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Yollocalli
by Yollocalli Arts Reach
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 Chicago’s 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 Robert R. McCormick Foundation for their continued support.
Episodes
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Wattz Up! - Queer Radical Fair 2026 Recap
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 32 Episode 4: QUEER RADICAL FAIR 2026✨📻 🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM Join us this Saturday as we do a recap on Queer Radical Fest At Ping Tom Park! We have some vox pops coming from Lizette about some of the attendees experience at the festival. Lizette also took it back stage…
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Wattz Up! - From the Go Fest @ DuSable Museum ‘26 Recap
📻🎶WATTZ UP!! Season 32, Episode 3: From the Go Fest @ DuSable ‘26 Recap🎶📻 🗓️ Saturday @12 PM–2 PM Tune in and join us this Saturday as we head out to the 6th Annual From the Go Fest at the DuSable Museum and take you along with us. ☀️ We’ll be joined by artists, organizers, vendors, and...
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Wattz Up! - Magia en el Museo: A NMMA Special
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 32 Episode 2: NMMA recap: Magia en el Museo ✨📻 🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM Join us this Saturday as we head over to the National Museum of Mexican Art for some pretty cool vox pops by Jesus, who interviewed people at the museum about their experience, the art, and just getting...
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Wattz Up! - If I Can't Dance, Entonces is Not Mi Revolucion
Hey Hey You! Do you like to dance?💃 Do you like Reggaeton?🎵 Well oh boy will you LIKE this week’s episode. But WAIT! If that’s not your forte, no worries. We’ve got philosophy, totems, and woodworking too. Join us in a revolutionary episode as the Wattz Up crew navigate through exhibits at the...
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Wattz Up! - Wattz Newz!?
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM 📡⚡️Ep 6: Wattz Newz !? a Yollo reporting ⚡️📡 ⚡️ HEY WATTZ UP YOU GUYS! 🌎 Tune in with the Wattz Up! crew as we deliver the latest headlines, breaking stories and important conversations shaping communities around the world. Bringing you…
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Wattz Up - Walking on the Mobius Strip: Following the Desire Path
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM 📡⚡️Ep 5: Walking on the Mobius Strip: Following the Desire Path⚡️📡 👴🏾👵💾📼📞👵🏽🧓🏽👴🏻💽📜🏚️ Take our hand and walk with us as we dive into insightful interviews covering history, the importance of talking among different generations…
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Wattz Up - La Mesita Revival
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM 📡Ep 4: La Mesita Revival 📡🎶🎧 After spring break we were inspired by our archives of La Mesita and the Wattz up team decided to make something special for you ! New music from our devices, music inspired by the Artemis ll space mission, the...
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Wattz Up! - C.U. C2E2!
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31 Episode 3: C U C2E2 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM Come one come all for our yearly recap of C2E2! Join us as we interview cosplayers and artists, explore different panels and the artist alley, compare last year’s experience with this year, and listen to our crew review…
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Wattz Up! - Wattz Sprouting!
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31 Episode 2: Wattz Sprouting ✨📻 🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM Today is the Spring Equinox! Spring means new beginnings, renewals, creation and flourishing. Spring is awakening from the rest of Winter. In light of this, the crew put their heads together to consider some...
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Wattz Up! - Woofs Up! Paws Up!
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 31 Episode 1: WOOF UP! PAWS UP!✨📻 🙀Welcome to our first show in this new exciting season of Wattz Up! 🐶 We are going to explore and learn about our pets. How to take care of them, what is a service animal, what to do if you find a fluffy friend on the street, alternative...
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Wattz Up! - 10 Years From Now: Imagine a Better Future
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 30 Episode 5: Ten Years From Now: Imaging a Better Future!✨📻 🗓️ Saturday @ 12PM - 2PM ⌚️10 years from now, it’s 2035. Is this the year of flying cars, teleportation, world peace?⏳ As this year ends, we are left with more uncertainty and fear for loved ones and ourselves....
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Wattz Up! - Downfall of the Human Race... Again?
📻⚡ WATTZ UP! Season 30, Ep3: Downfall of the Human Race… again? ⚡📻 🎧🌎📉 Back in 2016 and 2020, we wondered if we were witnessing the downfall of the human race. Now, we have to ask that again in this latest edition of Wattz Up! Join the crew as they learn about and share what has been…
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Wattz Up! - Sonic Resistance
📻⚡️WATZ UP ! Season 30 Episode 2: SONIC RESISTANCE⚡️📻 🎧✊🏾🎶 Music and activism have been intertwined for generations and have been used as a method in advocating for social change. Lyrics, sounds, and beats gave artists the tools they needed to authentically communicate complex issues, unite...
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Wattz Up! - Your Horror, Your Way XI
Episode 1 Your Horror, Your Way XI ⚡️📻 🎧💀🪦Accompany the Wattz Up! team for our first episode of the fall season! Get ready for a session full of tension, spooks and unusual scenarios. Grab a snack and immerse yourself into stories surrounding this year’s theme, “What If?” What if you were…
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Wattz Up! - Xochimilco Special Project
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 29 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM 📡Ep 4: Xochimilco Special Project🛶🚣🇲🇽 As summer starts to dwindle down, so does the Wattz Up! Crew. Join us for the season finale as we connect with our roots and travel to Mexico (kinda)! The Wattz Up! crew tackle a special project on...
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Wattz Up! - Cafecito Edition: Bueno Days
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 29 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️ ☕️ Ep 3: Cafecito Edition: Bueno Days ☕️ ⚡️ This season, we’ve been going to different coffee shops around the city and getting energerized by learning with community leaders, artists, entrupenters, and much more! Join us for the final...
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Wattz Up! - Cafecito Edition: Drip Collective
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 29 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️ ☕️Ep 2: Cafecito Edition: Drip Collective ☕️ ⚡️ Are you a fellow coffee lover? If so, tune in this Saturday, July 19th for episode 2 of Wattz Up!: Cafecito Edition!!!!. Join us as we visit all kinds of coffee shops across Chicago and have...
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Wattz Up! - Cafecito Edition: Back of the Yards Coffeehouse
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 29 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️ ☕️Ep 1: Cafecito Edition: Back of the Yards Coffee House ☕️ ⚡️ Sip back, relax, and tune in to the season 29 premiere of Wattz Up! : Cafecito Edition! This season, we’re focusing on different coffee shops around Chicago and the…
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Wattz Up! - Codename: Fallen Worlds
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️ Ep 7: CodeName: Fallen Worlds ⚡️ Divergent, The Book of Eli, Hunger Games, and Interstellar What do all of these movies have in common? They’re all movies based in different dystopian worlds. From suspense to adventure to action, those...
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Wattz Up! - Your Trash, Our Treasure
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️Ep 6: Your Trash, Our Treasure ⚡️ Join us this week on Wattz Up! Our team presents Your Trash, our Treasure show, a show dedicated to all those persons that love to collect cool stuff. Hear from some of the Wattz Up! team about the meaning…
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Wattz Up! - Her Story, Her Way
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM 🌹 Ep 5: Her Story, Her Way 🌹 Join the Wattz Up! team this week as we explore the National Museum of Mexican Art’s annual Sor Juana Festival, Pop Up Youth Radio style! Join the team as we learn about the history of Sor Juana and analyze some...
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Wattz Up! - C2E2 2025 Coverage
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️Ep 4: C2E2 2025 coverage ⚡️ It’s a bird, it’s a plane…no, it’s a recap? Join us this week on Wattz Up! as the team recounts their time at C2E2 2025! In this episode, you’ll hear us talk about our experience from the convention from meeting...
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Wattz Up! - Earth... You Good?
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28 ✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️Ep 3: Earth….you good?⚡️ Reduce, reuse, repost??? OOPS! Thought about “going green” before? Worried about what “going green” even means? Whether it is changes with your food and diet or reconnecting with nature, in this week’s episode of...
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Wattz Up! - That's the Game of Life
🎲Wattz Up Season 28 Ep 2: That’s the Game of Life 🎳 Worried about life in higher education, adulting, and every other extrasessential-crisis-causing factors that comes in life? No worries, because everyone is! Join the Wattz Up! crew as we tackle life after graduation, college, jobs, bills,...
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Wattz Up! - Spring 2025 Yollo Jamz
📻✨WATTZ UP!! Season 28✨📻 🗓️ Saturdays @ 12PM - 2PM ⚡️Ep 1: Yollo Jamz⚡️ Yollocalli is back with a new radio season!! Our first episode: YOLLO JAMZ 🪩 We’ll be sharing our love to music in a deepest way, from pop, rock, electronic and experimental, 🔊 we are gonna make your speakers blast your...
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Wattz Up! - Creating Your Own Lane
The final episode of the season! Are you an artist or an aspiring entrepreneur? Have you ever thought about starting your own brand or creative business? Then you won't want to miss this episode! Tune into Wattz Up! as we dive into the creative economy, exploring its impact on Chicago communities...
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Wattz Up! - How's Mi Ingles Now? Diving into Language Barriers in Schools
Immigrant/newcomer students are here- and their language needs are changing in the face of education! On this episode, we dive into the growing wave of multilingual learners in today's classrooms, exploring how schools need to adapt and what this means for the future of education. Join us as we...
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Wattz Up! Humanz Under the Scene
Evert wonder what's under the City of Chicago? While we may not be able to answer that question in terms of geography and architecture, we can tell you all abut the punk rock/ underground entertainment industry of the Windy City! Lights, cameras, let's rock! On this episode of Wattz Up! we're...
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Wattz Up! - InterNOT: Our Journey Through the World Wide Web
Tweens are out! Sephora kids are in! On this episode of Wattz Up! we explore changes that come with the younger generations growing up and what this means for our future. Join us as we illuminate the history behind the start of the internet to how Chile once developed a communication system…
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Wattz Up! - Love the Earth, Not the World: Exploring the Roots of Wellness
Sana, sana! On this Episode of Wattz Up! we will be exploring holistic healing, social issues, as well as some captivating interviews and content from the crew! We'll be talking about "curanderos" and other different kinds of practicers. Botánicas, as well as other practices in healing the body…
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Wattz Up! - A Very Demure, Very Mindful Guide About the Election
Who is brat?! As Election Day nears, the Wattz Up! crew covers everything you need to know about this election. From covering the basics about the ballot, to seeing the nationwide impact, we are jouned by first-time voters sharing their experiences and views on the election. In this episode, we…
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Wattz up! - Your Horror Your Way X
Join the Wattz Up! crew with the 10th edition of Your Horror Your Way, where we dive into the themes of "Occupation" and "Invasion". Listen to original harrowing tales and soundscapes from scary night walks, evil phone apps, alien invasions, wars and much more that will keep you awake all night...
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Wattz Up! - Our Shared Future
⚡Wattz Up! Special: Our Shared Future⚡ In conjunction with the Smithsonian’s initiative “Our Shared Futures: Reckoning With Our Racial Past”, Wattz Up!’s Ariandy Luna and August Abitang engage with voices of the museum industry to learn how some Chicago museums address the history of racism and...
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Wattz Up! - Not In Service
🌟WATTZ UP!: NOT IN SERVICE🌟 DNC SPECIAL Wattz Up! Reporters Ariandy Luna and August Abitang took to the streets to cover the 2024 Democratic National Convention as well as some of the protests surrounding it. Tune in to hear their day by day coverage and thoughts on a hectic week in Chicago....
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Wattz Up! - Final Youth Exhibition 2024
Celebrate the Summer with Wattz Up! on our season finale at the 2024 Yollocalli Summer Exhibition taking place in the one and only @malinalligarden . Hear from Yollocalli program instructors and participants about all the amazing art and work they created throughout the summer! We will have…
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Wattz Up! - Pitchfork Music Festival Recap
⭐️ Wattz Up! Season 26 ⭐️ Episode 3: Pitchfork Music Festival Recap 🎤 🎶 The Wattz Up! crew left the radio station and headed to Union Park and explored everything Pitchfork Music Festival (@pitchforkfest) had to offer this year! Rap, country, pop, and so many other genres combined together to...
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Wattz Up! - People of Pilsen
⭐️ Wattz Up! Season 26 ⭐️ Episode 2: People of Pilsen🎙️ Join the Wattz Up! crew in a walk around Pilsen! In this episode, we had the opportunity to talk to Pilsen’s very own BIPOC local businesses and dive into their community history. From conversations of identity and gentrification to…
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Wattz Up! - This is Fine: A Beginner's Guide to Voting
⭐️ Wattz Up! Season 26 ⭐️ Episode 1: This is fine: Beginners Guide to Voting!!! 🗳️ Are you a first time voter? A seasoned voter that wants to know more about this upcoming election? Or are you generally lost? Well, don’t worry! Tune in this week as the WattzUp! Team tackles everything about...
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Wattz up! - Urban Legendz
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Wattz Up! Season 25 concludes today with a very special episode on Chicago’s lesser known wonders! Our main course is an investigative report on the fabled birthplace of all street signs...
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Wattz Up! - PUYR @ MSI
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Tune in to the Wattz Up! Team’s visit to the Museum of Science and Industry (@msichicago) as we talk to museum staff and guests alike, learn about what it’s like to work at MSI, and hear...
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Wattz Up! - Free the Homies and Their Art
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Join us this week on Wattz Up! as we learn more about the Chicago Gang database and how it affected black and brown communities here in Chicago and explore the street art scene: its...
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Wattz Up! - Saying Wattz Up @ C2E2 2024
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Do you like superheroes? Cosplay? Video games? Kpop? Horror? Well, you’re in luck! Join us this week on Wattz Up! as the team recounts their time at C2E2 2024!!! On this episode you’ll...
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Wattz Up! - Si Sabo
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Are you embarazada because you don’t know how to speak Spanish? Well, don’t be embarrassed because this Saturday, Wattz Up! is dedicating this episode to those who might feel or have…
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Wattz Up! - Let Us Be Perfectly Queer
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. We hope you’re doing lovely! This Saturday, our Wattz Up! crew dedicates this episode to you. So sit back, 'cause we're here to serve you all the flavors of the rainbow. We've…
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Wattz Up! - Viva Viva Palestina
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. On the second episode of Wattz Up! Season 25, the Wattz Up! Crew sets out to learn and educate about the history and occupation of Palestine, celebrate Palestinian food, art, and…
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La Mesita - MO MAMI
La 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. Wattz Up! Is BACK for Season 25!!! To kick it off, we got a special La Mesita show featuring the one and only...
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La Mesita - Prince of Queens
La 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. This week, the Sonic Vibes crew takes over the airwaves with a new season of La Mesita! Presenting a special...
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Wattz Up! - What the Fur?!
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. For the Season 24 Finale, The Wattz Up! Crew dives head fur-st into the world of Furries to learn more about how the fandom and community began. Listen in to hear some amazing interviews...
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Wattz Up! - X-Mas Special 2023!
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. The Wattz Up! Radio crew wishes you the happiest of holidays! On the last day of our season, we put together a special gift for you! Come listen to a special assortment of audio from the...
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Wattz Up! - Rats And Realms
Wattz up! is produced by Yollocalli Arts Reach youth and broadcast through Lumpen Radio, WLPN 105.5FM Chicago. Dungeons and Dragons has a long history, a rich lore, and many rules to learn. Nowadays, this game is more popular than ever! But what’s all the hubbub? Join us novice adventurers as we...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 Chicago’s 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 Robert R. McCormick Foundation for their continued support.
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