The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF or TCF) is a festival based in Chicago showcasing feature and documentary audio work. It is sometimes referred to as "the Sundance of radio." The festival was affiliated with Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ), and includes a weekly radio show (Re:Sound), an annual competition, nationwide broadcast, conference, web site and Chicago-based listening series. Prominent speakers at the annual conference have included Ira Glass, Nancy Updike, Joe Frank, the Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison, Jad Abumrad, and Robert Krulwich.
The term Third Coast refers to the fact that the Great Lakes are an inland coast, the idea that the US population tends to be higher on the east and west costs, and that Chicago, lying on the shores of Lake Michigan, is the third largest city in the U.S.
Famous quotes containing the words coast and/or festival:
“It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.