Axle Contemporary
a mobile artspace based in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Radio Tomada
A Mobile Community Radio Broadcast
87.9
Organized by Autumn Chacon
A Co-Production of Axle Contemporary
and
SITE SANTA FE, as part of the 12th International, Once Within a Time, curated by Cecelia Alemani
June 27- August 17, 2025
Opening Friday June 27th
2:00pm – 8:00 pm
In the Railyard Park, by the front of SITE SANTA FE, 1606 Paseo de Peralta
Listen to archived recordings of some of the broadcasts here.
Visit this page for other locations, dates, and times as they are added.
JUNE
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Friday June 27, in front of SITE SANTA FE, 2-8pm
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Saturday June 28, in front of SITE SANTA FE, 10am-4pm
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JULY
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Wednesday July 2, Canyon Road Summer Walk, 601 Canyon Rd Santa Fe 5-8pm
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Friday July 4th, in front of SITE SANTA FE, 3-7pm with Bob Haozous' Pennies for Your Silence
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Saturday July 5th, Lena Street First Saturday, Santa Fe, 12-5pm
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Friday, July 11, 3-8pm, Poeh Cultural Center, 78 Cities of Gold Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506 during the Soundings opening
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Saturday July 12, Embudo Valley Library, Dixon, 11am - 5pm (as part of the Summer Reading Program and Dixon's 300th anniversary commemoration)
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Friday July 18, Talpa Farmers Market, 8am-1pm
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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.
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Sunday July 20, Questa Farmers Market, 10am-2pm
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Saturday July 26, 11am - 6 pm, Duende Gallery, Galisteo
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Sunday July 27, 10am-2pm Cafe Fina, Old Las Vegas Trail, Santa Fe
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AUGUST
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Saturday August 2, 12-4, Museum Hill, Santa Fe
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Monday, August 4, 9am-2pm, Española Farmers Market, 1005 North Railroad Avenue
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Saturday, August 9, 8pm: Radio Tomada Drive-In Theater, 1600 St. Michael's Drive, Santa Fe
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Thursday, August 14th 4-8pm, Cara Romero Gallery, Santa Fe- opening of New Mythos
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Friday August 15, Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival, Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, Pojoaque, 9am- 3pm
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Saturday August 16, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm at SITE SANTA FE
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Saturday August 16, 5-10pm, ICA Santa Fe
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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 by using the interactive calendar above (1/2 hour segments) 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 a turntable, tape deck, CD player, and ports to plug in phones or other media players.
All broadcasts will play just outside the mobile studio and also broadcast to a range of approximately two miles via a FM transmitter in an otherwise locally unused lower range.
Autumn Chacon is a Diné/Xicana activist, community organizer, agriculturist and multimedia and performance artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chacon looks for traditional philosophy in contemporary stories and experiences drawing from her early career as a television producer. her art often includes electronic sound, sound installations, and unconventional radio frequencies in which she creates environments where an audience is free to control how much of her work they wish to receive. Autumn strives to make work that reflects her natural environment and to give voice to those around her that often live unheard.
Radio Tomada
AUDIO ARCHIVE
Saturday June 28 at SITE SANTA FE
Wednesday July 2 on Canyon Road, Santa Fe
Friday July 4 at SITE SANTA FE, Santa Fe
Saturday July 5 at Lena Street first Saturday, Santa Fe
Friday, July 11 at The Poeh Museum and Cultural Center, Pojoaque
Saturday, July 12 at The Embudo Valley Library, Dixon
Friday, July 18 at The Talpa Community Market
Saturday, July 19 at The Taos Farmers Market
Sunday, July 20 at The Questa Farmers Market
Saturday, July 26 at Duende Gallery, Galisteo
Sunday, July 27 at Cafe Fina, Santa Fe
Saturday, August 2 at Museum Hill Plaza, Santa Fe
Monday, August 4 at Española Farmers Market
Saturday, August 9 at Radio Tomada Drive-In Theater at Midtown Campus
Thursday, August 14 at Cara Romero Gallery
Friday, August 15 at Pathways
Saturday, August 16 at SITE SANTA FE
Saturday, August 16 at ICA Santa Fe
Many thanks to our group of partners in Northern New Mexico who make this project possible by providing logistics, lodging, locations, and community outreach: SITE SANTA FE, Duende Gallery, Embudo Valley Library, The Paseo Project, Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival, Poeh Cultural Center, Canyon Road Summer Walk, Railyard Art Project, Española Farmers Market, Lena Street First Saturday at Lena St. Lofts, Talpa Community Market, Cara Romero Gallery, ICA Santa Fe, Cafe Fina, Taos Farmers Market, and Questa Farmers Market.
