BUG Radio is a community radio station based in The Hague in the Netherlands. BUG Radio explores the boundaries of radio as a medium for artistic expression and community connection. Through a series of curated radio events and live broadcasts, we seek to create a space for experimental music practices, interdisciplinary collaborations, and sonic exploration. Our monthly streams, launched in November 2024, feature radio makers from Iran, Latvia, the Netherlands, Spain, and The United States. From April 9th 2026, BUG Radio welcomes a new series of artists joining our community radio network. We embrace radio as a tool for storytelling and cultural exchange, we aim to celebrate the diversity of voices within our community. Through our radio shows and collaborative projects with artists and musicians, we strive to create a space where everyone's voice matters.

BUG Radio was born out of years of shared practice and research. Its founders, Margherita Brillada and Leonie Roessler, have each spent years working closely with independent, alternative, non-profit, and experimental community radio stations across Europe: building networks, producing sound, and thinking critically about what radio can be. Margherita has been conducting ongoing artistic research into web radio and community radio as both cultural form and social practice. Drawing on this collective experience, BUG Radio was launched in 2024 as a community web radio with an international network, rooted in The Hague. The project emerged in parallel with On Air - On Site: our annual international radio art festival first held in 2023 as BUG Radio's founding event.

Socio-Political: BUG Radio takes a clear stance against violence, fascism, sexism, racism, xenophobia and imperialism. Everyone is welcome to speak up here, and to engage in conversation with us and the community. BUG Radio is adding on to its regular soundart emissions and will start streaming live protests as of March 2026. Promoting peace and respect locally and beyond our borders. That is the beauty of radio.

On Site: BUG Radio broadcasts radio events live from West Den Haag - an international contemporary art museum which occupies the old embassy of the United States in the heart of The Hague's Museum District. This year BUG Radio joined SoundHouse, a brand-new music venue/collective in the Energiekwartier in Den Haag. These sessions are open for live experimentation in radio and a way for community members to meet in person.

Outreach: Both Margherita and Leonie teach courses in field recording, radio production, and music. The newest addition to the station is the BUG Radio Box - a fully functioning mobile radio production box that can visit kids and adults who are experiencing isolation. With the BUG Radio Box anyone can easily connect the radio server and stream their show live.

About the Organizers: Sound artist, radio maker and artistic researcher Margherita Brillada conceived this initiative recognizing the sociological dimension of radio as a public space for artistic involvement and community connection. She coordinates the project together with Leonie and Alan, rooting it in her ongoing artistic research in community radio and web radio.

Leonie Roessler comes from a background of classical and experimental music and compositions. It was her work with field recordings - initially intended for installations only - that brought her into the world of art radio.

A2 Abd El Monim, born Alan Abd El Monim, is an Italian-Egyptian artist and composer, he expresses himself through musical creation, ranging from electronic to purely instrumental music, and through the interdisciplinary practices that bridges sound, performances and visual arts.

This website was brought to life by the web developer Raffaele Pastura in collaboration with the web graphic designer Giorgio Corriera.

Feel free to reach out to us with any questions at info@bugradio.org or connect with us on Instagram or Facebook.