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HEAR Now is the audio equivalent of a film festival for contemporary audio story-telling in all its forms: live and scripted solo performances, multi-voiced performance, classic radio drama, experimental narrative, and much more. This four-day Festival offers a multi-faceted program showcasing the many forms of audio fiction and sound art story-telling in theaters and other “listening” venues. The Festival will present audio fiction programs that exemplify traditions of craftsmanship, as well as aesthetic and technological innovation.

The 2016 HEAR Now Festival will again be a gathering place where the work of master storytellers is celebrated and shared.

The following schedule is still ’under construction’ and subject to updates prior to June 8, 2016.
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Saturday, June 11 • 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Oh! What A Poetical War!

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SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO MUSEUM - see below.

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This program offers a showcase of the popular poetry of the time before and during the Great War: the Music Hall songs, the songs the soldiers sang, the poems that served as recruitments in verse and a sampling of the serious poems, from the War Poets, many of whom died in the trenches, or surviving against the odds, devoted the rest of their lives to honoring their comrades by telling and retelling the truths of that war. 

Included are the voices of the women who too often are neglected, concluding with a sampling of the songs written in recent years by poets and musicians inspired by the war which resonates to our day.

And  though our emphasis is on the audio arts, we will also be including photographs of  the poets, their fellow soldiers and the landscapes they lived and fought in.

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SHUTTLE SERVICE TO AND FROM WWI MUSEUM

There will be two shuttle runs to the WWI museum - BOTH leaving from the front of the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza.

The first will leave at 12:15pm (Promptly)

The second at 12:40pm (Promptly)

After the performance at the WWI museum there will be a shuttle at 2:40pm bringing those wishing to attend READING WITH YOUR EARS directly to the library for the 3:00pm show.

The balance will be returned to the Holiday Inn.

If needed, a second shuttle at 3:15pm will pick up the balance of the HNF guests at the WWI museum and return them to the Holiday Inn.

 

Moderators
avatar for Helen Engelhard

Helen Engelhard

Midsummer Sound Company
Helen is an author, poet, storyteller and independent audio artist whose work has often reflected the needs for social justice in the U.S. and around the world.Along with being an audio playwright and producer, Helen has been active in peace, justice and environmental causes for... Read More →

Artists
avatar for Ellen Stewart

Ellen Stewart

Producer / Narrator
Ellen has spent a lifetime as a theatre director/producer/actor in Sonora, California where she was Artistic Director for Columbia Actors’ Repertory and Mountain Actor’s Conservatory.  She is a professor emeritus of theatre and speech at Columbia College. In San Francisco... Read More →
avatar for Robert Fass

Robert Fass

Actor/Narrator/Writer
A two-time Audie Award winner, veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. An eight-time Audie nominee with over 125 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards. In addition... Read More →


Saturday June 11, 2016 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
National World War I Museum 100 West 26th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
  Performance, All Welcome

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