The "Capturing Community Voices Workshop" will assist participants in collaboratively designing and producing a short radio segment featuring interviews with members of the local community edited into a collage of voices responding to a common question. Participants will learn how to formulate questions, conduct interviews, and be guided through computer tutorials and techniques that enable them, with facilitator support, to edit their own segments.

About Laura Hadden and Tennessee Watson:
Hadden and Watson were cited in 2011 by the International Documentary Challenge in the Best Film and Best Directing categories for a previous joint project, Matthew 24:14. The collaborators have a diverse history working in documentary film and radio. Laura Hadden is an independent media producer who spent the last three years producing projects for the storytelling organization The Moth in New York City. Before that, she facilitated workshops at The Center for Digital Storytelling and was an apprentice and community media producer at KPFA in Berkeley, CA. Tennessee Watson is a multimedia producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to moving to NY, she spent four years at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University producing documentaries, instructing courses and coordinating Youth Noise Network, a radio project for teens in Durham, North Carolina.

This workshop is presented in conjunction with AIR’s Live Interactive Residency Program, which is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Special thanks to Debra Kamecke and the Cairo Public Library for hosting workshop participants.