Registration is rolling until June 15 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due June 10 at 5PM EST).
$400 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)
8 week class: Tuesdays 6-8PM EST, 6/20, 6/27, 7/4, 7/11, 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8 (with optional make up date on 8/15)
Learn and embark on the audio storytelling process from start to finish! This course is for anyone interested. Beginners will learn the fundamentals of podcast creation, while mid-level practitioners will hone their skills and narrative voices. Students will walk away from the course having produced a five to ten minute audio story or a ten to twenty minute structured interview. Conversations about how to navigate the power dynamics and social structures shaping audio stories will be woven throughout the course. Discussions will be grounded in Third Coast’s “All Stories are Stories about Power” panel, our own experiences co-creating stories, and bluelight academy's power mapping and consent frameworks.
Topics will include: What is a podcast? | Pitching and Finding Stories | Effective Interviewing and Recording | Introduction to Software Editing | Crafting a Narrative Arc & Scripting your Story | Sound Design: Exploiting the Audio Medium | And more!
Clare Boyle (they/he) is telling stories about trans histories and futures, grief, harm reduction, and people generally f*cking sh!t up towards the more liberatory. Alongside their writing and editing practices, Clare works in harm reduction and is passionate about offering people within justice movements the tools to share their own stories. They live in Philadelphia and are especially proud of being from the Midwest.
Alex Hanesworth (they/them) is a radio maker interested in the liberatory potential of memory work, place-based storytelling, oral history, queer history and community archives. They work in museums, currently as the digital media specialist for the Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. In the past, they have made audio tours for the RISD Museum, worked as a curatorial assistant for the Center for Restorative History, taught queer oral history for the Providence Public Library and gave tours for the Wharton Esherick Museum. They currently live in West Philadelphia with their little dog, Luca.