This Week on RadioACTive, M-F at 6PM

Weeknights from 6-7 PM, RadioACTive passes the mic to grassroots activists, community builders, punk rock farmers, and DIY makers and musicians. Get More Local, More Vocal this week with:

Monday, Aug. 31: What happens when a timid Catholic school student starts a punk band with her friends and accidentally becomes a local icon? Edie Arnold is a Loser, an indie comedy filmed in Utah and opening in SLC this weekend. RadioACTive Pop! gets a sneak peek and closes out #UtahMusicMonth with the music of Chac Xol, Jazzy Olivo and Amadora, the all-local lineup for this year’s Voces En Bloom. 

Tuesday, Sep 1: Roundtable Tuesday talks with UoU Professor Dwain Coleman, who will give the keynote address—Fight! Fight Hard! Black Civil War Soldiers, Birthright Citizenship, and Voting Rights in America—at this year’s Tell the Story History Forum: Defending Freedom. Sema Hadithi’s Alice Burch and historian Rachel Quist with another installment of Black History is Utah History. Plus, A Bad Poet's Guide to Mental Health & Resilience, SLC Brazil Day Festival and Salt Lake Book Festival.

Wednesday, Sep 2: Nick @ 6 and the RadioACTive Team pass the microphone to several groups doing environmental work in the community: Youth Coalition for Great Salt Lake, Get to the River Festival - Love Your Watershed, Zion Forever Project, and a grassroots movement getting organized to preserve the open space and community focus of three SLC elementary schools slated for closure.

Thursday, Sep 3: RadioACTive Workshop welcomes Hey Coach's Brian Preece and 3XSC Wrestler Ben Kjar on 'Disobeying Average.' Plus, Voices Amplified, Great Salt Lake Hopeline and Queer Student Union of Utah.

Friday, Sep 4: Punk Rock Farmer Friday with Aldine brings you homegrown music with Balduvian Bears, a Coldwave/Post-Punk project by artist and producer Zachary Anderson. Plus, More True Tales of the Agrihood with CA organic farmer Javier Zamora, and SkyWatcher Leo T with Many Cultures One Sky.