Radio
Radio like no other medium has the ability to transmit diverse ‘voices’ and ‘accents’ to a wide range of audiences and to simultaneously transport the listener into different places, situations and stories.
Because radio plays an important role in re-imagining and linking up disparate communities, it is arguably an ideal media format to engage with the lived reality of migration. Exploring what the late US radio broadcaster, Studs Terkel, calls ‘an oral history of the unknowns’.
A space is emerging in FOMACS for the piloting of different radio projects and the transfer of skills, knowledge and experiences between participants. This initiative provides participants with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their worlds.
Check out the current project ‘Having your Voice Heard’, a radio mentoring programme with migrant women who have been involved in media before coming to Ireland and wish to continue working in the media industry.
Other projects include a radio programme by journalist, Colin Murphy, on Ireland’s recent local elections (June 5th 2009) where 40 immigrants stood as candidates.
See PROJECT LINKS for like-minded radio projects around the globe.