The Great Northeast Radio Rally
A conference for audio producers of every age and stripe brought to you by Blunt Youth Radio Project
Registration (with coffee, tea, cocoa, muffins)
Room 102: Welcome
Room 102: Radio Rookies Listening Session — WNYC Radio Rookies: Vikky Cruz, AJ Frazier, Veralyn Williams Courtney Stein, Sandra Htyte.
Room 211: Producing Major Projects — Patty Wight - Independent Producer, The Race for the Blaine House: An Inside View of Five Campaigns, and Meghan Vigeant - Producer, Oral History: Swan Island.
Room 203: Home Studios on the Cheap — Colin Kelley - Bates College
Room 205: Sonic Science Reporting & Multimedia — Ari Daniel Shapiro - Independent Producer
Room 113: Panel Discussion: Interviewing Musicians — Lara Seaver - WCLZ, Roy Ghim - WMPG, Suzanne Nance - MPBN, and Dennis Howard - WERU, hosted by Ness Smith-Savedoff - Blunt Youth Radio Alumnus, Intern MPBN, WOBC DJ
Atrium: LUNCH - soup, sandwiches, pizza and more.
Lunch tables: you can meet over lunch to talk informally about:
Lunch tables: you can meet over lunch to talk informally about:
- Organizations Every Independent Producer Should Know About: PRX and AIR
- Making Radio Pieces about the Visual Arts — Jessica Lockhart - Independent Producer
Lecture Hall: Pitching to NPR (or Anywhere) — Andrea de Leon - NPR Eastern Bureau Chief, and Josh Gleason - Independent Producer, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Alumnus
Room 102: Producing Live radio Shows — Kerry Donahue - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Founder of WNYC's The Takeaway.
Room 203: Youth-made radio: Changing Lives, Changing Media — Jones Franzel - Generation PRX; Bev Meir, Alexandros Zervos, Elizabeth Houston - Terrascope Youth Radio, and Iris Sangiovanni, Isaac Woodbury High - Blunt Youth Radio.
Room 211: Sonic Storytelling — Fred Greenhalgh - FinalRune Productions, WMPG
Room 113: Listening Session — Share your own work with others. Hosted by Amanda Thieroff, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Alumna.
Wrap-Up/Audio Slam Orientation
AUDIO SLAM @ Space Gallery
Blunt Youth Radio Project is a program of WMPG, Greater Portland's community radio from the University of Southern Maine. This program has been funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Find more information at: http://bluntradio.org.