach, Lumpen Radio and Apple Creative Studios as they share some of their experience throughout the project and biggest takeaways!
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Wattz Up! - College 101: A first gen guide
19/10/2022 Duration: 01h42minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Wattz Up! youth radio is back this fall for SEASON 21!!! For our first episode, we’ll be following radio journalist Melissa Regalado in a four-part series as she sits down to speak with first generation college students and graduates. Featuring interviews that dive into the meaningful experiences and thoughts they had going into higher academic institutions and sharing them for fellow first-gen students.
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College 101 - A First Gen College Student Pt.1
14/10/2022 Duration: 24minCollege 101: A First Gen Guide is a four-part series that speaks with first generation college students and graduates, delving into the meaningful experiences, thoughts they had going into higher academic institutions and sharing them for fellow first gen students. *Produced and hosted by Melissa Regalado
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College 101 - A First Gen College Student Pt.2
14/10/2022 Duration: 27minCollege 101: A First Gen Guide is a four-part series that speaks with first generation college students and graduates, delving into the meaningful experiences, thoughts they had going into higher academic institutions and sharing them for fellow first gen students. *Produced and hosted by Melissa Regalado
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College 101 - DACA Student Pt.1
14/10/2022 Duration: 21minCollege 101: A First Gen Guide is a four-part series that speaks with first generation college students and graduates, delving into the meaningful experiences, thoughts they had going into higher academic institutions and sharing them for fellow first gen students. *Produced and hosted by Melissa Regalado
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College 101 - DACA Student Pt.2
14/10/2022 Duration: 27minCollege 101: A First Gen Guide is a four-part series that speaks with first generation college students and graduates, delving into the meaningful experiences, thoughts they had going into higher academic institutions and sharing them for fellow first gen students. *Produced and hosted by Melissa Regalado