Oct 17 - Nov 7, 2025, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, ON


Application deadline: July 1, 2025.

Radio Elsewheres (RE) invites artists, musicians, writers, poets, journalists, storytellers, and other agents and witnesses to share their projects and experiences on air through words and sound. We are looking for audio works exploring themes of borders, movement, displacement, conflict, and migration. Submissions may include sound art, ambient recordings, radio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, radio essays, DJ sets, music, sonic experiments, or other audio-based works. Content can be broadcast live or recorded in advance.

After two successful editions of Radio Elsewheres—[re.01] in Bihać (2023) and [re.02] in Sarajevo (2024), Bosnia and Herzegovina—featuring over a hundred contributors, the third iteration, [re.03], will take place in Windsor, ON, as part of Unfolding Elsewheres, an exhibition by Velibor Božović at Art Windsor-Essex from October 17 to November 7, 2025. Conceptualized and curated by Velibor Božović, artist/musician Steve Bates and art historian Claudia Zini, with support from curator Emily McKibbon, [re.03] will be broadcast from within the exhibition space and streamed online.

As an online and terrestrial low-power digital radio art project, RE explores displacement—whether voluntary or forced—of human and non-human bodies, languages, ideas, recipes, musical tuning systems, stories, botany, and more. It is equally concerned with instances of extinction, birth, decay, and re-emergence. RE operates as an event-based platform, coming together for intense periods of artistic transmission, research, and exchange before pausing to develop its online archive and plan future actions.

As a fluid assembly of human and non-human voices across languages, RE seeks to expand the meaning and possibilities of listening—to and from ‘elsewheres.’ The creative misuse of this word acknowledges both the potential and challenges of acquiring additional languages and identities.

RE investigates borders and their transgressions. Who moves? Who has moved? Who decides who moves? And what does it mean to come to rest—temporarily or permanently? RE creates a sonic space where radio and sound artworks intersect with social engagement, amplifying and shaping one another. Within this space, artists, storytellers, and listeners explore these questions through conversation and various aural interventions.

While Radio Elsewheres welcomes contributors from around the world, we particularly encourage engagement with those living in the Windsor-Detroit region and those passing through. The communities of this region have, throughout history, been both linked and separated by the Detroit River—both before and after the establishment of the Canada-US border. As one of the busiest border crossings in North America, Windsor-Detroit has long been shaped by both separation and connection—from Underground Railroad routes to contemporary migrations, from Indigenous histories of land and water stewardship to industrial and economic shifts that continue to redefine belonging. Today, as the Canada-US border is increasingly questioned, strained, and redefined—whether through debates on asylum policies, economic dependencies, Indigenous rights to free movement, or, more recently, the U.S. administration’s challenges to Canada’s sovereignty—this region remains a critical site for exploring the meaning of borders and their transgressions. Through this edition of RE, we seek to engage with voices that navigate these complexities, creating  a space for sonic reflection, resistance, and renewal at the threshold of shifting borders.

If you feel your work aligns with our interests, please send a brief project description (maximum 1 page), a short bio, and links to online support material to contact@radioelsewheres.net. Do not attach sound or video files—only online links will be reviewed. We accept new and pre-existing works.

Application deadline: July 1, 2025.

Please note that RE is currently in the process of securing funding. If successful, we will be able to offer fees for a limited number of selected contributions. 

Due to limited resources, we are not able to provide feedback on all submissions. We will only be able to contact those whose work is selected for programming. We appreciate your understanding.

Thank you,

Radio Elsewheres

[re.01] & [re.02] original content is available for listening on our archive page