Whether it’s NPR in our cars or podcasts at the office, many of us are constantly awash in audio documentaries. The stroke of brilliance of Audio Under the Stars was to open the doors, pull out the earbuds, and fling these stories open to social life in the night air. Every summer since 2014first at SPECTRE Arts, now at its own digsthe Center for Documentary Studies has put on this monthly Third Friday event in which short, locally produced or focused audio docs are introduced live and played in a courtyard full of people picnicking with friends on blankets and folding chairs (in all cases, BYO). This season begins on the theme of “Connections: Lost and Found,” with a batch of stories about “special friendships, unlikely allegiances, surprising encounters, and missed connections; the bonds that knit people, families, and communities together, and what happens when those fall apart.”
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