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CHIRP Podcasts
First Time First Lie - Bobby Evers
Contains explicit language
Bobby is a writer and volunteer with CHIRP, DJing Saturday afternoons since CHIRP's launch in 2010, as well as writing for the blog. His writing has appeared in PopMatters, Two With Water, Graze, The Other Otter, and The Logan Square Literary Review. Bobby is also active in other storytelling shows in Chicago and has performed with The Paper Machete, Curbside Splendor, Two Cookie Minimum, Words That Kill, and is a producer for The First Time. He is currently working on a novel.
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Volunteer: Stories of Philanthropy The Range of Volunteering
In this first episode of the series, we look at the the wide range of volunteers and volunteer opportunities in Chicago. And we start to answer the question, what does volunteering actually mean, for the people who do it, and for those benefit.
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First Time First Lie - Ben Joravsky
Ben became a fulltime staff writer for The Chicago Reader in 1990. His reporting focuses on larger citywide matters, with a special interest in exposing municipal financing scams, most notably tax increment financing, as well as privatizing public parking and unfairly enforced marijuana laws (collaborating with Mike Dumke). Ben's work has been published in Best American Sports Writing and The Third City. He is the author of five books, including Hoop Dreams. In 2010 Ben was the recipient of Journalist of the Year awards from the Chicago Journalists Association and Northern Illinois University.
Podcast produced by Dan Epstein
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Artist Interviews Young Fathers
Before their show at Lincoln Hall for the Chicago stop on their North American tour in support of White Men Are Black Men Too, Mercury Prize winning group Young Fathers talked to CHIRP's Cher Vincent about the blues in their hip-hop, finding power in simplicity, and challenging sensibilities through performance.
produced by Cher Vincent (@chermusings)
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Story Week Story Week Festival: Fighting Violence
From March 15-21, the Columbia College Chicago Department of Creative Writing presented its 19th Annual Story Week Festival of Writers. Story Week 2015 offered a schedule jam-packed with readings, conversations with authors, panels, performances, and book signings at venues throughout Chicago—all free and open to the public.
Conversation with Kevin Coval, Mitchell S. Jackson, Audrey Petty and host Miles Harvey about Fighting Violence: The Power of Words.
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