ACTING LIKE A MUSICIAN
Saturday March 6th * 1:00pm * Chicago Cultural Center 4th Floor Conference Room
Keith Phipps (editor for The AV Club, the entertainment section of The Onion), Matty "Ballgame" Robinson (host of the film podcast and radio program "Filmspotting"), the director of Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains, John Edginton (Otmoor productions), film and music critic Rob Christopher, and others chew the fat about the nexus of acting and performing music, about musicians who try their hand as thespians, and actors who play music. What’s the difference, beyond the obvious, between Frank Sinatra and Britney Spears?

"BURNING ICE"
Saturday March 6th * 3:00pm * Chicago Cultural Center 4th Floor Conference Room
An exclusive Q&A conversation with the director, Peter Gilbert (With All Deliberate Speed, Hoop Dreams) talks about his latest work, "a journey of artists who go to the Arctic to explore climate change and see what they create," featuring Robyn Hitchcock, KT Tunstall, Jarvis Cocker, Laurie Anderson, Martha Wainwright, Leslie Feist, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

THE FUTURE OF RADIO
Sunday March 7th * 12:00pm * Chicago Cultural Center 4th Floor Conference Room
With advertising dollars drying up and new vistas opening up on satellite radio, HD radio, and the Internet, what's going to happen to traditional radio stations? Join Tony Sarabia (host of Radio M on Chicago Public Radio), Barbara Calabrese (chair of the Radio Department at Columbia College Chicago), and Shawn Campbell (president of the Chicago Independent Radio Project) for a discussion of the future of one of the most popular sources of information and entertainment of the twentieth century, and beyond.
Also including a special presentation on film distribution by Andrew Mer, VP of SnagFilms.