[SEMCO] PRESS RELEASE: An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole

[Sydney Lewis]

P       P.O. Box 445, 3 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543 (508) 548-5527 www.atlantic.org
  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 


An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole

November 20, 2014, 7-10 PM, Woods Hole Community Hall

 

Atlantic Public Media will present a public listening event to celebrate the creation of new audio work by students at this fall’s Transom Story Workshop.  It will be held from 7 – 10 pm on Thursday, November 20th at the Community Hall, 68 Water Street, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.  Admission is free.  Seating is limited.

The event is sponsored by Atlantic Public Media, the local non-profit organization that founded our public radio station, WCAI, and created the Peabody Award-winning public media website Transom.org, a showcase and workshop for new public media. 

Since late September, nine beginning radio students have been living in Woods Hole learning the craft of telling stories with sound. This time students range in age from early 20's to mid 30s, and have traveled to Woods Hole from various locations in the South, Oregon and Alaska, as well as from as far afield as Newfoundland and Montreal. The stories they’ve produced focus on our local area, and we expect some of the people they’ve profiled or talked with will be in the audience.  A question and answer period will follow each piece.

Of the Graduation Listening Event, Executive Director, Jay Allison says, “This is becoming a community tradition. Once again, we get to hear new stories about the place we live, created by these talented students who've been living and working here for the past two months. They see and hear things with fresh eyes and ears, and introduce us to neighbors we didn't know we had."

Rob Rosenthal, lead instructor for the Transom Story Workshop says, “It doesn't matter how many times we do this, I'm always floored at the quality of the stories. The students are so diligent and they have such high expectations for themselves. You can clearly hear it. In fact, you can't tell they're new producers because the stories sounds so professional."

The listening event will precede a brief graduation ceremony and the public is urged to join us in applauding Transom Story Workshop’s sixth graduating class. 

Public radio producer Jay Allison founded Atlantic Public Media as a non-profit organization in 1993.  APM created Transom.org, and produces The Moth Radio Hour (also a Peabody winner) and created the popular NPR series, This I Believe, as well as programming for WCAI, including the Sonic IDs, Creative Life and The Local Food Repor

For more information: 508-548-5527 x 2 or info at transom.org. 

Web: www.atlantic.org or www.transom.org

 

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