[SEMCO] For Immediate Release: An Evening of Storytelling

[Sydney Lewis]

         PO 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 19, 2015, 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 19, 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. 


“The stories the students find never cease to amaze me,” says Transom Story Workshop instructor Rob Rosenthal, “Right out of the gate this group of workshop students found stories about a Jamaican chef in South Yarmouth, the fisherman's memorial in Provincetown, and a Mashpee Wampanoag rapper. Just when I think we might start running out, the students discover surprising people and stories all across the Cape, Islands, and South Coast.” 

Since late September, nine beginning radio students have been learning the craft of telling stories with sound. The students, a mix of Americans at home and abroad, as well as two international students, arrived in Woods Hole from the South, Midwest, West Coast, as well as Alaska, Trinidad, Ireland, India, and France. 

The stories they’ve produced focus on our local area, and we anticipate some of the people they’ve profiled or talked with will be in the audience.  A question and answer period will follow each piece.


Executive Director, Jay Allison comments that, “It's a thrill to see these students learn the art and craft of storytelling so quickly, and even teach us something about our home. They arrive in Woods Hole, fan out on the ground, and come back with remarkable, surprising stories they discovered in the place we live.”


The listening event will precede a brief graduation ceremony and the public is urged to join us in cheering Transom Story Workshop’s ninth 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 Report.


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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