Episode #10: dancing broken open, bandage off, in the middle of the fighting...

Comrades, Lovers, Friends and Kin;

Hard times call for healing vibrations, reinvention and resilience. Welcome to Republic of Love: art, cultural resistance and sacred mysticism.  On the airwaves from Toronto - Huron-Wendat, 6 Nations, 3 Fires Territory or, "the City of Living Corpses" as Emma Goldman liked to say.

We're live on-air monthly on the new moon with reviews, panels, readings and music centred on radical culture and prophecy from here at home, and around the planet.

Tune into episode #10, for a *special live* performance/broadcast Friday, August 14th 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. This month, we aim to please!

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.