Mushroom Radio is a box—a radio / broadcasting platform, located at The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and run by its students.

The intention is to find or create a space for people to shape their voices togehter, share discoveries, works, music, to speak and listen each other, to react together.

It has been passed from one hands into the others and will continue to do so and change. Initiated by Esther Vane, Benjamin Earl and Jack Bardwell in 2019, currently managed by Klaudia Orczykowska, Andre Kahveciyan and Vlad Omelinaneko.

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10th November 13:00–13:45
Non Linear Narrative taking over Mushroom Radio box, broadcasting interviews with artists from the exhibition "Archival F(r)ictions" speaking about their research process.

End of November
Collaboration with Tabaria Cafe. More information soon.

Thursday 24 October 2024

delivering the souppp and spooky vibes

We celebrated Halloween and upcoming break in the courtyard. The sun hid and everything got a bit delayed because of assessments—sorry and thanks everyone who waited... The plan was to have a screening from Student Filmclub do pumpkin carving, have a workshop from KABK School Newspaper, play music, have a performance and eat pumpkin soup. Everything happened in some shape or form (except the workshop). Malva also made negroni (it was also her birthday!)

Wednesday 9 October 2024

food & our setup.

Cooking with KABK Gardens, opening new Mushroom Radio session with its launch. Eating together. Together with music and performance.

Thursday 27 June 2024

It was extremely fun, hope you enjoyed the rhubarb sorbet. Thank you everyone involved (Duco from Garage Noord and Ben, all our guests and visitors).


A long day @ Garage Noord—12 hours of music, talks, lives, spoken word and dancing together with a long list of guests.

The day program (15:00–22:00) consists of Mushroom Radio regular show, Botti + Enjoy w some vinyls, talk with Femke Dekker + Ash Kilmartin, storytelling + spoken word by Ranye w her Echobox show Hidden Tales as Given, babyganoush playing cool Swedish hip hop, live performance by MXCHXXL—Zeynep + Benjamin, more hip hop DJing w MilkyWay, sounds of interlude + ending w music of our own orczi96.

During the night (22:00–03:00) we have bahati, DJ Serene, corecore and waltur!

We’re very happy with the music and sounds we have brought together for this one!

15:00–15:45 MR (regular program)
15:45–16:30 Jonas & Liam
16:30–17:15 Femke Dekker + Ash Kilmartin
17:15–17:30 Hidden Tales as Given
17:30–18:15 Loma Doom
18:15–19:00 baby ganoush
19:00–19:45 MXCHXXL (live)
19:45–20:15 MilkyWay
20:15–21:15 interlude
21:15–22:00 orczi96
22:00–23:00 bahati
23:00–24:00 DJ serene
00:00–01:00+ waltur
01:00–02:00+ corecore

Thursday 23 May

joining in The School Newspaper Office in the KABK library for the launch / reading of the second issue “Support”.

Wednesday 22 May

corecore playing some tracks to close the second courtyard radio. thank you corecore for the conversation but we close of the radio with music xx


live w DJ Aki + MYNRGY from the courtyard

get the mushroom radio box down some stairs, we found out there’s an easier way these days.

Wednesday 15 May

project4equality taking over the radio again

Starting our broadcast today at 13:12 instead of usual 13:11. We are mad at all the terrible responses of the police and dutch institutions to the students, protests, and the genocide that is happening. We have the IST Tuning In: Sonic Storytelling coming by to share what they have been up to this semester, and project4equality takes up the space w a conversation about decolonisation (practices), trying to examine the role of modern day feminism. acab

*QSL by our Klaudia

Wednesday 24 April

it was really fun (and windy?) thanks to everyone playing and coming by. soon another outside special—we hope—when it’s better weather?

we know it’s cold, but the show must go on?

We do a bit of reading, play some music, have a break, eat some snacks, listen and enjoy each others company.

13:11 Student Union w an important announcement
13:33 Mushroom Radio 111 w some music and a bit of chatting
15:01 Ivo + Malva from The School Newspaper w a reading of Names Text
15:11 ms palace, w story telling, ambient
16:11 Hanna Burgers w jazz, soulfoul DJ set
17:11 talking limerence w some words, tracks and references
17:33 huntjjj
18:11 bahati
19:11 orczi
(and spoken word)
20:11 dobranoc8300 w some DJing.
21:11

*QSL illustration by our very own Sam

Open call for our courtyard special event on 24.04.24

Wednesday 17 April

As you may know, we were at Rewire festival in Den Haag as press people and this is an episode dedicated to it. Really fun. Talking about our experiences there, playing a performance, that we also did during rewire on the Radio WORM, having some guests, sharing new discovered music and chatting about how nice the weather and the city was. Talking with Zeynep Burça Oral + Femke Dekker about music, events, clubs in general and in The Hague.

*QSL illustration by the one and only Dennis Farnsworth

Wednesday 10 April

project4equality is live, talking about about beauty standards in relation to decolonial lense

Mushroom Radio111 is happening again tomorrow. We have project4equality coming over. Talking about rewire experience a bit, unless we decided to keep it for the next week. Sam doing a bit of youtube DJing. Andre doing interview w Melle Blits from Hemony about the release of the record, talking about Jeanne Dielman film screened by Student Film Club. Playing Klaudia’s mix.

*QSL illustration and lettering by bestie Luka Jee

Saturday 6 April

Picture of us before the show @ Rewire

Much fun at Rewire! Mushroom Radio as part of Radio WORM’s broadcast, streamed from a booth @ The Grey Space in The Middle. Sound collage reflecting our experience.

*QSL card by us—Andre Kahveciyan, Vlad Omelianenko, Klaudia Orczykowska

Wednesday 3 April

A bit busy with preparation for our participation in Rewire this weekend—discussing that live and playing some music in the other time. Exciting! + discussed Easter + ML Buch appreciation episode.

*Beautiful QSL illustration done by dear Ester Gasparova

Wednesday 27 March

Feeling sick, Fit Check, Solstice Collective, Malva’s Dad’s Birthday

*QSL Illustration by one and only Baroeg Mulder

Friday 22 March

The mushroom radio box is used to do a broadcast for Design Research class w Marthe Prins + Benjamin Earl where students of design research class share their sonic part of research together in groups, together in conversation.

—set up
—introduction
—Breakfast Show
—break/switchover
—Footnotes show
—break/switchover
—Spirals show
—break/switchover
—maximisation show
—break/switchover
—tennis/ping-pong show

Wednesday 20 March

inside was boring, catch us outside. GREEN COURTYARD. THE SUN IS OUT BABYY. LIVE there.

Chatting with the school newspaper. Having some people over for playing on the ddj-400. Going outside midway. It is warm. Playing frisbee outside. Working together.

*Pretty eyes on QSL card by Nova Lie

**Sorry for the clipping in the middle of recording.

Wednesday 13 March

project4equality live from BD.111

Coming, joining, tuning in, gathering! in a small room near gallery 4—BD.111 / radiomushroom.org. Another session of the regular program. 13:11–18:00. No theme for us this time, but we are talking a bit about how the week came by, what happened and what will happen, touching a bit on the international women’s day. We also have a guest podcast by @project4equality discussing de-colonialism and its importance in feminism.

*QSL illustration done by the cutest Paula Unelma

**Recording was lost due to technical reasons, miep, we have only a mix we received from the open call.

Wednesday 6 March

radio exists—warszawa_exists (Alphabet Workshop) performing live

It is spring again! Mushroom Radio continues with the regular program. We are going live as usual at 13:11 and finishing up around 18:00. speaking a bit about the spring and our feelings. Also having IST “Tuning In: Sonic Storytelling” as our guests at
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sun is coming up, ice is cracking, phones are cracking
Klaudia is missing
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start of spring;
schrikkeljaar – leapyear;
andre went to DIIV in utrecht yesterday with teun and jet;
I stole the setlist, maybe play a few tracks;
first track, before you were born;
under the sun;
spring concerts, festival season coming up;
horst, lentekabinet, dekmantel;
farabelle comes and talks about student film club and facilities;
IST Tuning In is doing podcast;
Alphabet workshop joins afterwards with performative reading;

*QSL illustration done by lovely Kornel

Wednesday 28 February

Coming back from the break. Listening to music. Talking about our breaks, travelling, experiencing places and time. Experiencing technical interruptions and difficulties.

*QSL card by Klaudia

Friday 16 February

Broadcasting the launch of BIG FOR FREE ANYWHERE the first issue of a new KABK school newspaper » published as after school club / town hall meeting / journalistic office / newspaper / event » for the launch: a small scale program of readings, discussions and performances happening on the steps outside the academy.
The soup was nice.

Wednesday, 14 February

Mushroom Radio starts its regular program with a Valentine special. We are on radiomushroom.org or in the room BD.111 where we are going to host the radio’s regular show from now on. Listening to some of our favourite love songs, haveing a chat about things we love or hate, what is happening at kabk and around, sharing recs for love films, books, shows and just talking and listening.

*Valentine QSL by Klaudia + Sam


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