Tune in Radio Poort
Ghent, Belgium | October 2022 – May 2025

This is a project about, by and for the Brugse Poort, a neighbourhood in Ghent, Belgium. Whilst strong communities exist, they rarely interact. Sparked by an interest in community radio, we instigated this project as a means to explore community – as an idea, in everyday life, and in the ways (public) space is shared within a neighbourhood.

Using only locally sourced and waste materials from the Brugse Poort, we hosted a construction workshop at De Koer in April 2023, where we built a mobile radio station together with people from the neighbourhood. We then spent two years touring the radio station around the area. During this time, we collected content for the radio shows through audio workshops, conversations, and performances, and hosted listening events and local broadcasts for the neighbourhood. 

Find out more here.

This project was created in collaboration with Lennert Janssens with support from European Solidarity Corps, Alles Kan, De Koer and Nomadic School of Arts, and with thanks to Leontien Allemeersch, Elly van Eeghem and all the volunteers and participants along the way.