WE SHALL EVERYONE BE MASK’D
Covid 19 continues to create enormous restrictions on the festival world – on travel, on meeting, on creative expression . But creatives around the world know that Audio Drama is special. It crosses continents and arrives in your home in the comfort of your arm chair. Shut your eyes and it will take you to unimagined places. And we have all been learning to make extraordinary audio art in the most challenging of studio situations. Audio Drama defies the pandemic. And so shall we.
This year’s virtual festival 22 – 26 March 2021 will combine collaborative creative sessions with real time and on demand listening and real time collective jury discussions.
We have received a record number of submissions and are now undertaking the pre selection process.
Registration will open here soon for creative collaboration sessions. We will be inviting artists, producers and creatives to work together to make 20 new second audio dramas.
Registration will also open for the real time listening sessions and the post listening discussion sessions.
We also expect to host some complementary events, looking at issues such as audience development and promoting diversity.
| Session | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning See separate document for explanation of this creative process |
Launch of festival Open space session 1 – Launch of collaborative process creating 20 second audio dramas |
Creative session 2 Confirmation of collaborative teams and start of process. |
Creative session 3
Writing / dramaturgy of individual dramas. Recording of dramas with UK remotely based actors or others. |
Creative session 4 Recording of individual dramas with UK remotely based actors or others. |
Creative session 5 Edit and dissemination / broadcast. |
| Lunchtime | Speaker/discussion session 1 | Speaker/discussion session 3 | Listening session 5 | ||
| Afternoon | Listening session 1 | Listening session 2 | Listening session 3 | Listening session 4 | Jury session 5 |
| Evening | Jury session 1 | Jury session 2 | Jury session 3 | Jury session 4 | Jury closed session and voting |
| Speaker/discussion session 2 | Award ceremony Award for full length, short form and micro drama Launch of audience award |
Participation requires registration which is free. Go to the website (www.radiodramafestival.org.uk) for the Eventbrite link.
On demand listening is freely available via the website from the start of the festival for one month.
UK International Audio Drama Festival 2021 schedule
We are delighted to be launching the first micro drama award for a collaborative 20 second drama made during the course of the festival; please see here for more details
