Learn how to use audio to tell stories and express your ideas!

Dates: Sept. 13-17

Length: Day-long sessions over 5 days (exact time to be determined)

Venue: Search for Common Ground Office, Lazimpat, Nursery Marg

Workshop: 8-10 participants with basic audio/radio experience will receive hands-on training in methods of audio storytelling.  Training will cover technical aspects of audio recording (with Zoom H2 recorders), editing, and mixing, as well as one-on-one assistance in the crafting their stories.  Each participant will produce a broadcast-ready story, less than 10 minutes in length by the end of the workshop. We might then approach a local radio station with the stories for broadcast or put them out into the world as podcasts.

Workshop will be in English and Nepali.

See a more detailed course outline here

Collaborators/Sponsors:

• Mountain Music Project
• Grassroots Movement in Nepal
• Search for Common Ground

Instructors:

Jacob Penchansky (AKA Jack Chance) is a film and radio producer, sound recordist, and “guerilla ethnomusicologist.” His radio stories and audio recordings have been broadcast on National Public Radio, BBC/PRI’s “The World,” the Nature Conservancy Podcast, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and Outer Voices. Jacob has recorded traditional musicians in more than 30 countries, has helped preserve audio recordings for Easter Island’s MuseoAnthropologico, documented endangered native languages in Alaska, worked as a consultant for BBC radio 3, and is the director for the Mountain Music Project, a musical-cultural exchange between American and Nepali folk musicians.  He has previously worked on Open Society Institute funded projects Outer Voices and the All Burma I.T. Student Union on the Thailand-Burma border.

Anya Vaverko is a photojournalist and a documentary filmmaker with a strong interest in social issues. She has a degree in Mass Comm. from St. Cloud State University and almost has a Master’s in Photojournalism from the University of Texas.  Born in Ukraine, she grew up in New York, but has been connected to Nepal since 2003.  Anya is a co-founder of Sattya and finds teaching to be the most difficult and rewarding thing she does. Anya has taught courses on journalism and democracy, media ethics, as well as various technical media workshops. Most recently, she was a new media trainer at YouthMedia 2010, a 15-day Open Society Institute funded workshop with Alliance for Social Dialogue.  See her work at anyaunknown.com and dalbhattarkari.com.

Application form is available here and can be returned to collective@sattya.org.

If you are having trouble opening the file, here it is as a PDF.

Apply by Friday, Sept. 3rd and spread the word!