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(All Listening Rooms took place at Steppenwolf's Garage Theater, in Chicago, unless otherwise noted.)
Wednesday, October 10th
The TCF Listening Room Presents: Stories Inspired by The Crucible
In collaboration with Chicago Public Library's One Book, One Chicago and Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
All of Chicago will be (should be!) reading Arthur Miller's The Crucible this fall as part of the Chicago Public Library's One Book One Chicago citywide reading program. For this Listening Room, the TCF was thrilled to be collaborating with the Library and Steppenwolf Theatre Company for a program that asked, through performance and audio documentary, what it means to be American and how that idea has shifted over time. The evening included a live reading from the The Crucible (perfomed by Steppenwolf's Artistic Director David New and Ensemble member Sally Murphy,) and a selection of unforgettable short audio documentaries exploring everything from what Americans today say they'd live and die for to the story of one man's childhood, growing up as the son of a blacklisted screen writer.
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Wednesday, September 19th
Presenting the 2007 TCF ShortDocs: Dollar Storeys
with exalted guest Jonathan Messinger, founder of the Dollar Store Show
Earlier this year, in collaboration with the Dollar Store Show, the TCF launched its 2007 public audio project – Dollar Storeys. Anyone and everyone was invited to submit a short audio story inspired by one of three items purchased at a dollar store – a 4-pk of wooden mousetraps, a bicycle bell, and a ceramic mug bearing the sentence: “Well-behaved women rarely make history."
Dollar Storeys were submitted from around the world, ranging in style from personal tales to fictional documentaries. At this Listening Room TCF’s Julie Shapiro shared highlights from the project with a little help from Dollar Store Show founder Jonathan Messinger, who also read a few favorite short stories from the Dollar Store Show. But that's not all: local Dollar Storey-makers were on hand to talk about their submissions, and throughout the night unique door prizes purchased (where else?) from a dollar store in downtown Chicago were given away.
Listen to all 82 Dollar Storeys here.
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The Listening Room took to the road this past summer!
Here are a couple of snapshots from the Missouri leg of our travels. If you're interested in bringing a TCF Listening Room to your town, please contact us.
August 1
Co-presented with KWMU-FM
featuring Jad Abumrad of Radio Lab
Schlafly's Tap Room / St. Louis, MO
August 2
Co-presented with KCUR-FM
featuring Frank Morris (KCUR)
Diastole Scholars Center / Kansas City, MO
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June 26, 2007
Featuring Sean Cole, Senior Reporter for Weekend America
 Sean Cole can be heard regularly on public radio’s Marketplace and Weekend America programs, has a reporting style all his own - personable, smart and funny (sometimes at his own expense.) As such, Cole is part of a new generation of producers/reporters who are bringing a fresh and innovative sound to public radio today. Hosted by Re:sound producer Roman Mars.
American Express and the "clear card"
by Sean Cole
American Express is advertising its new credit card, called "clear card," in Boston and Dallas. AMEX says customers want more clarity about finances. To find out what kind of clarity, it conducted a phone survey. Sean Cole reports on the practice of research as marketing.
Harvey "Job" Matusow
by Scott Carrier
Sean picked this piece in particular and Scott Carrier in general as his ongoing inspiration.
Exodus '47: Inside Out
by Sean Cole
This is the story of “Big Bill” Millman, Frank Levine, and Nat Nadler. Before there was an Israel, these three men, and nearly 40 others climbed aboard a rusted American ferryboat and set out from Philadelphia to transport thousands of Jewish holocaust survivors past the British blockade of Palestine. Other ships had tried it. But their ship, which would come to be known as the Exodus 1947, was the one that helped shape the political landscape of the Middle East for the foreseeable future.
The Impersovader
By Sean Cole and Benjamen Walker
Reporter Sean Cole explores the nature of pure evil with the “real” Darth Vader: Salem, Massachusetts, resident Bo Jackson.
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February 28, 2007
Radio's Newest Voices
Since the Third Coast Festival was founded seven years ago, we've witnessed an explosion of youth radio groups across the country. From rural communities to inner cities, the new voices bursting onto the airwaves maybe aren't the ones you're use to hearing on public radio. Hosted by Johanna Zorn of the Third Coast Festival and Sarah Levine of Curie Youth Radio.
Tonight we'll listen to their stories and hear how this next generation is shaping the medium:
Confessions
by Curie Youth Radio (Chicago, IL)
Curie High School students reveal secrets on the radio that they’ve never even told their parents. (1:35)
Holding the Keys to Life
by Pablo Ponce for Curie Youth Radio (Chicago, IL)
Pablo Ponce is the guy who takes your keys at the Millenium Park Garage. You trust him with your car but he longs for a deeper connection. (3:35)
Leaving the Mountains
by Machlyn Blair and Youth Radio for the Appalachian Media Institute (Whitesburg, KY)
Machlyn Blair wonders if he has any future in his economically depressed hometown…and is surprised to realize he has lots in common with immigrants coming to this country. (1:35)
Glasnost
by Alla Pekareva for outLoud Radio (San Francisco, CA)
When she was twelve, Alla Pekareva's mother told her: "If you ever turn out to be a lesbian, I'll curse the day you were born.” But Alla decides it's time tell her immigrant parents the truth, and documents what happens next. (6:54)
Two versions of the same story, by Natalie Edwards of Brooklyn College Radio (Brooklyn, NY):
Street Fantasy
(For BCR, Mature subject matter and language, 6:30)
America’s Next Top Prostitute?
(For NPR, 4:54) Natalie Edwards weighs the pros and cons of becoming a prostitute.
Our Name is Rogelio Bautista
by KRCB Voice of Youth (Sonoma County, CA)
From the perspective of newspaper accounts and police reports, Rogelio Bautista died for a word, a color, a number, his death jotted down as just another statistic in our escalating gang war…but that’s not the perspective of the four narrators who tell his story.(8:08 excerpt) |
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