IMC fest 2010 is a celebration of nearly a decade of the independent media movement in the twin city area Saturday, April 17th. The festival will be composed some of the areas favorite local performers from various genres, an art show, local speakers, film, improv, and much more. What's more, this years fest will be happening in conjuction with the Boneyard Arts Festival!
Just a few of the programs that will benefit from this festival:
- Radio Free Urbana WRFU-LP 104.5FM, the areas only community run and operated low power FM radio station.
- Books to Prisoners, a project providing books to Illinois inmates at no cost. We offer books by mail to all Illinois inmates and operate lending libraries in our two local county jails.
- The Public I, an independent, collectively run, community oriented publication for the news underreported and voices under-represented in the dominant media.
- Community performance space, a collectively run performance space made available at low cost for all community remembers.
- Community production facilities, a Collectively run production facility offering multi-media training and inexpensive production services - such as filming, recording, and editing - for community individuals and groups
- Community web hosting project, a project that seeks to provide low-cost web hosting services to local non-profit organizations, small businesses, and individuals. Spreading online access, this project also brings low cost donated computers and wireless equipment to local low income neighborhoods
- And our many other projects.