What
to listen to when you are bored?
RADIO COLIFATA is the first radio station broadcasting from a psychiatric Hospital which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2011.
Colifata is Lunfardo and means something like crazy-wonderful or also crazy inspired.
The program is conducted by patients, ex-patients, and visitors of the hospital José T. Borda every Saturday for five hours and broadcasted from the garden of the institution.
The program “Colifata” is a mixture of reflections on various topics starting from the daily life at the clinic to more philosophic discourses on insanity and normality and assorted music.
What started as a small project has become a very popular
program which is regarded to be therapeutic for the patients participating and which
has served as a model for several similar radio projects around the
world.
The documentary “LT22 Radio La Colifata" by the Argentinean director
Carlos Larrondo accompanies the life of the patients of the psychiatric hospital with the Soundtrack from Manu Chao – one of Colifatas most
famous supporters.
The Colifata radio station has already developed into a phenomena which has
helped to revise the social stigmatization of psychologically ill patients -
especially in Argentina. Due to the enormous success and the millions of
listeners around the world this project has in a way contributed to the re-integration
of these patients into society and also helped to gain acceptance for mental
illnesses in general.
Listen now to RADIO COLIFATA
