Chicago's First "Third Coast Filmless Festival"
Saturday, March 28, 2009 @ noon - 6:00 p.m., evening event at 7:30 p.m.
Join us for the Third Coast Filmless Festival, a celebration of storytelling, sound and the art of listening. Join other radio fans "in the dark" for unforgettable audio documentaries and to hear from some of the most innovative producers working in radio today.
Throughout this day-long festival, enjoy screenings followed by producer Q&As and wander through a lobby humming with sound installations and other activities.
Featured guests include: Jad Abumrad (Radiolab), John Biewen (Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University), Yoko Noge (blues musician) and the dynamic duo of Ann Heppermann & Kara Oehler (Weekend America, Chicago Matters, Hearing Voices).
SCREENINGS -
After lobby doors open at 11am, the Third Coast Filmless Festival presents five audio “screenings” and a special presentation by Jad Abumrad, host and producer of WNYC’s RadioLab. Each screening runs for 75 minutes and showcases a variety of audio work inspired by a particular theme. The stories come from near and far and reveal the world in surprising and thought-provoking ways. (note: schedule is subject to change)
Theater 1
11:30am: Cities, Real and Imagined
From Morocco to Minnesota to the mind’s eye: stories that traverse landscapes urban, suburban and unreal.
1:30pm: Backstage Pass
Is John Denver the Anti-Christ? Is Sun Ra from space? Can a choir of rural school children break the Top 40? Stories of music, memory and unexpected stardom.
3:30pm: Noisy Experiments in Storytelling with Jad Abumrad
Sperm warfare in ducks, the afterlife and the vast universe of stuff that inspires RadioLab: Jad Abumrad spins together music, stories, anecdotes and more to reveal the art of radio storytelling.
Theater 2
Noon: History is the New History
A long-buried tale of labor conflict in Illinois, a trailblazing woman at one hundred years old, a renegade broadcast from Mexico: stirring histories that dig into our audible past.
2:00pm: The Ties That Bind
A woman in search of her thirteen siblings, a lingering artifact from an ex, a sister’s fierce – though not always kind - love for her autistic brother: Delving into the relationships that hold us together and push us apart.
4:00pm: Stories of Who
A blues singer from Japan, a famous poet and his much younger lover, a lobotomy survivor in search of his past: stories that reveal the when, why, what, and how behind the WHO.
The day then culminates at 7:30pm with a special program in honor of Chicago's favorite oral historian with a program entitled: Echoes of Studs: Extraordinary Stories of Everyday People.
Top off the day with a grand finale of listening - to tales about those who Studs Terkel liked to call the "etceteras" of the world. Hosted by journalist Alex Kotlowitz (author and contributor to The New York Times Magazine and This American Life), "Echoes of Studs" will showcase distinguished guests Gordon Quinn (Kartemquin Films), Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler, and others TBA. These are stories that capture the poetry of everyday lives. Stories that celebrate the uncelebrated. Radio. Film. Print. For this final event of the TC Filmless Festival, the medium doesn’t matter. It’s all about the power of plain old, good, storytelling...in the spirit of Chicago's favorite storyteller. (Note: Admission to this closing event is included in the price of the Festival Pass.)
Venue
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
777 N. Green Street
Chicago, IL 60622
Presenter
Chicago Public Radio
312-948-4600
Third Coast International Audio Festival
312-948-4682
Tickets
Festival Passes and Evening-Only Tickets are now SOLD OUT.
You will be able to purchase tickets for daytime screening blocks at the door.
$8 Tickets for individual screening blocks
(at the door; CASH ONLY)
This event is sponsored in part by:
This event is sponsored in part by:
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