WGXC-90.7 FM

Oral History Workshop

Jan 07, 2012: 12pm- 3pm
Catskill Community Center

344 Main St. | Catskill, NY 12414 | (518) 719-8244
http://www.catskillcommunitycenter.org/

This three-hour workshop covers oral history methods and practice. Suzanne Snider leads the talk, and will discuss the qualities that distinguish oral history from journalistic practice, with an eye (ear) toward the many ways in which oral history and radio can make good use of one another. Snider will also discuss project design and ethics. This workshop is appropriate for anyone looking to start an oral history project or to contribute content to WGXC -- or for documentarians looking for a more collaborative practice. This workshop will be led by Suzanne Snider, a writer and oral historian. Snider teaches courses on oral history, song hunting, and fieldwork at the New School University and nonfiction writing at New York University. This workshop is capped at 12 people. To attend, pre-register at workshops@wgxc.org or 518-828-0290. Suzanne Snider has been conducting oral histories for 11 years. She has worked as an interviewer for organizations and archives, including the Prison Public Memory Project, the New York Academy of Medicine, HBO Productions, the Newtown Creek Community Health and Harms Narrative Project, Columbia University’s Oral History Center, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her oral history projects have touched upon public health, disappearing labor forces, prisons, visual art, memory and trauma, and feminist presses. Other interests include narrative nonfiction, ethnomusicology, the teenage experience, radio documentary, and photography. She serves on the Judd Foundation’s Oral History Advisory Board as well as the Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award Committee. Her writing and interviews—published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Legal Affairs, The Believer, and several artist books–– have been supported through fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Radcliffe Institute. She teaches at NYU and the New School and is currently completing a book about two rival communes on adjacent land.