The MonkeySparrow

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A weekly radio show broadcast every Tuesday, 10.30pm, on CKUW, 95.9 fm
Hosted by hannah_g with guest writers & music lovers. 30 minutes of ideas and music.

Original Stories based on This City & Elsewhere, Essays & Letters that attempt to Comprehend The Insignificant and Too Large, and Music from a Juxtapostastic Collection of Known, New, Answered, & Fated.

It’s recommended to listen via mixcloud. Glitches are less, and you can play it on any device. Mixcloud pays royalties to the music makers also.

Meandering Chat Along the Assiniboine River 5- 2021

Meandering Chat Along the Assiniboine River 4- 2021

Meandering Chat Along the Assiniboine River  3- 2021

Meandering Chat Along the Assiniboine River 2 – 2021

Meandering Chat Along the Assiniboine River 1 – 2021

Time Fills Space by Natasha MacVoy – 18 August 2020

A Traveller’s Journey – Salma Faraji – 7 July 2020

The Bee, The Architect, and the Human by Saio Sofa Gradin – 16 June 2020

French electro pop special- monkey mix- 21 April 2020

#3- Plague Fantasies – a collaboration between Ken Gregory & hannah_g 14 April 2020

#1- Plague Fantasies – a collaboration between Ken Gregory and hannah_g – 7 April 2020

Some Poems by Carrie Rhys-Davies – 24 March 2020

On Fire mix- 10 March 2020

A Reading by Grace Han – 3 March 2020

A Magpie Response to Aaron Zeghers’ Retrospective – 17 December 2019

Thoughts on Irene Bindi’s notte sopra vipere sotto – 10 December 2019

A Magpie Response to Freya Björg Olafson’s Motion AfterEffect – 5 November 2019

Yellow Stains by Jean Borbridge – 3 December 2019

A List by Rachel Crummey – 29 October 2019

Selected poems from ishq by Reza Rezaï – 23 July 2019

A Concerto by David Lewiston Sharpe – 16 July 2019

A Sawng by Matea Radic – 9 July 2019

Monkey Mix – 2 July 2019

Notes on Fluids by Madeline Rae – 4 June 2019

The Autobiography of S. Moderne/Suzanne Gillies by Suzanne Gillies and Douglas Sigurdson. 28 May 2019.

21 May 2019 mix

Soft Stitches, Pink Tongue- Jillian Groening – 14 May 2019

San Fran nights monkey mix – 30 April 2019

A Tin of Peaches by hannah_g – 23 April 2019

Monkey Mix – 16 April 2019

Monkey Mix- Sparky Goes West – 9 April 2019

Monkey Mix- Like A Prayer – 2 April 2019

Monkey Mix- dog of my heart – 26 March 2019

Monkey Mix- 19 March 2019

Monkey Mix – 5 March 2019

Monkey Mix 26 February 2019

Monkey Mix – 19 February 2019

Monkey Mix – 5 Feburary 2019

Monkey Mix- 29 January 2019

Some Writing by Gislina Patterson, 22 January 2019

I Shall Love Myself In Installments  by Jase, 15 January 2019

8 January 2019- Getting Beyond: Deaf Squab/Yoruba Drums

Sarah Atkinov, Big Thoughts, Small Space 1 January 2019

25 December 2018 mix

18 December 2019 mix

11 December 2018 mix- crys cole and greenhouse

4 December 2018 mix- MonkeySparrow

Films & video of Scott Fitzpatrick- incomplete notes – 27 November 2018

Last day/First day- a mix by monkeysparrow – 20 November 2018

Satisfied, and tickled too- a mix by monkeysparrow – 13 November 2018

Not winter yet- monkey mix, 6 November 2018

Singing and ploughing by hannah_g, 17 October 2018

miss/don’t miss mix by the monkey, 2 October 2018

From the birds –  a monkey mix, 11 September

Untucked – a monkey mix, 28 August 2018

Hickey by Davis Plett, 21 August 2018

Three Pieces by Christina Hajjar, 14 August 2018

Tall Tales by Esui Saga, 7 August 2018

Extracts by Roewan Crowe, 31 July 2018

Cyclone Season by Kat Nancy, 24 July 2018

Melty Mix by MonkeySparrow, 10 July 1018

Tall Tails: Strange Animals by Esui Saga, 3 July 2018

Transcribing by Luke Nickel, 26 June 2018

Four Days An Inch by Francesca Carella Arfinengo, 19 June 2018

A Monkey Mix for the shortest nights, 29 May 2018

An extract from Not For The World Would I Compare It To Anything by Hannah Godfrey, 22 May 2018

Scenes from Boundary Avenue, a new play from One Trunk Theatre and storytellers Abdul Razak Iyal and Seidu Mohammed, 15 May 2018

Some Poems by Sage, 8 May 2018

Tall Tails: stories of past pets loved and missed by Esui Saga, 1 May 2018

An essay by Sage, 24 April 2018

Peach Satin Slippers by Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler, 17 April 2018

Two Poems by Lissie Rappaport, 10 April 2018

Cyril and Donald Eat Ethiopian by Saz Massey, 3 April 2018

The Day My Dad Found Out Ellen DeGeneres is Gay by Ugonna Chigbo, 27 March 2018

More Beginnings & Ends by Christine Kirouac, 20 March 2018

Health & social predictors: applications to public housing (an extract) – Aynslie Hinds, 13 March 2018

Language Games – Mariana Muñoz Gomez, 27 February 2018

The Bird Who Spoke by Nic Wilson, 20 February 2018

Writing by Jennifer Ilse Black, 6 February 2018

A story by Chelsea Peters, 9 January 2018

Hillway by Ericca Godfrey, 26 December 2017

Monkey mix 5 December 2017

nN17 mix by the Monkey, 14 November 2017

Garbage by Saz Massey, 7 November 2017

31 Oc0tober 2017: Monkey mix

24 October 2017: A Monkey Mix

17 October 2017: Pale Pink Sky by Meghan Zahari

10 October 2017: Ricin: A Cellular Assassin by Saz Massey

29 August 2017: A Metal Mix by Colton Rempel

22 August 2017: Birds and Songs for Lynx Eye Lew

15 August 2017: Poems by Colin Smith

13 June 2017: Monkey Mix

6 June 2017: Some Poems by Julian Kirchmann

30 May 2017:  Trichy Situation an essay by Saz Massey

23 May 2017: Beginnings and Ends: Episodes Of Online Dating with Christine Kirouac

16 May 2017: Monkey Mix

4 April 2017: Xs & Os by Elise Dawson

28 March 2017: Three Buckets by Andrew Lodwick

14 March 2017: Deaf And Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders and the Potential Of Progressive Studios by Kristin Nelson

7 March 2017: Poems By Andrew Eastman

28 February 2017: Music for Thinking- a MonkeySparrow mix

21 February 2017: Also As Well Too talk by Kegan McFadden Part 2

14 February 2107: The Famous Goose Wurlitzer of Portage & Main- Fundrive special

7 February 2017: Also As Well Too talk by Kegan McFadden Part 1

31 January 2017: The Ocean, a reading by Cecilia Araneda from her novel.

24 January 2017: Poems by Jaz Papadopolous

Tenth     &    Seventeenth     January 2017:  mixes (excuse the Judas Priest intro)

3 January 2017: OK, 2017 a mix by the Monkey

27 December 2016:Big Picture Attempts: a mix by the Monkey

20 December 2016:Not Christmassy At All: a mix by the Monkey

13 December 2016: Institutional Generosity a paper delivered at The Wnnipeg Effect Symposium by hannah_g

6 December 2016: Another Kind Of Desire a story by Jeremiah Gibbons

29 November 2016: Music by the Monkey

22 November 2016: A poem For Helga by hannah_g

15 November 2016: The Early Years by Ericca Godfrey

8 November 2016: An extract from Shopping Cart Pantheon by Jeanne Randolph

20 September 2016: On ‘A Doll’s House’ an essay by Adrielle Parley

13 September 2016: Lilacs: an essay by Kegan McFadden

sixth and twenty-seventh September 20167- mixes by MonkeySparrow

23 August 2016: Lessons From A Nude Man– a story by Donna Besel

second     ninth      sixteenth    thirtieth   Monkey music mixes from august 2016

19 July 2016: Corduroy & Cigars– a mix by Marisa Godfrey

12 July 2016: Our Darling Arlington by Choi Ho

5 July 2016: Reading by Murat Ates

28 June 2016: Extract from Shopping Cart Pantheon ready by the author Jean Randolph

21 June 2017: Some things I Have Tried by Doreen Girard

17 May 2016: A story by Eric Plamondon

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10 May 2016: Music to bring back the sun: a mix by the Monkey

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3 May 2016: With Sufficient Distance: extracts from an essay by Jeanette Johns

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26 April 2016: Drinking The Finger Bowl: an essay by Alex King

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12 April 2016: The In Betweens: an essay by Alison James

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5 April 2016: Where Are All The Textile Artists? an essay by Jennifer Smith

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22 March 2016: The Landscape Of Death– an essay by Tricia Wasney

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15 March 2016 : Tolstoy Gets Lyrical- a reading.

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9 March 2016: Baby Class– an essay by Esther Simmonds MacAdam

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22 February 2016: Valdes The Barber: a story by hannah_g

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9 Feburary 2016: The Scarf of Doom- Fundrive special. A story by hannah_g

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26 January 2016: Poetry reading: Ted Hughes, Joanne Epp, Carol Ann Duffy

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19 January 2016: ThinkCog by Kevin Doole

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12 January 2016: Skating: a story by hannah_g

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5 January 2016: A Week In Martinique – an essay by hannah_g

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2015


24 November 2015: Why Matthew Sawatsky Is Not Like Gertrude Stein– an essay by C. Graham Asmundson

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17 November 2015: Remembering Music – an essay by hannah_g

What Song Grabbed You By The Heart & Got You Into Music? – a mix by BossRoss

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10 November 2015: a mix by Craig Claire

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3 November 2015: on Loving Bodies– an essay by Victoria King

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3 November 2015: Poetry Readings & Music- selections by Matthew Sawatsky

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27 October 2015: Halloween Hauntings In The Home: Horror & Interior Design

an essay and mix y Hannah Nutmeg Crosson

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 20 October 2015: Lost Souls an essay by Liberty Karp. Mix by hannah_g.

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 13 October 2015: Witches & Feminism an essay and mix by Helga Jakobson

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6 October 2015: Brushes With The Supernatural a ramble by hannah_g

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29 September: Nanny Odjig & The Gleaners by hannah_g

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22 September: Nanny Odjig by hannah_g (a story in response to Tiverton Museum artefacts)

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15 September: A Few Notes On Loneliness by hannah_g

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8 September: Summer, Autumn, September- David Cain and Ronald Duncan from The Seasons; ‘I loved you’- by Alexander Pushkin

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1 September: For Amusement Only– an essay and mix by Courtney R. Thompson

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24 August: Marital Dissolution & The Art Of Confession– an essay by Bryan Goertz

Songs of failure; songs of hope – a mix by Bryan Goertz

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18 August: Poems by A. Nowlan and Jesse Matas

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11 August: A Few Notes On Pain an essay by hannah_g

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28 July listen via mixcloud |   download via CKUW

Natalie Daoust: A Cracked Spider Egg an essay by hannah_g

21 July listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Watermelon ice cream by hannah_g

Canoeing with Avi by hannah_g

14 July listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

100% Birgitta by hannah_g

7 July listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Being Watched an essay by hannah_g


30 June  listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Travel Shorts: 31J; Cristina; Dawn Chorus by hannah_g

Greek, Iranian, Tanzanian, Jamaican, & Chinese folk music mix.

 23 June   listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Poems: Train Journey by Judith Wright; Adlestrop by Edward Thomas

Essay: I Want A Train by Jamie Wright

16th June   listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Response: New Zealand vs China – The Hadron Effect by hannah_g
Essay: Authority, Power, and Evan Soloman by hannah_g

9th June    listen via mixcloud  |   download via CKUW

Poems: Frank O’Hara & Elizabeth Bishop

Essay: Feeling A Little Queer by hannah_g

2nd June    listen via mixcloud  |   download via CKUW

Poems: Margaret Atwood & Selima Hill

Essay: Listening to Tennis by hannah_g


5th May     listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Extract from Chicago Of  The North- I, by hannah_g
Essay: “Dwell. Separate. (Upon Estate: A Reverie)”, by hannah_g

12th May     listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Response: Natasha Torres Garner solo, Vampire Alberta Blues, by hannah_g

Extract from Chicago Of  The North- II, by hannah_g

Essay: “Micro Mobility”, by hannah_g

19th May   |  listen via mixcloud|   download via CKUW

Response: Steven Leyden Cochrane’s exhibition, Screen Wall at RAWGallery

Response: Rosemary Scanlon’s exhibition, X-ray Lake, KIAC, by hannah_g

Extract from Chicago Of The North- III, by hannah_g

25th May   |  listen via mixcloud   |   download via CKUW

Essay: A Bolt, by hannah_g

Extract from Chicago Of The North- IV, by hannah_g