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EIGHTH ANNUAL
HEAR NOW FESTIVALJune 11-14, 2020 in Kansas City, MO
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Social Distancing Shouldn't Keep Us Apart
Everything you'd expect from the HEAR Now Festival... at the click of a mouse.
The June 11-14, 2020 Festival has cancelled all in-person programs.
Everything you'd expect from the HEAR Now Festival... at the click of a mouse.
The June 11-14, 2020 Festival has cancelled all in-person programs.
More Information Coming soon about
June 11-14, 2020
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THURSDAY JUNE 11, 2020
Innovations In Storytelling 6:30pm - 7:30pm Truman Auditorium (Public Library Park Plaza Branch) Val Vigoda performs from Ernest Shackleton Loves Me and discusses the creation of this award winning Off-Broadway musical. |
THURSDAY JUNE 11, 2020
God Help Us 8:00pm 9:10pm Bragg Auditorium (at All Soul's) Left vs. Right! Conservative vs. Liberal! Red Vs. Blue! Maybe only the Lord can bring us together in this hilarious and insightful play, where the debate gets hot and the passion gets hotter.
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Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is a wildly inventive musical adventure that tells the story of a sleep-deprived single mom who struggles to balance her family and career as a video game music composer.
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GOD – legendary actor, Ed Asner – is a wise, cantankerous and wildly funny deity who confronts two political pundits with a romantic history: Lawrence (a liberal lad) and Leslie (a conservative gal). He is not at all pleased with our politics or what we’ve done to his Creation.
GOD HELP US! speaks to audiences of all political persuasions with one essential argument: that we have to listen to each other so that we can all live – and laugh – together. |
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Podcast Palooza
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Hotel Info
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Coming soon more 2020 Panel, Performance,
and Workshop Updates
Meanwhile, enjoy the 2019 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS...
Photos thanks to Don Foote, Natasha Rubinettin, Amelia Romine
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June 6, 2019
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June 7, 2019
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June 8, 2019
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How We Came To Be the HEAR Now Festival ...
The following was written by Butch D'Ambrosio for HEAR Now's AUDIO Tonight program and was performed by Phil Proctor on June 8, 2019:
Now, I told you that this is the seventh year of the Hear Now Festival, but did you know that our history goes back decades before, with the National Audio Theatre Workshop, and the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, before that? Well, if Edgar Allan Poe wrote about how we came to be here today, I think it’d sound something like this:
Once upon a June night, steamy, we were filled with hope and dreamy,
After many a decade having opened radio’s drawer,
We were planning, but while we plotted, M-A-C left us besotted,
Our future grant was unallotted! But we have had such great rapport.
“Ti – Ti - ‘t’is some mistake!” NAT - F stuttered. “Why ever would you close that door?”
“We can’t fund workshops anymore.”
Ah, so clearly we recall, that loss had gone and made us small.
And each participant – one and all – questioned it, as if to underscore
The tragedy that befell us! What to do? Could someone tell us?
Indeed, the world would be quite hell-us, without the workshops we adore.
Without the workshops we so adore. Grantless now for evermore.
Yes, loss of workshops left us hurtin’, but one thing we knew was certain
There could be - opportuni-tee- and therefore, NAT-F swore:
“It is time that we grow up and the people they will show up
To the future raise a cup up and in a Festival, efforts pour,
With our friends we raise a cup up and in a Festival our efforts pour!
This we’ll do or nothing more.
Presently the time grew nearer; and the planning it got clearer.
An audio, fiction, and sound art festival, yet so much more!
There would be story-telling, in all forms, most compelling,
We would hear the audience yelling, yelling “Bravo!” through the last encore.
Four days in Kansas City, each one a lion’s roar:
Audio fiction at its core.
Seven years of HEAR Now growing, growth that shows no sign of slowing,
Each new year bigger, better than the year that came before.
But, alas, tonight we look like toast, alas, we could not find a host,
A host who’d make a witty riposte, filling silence we deplore.
So I alone must save the day, save the day and save the store!
Let’s get going then – I CAN’T STAND THIS ANYMORE!
(APPLAUSE)
The following was written by Butch D'Ambrosio for HEAR Now's AUDIO Tonight program and was performed by Phil Proctor on June 8, 2019:
Now, I told you that this is the seventh year of the Hear Now Festival, but did you know that our history goes back decades before, with the National Audio Theatre Workshop, and the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, before that? Well, if Edgar Allan Poe wrote about how we came to be here today, I think it’d sound something like this:
Once upon a June night, steamy, we were filled with hope and dreamy,
After many a decade having opened radio’s drawer,
We were planning, but while we plotted, M-A-C left us besotted,
Our future grant was unallotted! But we have had such great rapport.
“Ti – Ti - ‘t’is some mistake!” NAT - F stuttered. “Why ever would you close that door?”
“We can’t fund workshops anymore.”
Ah, so clearly we recall, that loss had gone and made us small.
And each participant – one and all – questioned it, as if to underscore
The tragedy that befell us! What to do? Could someone tell us?
Indeed, the world would be quite hell-us, without the workshops we adore.
Without the workshops we so adore. Grantless now for evermore.
Yes, loss of workshops left us hurtin’, but one thing we knew was certain
There could be - opportuni-tee- and therefore, NAT-F swore:
“It is time that we grow up and the people they will show up
To the future raise a cup up and in a Festival, efforts pour,
With our friends we raise a cup up and in a Festival our efforts pour!
This we’ll do or nothing more.
Presently the time grew nearer; and the planning it got clearer.
An audio, fiction, and sound art festival, yet so much more!
There would be story-telling, in all forms, most compelling,
We would hear the audience yelling, yelling “Bravo!” through the last encore.
Four days in Kansas City, each one a lion’s roar:
Audio fiction at its core.
Seven years of HEAR Now growing, growth that shows no sign of slowing,
Each new year bigger, better than the year that came before.
But, alas, tonight we look like toast, alas, we could not find a host,
A host who’d make a witty riposte, filling silence we deplore.
So I alone must save the day, save the day and save the store!
Let’s get going then – I CAN’T STAND THIS ANYMORE!
(APPLAUSE)
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8th Annual HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction & Arts Festival
June 11-14, 2020
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