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WAYO sponsors 2025 ImageOut LGBTQ+ Fall Film Festival

We're super excited to be sponsoring this year's 2025 ImageOut LGBTQ+ Fall Film Festival! The festival kicks off on Thursday, October 9th and runs through Sunday, October 19th, and will feature more than 30 narrative, documentary, and short films that celebrate queer folx and their identities and stories. Make sure to check out the full schedule of events and the fall festival guide at ImageOut.org and on Instagram @imageoutroc. We'll see you at the theatre!

WAYO wants your art!

There's just over one week left to submit designs for our 2025-26 WAYO Art Contest! We are looking for artists to submit designs for this year's fundraiser T-shirt, hoodie, and bumper sticker. Designs are due by Monday October 6th at midnight, and full art requirements and submission info is available at wayofm.org/art. (Also, please no AI!)

Come see us at M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival this weekend!

We are so excited to be sponsoring this year's M&T Bank Clothesline Art Festival! This year's event will take place at the Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, on Saturday 9/6 + Sunday 9/7 from 10am - 5pm each day and will feature over 300 incredible artists from around the country displaying their artwork for sale, along with food trucks, music, and kid-friendly interactive crafts at the MVP Family Fun Zone.

Join us at the 2025 WAYO Benefit Second Chance Art Sale + Record Fair!

It's back for another year, the 2025 WAYO Benefit Second Chance Art Sale + Record Fair! Or is it the Record Fair and Art Sale? Record Sale and Art Fair? We'll let you choose your own adventure, but make sure to join us at Radio Social on Sunday, August 10th from 11am - 3pm for an incredible assortment of record vendors and artists selling discounted pieces, along with WAYO DJs spinning tunes! This event is the perfect way to spruce up your house AND record collection before the darkness of fall returns!

Contribute to the 2025 WAYO Pride Community Playlist!

Join us for the second year of WAYO's ROC Pride Community Playlist! We want to know what songs you think exemplify Pride, and why! Leave a voicemail at 585-203-9296 option 5 (or text in, but voicemail is preferred!) with your name, chosen song, and why you chose it. Then tune in during the ROC Pride Parade on Saturday, July 19th from 11am-1pm as we air everyone's songs and messages. We will also put a recording of the playlist on WAYOFM.org after it airs so you can listen back whenever you like.

Vendor applications due this weekend for the WAYO Benefit Record Fair + Second Chance Art Sale!

Artists and record vendors, applications for the WAYO Benefit Record Fair + Second Chance Art Sale are due by this Sunday, June 29th at midnight!!! Then join us on August 10th from 11am-3pm at Radio Social (20 Carlson Rd) for the 2025 edition of the Second Chance Art Sale + Record Fair, hosted by Needle Drop Records and Flour Pail Kids to benefit WAYO.
Refer to WAYOFM.org/summerfair for more info and to apply!

WAYO's out!

Update: we're back!
Hey all, our Internet is out at the studio this morning so our Internet stream is also out... Feel free to tune in at 104.3FM if you're in the Rochester area or check out archived shows at WAYOFM.org in the meantime. We'll keep you posted!

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