Thursday,
November 8 at 7pm
Street
Movies! Undercover
with
Magic Radio
dir.
Stephanie Barbey and Luc Peter, Switzerland, 2007, video, 54
mins, color
Presented
in collaboration with Prometheus Radio Project, Philly IMC and
WPEB-FM
 Join
us for a Town Hall Meeting about the new WPEB 88.1 FM, West
Philadelphia ’s Community Radio. Learn how to get involved in
the station and see some short films of “barn raisings” of community
stations courtesy of Philadelphia ’s own Prometheus Radio Project.
Following the Town Meeting see the Philadelphia Premiere of
Magic Radio, Stephanie Barbey and Luc Peter’s documentary
about how in Niger, through the radio waves, citizens seize
the microphone and taste democracy. It is the FM revolution.
In Niger where more than 80% of the population is illiterate,
radio is the main means of mass communication. Simple yet reliable,
the radio is everywhere, in the streets, homes and the bush.
It entertains, educates, informs and helps provide a check on
power.
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