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HEAR Now Festival Event Schedule June 19-22, 2014*
*Subject to change if required
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Purchase an ALL ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS, to attend any of our events, or select individual tickets to specific events you want to attend:
Individual Event Ticket Costs:
$8.00 per 90 minute "listening event" in Cinemark Theaters
$30.00 per 5 sessions (FIVE 90 minute "listening events" in Cinemark Theaters)
$15.00 for Thursday Night Opening event - I Know That Voice documentary
$15.00 for Friday Night Audio Vaudeville
$15.00 for Saturday Afternoon Golden Voice Narrators
$15.00 for Closing Brunch and Awards Ceremony

Individual event tickets will be available at the door for: 
All Cinemark Theater Listening sessions, Festival Opening event (Thursday night), Audio Vaudeville (Friday night), Golden Voices (Saturday afternoon), and the Closing Brunch and Awards Ceremony.

The following programs are free and require no tickets:
Tree of Life Sound Installation; KCAI Gruppo’s BENTON@125; WWI, Our Voices and Stories from the Front; & Celebrating Mark Twain.

ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
SOME OF THE VENUES BELOW HAVE THE STREET ADDRESS LISTED, AND SOME DO NOT.
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2014 HEAR
MAP FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES.
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Time
Thursday - 6/19
Friday - 6/20
Saturday - 6/21
Sunday - 6/22

9:15 AM –
   10:50AM
  No Programming
      On Your Own
    NATF Playhouse
     CINEMARK THEATER 'A'

       Mystery and more
Dial L for Latch-Key
By The Time I Get To Tucson Players
Sid Guy Private Eye,
The Case of the Mysterious Woman

Siren Audio Studios
Bump in the Night
Central Michigan University
The Card  (strong language / violence)
The Theater In Your Mind

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     SENNHEISER / NEUMANN  
          LISTENING ROOM
               10:00am - 5:00pm
Holiday Inn Private Diningroom

      The Fall of the Kings
SueMedia Productions
          Saratoga Noir
ZBS Productions



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      NATF Playhouse
  CINEMARK THEATER 'A'


        Great Tales To Tell
One More Day
Upstate New York Pictures
Going Home
Midnight Audio Theatre 
The Parcel
Decible Points

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    SENNHEISER / NEUMANN  
          LISTENING ROOM           
          10:00am - 5:00pm
Holiday Inn Private Diningroom

       The Fall of the Kings
SueMedia Productions
          Saratoga Noir
ZBS Productions  


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      HEAR Now
  Closing Brunch

      Holiday Inn
      Ballroom "A"


   Brunch includes meal 
             and

    Workshop 101
     Performance

.
 2014 Corwin Award
    Announcement

Marion Thauer Brown Scriptwriting Competition
Announcement


      Ends at 12:15 PM

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ALL ACCESS PASS or Brunch Ticket



        FLYING HOME
    RIGHT AFTER THE
           BRUNCH?
Select a return flight that leaves after 3:00PM from Kansas City International

10:00 AM –
    11:00 AM



.

 REGISTRATION OPENS
         Holiday Inn
    Country Club Plaza

           SALON C
1 E 45th St. (near Main St.)
   Kansas City, MO 64111
  Phone:  (816) 753-7400

NOTE:
Registration closes  5:00 PM on 6/19/14
         
      HEAR Now "Store"

      Holiday Inn daily  
          6/20 - 6/21
       9:00 AM-5:00 PM


    WORKSHOP 101
First class meets 10:15am
    Christian Community   
    Church Activity Center

 
   Main Room - first floor
          4601 Main St
.ENTRY only with Workshop
Registration/ All Access Pass
   Tree of Life Exhibit  
  Community Christian Church 
        Activity Center Room
                  3rd floor
 
              4601 Main St   
           Today Till 5PM

Entry: No Fee - All Welcome
     Tree of Life Exhibit  
  Community Christian Church
        
Activity Center Room
                  3rd floor
 
 
           4601 Main St   
           Today Till 5PM

Entry: No Fee - All Welcome
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    Narrator's Round 

             Table
Selecting the BEST Training To
Become A Professional Narrator

  Community Christian Church  
        Activity Center Chapel

                3rd floor

           4601 Main St
Scott Brick, Barbara Rosenblat,
Simon Vance, & Robin Miles

This session is 50 minutes long.

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11:00 AM– 
   12:30 PM

   No Programming
      On Your Own
     The Mark Time 
          Awards

  CINEMARK THEATER 'A'

A 90 minute sampling from
  16 years of
International 
          Mark Time winners

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  Listening & Learning

  Community Christian Church  
       Activity Center Chapel

                  3rd floor 
           4601 Main St
  (An interactive performance
     program for children in
           grades 1-4
)
  Louise, The Adventures
           of a Chicken

by Kate DeCamillo
       Molly Danger - Mighty
by Jamal Igle
            Featuring:
Barbara Rosenblat, Elaine Lee, and 'Molly" too!
      NATF Playhouse
       CINEMARK THEATER 'A'


           NATF Premiere
        TransMars Tango
Featuring
         Robin Miles & Phil Proctor
   
Written by Elaine Lee
    Directed by Brian Price

         Mixed by Kerby Mitchell

Discussion
to follow till 12:30pm

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12:00 NOON
 PODCAST  PALOOZA
  On-line Festival Listening
     Today - August 1, 2014

   Click here for the list of this
     year's featured programs.
 

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   Tree of Life Exhibit  

   Community Christian Church
        Activity Center
Room
                3rd floor
 
           4601 Main St   
This sound installation will be open today - Saturday from 
          Till 5PM today

Entry: No Fee - All Welcome
 
 

1:00 PM –
       2:30 PM



 No Programming
     On Your Own
  Star Trek &
            Beyond:
  

  The Sounds of Gaming
    CINEMARK THEATER 'A' 
          with Michael Henry


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         Audiobooks
       'Golden Voices'

        Community Christian  
           Church
     Santuary  
              4601 Main St

Scott Brick, Robin Miles,
Barbara Rosenblat,
and
Simon Vance
read favorite selections

Co-sponsored by
             Tantor Audio
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or Golden Voice Narrator Ticket

       

2:00PM -
   3:00PM

          Gruppo
      Celebrates   

     Benton@125

          Benton House
      3616 Belleview Ave.
The students from the Kansas City Art Institute celebrate Thomas Hart Benton's Life in an original audio drama with period costumes, score and dance.
Entry: No Fee - All Welcome

2:45 PM –
     3:35 PM
   No Programming
      On Your Own
   NATF Playhouse
  CINEMARK THEATER 'A'

   Sonic Art & Story-telling
Lift, Lift, Lift
Theater Accident

Josh: Teenage Diaries Revisited
Radio Diaries

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           NATF Playhouse
         CINEMARK THEATER 'A'

           A Good Laugh
Verona Hills to Vegas
Interlochen Arts Academy
Tales of the NSA
Bob McGraw
Half Hour Radio Show: Time In A Blender
Tom Curley

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3:30PM -
  5:00PM
            World War I:
    Our Voices & Stories   
        From The Front
  National World War I Museum
        at Liberty Memorial      

                Auditorium
               100 W 26 St

Guest: Raymond Starzmann
A program of original stories, remembrances, and more from the Great War
Entry: No Fee - All Welcome


3:45 PM –
     4:45 PM

 
  NATF Playhouse
  CINEMARK THEATER 'A'

       Family Classics
Alice In Wonderland
Voices In the Wind Audio Theater
(features Barbara Rosenblat)

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    NATF Playhouse
  CINEMARK THEATER 'A'


        From Beyond
The Call of Cthulhu
DART
 
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5:30 PM –
     6:30 PM

         Celebrating
         Mark Twain!
                      At
       Holiday Inn Country  
              Club Plaza

                Salon B
 Sue Bilich, Heather Farrar, & Marcus Weems

Entry: No Fee - All Welcome
       Celebrating
       Mark Twain!

               At
    Prospero's Bookstore
Robin Eller, Mark Turetsky, & Donna Postel

Entry: No Fee - All Welcome
       Celebrating
      Mark Twain!

                  At
   Prospero's Bookstore
Ellen Stewart, Ryan McCabe, & Joyce Feurring

Entry: No Fee - All Welcome

6:30 PM –
      7:15 PM

 Festival Meet & Greet
      Holiday Inn Country  
              Club Plaza

          Ballroom Foyer 
            (near lobby)
*ONLY For all access pass holders
Sponsored by
   Audio Cinema Entertainment


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         Podcaster's
         Round Table

  Community
Christian Church
   
  Activity Center Chapel
                 3rd floor 

           4601 Main St 

Meet some of the producers from PODCAST PALOOZA and find out more about their programs.

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   No Programming
      On Your Own

7:30 PM –
      9:30 PM


    I KNOW THAT VOICE
        A Documentary Film By             John DiMaggio
  The voice actors behind your 
  favorite animated characters!

 
   UMKC Student Union Theater

            5100 Cherry St.


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ALL ACCESS PASS  or Opening Night Ticket
        Audio   
       Vaudeville
  Centennial Hall
   Christian Community 
    Church Activity Center
 
         4601 Main St
     Guests include:
Scott Brick, Barbara Rosenblat & more....
  A live sampling of audio
     performance styles:  

   Drama, Spoken Word,   
    Storytelling & more

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ALL ACCESS PASS  or Audio Vaudeville Ticket

Right Between
    The Ears
    Christian Community 
        Church
- Santuary  

           4601 Main St

HEAR Now guest artists
Barbara Rosenblat,
Simon Vance

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ALL ACCESS PASS  or RBTE Ticket

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10:00 pm -
    Midnight
HEAR Now "AFTER PARTY"
Holiday Inn Main Street Cafe
        Sponsored by
          Downpour
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  HEAR Now "AFTER PARTY"
 Poolside at the Holiday Inn
        Sponsored by
 Audio Cinema Entertainment
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HEAR Now "AFTER PARTY"
Holiday Inn Main Street Cafe
        Sponsored by
 Audio Cinema Entertainment
ENTRY only with ALL ACCESS PASS  

Midnight -
       1:00am
  MIDNIGHT LISTENING
     "Listening Room"
Holiday Inn -
       Private Dining Room

  
   A Junky's Christmas
  In Celebration of William S. 
  Burrows 100th - 2/5/1914

   Live performance by
Tony Brewer & Friends.
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    MIDNIGHT LISTENING
       "Listening Room"
Holiday Inn -
       Private Dining Room

 
   War of the Worlds - Part 1
Colonial Radio Theatre
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     MIDNIGHT LISTENING
             "Listening Room"
Holiday Inn -
       Private Dining Room


   War of the Worlds - Part 2
Colonial Radio Theatre
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    • About
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    • Podcast Palooza 2018
    • Podcast Palooza 2017
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  • Press
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    • Workshop 102 Registration
  • IAA Awards
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    • 2014 Festival
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