Thousand Kites Announces, "Calls From Home."
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Listen to a sample of Calls From Home. (MP3) 6.48MB
Media arts project Thousand Kites is excited to offer community radio stations and individuals the 8th annual national radio program Calls From Home. The program features phone calls from mothers and children, brothers and grandparents, sharing the intimate power of families speaking directly to their incarcerated loved ones. Calls From Home, produced in the coalfields of central Appalachia, reaches a national network of prisoners, their loved ones and public listeners through community radio.
Working with prisoner families and advocates, Holler to the Hood, via WMMT-FM and participating community radio stations, sends family messages through the walls of prisons such as Appalachia's Wallens Ridge and into more well-known prisons including Sing Sing, Angola, Folsom and beyond. WMMT-FM in Whitesburg, KY will record calls from family members on December 11th from 3-11PM (Eastern).The toll-free number for participants is 888.396.1208. The program will be edited and uploaded to the web for stations to download on December 13th.
Download the 2007 Calls from Home program:
CONTENT TO APPEAR HERE ON DEC. 13th
Radio Programmers
Dear Program Director,
Thousand Kites and WMMT-FM would like to offer your station Calls From Home, a special one-hour program which brings the voices of families across the nation to the airwaves as they send greetings directly to their incarcerated loved ones. The program features calls that share the intimate power of families speaking straight to their loved ones behind bars. The material will be recorded on December 13th, when Thousand Kites opens its toll-free line for five hours of recording. A one hour edited version of Calls From Home will be available free of charge on December 14th and uploaded on this website, as well as PRX.org and Audioport.org, or the program can be mailed to you on cd. Please fill out the form below so we can send you an e-mail notice with download instructions.
Title: Calls From Home
Producers: Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby
Program Type: Event/Live Call-In (edited)
File Type: MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3) bitrate: 128kps (DOWNLOAD FOR RADIO)
Length: 59:00 with a 60 second music sound bed at 29:00
Broadcast Restrictions: for non-profit use only
Summary: Calls From Home brings the voices of family members of prisoners across the country to the airwaves in a program that is informative about the impact of incarceration on families.
This is the complete one hour program with the 60 second music sound bed.
• Complete Program Calls From Home- Broadcast Quality Audio 54 MB (will be posted on Dec. 14th)
If you need information about this broadcast contact:
Nick Szuberla or Amelia Kirby
thousandkitesproject@gmail.com
606.633.0108
Resources for Calls from Home
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Download the ten-minute house party version. (MP3) 6.48MB
Download the House Party Organizing Guide. (PDF)
Poster for Calls from Home (doc)
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Calls From Home is an effort to educate the public about the criminal justice system. Community radio stations, prisoner family groups, and artists are working together to bring the voices of prisoners’ family members to the airwaves on stations across the country. We believe in the power of people telling their stories to change the hearts and minds of the public. Call in on December 12th, from 6-11pm (eastern) to record your message. The toll-free number is 888.396.1208. Suggest stations for us to contact in the form below.
In addition to broadcasting on over one hundred radio stations here are some other ways Calls from Home is being used:
-In Maine a prison reform advocate played the program for prisoners at the Hancock Jail and facilitated a discussion afterward.
-In Virginia a prison reform group played segments of the program for state legislators as part of an effort to educate them about the criminal justice system.
-In Washington State a prison activist group played Calls From Home as part of a fundraising house party.
-In Kentucky, Califorinia and New York educators are using Calls From Home as part of their curricula for classes ranging from criminal justice issues to media democracy.
-At the Louisinia State Prison in Angola, prisoners aired Calls From Home several times on their prisoner-run station, WLSP.
Download the ten-minute house party version. (MP3) 6.48MB
Download the House Party Organizing Guide. (PDF)
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