Open Wave-Receivers – DIY radio-making with Shortwave Collective

Saturday 25 April, 5:00-8:00pm
Open School East, Margate CT91NZ

Join Shortwave Collective member ​Alyssa Moxley to learn about and build a simple homemade radio receiver, an ‘Open Wave-Receiver’. Participants will be engaged as co-researchers and experimenters, working with a basic set of materials.

Following the construction of our DIY Open Wave-Receivers, we’ll explore the local area together, searching for signals and attaching our radios to metal structures as makeshift antennas, incorporating urban fixtures into the radio circuit.

This workshop is open to all ages and levels of experience for people with an interest in sound and electronics.

Shortwave Collective is an international feminist group using the electromagnetic spectrum as artistic material. Shortwave Collective deliver workshops nationally and internationally, constructing open and untunable radio receivers that connect the listener to a fusion of natural radio emissions and human-generated transmissions.

This event is organised by OSE Associates Awra Tewolde-Berhan and Serena Mirambeau Brey, and is part of Towards the Edges, Open School East’s Public Programme 2026 – find more events: openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026