Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries

The finished radio pieces from the Texas Folklife Stories Summer Institute, a weeklong intensive audio production workshop for Austin-area students and teachers.

This summer high school students and middle school or high school teachers and administrators participated in Texas Folklife's 2016 “Stories from Deep in the Heart" Summer Institute, a 5-day intensive fellowship in audio documentary production with professional producers, journalists and cultural workers. Participants were guided through production of short audio documentaries on themes related to folklife----family and community traditions.

For the 2016 program, Texas Folklife worked with craftspeople, laborers, and workers in Austin to document the material arts and laborlore of the city. The material arts are often rooted in rich traditional practices, oral histories, and origin mythologies. Stories participants will document the processes and histories of these arts to celebrate the value of cultural labor. Fellows completed one audio story in groups during the program. The “Stories from Deep in the Heart” summer institute is part of an on-going series of workshops for teachers and students in the Austin area and Central Texas schools.

Special Guest Instructor: Folklorist and NPR & BBC radio producer Rachel Hopkin
Lead Instructor: Brian Griffith
Lead Producer: Sandra Olsen
Producers: Cory LaFevers, Michelle Mejia, Hannah Whisenant

See more at: texasfolklife.org/event/ssi2016

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“Stories from Deep in the Heart” is supported in part through grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; the Shield-Ayres Foundation; the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and Department of Telecommunications & Regulatory Affairs Grant for Technology Opportunities (GTOPS); and generous support from the Austin Independent School District and KUT News 90.5. Additional support from The University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs.

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The finished radio pieces from the Texas Folklife Stories Summer Institute, a weeklong intensive audio production workshop for Austin-area students and teachers. This summer high school students and middle school or high school teachers and administrators participated in Texas Folklife's 2016 “Stories from Deep in the Heart" Summer Institute, a 5-day intensive fellowship in audio documentary production with professional producers, journalists and cultural workers. Participants were guided through production of short audio documentaries on themes related to folklife----family and community traditions. For the 2016 program, Texas Folklife worked with craftspeople, laborers, and workers in Austin to document the material arts and laborlore of the city. The material arts are often... Show full description