Re-Imagined Radio Presents: The War of the Worlds - 11/22/2018

War of the Worlds - 80TH ANNIVERSARY!

The War of the Worlds was first broadcast eighty years ago on this night. Even if you have never heard the radio broadcast, you know the story. Join us for this anniversary night tribute and enjoy a re-imagined live performance of the most (in)famous radio broadcast of all time. 

What is Re-Imagined Radio?
Re-Imagined Radio offers radio drama, both contemporary and from the Golden Age of Radio (1930s-1950s), as live performances featuring community voice actors, Foley artists, and other creative people. Performances are also live streamed on the Internet, extending community outreach to an international scale.

Re-Imagined Radio evolved from a digital storytelling course John Barber taught in 2013. The purpose was to investigate sound-based storytelling in the radio medium through live community performances. With the addition of live Internet streaming, Re-Imagined Radio has become a radio art—transmission art project. Each Re-Imagined Radio performance is offered in a 1936 movie theatre. Community voice actors, Foley sound artists, and other creative people re-create radio dramas using original scripts. Digital SFX, music, visual backdrops, and social media provide new storytelling opportunities. Live audiences see, hear, and sometimes participate in sound-based radio narratives as they are re-created before their eyes and ears. Online audiences listen only, but in that listening radio sparks their imaginations like no other medium. The result: old medium, new engagement. Radio as never before seen, or heard.