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Our Decameron: The Tortoise, the Hare, and Will Leitch

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Release Date: 04/01/2020

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

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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 , will debut October 12 as an official selection of . For more, visit .

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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.

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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?".

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To tide us over until baseball returns, sportswriter Will Leitch breaks down the most famous athletic contest of all time, and a lively virtual audience debates its moral today.

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A docudrama about the summer that ravaged a city--and remade it. Co-produced with WBEZ.

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To tide us over until baseball returns, sportswriter Will Leitch breaks down the most famous athletic contest of all time, and a lively virtual audience debates its moral today.

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Consider an actual tortoise vs. an actual hare:
https://metro.co.uk/2016/10/15/someone-staged-an-actual-race-between-a-rabbit-and-a-tortoise-6194091/

Hosted by Jeremy McCarter

Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel

Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman