[youthradioleaders] Summer Issue of AIRSPACE to focus on youth radio

[Kerry Seed]

Hi Everyone,

Forgive the promotion here, but I sincerely think this is of interest  
to most of you...

If you or your group has ever thought about joining the Association  
of Independents in Radio (AIR), now is a good time. The summer issue  
of AIRSPACE, the quarterly magazine published by AIR will focus on  
youth in radio. Not only will you receive this magazine with your  
membership, as a member you'll be able to list any CDs your group  
wants to sell in the AIRWARES section of AIRSPACE.

AIR is a diverse membership alliance of independent producers,  
programmers, marketers, stations, networks, media arts centers,  
attorneys, teachers... in short, anyone committed to creativity and  
vision in public radio. AIR members live and work in the US, Canada  
and many other parts of the world.

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Top 10 Reasons AIR Membership is Helpful to Youth Producers
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10. Continue to build your skills through a variety of training  
opportunities.

9. Increase your audience. The AIR pitch page exposes youth producers  
to a variety of outlets for their work beyond your local broadcast.

8. Connect with hundreds of other radio professionals through the AIR  
directory.

7. Demonstrate to potential funders your connection to a large  
variety of outlets and professionals.

6. Raise the national profile of your program.

5. Sell your CDs on the AIRWARES page.

4. Learn of national initiatives and collaborations.

3. Locate excellent radio to share with the young people in your  
program.

2. Participate in AIR Member Spotlights, live chats with AIR members  
who have the connections and knowledge you want.

1. Read and contribute to the AIR daily, an e-mail listserv connects  
you directly to the AIR membership. Enjoy posts from people like Jay  
Allison and Dmae Roberts. Send technical questions to the list. Share  
your good news with the list.

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Join now at <http://www.airmedia.org/join.php>

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After you join, send a listing of any CDs you want to shill to  
Nanette Drake Oldenbourg <nannette at cape.com>. Read on for details.

Hello All, The next AIRWARES  Draft Deadline is Wednesday, June 22.

This time, we're including only work by YOUTHS (under 20 years old)  
in AIR.
Please submit information to me, Nannette Oldenbourg, nannette at cape.com

AIRWARES is the section of AIRSPACE, AIR's quarterly newsletter,  
where we list AIR members CDs, tapes and other work available for  
retail sale for individual listening. Items can be listed ONLY ONCE,  
and they must have been produced by an AIR member.

Let your young friends know this would be a great time to join and  
let AIR members know about their work for sale. http:// 
www.airmedia.org  (If they can't make the deadline, not to worry,  
we'll get it in next time.)

AIRWARES mostly features work that has been broadcast that is getting  
a second life via retail. It also includes quality audio or print  
creative work that has not been broadcast but is appreciated for  
private listening and viewing.

It's okay to send in information in notes. Let's begin. I'll write  
and edit to fit format and available space. To know what information  
is needed, please check out the format in the samples below or in the  
back of issues of AIRSPACE, available at http://www.airmedia.org or  
ask me to send you other samples. Please remember to include price  
and contact information. Please keep the formatting very simple.

This is a backstage crowd, so feel free to include a brief note about  
production travails. Quotes from listeners are nice.  We might be  
able to fit in a photograph.

Any questions? Please contact me at    nannette at cape.com  with  
"Airspace" in the subject line.

EXPECT CONFIRMATION from me.

Thanks.
Nannette Drake Oldenbourg


SAMPLE AIRWARES:

 From Karen Brown:

Trauma and Recovery: A Cambodian Refugee Experience. Producer: Karen  
Brown. Consulting producer: Laurie Block.

A half-hour radio documentary that looks at the aftermath of trauma  
among Cambodian refugees now living in New England. More than twenty  
years after the brutal Khmer Rouge came to power, the emotional scars  
remain. While cultural barriers make it challenging to receive  
effective mental health care in a Western medical setting, an  
inherent resilience also provides hope.

CD - $15. Contact: Karen Brown, kbrown at wfcr.org.



 From Gabriel Spitzer and the Alaska Public
Radio Network:
Moving the Village.

The people of Shishmaref have been called the first American refugees
from global warming. Chronic erosion and flooding driven by climate
change is making this remote Alaska village uninhabitable. The Inupiaq
Eskimo community wants to pick up their village and put it down
somewhere safe. This half-hour radio documentary explores a unique
culture endangered by gradual ecological disaster, explains the
science of Arctic warming and coastal erosion, and examines the
ethical and political dilemmas on the horizon.

"Moving the Village" has aired, in shorter form, on NPR's Living on
Earth.  One listener responded to that piece by writing: "Taken
purely as radio theater, it is a masterful production.  But given the
real-world implications of the dislocation of a society attempting to
hold onto the core of its traditional life in the face of an impending
ecological catastrophe, the program is a dagger straight to the
heart."

Featured on the Public Radio Exchange  website, prx.org.  Review at  
http://prx.org/piece/3468

CD - $10. Contact: Gabriel Spitzer,  movingthevillage at aprn.org.


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Kerry Seed
Assistant Director, Blunt Youth Radio
http://www.bluntradio.org
207.650.5911
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