3CR celebrates 40th birthday with exhibition

To celebrate the station's anniversary this year, 3CR will be be holding an exhibition - 'If People Powered Radio: 40 years of 3CR'.

Opening on 18 March, the exhibition is a collaboration between Fitzroy's oldest community radio station, 3CR, and one of Fitzroy's oldest galleries and studio complex, Gertrude Contemporary. 

Here's a rundown on what to expect:

It will explore the station's history of radical broadcasting and how it has thrived in its endeavour to foreground the often unheard voices of Aboriginal people, women, workers, ethnic and GLBTIQ communities, people with disabilities, environmentalists, artists and musicians. The exhibition will present a combination of recordings, technological hardware, photographic and textual documents from the station’s vast historical archive. Newly commissioned artworks by local artists will frame and interpret the station’s history of radical broadcasting. 'If People Powered Radio' presents an opportunity to explore the politics of broadcasting and listening, and the different material and aesthetic supports that facilitate 3CR’s engagement with its diverse and progressive publics.

Throughout the month, Friday evenings will feature 2-hour live broadcasts from the exhibition space featuring campaigns, current affairs and local musicians, and a Saturday evening live broadcast of 3CR's experimental music program, Let Your Freak Flag Fly.

The exhibition runs until 23 April.