First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam…
Siler City, North Carolina used to be a typical Southern town. Everybody was white or black. Now the town’s population is half Latino. One community’s journey through the “five stages of grief” – all the…
How to grieve when the deaths come so quickly? How, as an African American mother, to protect your child’s innocence and hope? An audio essay by Stacia Brown. Photo: Stacia Brown’s daughter, Story. Photo by…
The last installment in our Storymakers series. Four pieces by citizen storytellers on living together, and apart, in Durham, North Carolina. By Vimala Rajendran, Chip and Teddy Denton, Courtney Reid-Eaton, and Nia Wilson. Photo: Members…
More from our team of citizen storytellers in Durham, NC. Stories by Courtney Smith, Katt Ryce, and Kimani Hall, exploring the things that unite and divide people in Durham and in America. Part of Storymakers:…
Three stories conceived and made by citizen storytellers Jamila Davenport, Roberto Nava, and Debby Bussel explore race, class, and gentrification in Durham, North Carolina. Part of Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #FindingAmerica…
Can stories help to bring a community together? How about radio stories, conceived and made by citizen storytellers? Introducing Storymakers: Durham, a project of the national Localore: #FindingAmerica initiative. Photo: A Story Circle…
It can take a lifetime to make sense of a parent, or to get over him. Or, just maybe, to come to terms. By Ruxandra Guidi. Photo by Bear Guerra.
The people we love have power—the power to upend our lives, or at least to make things interesting. Two stories of surprises, curveballs thrown by family members. Pieces by Qathi Hart and John Rash. Photo…
A quartet of very short works exploring memory – most inspired by Third Coast Audio Festival ShortDoc Challenges. Pieces by Ligaiya Romero, Madeline Miller, Nan Pincus, and John Biewen. Photo: Harper Biewen, right, and her…
Hey, wrote a new newsletter post. "We have to make it socially unacceptable — again? — to behave as a thuggish manchild." (link in comment 👇)
Thanks for the response, re-upping once more:
Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.
If you've used the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you!
Important discussion abt how we might learn to do this from @SceneOnRadio
In our podcast feed: John Biewen reads a new newsletter essay on his hometown, Mankato, Minn., and on historical maturity vs. cowardice.
New Keeping ScOR newsletter -- me (John Biewen) on historical forgetting and acknowledgment in my hometown, Mankato, MN. (link in comment)
