Packaging

December 9, 2006

Location: Southern Exposure, 2901 Mission Street @ 25th Street
Time: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
see broadcast schedule below

Would you give a present wrapped in newspaper? Have you cut yourself trying to get your new iPod out of it’s packaging? Do you go to the store without putting on your make-up? Do your pants sag? Plastic surgery and bottle blondes — it’s all packaging and in our pre-holiday broadcast, NPR and friends will explore this theme in all its literal and not-so-literal glory, challenging the world to prove whether good things really do come in small packages. Curated by Whizz Biddlecombe.

RC02 Broadcast Schedule

1.00-1.30 - What's the point of packaging? - Tom Wright of Sustainable Business Practices discusses its unearthly redundancy.

1.30-2.00 - "A Trimming Start: Choose to Reuse” - An interactive iteration of the American Holiday Season complete with celebrations, new beginnings, rituals and, of course, lots of materialism, from Katina Papson and Amber Hasselbring.

Amber and Katina invite you to bring your excess holiday catalogues and help them trim a paper tree outside of Southern Exposure on the corner of 25th and Mission. After singing along to some holiday favorites, leave us with a few of your tips on how to trim down this Holiday Season.

2.00-2.30 - "EmoPack" - Packages come in all shapes and sizes and are usually fun to get, or are they? Through stories, letters, and recorded interviews we hear the package experiences, and the emotions around them, from different neighborhoods. With Linda Arnejo and Bryson DeJong.

2.30-3.00 - Kevin Epps - The local film maker tackles the theme.

3.00-3.30 - People Packaging - Former nudist Trish Stone talks about unpackaging herself in public, otherwise known as going nude.

3.30-4.00 - Personal Packaging - Dee Dee Russell looks at how people package themselves for a date.

4.00-4.30 - "Wrapping up the Radio Year" - with Lee Montgomery

4.30-5.00 - The Piñata - Local artist, puppeteer and piñata expert, Norita Gonzalez, tells us all about piñatas before we crack one open and toast the holiday season.


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