[Vision2020] National Oral History Project

Fri Jul 29 11:32:06 PDT 2005

The Moscow portion of this National Oral History event is sponsored by Northwest Public Radio and the Moscow Arts Commission:
http://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=5301

Reservations will not open until Aug. 11:
http://www.nwpr.org/

The traveling interview buses will be parked on Main Street in Moscow during the latter part of August. I believe they will be parked in the street spots in front of the Chamber of Commerce and New St. Andrews College.

Bruce Livingston, Chair
Moscow Arts Commission

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debbie Gray" <dgray at uidaho.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] National Oral History Project

> Scheduled to be in Moscow, Aug 25-Sept 5. I initially read about 
> it in the Spokesman, think it is hosted by the Latah County 
> Historical Society...
> 
> http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-091.html
> April 15, 2005 
> Press contact: Helen Dalrymple (202) 707-1940; 
> Joanne Rasi (202) 288-6999
> Public contact: American Folklife Center (202) 707-5510
> American Folklife Center Web Site: www.loc.gov/folklife/
> Booth Schedule at Library May 19-28: 
> www.loc.gov/folklife/storycorps-tour.html
> StoryCorps Web Site: www.storycorps.net
> National Oral History Project, Storycorps, to Kick Off 
> Nationwide Tour from Library of Congress on May 19
> Collected Stories to Become Part of Collections of American 
> Folklife Center
> 
> The Library of Congress will host the national launch of the 
> oral history project StoryCorps, created by award-winning 
> National Public Radio documentary producer Dave Isay, with a 
> news conference on May 19.  
> 
> Two mobile recording booths in trailers will be stationed in 
> front of the Library's James Madison Memorial Building at 101 
> Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C., from May 19 to May 28, 
> as the first stop in their one-year tour to collect stories of 
> ordinary Americans from across the United States. Interviews 
> with Anthony Williams, mayor of the District of Columbia; Chuck 
> Brown, the father of go-go music; Ben's Chili Bowl owners; and 
> Sue Mingus, widow of composer and jazz bass player Charles 
> Mingus are scheduled for Thursday, May 19, following the news 
> conference.  
> 
> The oral histories that StoryCorps collects will be given in 
> digital form to the American Folklife Center at the Library of 
> Congress, which has a statutory mandate to "preserve and present 
> American folklife." StoryCorps is the first "born-digital" audio 
> collection for the center, the largest oral narrative collection 
> in the nation.  
> 
> For up-to-date information on scheduled interviews, go to the 
> center's Web site at www.loc.gov/folklife/.  
> 
> "StoryCorps will provide America with important social 
> documentation on a grassroots, nationwide scale that mirrors 
> what the historic Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal 
> Writers' Project accomplished more than half a century ago," 
> said Peggy Bulger, director of the American Folklife Center. 
> "Just as we have preserved and made accessible the WPA 
> recordings, we are delighted to be partners with StoryCorps and 
> to house a new generation of America's stories."  
> 
> StoryCorps is a national initiative to instruct and inspire 
> individuals to record oral histories and create meaningful 
> personal experiences for the participants. With 2,000 stories 
> already collected during the project's first 18 months through 
> its recording booth at Grand Central Terminal in New York, 
> StoryCorps hopes to collect more than 250,000 interviews over 
> the next 10 years. Traveling to every corner of the United 
> States, the project will be documenting everyday history and the 
> unique stories of grassroots America.  
> 
> "Over the past year and a half, we've seen the profound effect 
> StoryCorps has had on the lives of those who have participated 
> in the project, and we've seen the power that these stories have 
> had on the millions who have heard them," said Isay. "We believe 
> that listening is an act of love. StoryCorps will engage 
> communities, teach participants to become better listeners, 
> foster intergenerational communication and help Americans 
> appreciate the strength in the stories of everyday people they 
> find all around them."  
> 
>>From Washington, the MobileBooths will set out in opposite 
> directions across the country-one taking an Eastern route and 
> the other covering the Western states. Visits in each city or 
> town will last between two and three weeks, with about 100 
> interview slots available at each location. This inaugural tour 
> will last one year and stop at nearly 45 cities. A list of the 
> 25 cities in 16 states that the StoryCorps MobileBooths will 
> visit during the first six months of the tour is appended to 
> this release.
> 
> In each city where the MobileBooths stop, StoryCorps will 
> partner with a local public radio station, which will air a 
> selection of the local stories and create additional programming 
> around the project. Selected segments will also air nationally 
> on NPR's "Morning Edition."
> 
> At each MobileBooth, a trained facilitator will help create a 
> question list and handle the technical aspects of the recording. 
> At the end of a 40-minute session, the participants leave with a 
> CD of their interview. With their permission, a second copy will 
> be sent to the American Folklife Center.
> 
> The MobileBooths have been funded by National Public Radio (NPR) 
> and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
> 
> "We are delighted to be able to sponsor this amazing project," 
> said Jay Kernis, NPR's senior vice president for programming. 
> "StoryCorps makes the statement that the experiences of
> everyday people are as important as those of elected officials, 
> experts and those who have achieved a degree of celebrity. 
> Listeners have been moved by the honesty and depth of emotion of 
> the extraordinary stories from the StoryCorps over the past 18 
> months, and we expect that this response will be even greater as 
> they hear stories from around the country."
> 
> "CPB and StoryCorps share the mission to inform, enlighten and 
> enrich the public," said CPB President and CEO Kathleen Cox. 
> "CPB is proud to support this creative and engaging project, 
> which will capture stories that families will cherish for 
> generations."
> 
> StoryCorps opened its first StoryBooth, a freestanding 
> soundproof recording studio, in New York City's Grand Central 
> Terminal in October 2003. A second StoryBooth will open this 
> March on the site of the World Trade Center. Over the course of 
> the 10-year project, StoryCorps plans to open StoryBooths-both 
> mobile and stationary-across the country. StoryCorps is a 
> project of Sound Portraits Productions, a nonprofit public radio 
> documentary production company founded by Isay.
> 
> The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and 
> placed at the Library of Congress to preserve and document 
> American folklife through programs of research, documentation, 
> archival preservation, reference service, live performance, 
> exhibition, public programs and training The center incorporates 
> the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in the 
> Library in 1928 and is now one of the largest collections of 
> ethnographic material from the United States and around the 
> world. The Archive of Folk Culture will be the repository for 
> the StoryCorps collection. More information can be found at 
> www.loc.gov/folklife/.
> 
> The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private, nonprofit 
> corporation created by Congress in 1967 to develop educational 
> public radio, television and online services for the American 
> people. CPB is the industry's largest single source of funds for 
> national public television and radio program development and 
> production. As a grant-making organization, CPB funds more than 
> 1,000 public radio and television stations. For more 
> information, go to its Web site at www.cpb.org.
> 
> National Public Radio is renowned for journalistic excellence 
> and standard-setting news and entertainment programming. A 
> privately supported, nonprofit, membership organization,
> NPR serves a growing audience of more than 22 million Americans 
> each week through more than 770 public radio stations. 
> International partners in cable, satellite and short-wave 
> services make NPR programming accessible anywhere in the world. 
> With original online content and audio streaming, www.npr.org 
> offers hourly newscasts, special features and seven years of 
> archived audio and information.
> 
> Sound Portraits Productions, a nonprofit company based in New 
> York City, is one of the country's most acclaimed documentary 
> production houses. Under the direction of MacArthur Fellow Dave 
> Isay, its mission is to tell the stories of ordinary Americans. 
> Sound Portraits has accomplished this goal primarily through the 
> creation of dozens of award-winning radio programs broadcast on 
> NPR's "All Things Considered." Whether on the radio, in print, 
> or on the Web, Sound Portraits is committed to producing 
> innovative works of lasting educational, cultural and artistic 
> value. To hear some of their previous radio programs, visit 
> www.soundportraits.org.
> 
> StoryCorps American Tour
> May - November 2005
> 
> East
> 
> May 30 - June 13
> Charlottesville, Va.
> 
> June 16 - July 2
> Morgantown and Charleston, W.Va.
> 
> July 5 - July 25
> Columbus, Ohio
> 
> July 28 - Aug. 15
> Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mich.
> 
> Aug. 18 - Sept. 5
> Chicago, Ill.
> 
> Sept. 8 - Sept. 26
> St. Louis, Mo.
> 
> Sept. 29 - Oct. 10
> Paducah, Ky.
> 
> Oct. 13 - Oct. 31
> Memphis, Tenn.
> 
> Nov. 3 - Nov. 21
> Selma, Ala.
> 
> 
> West
> 
> June 2 - June 6
> Milwaukee, Wis.
> 
> June 9 - June 20
> Madison, Wis.
> 
> June 23 - July 10
> Minneapolis, Minn.
> 
> July 14 - July 31
> Bismarck and New Town, N.D.
> 
> Aug. 4 - Aug. 22
> Missoula, Mont.
> 
> Aug. 25 - Sept. 5
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> Sept. 7 - Sept. 26
> Seattle, Wash.
> 
> Sept. 29 - Oct. 17
> Portland, Ore.
> 
> Oct. 20 - Nov. 7
> Medford, Ore.
> 
> Nov. 10 - Nov. 28
> San Francisco Bay area, Calif.
> 
> # # #
> 
> PR 05-091 (rev.)
> 04/15/05
> ISSN 0731-3527
> 
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