StoryCorps Comes to WMNF
WMNF is honored to host the award-winning StoryCorps team, who’ll be visiting Tampa Bay this December and January, and recording your stories.
StoryCorps is an amazing oral history project. It’s not historians and professional interviewers asking famous people questions. It’s everyday people, sharing their personal stories. It can be an older person’s memories, a young person’s experiences, a life-changing moment, poignant or funny, unique and individual. It’s a conversation with someone close to you, that’s being recorded for you and for posterity. You can preserve the stories of someone you love, or share your own stories with your family or a friend.
Here’s how StoryCorps explains what they do. . .
Since 2003, over 35,000 everyday people have shared life stories with family and friends in our StoryBooths. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind.
Everybody’s story matters. Every life counts. Help us reach out to record our history, hopes, and common humanity and illuminate the true character of this nation.
If you make a StoryCorps recording, you’ll come to the Mobile Studio with a friend or family member who you’ll interview, or who will talk to you. You’ll sit down with that person and a microphone, and a StoryCorps facilitator, and just talk. You’ll get a copy on CD and if you choose, a copy will be preserved in the Library of Congress. Selections may air locally on WMNF or nationally on NPR.
You can hear the kind of stories StoryCorps have broadcast right here. . . http://www.storycorps.net/listen/.
StoryCorps records everyday voices – you don’t have to be famous and you don’t need radio experience. They’ve recorded the experiences of African Americans for the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. They carry on a Memory Loss Initiative, to reach out to people affected by memory loss. Their September 11th project is trying to record one story for every person who was lost in those events. StoryCorps and their founder, David Isay, have won many awards for their work. They deserve every one.
Make a Reservation
The StoryCorps Mobile Studio will be open in the Tampa Bay area December 11-22 and January 5-17.
Public reservations to make a StoryCorps recording will open Tuesday, November 25 at 10 a.m.
A second round of reservations will open up on Friday, December 12 at 10 a.m.
To make a reservation, call 1-800-850-4406 or log onto www.storycorps.net.
Reservations will fill up fast. If you aren’t able to get a spot, StoryCorps does have a wait list in case of cancellations.
You can also stay tuned for details of story recordings that WMNF will be organizing after StoryCorps’ visit.
You can find more information about StoryCorps’ ongoing work, special projects, publications, and how to record your own stories at www.storycorps.net. For questions about StoryCorps’ Tampa Bay visit, email .
Location
StoryCorps’ Mobile Studio will be in historic Ybor City this December and January, near the corner of 19th Street and E. 9th Avenue. That’s easy access from I-275 or I-4. [map]
- That’s just across the street from the East side of Centennial Park.
- Just across the street from the Ybor History Museum.
- Just a few feet from Tre Amici Coffeeshop at The Bunker.
- A couple blocks East of Centro Ybor, and 2 blocks North of 7th Avenue.
Special Thanks
- ChappellRoberts
- Ybor City Development Corporation
- The Ybor City Museum Society
- David Audet
- T. Hampton Dohrman
- Tre Amici at the Bunker
