Arts

IWD 2012

In 2012 3CR is celebrating International Women's Day with 24 hours of women's only radio as well as a street party and live outside broadcast. Tune in on Thursday 8 March for diverse and radical women's voices on the airwaves - current affairs, science, music, poetry, books, human rights, music, laughter and much more will be part of the feast of women's talents and voices on 3CR 855AM, 3CR Digital and 3cr.org.au

 

Over the past 12 months 3CR has created extraordinary radio from the grassroots: live coverage from Occupy Melbourne and the Tent Embassy, Visioning Justice,
Congratulations to Sally Goldner (pictured) and Peter Goad, 3CR programmers who have been recognised for their fabulousness. Sally Goldner was listed lucky number 7 on the Age Melbourne Magazine's Top 100 Influential and Creative People. Sally produces and presents Out of the Pan on Sundays from 12-1pm and was acknowledged for her advocacy and campaigning on transgender rights.

Everyone is welcome to come along to the Beyond the Bars 8 CD launch on Wednesday 16 November from 6-8pm. Hosted by broadcaster and singer/songwriter Kutcha Edwards, there'll be speakers, performers, as well as light refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages.

3CR's Jazz on a Saturday show is celebrating 35 years on air. Tune in during October and celebrate the program’s history and jazz in Melbourne, including a live broadcast from the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz on 29 October. Jazz on a Saturday first went to air on the 2 October 1976. Today the show is still doing what it started out to do - broadcasting great jazz and news about the jazz scene. Tune in each Saturday from 4 - 5.30pm.

Join Women on the Line for an evening of love gone wild. Come along to see Tabloid - a documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

Tickets are $20 and all proceeds go to the object of our obsession - 3CR. The film starts at approximately 7pm on Thursday 22 September at Cinema Nova Lygon Street, Carlton. Please RSVP your love and attendance to womenontheline@hotmail.com

Who are you and what's your program?
We're Kate Reid and Suzy Steininger. Lazy Wednesday Afternoon is a theme-based show where we play songs related to a topic chosen from the weeks media.

How long have you been on the air?
Coming into our 8th glorious year... (Thought we'd never make it past the first week!) [Read more...]

Got a Friday free this month? Come down to The Old Bar in Fitzroy from 2-4pm for Burning Vinyl broadcasting live! Every week will be another couple of fabulous free performances by some top musicians, so come down to unwind, enjoy some music and a drink, and support live music, Burning Vinyl and 3CR! Each week will be different, so don't miss out!