Michael Sandel, philosopher and showman, helps us prep for Season 1 by showing how it's done. Plus: the art of listening, upstaging Matt Damon, and the case of Grasshopper v. Ant.   Want to talk with us? We're at info@mbelieve.org.   Want to support our work? Please consider a tax-deductible contribution here.  

Overture: Why Talk About Stories?

Every story is a crossroads. A diverse company of Chicago artists produces new audio dramas—recorded live—and stages freewheeling audience conversations about them. Led by Founder and Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, Make-Believe shares suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and tries to discover how they shape our world.

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LAKE SONG makes its debut today on the Tribeca Audio Premieres podcast! Listen  here. Starting on October 13, listen to LAKE SONG on its own podcast feed. Available everywhere, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify,  Google Podcasts, and on the web at lakesong.fm. Follow or subscribe to LAKE SONG to hear new episodes as they appear each week.

Listening to Lake Song

Lake Song co-creator Nate Marshall talks about what Chicago poets have always done. . . and what they're *going* to do. Lake Song, the epic new audio-drama series from Make-Believe Association, will debut October 12 as an official selection of Tribeca Audio. For more, visit lakesong.fm.

Trailer 2: Chicago Poets--Past, Present, Future

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tribeca Festival Audio Premieres. It's 2098 and the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. But with new opportunities come new threats, especially for a pair of siblings on the South Side. Can the people come together to save their city--and each other? LAKE SONG is the joint creation of seven multidisciplinary Chicagoans. Combining sci-fi and music, politics and poetry, it's a collective response to our times, and a shared dream of our future. Go to the new LAKE SONG feed to subscribe. Coming in mid-October.

Trailer: Lake Song

Following the cancellation of Shakespeare in the Park, Oskar Eustis talks about a utopian story in one of Shakespeare's plays. A practical guide to what a vision of the future can do--and what it can't. --------------- Hosted by Jeremy McCarter Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman ---------------- Share Make-Believe on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MakeBelieveFM IG: https://www.instagram.com/makebelievefm/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/makebelieveassociation/  

Our Decameron: Shakespeare in Utopia

Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?". -------------------------------------- Listen to Lorraine Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?: https://makebelieve.fm/flowers   Listen to Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter’s City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919: https://makebelieve.fm/city-on-fire   Credits for this episode: Hosted by Jeremy McCarter Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman   Credits for What Use Are Flowers?: Directed by Daniel Kyri Music by Mikhail Fiksel Sound by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel Production manager - Madeleine Borg Stage manager - JC Widman   Cast: Hermit – Billy Branch Charlie – Daniel Kyri Lily – Khloe Janel William – Tevion Lanier Narration read by Kiayla Ryann   Thank you to the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust for allowing us to produce the audio drama; and to the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation and the Poetry Foundation for making season one possible

Overture: Why Talk About Stories?

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