Third Coast International Audio Festival Announces Third Annual Public Audio Challenge:...

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
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 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 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
www.thirdcoastfestival.org.

SOURCE Chicago Public Radio

Cindy Hansen of Chicago Public Radio, +1-312-893-2950 (office),
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