2006 Flurry of Fall Audio Happenings

We've got all sorts of audio-related events cooking for the fall; here are just a few. Be sure to keep checking back to find out what else is in store. Or let us know if you'd like to receive regular email reminders about events happening in Chicago.

READING WITH THIRD COAST FESTIVAL COLLABORATOR MATT MADDEN
Wednesday, October 25th / 6:30 pm
Evanston Public Library - Community Media Room, first floor, Evanston, IL
Admission is free

Cartoonist Matt Madden (A Fine Mess, Odds Off) will be reading selections from Raymond Queneau's seminal Exercises in Style (1947) and showing slides from his adaptation of that work into comics, 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Penguin). Queneau's concept--a single story told 99 different ways--opens up                                      enlightening and surprising directions in comics and other storytelling media.

                                     Madden collaborated with the Third Coast Festival on the 2006 TCF ShortDocs: 99 Ways                                      to Tell a Radio Story project.

THE TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS:
SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL-STARS
Thursday, October 26th / 8pm
Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston IL
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here.

For the past two years the TCF has happily road tripped down to Columbia, MO, to play                                      some radio favorites for audio fans attending the True/False Film Festival. Now it's their                                      turn to Festival-hop, and bring along a favorite documentary film (and its director) to                                      Chicago for our watching and listening pleasure.

An unforgettable story plucked from a country ravaged by a horrific civil war, the Refugee All-Stars chronicles a group of musicians from Sierra Leone attempting to make a life for themselves at a refugee camp in Guinea. Director Zach Niles will lead a Q&A session after the screening.

This screening is presented in association with Northwestern University and Evanston's Reeltime Independent Film & Video Forum.

2006 THIRD COAST FESTIVAL AWARDS CERMONY
Friday, October 27th / 8 - 11 pm
Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL
Tickets are $35 and can be purchased here.

Come share in the excitement as the winners of the 2006 TCF / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition are announced! You'll learn all about this year's Audio Luminary Award recipient, hear excerpts of the winning programs and watch as winning                                       producers proudly accept their awards. Then stick around for a champagne reception                                       and the chance to meet the winners and other radio producers from all over the world.

NEGATIVLAND PERFORMS "IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD FM"
Saturday, October 28th / 10:00 pm
The Lakeshore Theater - 3175 N Broadway, Chicago, IL
Tickets are $15 and are now available. (Click on "October", in the column to the left.)

Legendary trickster band Negativland brings its weekly radio broadcast (Over the                                               Edge, now in its 25th year on Berkeley's KPFA FM,) to the live stage for the very                                               first time, mixing music, sounds, voices, personalities and sound effects into a                                               theater-of-the-mind. "It's All In Your Head FM” is a two-hour-long, action-packed                                               look at God, monotheism and the all-important role played by the human brain in our                                               belief systems. Dr. Oslo Norway is your host, and Christianity and Islam are the                                               featured religions, as Negativland asks you to contemplate some complex,                                               thoughtful, serious, silly and ridiculous ideas about human belief in this “documentary                                               collage” form. The show is co-presented with the Empty Bottle.