text reads: TIME NOT WASTED: a radio documentary looking back at 30 years of Music Waste Festival. Part 1: Hallelujah to That, 05:29. Part 2: This Secret, Unconscious, Punk Desire, 06:05. Against a background with ASCII versions of Music Waste logos 2004-2024.

✩ TIME NOT WASTED ✩ a radio documentary looking back at 30 years of Music Waste Festival

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This year, Music Waste Festival celebrated 30 years as the city’s longest running DIY music festival! Featuring interviews with past organizers and music from CiTR’s music archive, TIME NOT WASTED goes through the full history of the festival from its inception and how the festival’s different… & not so much (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

Part 1 airs May 29 at 3pm, Part 2 airs June 5 at 3pm on CiTR 101.9FM / citr.ca

Part 1: Hallelujah to That

Starting in 1994 and going through to the 2010s, we hear from past organizers and attendees to cover the basic history of Music Waste Festival and start to talk a bit about maybe the more nuanced history of its role in “Vancouver”’s arts scene.

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Part 2: This Secret, Unconscious, Punk Desire

Going over the recent history of Music Waste Festival from the early 2010s to today, we hear from past organizers and attendees on where the festival is now, the changes it’s made in the past few years, and how those changes came to be.

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TIME NOT WASTED was written, produced, and edited by Dora Dubber with support from CiTR 101.9FM staff, Ciara Reid & Aisia Witteveen.

Featuring interviews with Dustin Bromley, Natalie Corbo, Sarah Cordingley, Naomi Endale, Duncan McHugh, Laurie Mercer, Kris Mitchell, Aaron Charles Read, Eleanor Wearing, & Lee Young. All music featured in this documentary can be found in CiTR’s music library.