MIT grad Marissa Acosta's film: "The Late Risers Club" (screening & discussion w/ director)
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe Women in Film and Video/New England
Thu Jan 11, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: interest in film, media, women's studies, gender issues, or
Chicks Make Flicks: film screenings & discussions with directors.
MIT grad Marissa Acosta's film tells the tale of "The Late Risers Club" a ragtag group of community radio disc jockeys who band together to create the first radio program in Boston to play punk rock on a daily basis. Vintage footage, photo montages and great interviews tell the story of the gestation period of a 25 year plus institution. As a bastion of the alternative, WMBR's Late Risers Club created the template that's now a staple of college radio programming .
Begun in 1977, the Late Risers Club program showcased punk and alternative music, and was a forerunner of what we now consider college radio, one of the few noncommercial stations in the country at that time championing unheard of bands, both local and national.
Contact: Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, 6-120, x3-8844, emmh@mit.edu
Sponsor: Womens Studies
Cosponsor: WMBR Radio
Latest update: 04-Dec-2006
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