Category Archives: Workshops

Workshops

Doc Fun in the Summertime! Big Shed’s 5th Annual Retreat at CDS (July 26-Aug 1)

Leave a comment
More from CDS.
+++++++++++++++++

Join us this summer for Digging In, our 5th-annual Artists Retreat at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Registration is open, and we'd love to have you there!

Whether you work in audio, photography, writer, film, docu-hacker, multimedia, etc. – this is an opportunity to make meaningful progress on the projects most important to you. We've designed this time to help you catch your creative breath while delving into something that could use some focused attention – whether you're finishing a story, writing a proposal, exploring a new project concept, or maybe you just want the space and community to think about your creative trajectory,

Digging In: An Artists Retreat with Big Shed
@ Center for Documentary Studies at Duke (Durham, NC)
July 26 – August 1, 2015 | Course Fee: $625

For tempting details — http://bigshed.org/retreat

To register — http://register.asapconnected.com/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseId=13442

This summer we've got an exciting team to make this a great week for you. We're thrilled that Lisa Morehouse (californiafoodways.com) will again join Big Shed’s Shea Shackelford and Jesse Dukes in leading the week. Our creative cabal includes Ben Pagac, Jim Adams and Logan Jaffe. And as a special guest, we're excited to have Kara Oehler back in the Shed. Woohoo!!

The week is lightly structured to help you make significant progress on a project that’s important to you. Each day, you’ll have 6+ hours of work time on your project, and we’ll help you make the most of it. We’ll offer strategies and tools for focusing your work during the week and beyond. Each day you’ll share progress on your work with other participants and the Big Shed team. When it’s time to put your pencils down, we’ll stoke your creative fires and make sure you also take time relax and play. You can expect brilliant adventures, special guests, tasty food, thought provoking presentations, late-night conversations, and hand-cranked ice cream on the porch!

If you have any questions, just email shea@bigshed.org

We hope you'll join us on the porch this summer!
Shea, Jesse and Lisa

Ps. Digging In is proudly part an amazing lineup of Summer Intensives at CDS. If you're looking for even-more editorial guidance and hands-on instruction to help you produce a great radio story, you should also consider Making it Sing, a week-long intensive for more experienced producers (Aug 3-8). This summer, the amazing Deb George will join John Biewen and Shea Shackelford in helping you shape your stories. (AIR is offering five members a $100 travel stipend to attend Making it Sing.)

Workshops

Summer Audio Camp at CDS

Leave a comment
Summer camp for audio nerds. Yes.

++++++++++++++

Our intro summer audio intensive, Hearing is Believing, is filling fast but still has some spaces. Our August course for more experienced producers, Making It Sing, has openings too and several of AIR's $100 stipends for members are still available for Making It Sing. I'd like to emphasize the latter, MIS, for y'all AIRsters. It's workshopish and individually oriented, aimed at helping you make the most of that challenging piece you're working on, so it works great for people of all experience levels — whether you're working on the third piece you've ever made or the 300th, and indeed we've had seasoned pros do the course.

Deb George, one of the best editors in the land, is returning as guest teacher/editor for Making It Sing, and the estimable Glynn Washington (!) of Snap Judgment will be here for Hearing is Believing. Our Man from Big Shed, Shea Shackelford, is here for all our summer courses as per usual.

The details:

Hearing is Believing, July 12-18, a kickstart for beginners (really: NO experience required) or those relatively new to the craft and wanting a solid grounding in the fundamentals — recording, shaping and scripting, mixing on Hindenburg. You and a partner make a piece during the week.

Making It Sing, August 3-8, for more experienced producers with a challenging project to bring and workshop with lots of individual and small-group attention.

Between those two on the calendar, our friends at Big Shed are again offering Digging In: An Artist’s Retreat, July 26-31, which brings together documentary makers and storytellers of all stripes (and all mediums) for a productive and rejuvenating week of digging deep and making meaningful progress on individual projects.

AIR is offering five members a $100 travel stipend to attend our advanced course, Making it Sing. To apply for the AIR stipend go here: https://airmedia.wufoo.com/forms/q7x1k3/.

CDS offers big porches, great lunches, and yes, AC.

To register or to read more about all these courses, and a few others offered by CDS in video, photo, and writing, go here: http://tinyurl.com/nly355s

Any questions, write to cdscourses@duke.edu, or to me off-list.

Hope to see you this summer.

Workshops

Summer Audio Camps at the Center for Documentary Studies

Leave a comment
It's summer camp for audio nerds – one for newbies, one for more experienced producers, and one week-long retreat for anyone who needs it. Details below! (Including info on a stipend for AIR members. If you're not a member already, here's another good reason to join up.)

Alert: Glynn Washington! Deb George! Or should it be #GlynnWashington, #DebGeorge?
Spring’s almost here and it’s time for the annual invitation to “summer radio camp for grownups,” our weeklong intensives here in Durham, NC. We’re again offering our pair of venerable bootcamp-style courses: 
Hearing is Believing, July 12-18, for beginners (really: NO experience required) or those relatively new to the craft and wanting a solid grounding in the fundamentals—recording, shaping and scripting, mixing on Hindenburg. You make a piece during the week with a partner.
Making It Sing, August 3-8, for more experienced producers with a challenging project to bring and workshop with lots of individual and small-group attention.
Between those two on the calendar, our friends at Big Shed are again offering Digging In: An Artist’s Retreat, July 26-31, which brings together documentary makers and storytellers of all stripes (and all mediums) for a productive and rejuvenating week of digging deep and making meaningful progress on individual projects.  
AIR is offering members a $100 travel stipend to attend our advanced course, Making it Sing. Five stipends are available. To apply for the AIR stipend go here: https://airmedia.wufoo.com/forms/q7x1k3/.

We have a brilliant roster of guest instructors, all AIRsters. Glynn Washington, the creator, host, and executive producer of Snap Judgment, will be our guest teacher/presenter for Hearing is Believing (the intro-ish course). For Making it Sing, Deb George returns. The veteran editor and producer with NPR, Radio Diaries and now Reveal: there’s no better set of ears in the business. And as always the inimitable Shea Shackelford of Big Shed will be here along with me for both Hearing is Believing and Making It Sing — and of course for Digging In.

To register or to read more about all these courses, and a few others offered by CDS in video, photo, and writing, go here: 

http://tinyurl.com/nly355s

Any questions, write to cdscourses@duke.edu.

Cheers, and hope to see you this summer!

jb

p.s. To the many of you who’ve been to CDS, and maybe some who haven’t: you might enjoy our new 25th anniversary site:
Workshops

upcoming workshops from Oral History Summer School

Leave a comment

One of my favorite organizations – Oral History Summer School – is gearing up for their next round of workshops. Additional information on their website and Facebook page. Please share widely! -Mia

++++++++++++++

Oral History Summer School was established in Hudson, New York in 2012 to train an international group of students to make use of Oral History in their documentary and artistic practices. This summer, we're also offering specialized short courses for continuing oral historians or those interested in advanced issues in the field.

In the past, workshop participants have included lawyers, writers, social workers, teachers, activists, small business owners, and family historians, among others. As both a methodology and documentary form, Oral History is a means to preserve history, complicate reductive studies, conduct research, mobilize communities, build an ethical interview practice, or

broker difficult conversations (to name a few uses).

This summer’s instructors include Suzanne Snider (Founder/Director OHSS),  Dina Zempsky (Memory Loss Initiative, Storycorps), Sady Sullivan (Columbia University), LJ Amsterdam (Watershed Center),  Sheri-Bauer-Mayorga (Good Globe Singing School), Jeffrey Lependorf (Music Omi International Musicians Residency), Jeremy Thal (Found Sound Nation, One Beat), Nicki Pombier Berger (Nothing About Us Without Us), and Ben Harbert (filmmaker, Follow Me Down)

Workshops

Oral History Intensive with Suzanne Snider, June 12-19
Collecting and Composing: Oral History and Music, June 23-28
Let Us All Our Voices Raise: Memory Loss and Mixed Ability Interviewing, June 29-July 3

More information can be found, here: http://www.oralhistorysummerschool.com/
Apply: http://www.oralhistorysummerschool.com/apply

Workshops

AIR/UnionDocs Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive, April 27 – May 1

Leave a comment
Applications are open for AIR/UnionDocs Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive, hosted this year by @karaoehler. Details and links below.
++++++++++++++
I'm delighted to be hosting this year's AIR/UnionDocs Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive in Brooklyn NY from April 27-May 1.

Participants have described it as "summer camp meets nerd paradise." It's a chance for producers of all levels to get away from day-to-day work activities to gain new skills and perspectives from some of the best and most creative in the field and gain a new network of radio colleagues from around the world. Full Spectrum started with Localore and Makers Quest 2.0. AIR and UnionDocs are building on that with a curriculum based on Localore, with instructors who built its projects and other radio heroes and all stars.

Jonathan Mitchell, award-winning creator of “The Truth,” will take people into his brilliant soundscapes by lifting the lid on his Pro-Tools sessions. “This American Life” producer Sean Cole will give insight into his writing and reporting techniques. WNYC's John Keefe will dig into the station's investigative reporting with data. It's really going to be an incredible week.

If you sign up now, you'll get the early bird rate. And go here for more info on speakers, sessions and rates.
Hope to see some of y'all there!

Kara

Workshops

Seminar – Audio Walks and Site-Specific Storytelling, Feb 13-15, Brooklyn

Leave a comment
This workshop looks SO good! Friday, February 13 – Sunday, February 15, 10am-6pm, UnionDocs, Brooklyn

—-
STORIES TAKING PLACE: Audio Walks and Site-Specific Storytelling
An intensive 3-day seminar.
This seminar has been specially designed to teach and encourage audio producers and creative writers to reimagine the world around them, foster their creativity and sharpen their writing skills. To produce a successful audio program many skills are required, from research and journalism to sound storytelling to app designing, in addition to a considerable dose of observation, creativity and writing.
Produced by UnionDocs in partnership with Mathilde Walker-Billaud and Pejk Malinovski, the seminar will go into the various creative practices of site-specific audio interventions. It will offer technical tools and skill sets for navigating through this medium and finding your own path in this emergent art.
Radio audiences today have been liberated from the time and space limitations and can listen to audio anywhere at anytime: at home or at work, in the subway or in the streets, while queuing at the stores or taking a walk along the river. Technological developments have sparked a new generation of tours and sonic experiences through site-specific audio programs that are easily downloadable on mobile devices: a recorded and intimate voice guides an individual in a place and plays with the body, the imagination, the memory and the surroundings.
Over the course of three days, 10 to 14 participants will learn from a team of seasoned guest speakers and practitioners — radio auteurs, theater artists, writers, entrepreneurs, documentarists. The seminar will explore site-specific storytelling, sound design, audience engagement, instruction-based practice and more. Workshops, discussions, exercises, walks in the city (Field trips on Friday and Saturday) and a work-in-progress critique will help put this new knowledge into practice.
Pejk Malinovski, radio producer and poet, will lead the seminar as main instructor.
When: Friday, February 13 – Sunday, February 15, 10am-6pm

Where: UnionDocs, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Who is eligible?
Open to everyone. We are looking for students, radio producers, media artists, app designers and writers interested in places, audio practice and writing.
Give us an idea of who you are and why you are coming. When you register you will be asked for a short statement of interest that should briefly describe your experience in audio practice and a project idea (if you have one), plus a bio. There’s a spot for a link to a work sample and CV, which would also be nice, but is not required.
Please note: Participants are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. Focus is on discussions, observation, imagination and writing. The goal is to develop your project conceptually.
Cost:
$385 early bird registration by January 30th.
$450 regular
Please note that the service charge is waived if payment is made via check.
Checks can be made out to UnionDocs and mailed to 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn NY 11211.
Technology Requirements:
In order to keep costs down, this workshop is a b-y-o-m, bring your own material (laptop, headphones, recorder). Students must be fully proficient using and operating their computers.
Schedule:
(subject to change)
Day 1: Site-specific storytelling
Main Instructor: Pejk Malinovski
Guest Instructor : Alexandra Horowitz
The first day of the seminar looks in-depth at the ways we can tell stories about neighborhoods and specific places. It will include one field trip.
Day 2 : On-location participatory projects
Guest Instructor: Ant Hampton
The second day of the intensive focuses on writing and producing live interventions in an urban context. It will include one field trip.
Day 3 : The listener’s experience
Guest Instructor: Kara Oehler
The third day explores the multiple ways to build an audio itinerary and the possible tools to interact with the walker/listener. The afternoon will include exercises, discussions and project critiques.
Each day follows this general structure, with some minor variations and substitutions:
10:00a    Warm up, inspiring references, listening exercises, ear training.
10:30a    Presentation
11:45a    Discussion
12:30p    Share / Discussion / Exercise
1:00p      Lunch (on your own – lunch will be provided on Friday)
2:00p      Presentation
3:15p      Discussion
4:00p      Workshop Exercise
5:00p      Workshop Critique
5:30p      End
Workshops

Oral History Winter School, begins Jan 3

Leave a comment
Join this amazing team of oral historians for a series of workshops in Upstate NY. Details HERE and below.

++++++++++++++++++

Oral History Winter School starts January 3, in Hudson, New York, just a short, wintry train ride from nyc.

We're offering two workshops, Shaking the Family Tree and Oral History & Radio Doc. Start 2015 immersed in audio, collecting your family history or making a radio doc. Think: summer camp — with audio and snow.

An early bird discount is available for one more day.
Questions? info@oralhistorysummerschool.com

Yours,
Suzanne Snider
Founder/Director, Oral History Summer School


—

pdf icon ORAL-HISTORY-WINTER-SCHOOL_RADIO_FAMILY_ANNOUNCE_SUN_LINKS.pdf

Workshops

Transom Story Workshop Spring 2015, deadline Jan 3

Leave a comment
Meeting so many amazing producers at Third Coast who got their start at Transom. There is no better place to learn the art of audio production. Deadline Jan 3.

++++++++++++++

Transom Story Workshop Spring 2015: Applications Open *

Applications for the Spring 2015 Transom Story Workshop are now available. The Workshop will take place from March 30th – May 21st here in Woods Hole, MA. Lead radio instructor Rob Rosenthal will run the 8-week program for nine beginning producers. Special guests will include NPR's Deborah Amos and This American Life's Ira Glass. Applications due January 3rd by midnight EST. For more information including links to our Workshop FAQ and the application itself, go here:
http://transom.org/workshops/about/story-workshop/

Workshops

Kitchen Sisters Interviewing & Recording Workshop Comes to KCRW in LA, Friday, November 21

Leave a comment
Hey LA folks – my favorite women of radio are bringing their sound workshop to KCRW – Friday, Nov 21, 10am-1pm. Don't miss it! Details below. -Mia
++++++++++++++++++

Dear Friends,

KCRW's Independent Producer Project is bringing The Kitchen Sisters sound, interviewing and recording workshop to KCRW in Santa Monica. Friday morning, November 21 from 10-1:00. This three-hour session is designed for people who want to acquire and hone their skills for an array of audio and media projects: radio, online, podcasts, storytelling, oral histories, audio slideshows, family histories, news, investigative reporting, documentaries and other multimedia platforms.

The workshop will cover interviewing approaches, miking techniques, sound gathering, use of archival audio, field recording techniques, how to make interviewees comfortable, how to frame evocative questions that make for compelling storytelling, what equipment to use and what to pack in your kit, how to build a story, and how to listen.

The workshop is customized to fit the projects you are working on. People who attend come from radio, film, multimedia, newspapers, blogs, journalism, photography, oral history, historical societies, music, writing, libraries, archives, web design, detective agencies, farms, universities, restaurants, health care organizations, theaters, electrician's unions and beyond. The groups are always lively and good contacts are made.

Of course, snacks will be served.

The workshop will be held at KCRW / 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405.

Fee: $135.00. Register at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/898133.

Questions? Email us at kitchen@kitchensisters.org. And please pass this announcement along to your community.

Expand your skills, meet new people, support KCRW and the work of The Kitchen Sisters.

See you at the station,

Davia & Nikki

Workshops

Working with Music in Audio Storytelling at CDS Nov 22-23

Leave a comment
Course on using music in production at CDS next month. Course description and link to sign up below. -Mia
What happens in the alchemical moment when a voice telling a story is transformed—whether suddenly or almost imperceptibly—by the music placed underneath it? When is the use of music honest? When is it essential? When is it dishonest or distracting? In this weekend workshop, we’ll explore techniques for using music to enhance audio storytelling, whether your primary interest is in podcasting, personal storytelling, oral history, or radio journalism. 

How many times have you been stumped by the question of what music to use in a piece? This is your chance to develop an ear for what to use, and a resource list of where to find it. 

The weekend of Nov 22-23 at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, I'm set to again offer my workshop on "Working with Music in Audio Storytelling." We had a great group last fall, with participants from NC, VA and MD, coming to the workshop with a wide range of backgrounds in production and audio work.

For more info, and to register, scroll to the bottom of this page:

http://register.asapconnected.com/Courses.aspx?CourseGroupID=500