Love Radio

Venue: Arten Theatre (2 Lusinyants St.)
Time: 21:00
Price: 3000 AMD
Language: English, with Armenian and Russian subtitles

In 1955, Radio Yerevan began broadcasting in Kurdish. Its daily programs were heard in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. At a time when Kurdish culture stood on the verge of destruction, Radio Yerevan became for many listeners a rare space of acoustic safety — a place of songs, radio plays, and their native language. As Kurds used to say: “Radio Yerevan smelled like home.”

The performance LOVE RADIO turns to this history to ask what a radio of solidarity might mean today. At the center of the piece are two young contemporary characters who decide to create their own radio station. Their radio is not a nostalgic gesture, but a counter-model: a form of resistance to the language of hate spreading through the digital sphere with unprecedented speed and scale. LOVE RADIO points toward the possibility of a different kind of broadcast — one that preserves intimacy, vulnerability, and human connection in a world saturated with propaganda and resentment.

Performers: Maral Gasparyan, Manvel Sargsyan
Author: Alexander Plotnikov