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:
“Forced from home, and all its pleasures,
Afric’s coast I left forlorn;
To increase a stranger’s treasures,
O’er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though theirs they have enroll’d me,
Minds are never to be sold.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)