Storytelling Resources

Storytelling comes in many forms.
For further reading/instruction, check out these links:
Updated Fall 2010

The Salt Institute - Portland, Maine's School for Documentary Studies. Check out the SALTcast
Transom.org - Showcase and Workshop for New Public Radio. Great guides to interviewing and Equipment.
PRX.org - Making Public Radio more Public. Sign up for free, listen and share to powerful stuff.
Center for Digital Storytelling - Center provides storytelling workshops focused on self-narration around healthcare, social justice and environment, education, arts and history.
The Moth - Live stories told without notes. Incredible stories from all sorts of people.
Digital Explorations - Led by Barbara Ganley of Vermont - "We blend the fast and the slow with the old and the new to deepen learning and relationships in rural communities." Incredible work being done in Vermont, Maine - a variety of methods towards reaching out to communities through stories. Check out this great presentation on planning stories.
Alan Levine: 50 ways to tell a story Demonstrates different ways to tell a story using a variety of free online services.
The Vermont Folklife Center Preserving the Voices and Traditions of Vermont
One in Eight Million Beautiful, unique digital Stories from New York City residents.
Homelands.org WORKING. It's what most of us do for half our waking lives. It's how we feed and clothe ourselves and how we support our families. It's also what connects us. Almost everything around us is the product of human labor—much of it performed in faraway places, by people we will never meet. Until now... GREAT STUFF!
{Murmur} An archival audio project that collects and curates stories set in specific Toronto
locations, told by Torontonians. Cell phones!
Big Shed Radio
Place + Memory Project: "If you could go back, where would you go? Help us create a landscape of memories."
Save our Sounds: "We are looking for sounds that are in danger of becoming extinct. Wherever you are in the world, get involved and send us your sounds. " BBC Project

NPR:
This I Believe
Hearing Voices
Story Corps
Sound Portraits Ghetto Life 101 will change your life
The Kitchen Sisters

Swamp Gravy Award winning play based on the real life stories from members of the community of Colquitt, Georgia - performed by the community.
Wan Smolbag: Creative Social Theater in Vanatu, Pacific Islands
Media Storm Incredible stories told using digital storytelling. Powerful audio journalism.
Population Media Center strives to improve the health and well-being of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies.
"And Still We Rise": (Public Voice Theater Project) Boston - “And Still We Rise” Productions is a collaboration of theater artists and social justice advocates working together with ex-prisoners and their loved ones to bring a powerful, articulate, personal voice of prison experience to the public for the purpose of healing, education, empowerment, and social change.
The Castle: Play written by and combining testimonies from prison inmates.
Kids with Cameras The organization behind Born into Brothels. Giving kids cameras.
Literacy Through Photography: LTP is a writing program designed to help students achieve better writing and communication skills through the use of photography and visual imagery.
New Orleans: Labor of Love: Using the power of independent journalism, social media, and grassroots organizing to motivate, educate, sustain and mobilize a civic movement of volunteers who will aid in the ongoing reconstruction of the Gulf Coast.
Troubling Violence: A Performance Project: "Heather Carver met Elaine Lawless in 2001 when Lawless had already published her ethnography of a shelter for battered women. They began talking about their shared interest in studying narrative, ethnography, and performance. This shared interest developed into a troupe that performs the narratives in Lawless' book, Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative (2001 University of Missouri Press), winner of the Curators' Prize for Publishing Excellence in 2001. As the artistic director, Carver adapted the narratives and invited troupe members to share their own stories or stories given to them by others who had experienced abuse."
Culture Clash: Latino Performance Troupe: "For the last fifteen years, Culture Clash has been focusing on site-specific theater, weaving personal narratives culled from interviews into an ongoing dramatic tapestry. Theater companies in Miami, San Diego, New York, Houston, Boston and San Francisco, among others, have commissioned Culture Clash to create performance pieces specifically for their cities. Their work gives immediate dramatic voice and expression to people in a certain time and place. It is theater of the moment, written and performed first for the people and communities on which it is based, and secondly for a broader audience. Culture Clash uses “performance collage” to bring history, geography, “urban excavation,” “forensic poetry” and storytelling together in a contemporary, movable theater narrative through a Chicano point of view–what Guillermo Gomez-Pena describes as “reverse anthropology.”
The Art of Storytelling with Children An international conversation on the art of Storytelling
Children's Radio Africa Foundation Incredible work exploring social radio with children based in South Africa.
Population Media Center: Population Media Center (PMC) works worldwide using entertainment-education for social change.

Voice of Witness: Illuminating human crises through oral history.

Spoken word --- Check out Sarah Kay's TED talk and her NGO, Project V.O.I.C.E.