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Movies For Your Ears: On Location

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 3pm,IFFY Film Fest, Riverside Arts Center Theater, Ypsilanti, MI

Audio postcards, sonic geographies, and stories that take you surprising places. TICKETS $7

Movies For Your Ears: Close Ups

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 3pm, IFFY Film Fest, Riverside Arts Center Theater, Ypsilanti, MI

Audio portraits, intimate accounts, and stories that zoom in.

Town Square

Saturday, February 22, 2020, UMMA, Ann Arbor

Audio stories that unfold in public places.

Set to the backdrop of artist Cullen Washington’s large scale abstract Agoras paintings, featuring a series of creative audio stories, soundscapes, and sonic postcards that, like Washington’s paintings, tell us stories about the places where civic life ensues.

A special collaboration with UMMA with support from the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design.

The Sweetheart Scam, Starring Mystery Eve

November 17th, 2019 at The Dreamland Theater, 26 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, MI

The Sweetheart Scam, Starring Mystery Eve is part Radio Campfire, part "solo drama" written and performed by Brenna York. York plays an aspiring crime writer who has pen-named herself "Mystery Eve," and holed herself up in the proverbial cabin in the woods to write her next novel. The Sweetheart Scam is written and performed by Brenna York, produced in collaboration with Juliet Hinely, and presented by Radio Campfire.

Round Here

June 28th, 2019 at MusicTown Detroit, 2301 Woodward Ave, Detroit

‘Round Here: audio stories, sound portraits, and sonic experiments from Detroit about our neck of the woods. Part of the 2019 Detroit Podcast Festival, featuring work by Imani Mixon, Sarah Hulett, Zak Rosen, Sterling Toles, Julia Yezbik, Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer, Nadia Wilson, Aaron Henkin, Wendel Patrick, Tim Kaska, Eric Kiska, Bob Koski, Bill Kubota, Marc Smerling, Zac Stuart-Pontier, Soraya Shockley, John White, Rob Szypko, Samantha Lee, Drew Nelles, Kevin Dietz, Tad Davis, Ele Beattie, Vivienne Perry, Benji B, and Brenna York.

Sprung

April 28th, 2019 at The Dreamland Theater, 26 N Washington St, Ypsilanti

Audio stories and soundscapes about anticipation, infatuation, and things newly bloomed. Awakenings and beginning anew -- things like spring enkindle our dormant desires. Sprung will put sound and story to “all the feels” we launch toward and fall for.

Starry Night

December 15, 2018, Wayne State University Planetarium 4841 Cass Ave, Detroit, Michigan 48201. 7-8:30pm.

Audio stories about navigating unknown terrain, going in deep, and getting far away. While most of us sleep, the world continues to turn -- ever wonder what happened last night? Join us for scenes and sounds of the wee hours, held “under the stars” at the one and only Wayne State Planetarium in Midtown Detroit.

Hosted in partnership with WDET as part of Detroit StoryMakers – an initiative to train multimedia artists, journalists and producers and provides them with platforms to bring Detroit stories to life. Support for Detroit StoryMakers comes from The John S. And James L. Knight Foundation, the Michigan Council of Arts and Cultural Affairs and matching gifts from station donors. Learn more at wdet.org/storymakers.

Wilderness

September 2, 2018, Willis Sound, 8906 Meridian St, Willis, MI. 7-8:30pm.

Audio stories about navigating unknown terrain, going in deep, and getting far away. 

Featuring work by Delaney Hall, Claire Crofton, Rikke Houd, Joe Rosenberg, Mira Burt-Wintonik and Crystal Duhaime.

Kindling

February 18, 2018, Dreamland Theater, 26 N Washington St, Ypsilanti, 3-4:30pm

An afternoon of audio stories about getting something started, ingenuity, small sparks, and kindling hope against the odds. Audio stories by Andrea Rangecroft/Falling Tree Productions, Katharina Smets, Jeff Cohen, Stephanie Rowden, Juliet Hinely, Kyle Norris, Erika Lantz, Sherre DeLys and John Jacobs.

Your Story

February 23, 2017, Matrix Theatre, Detroit

An evening of audio shorts made by Detroit citizen journalists, audio dramatists, poets and documentarians. Featuring Julisa Abad, Christina Perez-El, Will See Poet MC, Michele Oberholtzer, Jai'shaun Isom, Margo Dalal & Jake Ehrlich, Erie Canal Theatre, Norene Cashen and many more!

This work was supported by an Exploration grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Matrix Theatre Company, Inc. for the Building Demand for the Performing Arts Program.

Listen to some of the stories here.

Family Trees

October 29, 2016, Matrix Theatre, Detroit

Stories about parents, kids and indecision.

Featuring stories by Tony Schwartz, Asha Criner, Dame Wilburn, Zak Rosen and Shira Heisler and Feldmanowski.

Listen to some of the stories here.