G.A.N.G. Gang (Good And Nice, Great!) is Radio Skidrow’s BIPOC Youth Collective. The aim of this collective is to meet, share and develop skills around media practice with a critical mind and an understanding of media’s power to shift culture. By promoting this school of thought, we hope to create…
Another area that many say is likely to lose most of its state-owned housing in Glebe. Home to Indigenous, migrant and working class families for decades, Glebe has history with urban development that makes it an interesting case of both renewal and gentrification. In the 1970s, housing owned by the…
In March 2012, PlayWriting Australia worked with the RadioPLAY project at Radio Skid Row through their Outreach program, delivering workshops for a group of emerging writers to learn more about playwriting and radio drama. Six new writers came together to be mentored by Peter Polites along with guest mentors, Jane Bodie…
Hindy was one of the founding members of the team who still drops in occasionally to do an Afrika Connexions show. Forever elusive we have not been able to find one photo of him. How do you find Hindy? You don’t, he finds you – and we are still waiting.
History Skid Row is a project launching in 2022 that will take a deep dive into the rich and vibrant history of the past close to forty years of Radio Skid Row. From interviews with Skid-Rowers from the early days to speaking to those who are still around today –…
South Africa’s high-selling artist in the 1980s and 1990s, Lucky Dube is easily one of the more famous reggae names not to come out of Jamaica. Feeling that the genre of reggae could easily carry the Struggles of South Africans, Lucky Dube wrote this song in 1991 for all the…
About I Am Active! I Am Active! is a Radio Skid Row project that celebrates activists in our community and the role they play as agents of change. Radio Skid Row has a long and proud history of involvement in community activism across a wide range of political, cultural and…
If you live in the inner west, chances are you have heard about the Greenway Project. What you probably didn’t know is that the project started with a handful of passionate people. Jug Agius was one of them. Friends of Greenway is a community group that started a campaign which…
Kid Row Kid Row engages with the youngest members of our community bringing a sense of joy, fun and play into the station. The idea started from wanting to create a space for the children of broadcasters who could come in and see what their parents got up to and…
Kwame got involved with Afrika Connexions when as a taxi driver listening to the program he decided to drive to the station and meet the guy who was talking about Africans on the radio. It was Paul Thusi on air. Paul never missed an opportunity to get another person involved…