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Friday Night Family Fun
with the Otherworld Balloon

Friday, June 9
6:30pm - 7:30pm,
in the
Truman Forum Auditorium
at the
Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch 
Performance In Conjunction with the Kansas City Public Library

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All aboard!  
The Otherworld Balloon lifts off at the Truman Forman Auditorium, for Family Fun Night, June 8, 6:30 p.m. on the dot. 
Fly with Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman. Steam across the Atlantic Ocean with Langston Hughes.

The show will be recorded for future broadcast/podcast with live audience participation in making sound effects.
Arrive early to get a good seat and practice your part.  

The Otherworld Balloon is a live performance that uses the transporting power of sound, voice, and music to explore other worlds— whether of the past, the present, the future, the mythical, or the purely imaginary.  Through books, writers, and the special collections of this magical Library of the Air, we'll full strength imagination to fuel the journey. 

Purchase an ALL ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS, to attend any of our events, or select individual tickets to specific events you want to attend:

Entry for this program: A Festival Pass or free for Kansas City residents with library RSVP.

ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
Each event below lists the location and address.
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2018 HEAR MAP FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES.

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Flysta Luna

HOST: David Ossman (Otherworld Media)

     

David Ossman, comedian and character actor (Firesign Theatre, A Bug’s Life, The Tick) will host the first voyage of the balloon, as it takes off with the letter A for Adventure. The Otherworld Balloon will fly us from the skies above Kansas City to the Sky-lands of the Maori with Amelia Earhardt and Bessie Coleman, to a steamer crossing the Atlantic with Langston Hughes, to the farthest corner of the unknown Oz with Princess Ozma and her Wizard.

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A Is For Adventure...

Cast:
Mel Jones
Meredith Ludwig
Orson Ossman
Preston Ossman
Trevon Wainwright

Preston Ossman

Mel Jones

Meredith Ludwig

Trevon Wainwright

SFX Tony Brewer

Orson Ossman

Music by Dwight Frizzell

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Judith Walcutt

Judith Wallcutt (Producer) is the founder and CEO of Otherworld Media, an internationally acclaimed production company since 1981. She has been a professional in the broadcast and communications field for over thirty years. As a writer, director, and producer, she has generated hundreds of hours of programming for radio, theatre, television, and live festivals. She began her career in theatre with an off-Broadway production of her first play at the La MaMa etc. shortly after her graduation from Bard College in 1974. She continued working in mixed media in Los Angeles, collaborating with performance artists, musicians, and dancers at the Woman’s Building, California Institute of the Arts, and at the University of Southern California where she finished her Masters degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature in 1976. In 1979, she moved to Seattle and produced her first radio play for young people at KRAB-FM.

Engineer: Sam Chapman

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This program co-presented in partnership support from The Kansas City Public Library.

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Thanks also to RECORDED BOOKS