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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La Mesita - Kona FM
29/03/2022 Duration: 19minLa 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 Mesita is back in the Chill Space at Yollocalli with an interview and show from special guest DJ and music promoter, Kona FM!
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La Mesita - La Colocha
29/03/2022 Duration: 28minLa 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 Mesita is back in the Chill Space at Yollocalli with their first live guestL DJ La Colocha! NY, El Paso, Cd. Juarez and Chicago are the cities in which she has lived and explored from dark cumbias and tropical rhythms to the most modern music in the latinx world.
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Wattz Up! - Xmas Edition 2021
29/03/2022 Duration: 01h49minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. We are ending our season 18 with our annual holiday special! And this year it’s a reunion, featuring all the students of the YSYW Class, Studio, and La Mesita! Did we mention that the show was LIVE! Broadcasting straight outta Studio-A for our first ever live show in almost 4 seasons! Listen to our thoughts on Christmas movie classics, capitalism during the holidays, a lil Christmas history, and a very special performance by Steffy Sue on the uke!!
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Wattz Up! - La Mesita Staff Picks
29/03/2022 Duration: 58minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. In this edition, we present La Mesita “Staff Picks” where students pick LP’s from a mysterious crate of records!
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Wattz Up! - Humanz Of The Fashion Industry
16/12/2021 Duration: 01h54minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. In this edition, Wattz Up! presents various members of Chicago's fashion scene from designers to store owners and even consumers themselves, discussing the topics of thrifting, fast fashion, clothing production, and the fashion of the futureeeeeee... Featuring interviews with jewelry maker and Yollocalli’s own Zipporah Auta, owner of Comercio Popular Miguel Cervantes, Production Mode designer Jamie Hayes, and creator of Rebirth Garments Sky Cubacub. Enjoy!
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Wattz Up! - Neighborhood Reporting (Summer 2021)
16/12/2021 Duration: 01h11minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. In this week, Wattz Up! presents a series of investigative podcasts created by the Your Story, Your Way students in collaboration with City Bureau fellows! We researched and reported on the topics of collective power and environmental justice in Chicago’s Little Village community: In "Our Collective Power", we take a look into the Defund CPD campaign and see what kind of narratives are believed about police abolition in our community. “Looking at Unequal Green Spaces” reports the disparities in Chicago’s natural parks and green spaces, comparing the north to west and southside and highlighting what community residents think on the issue. “Food Sustainability” discusses how we can adequately make food accessible to the people who live in our neighborhoods on the west and southside, speaking with the organizers of The Love Fridge Chicago and Mercado de Colores.
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Wattz Up! - The One Where Yollo Gets Cancelled
16/12/2021 Duration: 01h44minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. In this episode, the youth explore the topic of cancel culture, discussing its pros and cons as well as creating a long list of people, institutions, and ideas that we are OVER featuring responses from the Yollocalli insta story! Including audio pieces from students of the Your Story, Your Way class, as well as an interview with artist, activist and scholar.
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Wattz Up! - Mursic Show
15/12/2021 Duration: 52minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. We’re starting the season off with a good ole Music Jamz
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Your Horror, Your Way! 7.0
15/12/2021 Duration: 01h28minThe Fall 2021 studio and class of Your story, your way! and La Mesita produced this annual Halloween special edition: "Your Horror, Your Way! 7.0: La Villita Maldita". Unique audio pieces depicting strange and unusually familiar curses in a small remote village far far away. Or could it be our back yard? *Some content may be considered disturbing to some audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
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Our Collective Power By August Abitang & Cynthia Salgado
14/12/2021 Duration: 29minA series of podcasts made by the Your Story, Your Way interns in collaboration with City Bureau fellows at virtual Yollocalli in Summer 2021, researching and reporting on the topics of collective power, environmental justice, and urban agriculture in Chicago’s Little Village community. "Our Collective Power" podcast takes a look into the Defund CPD campaign and see what kind of narratives are believed about police abolition in our community, with special guest Tynetta Hill-Muhammad, Chicago community organizer and abolitionist.
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Looking At Unequal Green Spaces By Emmanuel Ramirez & Jennifer Lara
14/12/2021 Duration: 29minA series of podcasts made by the Your Story, Your Way interns in collaboration with City Bureau fellows at virtual Yollocalli in Summer 2021, researching and reporting on the topics of collective power, environmental justice, and urban agriculture in Chicago’s Little Village community. “Looking at Unequal Green Spaces” reports the disparities in Chicago’s natural parks and green spaces, comparing the north to west and southside and highlighting what community residents think on the issue. Featuring a special interview with a mental health specialist.
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Food Sustainability By Adrian Villanueva, Miles Juarez & Nidya Jurado
14/12/2021 Duration: 28minA series of podcasts made by the Your Story, Your Way interns in collaboration with City Bureau fellows at virtual Yollocalli in Summer 2021, researching and reporting on the topics of collective power, environmental justice, and urban agriculture in Chicago’s Little Village community. “Food Sustainability” discusses how we can adequately make food accessible to the people who live in our neighborhoods on the west and southside, speaking with the organizers of The Love Fridge Chicago and Mercado de Colores.
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La Mesita - La Armada
14/12/2021 Duration: 14minLa 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. *Featuring: La Armada
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La Mesita - Rosalba Valdez
14/12/2021 Duration: 16minLa 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. *Featuring: Rosalba Valdez
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LaMesita - The Mini Projects
14/12/2021 Duration: 29minLa 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. *Featuring: The Mini Projects
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La Mesita - Tone Zone Skam
14/12/2021 Duration: 28minLa 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. *Featuring: Tone Zone Skam, A Latin Ska band
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Wattz Up! On Quarantine - La Mesita @ Pitchfork Media Festival 2021
14/12/2021 Duration: 38minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. In this episode, Wattz Up! /La Mesita presents a recap of the most exciting moments, performances, festival experiences, as well as interviews with attendees and vendors like Feel Trip Records. **Feat music of Ela Minus, Thundercat, Yaeji, Kelechi Agwuncha, Erykah Badu. Enjoy!!
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Wattz Up! On Quarantine - La Mesita @ Ruido Fest 2021
14/12/2021 Duration: 01h35minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Did you miss Ruido Fest this year? Boohoo Well, your in luck! In this episode, the Yollocalli Media team presents everything that went down at Ruido, from live music, festival experience, and special conversations with festival guests and artists like Kaina, Nahuales Underground, El Chisme, Margaritas Podridas, and Lido Pimienta! Enjoy!!!
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Wattz Up! On Quarantine - La Mesita: Change It Up!
14/12/2021 Duration: 45minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. **Wattz Up! is practicing staying home and social distancing, so the youth broadcasted straight from the comfort of their couches! In this edition, La Mesita student presents special conversations among the team for an exploration on music genres and their roots. Enjoy!
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Wattz Up! On Quarantine - Modern Day Tribalism
13/10/2021 Duration: 01h25minWattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. **Wattz Up! is practicing staying home and social distancing, so the youth broadcasted straight from the comfort of their couches! This week the Yollocalli Youth discuss the topic of tribalism; highlighting its effects in high school when we separate ourselves into cliques, within immigration when we have to assimilate to new cultures, and even in gaming where the exclusion of women is prevalent in online interactions. With very special and exclusive content including a "Mean Girls" inspired audio-piece, interviews about sexism and discrimination within gaming, and an interview with a parent discussing her immigration story. Enjoy!