Third Coast International Audio Festival Announces Third Annual Public Audio Challenge: Radio Ephemera

Third Coast International Audio Festival Announces Third Annual Public Audio Challenge: Radio Ephemera

CHICAGO, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A production of Chicago Public Radio, the Third Coast International Audio Festival celebrates the best audio work produced worldwide for radio and the Internet. Through its annual public audio challenge, the Third Coast Festival encourages anyone and everyone - from radio fans who've never touched a microphone to seasoned professionals - to give radio-making a try and to push beyond traditional approaches to telling audio stories.

For its 2008 audio challenge, the Third Coast Festival is collaborating with San Francisco's Prelinger Library, a one-of-a-kind collection of printed ephemera that ranges from the concrete and tangible to the abstract and etherized. The challenge, titled Radio Ephemera, invites the public to produce short audio stories that include the voice of a stranger and are inspired by two of the following books from the Prelinger collection:

The Stork Didn't Bring You!: The Facts of Life for Teenagers by Lois Pemberton, 1948

   The Big Strike by Mike Quin, 1949   Control of Body and Mind by Frances Gulick Jewett, 1908   Trailer Ahoy! by Charles Edgar Nash, 1937   Trees as Good Citizens by Charles Lathrop Park, 1922   

These books have been completely digitized, and can be browsed online. For information and submission instructions, visit http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/.

Submissions will be accepted through August 3, 2008. Four entries will be selected as the 2008 Third Coast Festival ShortDocs, and their producers will win a trip to Chicago to present them at the annual Third Coast Festival Conference, October 9-11. Other standouts will be played on Chicago Public Radio and at public listening events across the country. All submissions will be permanently archived at http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/.

Founded by Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger in 2004, the Prelinger Library has an appropriation-friendly browsing collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals, printed ephemera, government documents, and other cultural bits. For information, visit http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html.

The Third Coast Festival is made possible with lead support from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Airlines and Chicago's Navy Pier. For information, visit http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/.

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Profile: International Entertainment