Grow FM, our summer 2022 programme of activities and events, which explored the theme of ‘community as health’.

The brainchild of curator-producers Yinka Danmole and Tadeo Lopez-Sendon, Grow FM was an experimental programme featuring new commissions by local and international artists and a roaming pop-up radio station, powered by the community for the community, broadcasted from Chiswick House & Gardens and online throughout summer 2022.

What is Grow FM?

Grow FM was inspired by West London pirate radio stations, which became a lifeline for disenfranchised communities in the 1990s, as well as by our Victorian residents, the Tuke brothers, whose radical approach to mental health centred exchange and dialogue as a means of connecting with their patients.

Grow FM encouraged artists and audiences to come together, enabling new conditions for cultural exchange and production to thrive, especially for those groups and communities often overlooked. Supported by the London Borough of Hounslow, as part of their Summer of Culture, the project included paid placements for three young creatives as trainee audio producers.