About this project
Support the next big thing in radio production! Live spoken competition -- the slam -- meets cool radio producers in what will be the world's second-ever audio slam! Not only that, support high school students from Portland, Maine, the ones who launched this incredibly cool idea!
Following the smashing success of our Audio Slam Throwdown at the Great Northeast Radio Rally, Blunt Youth Radio has been invited to bring our new, refined Audio Slam 2.0 to New York City for the Digital Waves Youth Media Festival, July 30, 2011. The hosts of the Digital Waves event, WNYC Radio Rookies, have offered us partial funding, but we need more in order to bring the full Slam crew to New York. Your contributions will fund our travel and stay in New York.
Blunt Youth Radio launched the prototype of the audio slam, a competitive event for spoken word audio producers in January. The slam was a huge success, attracting 26 radio producers of all ages coming from as far as New York City and as rural as Belfast, Maine, all competing for a $500 prize. Judging the slam were five media professionals from public radio, print media, journalism school and video production. For the slam, each producer enters 4 minutes of produced audio. The entries are played and judged live at the Slam in a series of one-minute rounds. The audio slam is an exciting new forum for spoken word audio producers. You can learn about how the slam worked by checking out the Public Radio Maker's Quest 2.0 blog: http://mq2.org/blunt-audioslam-2011.
Blunt Youth Radio has been bringing the voices of high school aged young people -- both free and incarcerated -- to the airwaves since 1994 through a weekly, call in public affairs talk show. We're one of the longest running youth radio programs in the USA, thanks to the steadfast support of WMPG FM Greater Portland Community Radio from the University of Southern Maine. We take our mission of youth empowerment through direct media access seriously, and young people really do run the show at Blunt. Youth in Blunt choose the topics for the shows, host, report, do all the audio production and engineer the broadcasts for the weekly show. Blunt's tiny staff provide training, contacts and support to the members. Work by Blunt members has aired on Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, All Things Considered, This American Life, the BBC and many community and public stations around the country thanks to our participation in the Public Radio Exchange -- PRX.org.
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$75 or more: Be a guest on a show over the phone or in person so that we can find out about you and thank you in person. This opportunity can also be given as a gift, Blunt T-shirt, Blunt button and on-air thanks during one of our shows.
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$100 or more: Audio post card from WMPG/Portland, Maine, Blunt T-shirt, Blunt button and on-air thanks during one of our shows. We will also include the audio of our first ever Audio Slam sent to you in CD format.
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$250 or more: Personalized feature about you -- or a person of your choosing! We will interview you and your friends, colleagues or even your rivals! You will have something to cherish forever. Alternatively, the feature can be about a topic you care about. It’ll be edited to be 3-7 minutes long and sent to you in both a CD and MP3 format. We’ll also post it on the Public Radio Exchange, so you can share it with others that way, too. This reward will also include Blunt T-shirt, Blunt button and on-air thanks during one of our shows.
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$500 or more: You choose the topic of one of our hour long talk shows and get to suggest the content of our show including Skype conference for our planning meeting. Help us decide on guests and even be a guest yourself -- in person or via phone. Subject to FCC rules and please keep in mind we are a youth radio program and all our members are high school aged. This reward will also include a sampler CD with personalized Thank You track, Blunt T-shirt, Blunt button and on-air thanks during a whole season of shows! We will also include a copy of our first ever Audio Slams sent to you in CD format.
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Claire Holman is the Founder and Director of Blunt Youth Radio Project, but the stars of the program are the young people who since 1994 have joined the program as members, stuck with it, supported it with hours and hours of work, and have come back year after year to visit, hang out and even contribute dollars and cents to keep Blunt Youth Radio and WMPG going. Please join me in saluting their fantastic support!
