Besides our Listening Room series, the TCF participates in all sorts of events around the country (and beyond!) including gallery installations, university lectures and arts festivals. Read on to learn more about what we're up to, and get in touch if you'd like us to consider participating in an "other public event" near you.

Third Coast heads to the annual PRPD Public Radio Programming conference!

We're pleased to announce an upcoming collaboration between TCF, AIR, and PRPD at this year's annual PRPD Public Radio Programming conference. It all takes place September 15-18 in Cleveland, OH, where besides the usual PRPD offerings you can attend special sessions covering radio essentials and designed to especially appeal to both producers AND programmers.

Independent producers who are AIR members can register at PRPD member rates, at a significant savings.
PRPD has also arranged for discount airfare on Continental, discounted conference rooms rates, and a free public transit pass (!) for every registrant to get around the city.

To register, get conference information, and reserve a hotel room follow this link.

Stay tuned for more details about sessions and information about this unprecedented TCF / AIR / PRPD collaboration!

SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival
TCF Presents: The Ties That Bind
June 18th / 5 pm
AFI SilverTheater 3 / 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD
Tickets available via SILVERDOCS and at the door.

If you missed the Third Coast Filmless Festival earlier this year, here's your chance to experience a taste of it in the context of an actual film festival. Returning to SILVERDOCS for our third year in a row, we're bringing more of a film-like experience than ever. The Ties That Bind is a 70-minute program featuring six audio stories, back to back, that "explore the relationships that bring us together and pull us apart." TCF artistic director Julie Shapiro will be on hand for a Q&A session with featured producers Shea Shackleford and Erin Davis after the screening.

Third Coast Filmless Festival
March 28, 2009 / 11am - 6pm / Evening event at 7:30pm
The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts / 777 N. Green Street
$25 / $20 (students) Festival Pass (including evening program) SOLD OUT!
$8 Tickets for individual screening blocks - sold at the door only
$12 Tickets for evening program - sold at the door only on March 28, if available


Come out for the Third Coast Filmless Festival (TCFF), a celebration of storytelling, sound and the art of listening. Join other radio fans "in the dark" for unforgettable audio documentaries and to hear from some of the most innovative producers working in radio today. Throughout the day-long festival, enjoy screenings followed by producer Q&As and wander through a lobby humming with sound installations and other activities.
Find out more!

Chicago Humanities Festival:
The Documentary Form - Tell Me True
November 9, 2008 / 11am - 12:30pm
Chicago History Museum, The Chicago Room / 1601 N. Clark St.
Tickets- $10, on-site only

With the mass-market success of such fact-based presentations as An Inconvenient Truth, Fahrenheit 911, The Osbournes, and This American Life, the documentary in its various forms is increasingly challenging its fictional counterparts for supremacy. Clearly, the stories and ideas to which audiences increasingly are drawn feature true (if still subjective) narratives. A distinguished panel of documentary makers and programmers will discuss this rise in popularity and influence, and consider some of the inevitable questions that accompany it. Featuring Gordon Quinn, president and founding member of Kartemquin Films; Johanna Zorn, executive director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival; and Tom Bailey, a film educator at Chicago's Community TV Network.