Presented by Julie Shapiro & Sean Cole
-> Sponsored by the Public Radio Exchange
7pm, Saturday, April 25th
@ Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy St, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Free for Megapolis weekend pass-holders and Harvard GSD students.
$10 regular / $7 students

Come out for an evening of unforgettable audio stories and strange and beautiful recordings from around the world. Hosted by Julie Shapiro (Third Coast International Audio Festival) with special guest Sean Cole (Marketplace, This American Life), the night’s program offers a sonic exploration of cities, urbanism, and the spaces we inhabit, real and imagined.

Julie Shapiro is Artistic Director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and has been with the project since the very beginning (2000). Before moving to Chicago to “find her way in radio,” she worked at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She also helped run Transmissions, an annual, experimental sound and art festival from 1998-2001. These days Shapiro makes audio art, teaches here and there, can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves, and keeps a blog about sound(s) at notetheslantoftheovals.blogspot.com.

Sean Cole has been working in public radio since 1997 when he accepted a newsroom internship at WBUR in Boston. He spent nine years there – producing, reporting and, finally, making hour-long radio specials for the documentary series Inside Out. Currently, he’s a frequent contributor to American Public Media’s Marketplace. He’s also done stories for This American Life, All Things Considered, Only a Game, Studio 360, Weekend America (may it rest in peace) and other shows. He writes poems too. Occasionally, he’s also asked to write a short paragraph about himself. This is one of those occasions.