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44 SAG-AFTRA | Spring 2014 | SAGAFTRA.org On Location CARAN WILBANKS M artians returned to Earth last October to wreak havoc during the 10th anniversary of the annual Lend Me an Ear show, as the Atlanta Bi-Union Radio Players recreated the infamous Mercury eatre on the Air radio broadcast of e War of the Worlds, marking its 75th anniversary. Forty-plus talented SAG-AFTRA and AEA voices raised more than $3,500 for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. During a decade of helping out the food bank, members have brought in more than $200,000 in buying power, a proud accomplishment. Other programs performed included recreations of Archibald MacLeish's e Fall of the City, the first radio script written entirely in verse, and e Chase and Sanborn Hour, which ran opposite e War of the Worlds that fateful evening in 1938 and originally featured ventriloquist and Life Achievement Award honoree Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy. STUDENTS GET ORIENTATION FROM SAG-AFTRA M iami Local Executive Director Herta Suarez visited the Teatro Prometeo at the downtown campus of the Miami Dade College to make a presentation about the importance of the union for Hispanic actors. ese actors are graduates of the Conservatory in eatre Arts program, which is conducted in Spanish. It is the only program of its kind in the United States and part of an advanced lab in voiceover and on-camera techniques. is was a unique opportunity for the actors to learn and ask questions about SAG-AFTRA — and they had many. ey inquired about the benefits of being a union member and the steps they need to take to become successful professional performers. e actors were excited and thankful for such an important in-depth workshop affecting the future of their careers. Miami Dade College students with SAG-AFTRA Miami Local Executive Director Herta Suarez, center. Atlanta MEMBERS BRING BACK MARTIANS, HELP FOOD BANK Portland Miami SAG-AFTRA members, student screenwriters and University of Hawaii instructor and member Joel Moffett, left, prepare for table reads at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a program now in its fourth year. At the urging of local SAG-AFTRA leadership, members and students, the university changed its policy and transferred the copyright on student films to the students, effective Jan. 1. Students can now sign the union's Student Film Agreement and cast SAG-AFTRA members in their films. Hawaii 42-47_OnLoc_F.indd 44 4/23/14 4:43 PM