Bring two photos or mementoes for a lively afternoon of storytelling with Suzanne Snider of the Hudson Valley’s Oral History Summer School. She will lead us through a program of talking, listening, and exploring the use of storycircles for collecting oral histories and community memories.
Pre-register and save your spot here. Tickets are free.
More details:
In this virtual workshop, participants will use objects and photographs as jumping off places for storytelling, engaging collaboratively, and exploring the use of storycircles as an accessible oral history practice that can be used in a wide range of settings: families, community groups, schools and museums.
This workshop is appropriate for anyone interested in storytelling, those who wish to learn about oral history and storycircles, and/or those interested in family history and regional history. This supportive learning environment values all forms of participation; those who wish to record and archive their short-form narratives (10 minutes) will have the option to do so. No experience necessary.
All registrants should bring two photos and/or objects to the workshop, regardless of their plans to share a story. Further details will be sent to all registrants.
Program: 3:00-5:30 pm virtual workshop (with a 15-20 minute break)
– Introductions
– Storycircles, an introduction
– Object/Photo exercise
– Responding to Stories [playback theater, gesture, Imago, other examples]
– Stories
– Discussion/Wrap-up
Zoom link below:
Topic: Storycircles: Object History and Oral History
Time: Mar 6, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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About Suzanne Snider
Suzanne Snider (Founder/Director, Oral History Summer School 2012-) is a writer, documentarian, and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. Her most recent projects have taken the shape of sound installation, essays, and archive design. In 2012, she founded Oral History Summer School, an interdisciplinary training program in upstate New York. She consults frequently for institutions and project teams, collaborating with organizations including the National Public Housing Museum, MoMA, Center for Reproductive Rights and the Prison Public Memory Project. You can read more about OHSS’s collaborations, here. Her writing/audio work appear in The Guardian, The Believer, Legal Affairs, and The Washington Post, along with several anthologies and artist catalogs; she received a 2011 commission from Triple Canopy for New Media Reporting. Snider teaches at the New School for Public Engagement and served as a visiting lecturer at Columbia University (OHMA) in spring 2014. She is the co-founder (with journalist Allison Lichter) of the Mellon-funded Journalism and Trauma Workgroup to support journalists reporting on trauma and violence.
image: Jose Ortega, courtesy of Oral History Summer School