A Celebration of Stories told Through Sound.
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Sheffield Event
9th June 2015
The Woman on The Ice
The Site GalleryKaren Roos, a young Danish woman, disappeared on the ice outside the little Eastern Greenlandic settlement Angmassalik in 1933 and more than 80 years later radiomaker Rikke Houd follows in her footsteps. The Woman on The Ice is one of the three nominees for the In The Dark Audio Award. The judges were blown away the […]
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Sheffield Event
8th June 2015
Another Planet
The Site GalleryThe true story of Clyde Casey, a street performer who used surrealism and abstract art to fight crime in Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s, and the creator of a remarkable unprecedented (and unrepeated) project called Another Planet. A place beloved and fondly remembered by the hundreds of homeless men and women who frequented […]
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Sheffield Event
7th June 2015
The Prostitutes’ Revolt
The Site GalleryOn June 2nd 1975 hundreds of French sex workers occupied catholic churches right across France. They demanded the right to work free from police harassment and have jail sentences against them dropped. The occupation is commemorated by sex workers as one of the key events that sparked the contemporary global sex workers rights movement but […]
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Belgium Event
21th May 2015
The City in The Woods
AntwerpMusician Inne Eysermans from the band Amatorski invites independent radio producer Katharina Smets for a listening event about sounds of the city in a place called The Woods in Antwerp. Morning and night, rise and fall: the movement of cities and the struggle of its people come together in this evening full of sound and story. […]
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Belgium Event
13th May 2015
Wadjesay?
Flemish Dutch House deBuren BrusselsWhat’s nice and not so nice about being Flemish these days? Radio producers from Belgium and the Netherlands gather together in an evening full of stories about the strange, melancholic, ugly and nationalistic side of the Flemish identity. Stand up comedian Wouter Deprez made stories about the illustrator Carll Cneut in the dialect from their […]
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Sheffield Doc/Fest
In The Dark Award Nominees
2015We are very pleased to announce the nominees for the 2015 In The Dark award for audio documentary presented at Sheffield Doc/fest, the winner will be announced in June. A massive thank you to our wonderful judges; Sherre DeLys (Producer, ABC), Martina Castro (Co-founder, Radio Ambulante) Boz Temple-Morris (Founder/Producer, Holy Mountain). (In alphabetical order) Nominee: Another Planet Produced by […]