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2017 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:
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Friday Night Family Fun
Building New Worlds
          
In Conjunction with the
Kansas City Public Library



      

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Friday, June 9th, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, in the Truman Forum at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library
Audiobook door prizes will be given away at this performance.

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.

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HOST: William Dufris (Pocket Universe Productions)

      William Dufris is producer/director of AudioComics and Pocket Universe Productions. He recently produced The Starling Project by Jeffrey Deaver (w/Alfred Molina) and Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (w/Tatiana Maslany, Haley Joel Osment, Kate Mulgrew and Stephen King) for Audible Studios... winning an Audie Award for each.
     William is also an award winning audiobook narrator and the voice of BOB in the original animated series of BOB The Builder.


Robin Miles & Dion Graham
present stories for young children

Wolfie The Bunny
&

One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree
from Cinnabar Media Ventures

      
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Golden Voice Dion Graham
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Golden Voice Robin Miles
Golden Voices Robin Miles and Dion Graham start the evening
-- along with an audience volunteer or two -- with a performance of family tales for young children (ages 4-8).

The Bunny family has adopted a wolf son, and daughter Dot is the only one who realizes Wolfie can--and might--eat them all up!
Dot tries to get through to her parents, but they are too smitten to listen.
A new brother takes getting used to, and when (in a twist of fate) it's Wolfie who's threatened, can Dot save the day?

In One Day In the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree a sneaky snake has no idea that the captives in his belly are planning their escape!

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Julia Whelan
Plus One
from Big Happy Family


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Julia Whelan
Award-winning narrator Julia Whelan discussing and reads from the young adult novel, Plus One by Elizabeth Fama.
This beautiful, award winning young adult novel focuses on a planet segregated into two casts - one that lives by the day and the other by night. Julia will share the story of how this novel became an award winning audiobook.




P.J. Ochlan
premieres a new young adult fantasy series

Night's Gift from the new series Of Cats & Dragons
by Camilla Ochlan
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Author Camilla Ochlan
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P.J. Ochlan
The evening continues with author Camilla Ochlan premiering Night's Gift. Written by C.E. Leever and Camilla Ochlan (known for The Werewolf Whisperer), Night's Gift is the first book in the new fantasy series Of Cats and Dragons. Narrator P.J. Ochlan will perform fun highlights jam-packed with creatures, magic and a talking cat.



The Twitts, a humorous children's book written in 1979 by Roald Dahl and narrated by William Dufris concludes our performance.
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William Dufris
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The Twitts

This program co-presented in partnership support from The Kansas City Public Library.
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Thanks also to RECORDED BOOKS
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