This August, tune in Wednesdays at 11 AM for the 2016 edition of CKCU and CJSR’s SurroundSound Radio Documentary Festival.

SurroundSound is a new Canadian radio documentary festival celebrating interesting and compelling audio stories by both emerging and veteran journalists, producers and writers. The festival first aired in the summer of 2015 on community radio in Ottawa and Edmonton. The 2016 edition will air Mondays in Ottawa and Wednesday in Edmonton over three weeks in August.

August 8 (Ottawa)/ 10 (Edmonton)

Elif Giray – Dating in the Middle
Elif Giray – A Mother’s Fear
Liz McArthur – Shaz

August 15 (Ottawa)/ 17 (Edmonton)

Michelle Macklem – Lindsay + Danielle
Fritz Musser – Byron Hatt – Reflections of a Crossing Guard
Liz McArthur – The Apocalypse
Jacques Gartner and Brendan Wyant – Dandelions

August 22 (Ottawa)/ 24 (Edmonton)
University of Alberta Student Edition

Nicole Richard and Paula Daza – The Ability to Inspire – Sustainability in Schools
Amanda Rooney and Wai Tarp – Ecofeminism
Meagan Miller, Ashley Doughty, and Andrea Chidley – Edmonton Raptivism, Nueva Cancion, and the Politics of Involvement

Learn more at surroundsoundfest.com and @SurroundSndFest on Twitter.