RADIO HEADS

RADIO HEADS

A cross-disciplinary exhibition and festival celebrating the art and history of radio and radio plays. Throughout the exhibit, audience members will be able to tour through a series of curated environments based upon significant moments in radio history. Step back in time to hear historic broadcasts and period-appropriate music within their contexts. Enter a 1930’s living room and sit around the radio to hear the broadcast of the Hindenberg disaster. Cozy up in the front of a classic car and swoon to the hits of the 60s. Participate in the evolution of radio. During the four live performances of radio plays and storytelling, audience members have the opportunity to travel between the sound stage where performances will be created live and the environments within the gallery: choose to either watch or just listen and enjoy with your friends.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14th from 5-7pm
Join us for a live performance and broadcast of Orson Welles’ notorious radio play thriller, WAR OF THE WORLDS, directed by Jess K Smith incorporating live original music by William Sieke, followed by a broadcast of apocalyptic love letters written and recorded by members of the campus community.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st from 5-7pm
Join us for a live performance of THE RIVERBOAT RUNS AGROUND: BASED ON A TRUE STORY, directed by Jess K. Smith. This is a piece of home-grown storytelling by Seattle-based writer and performer, Wesley K. Andrews. Rooted in Wesley’s adolescent years growing up in Fairbanks, Alaska, the stories revolve around a true transformative act of magic and reincarnation. Think Garrison Keillor but with more drugs and teen sex. Come learn about what it means to be an Alaskan, not a made-for-TV Alaskan, in a faraway place where the land is so harsh that you cannot combat it, but only become it. Including original music by William Sieke and Renee Maskin and followed by a talk-back with the writer.