Radio Tomada
A Mobile Community Radio Broadcast
Organized by Autumn Chacon
A Co-Production of Axle Contemporary and SITE SANTA FE, part of the 12th International, Once Within a Time, curated by Cecelia Alemani.
June 27- August 17, 2025
Opening Friday June 27th, 2:00pm – 8:00pm, in the Railyard Park, by the front of SITE SANTA FE, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM
Visit www.axleart.com for other locations, dates, and times.
Radio Tomada wants to shake things up.
Radio Tomada wants to defend your right of free expression.
Radio Tomada wants you to speak to your community.
Radio Tomada wants your community to reflect on itself.
Radio Tomada wants to create a safe space.
Radio Tomada wonders if our idea of our free speech is an illusion.
Radio Tomada is a mobile radio broadcast platform, housed in the Axle Contemporary mobile artspace and traveling around Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico from June 27 through August 17, 2025.
Anyone can sign up to broadcast through Axle’s online portal or just show up and broadcast. Broadcasters can talk alone, converse with others, play live music, or play their pre-recorded content. Microphones will be available in the mobile broadcast studio as well as turntables, tape decks, and ports to plug in phones or other media players.
Friday, July 11, 3-8pm, Poeh Cultural Center, 78 Cities of Gold Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506 during the Soundings opening
Saturday July 12, Embudo Valley Library, Dixon, 11am - 5pm (as part of the Summer Reading Program and Dixon's 300th anniversary commemoration)
Friday July 18, Talpa Farmers Market, 8am-1pm
Saturday, July 19, Taos Farmers Market, 8am-12:30 pm, Taos County Courthouse parking lot,, at the corner of Albright Street and Paseo Del Pueblo Sur.
Sunday July 20, Questa Farmers Market, 10am-2pm
Saturday July 26, 11am - 6 pm, Duende Gallery, Galisteo
Sunday July 27, 10am-2pm Cafe Fina, Old Las Vegas Trail, Santa Fe
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AUGUST
Saturday August 2, 12-4, Museum Hill, Santa Fe
Monday, August 4, 9am-2pm, Española Farmers Market, 1005 North Railroad Avenue
Thursday, August 14th 4-8pm, Cara Romero Gallery, Santa Fe- opening of New Mythos
Friday August 15, Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival, Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, Pojoaque, 9am- 3pm
Friday August 15, 6pm-8pm and 9:30-10pm at Autumn Chacon and Laura Ortman’s experimental opera Malinxe, a contemporary reworking of the La Llorona folk tale. Location near Santa Fe, TBA
Saturday August 16, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm at SITE SANTA FE
Saturday August 16, ICA Santa Fe, evening