An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole

May 21, 2015, 7-10 PM

Atlantic Public Media will present a public listening event to celebrate the creation of new audio work by students at this spring’s Transom Story Workshop. It will be held from 7 – 10 pm on Thursday, May 21st, at the Community Hall, 68 Water Street, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Admission is free. Seating is limited.

The event is sponsored by Atlantic Public Media, the local non-profit organization that founded our public radio station, WCAI, and created the Peabody Award-winning public media website Transom.org, a showcase and workshop for new public media.

“I never cease to be amazed,” says Transom Story Workshop instructor Rob Rosenthal, “Amazed at the quality of the student’s work. Amazed at their clever storytelling. Amazed at their dedication to getting the story right. And, amazed at the generosity of the people on the Cape and Islands who agree to be interviewed and followed by Transom students wielding microphones, sometimes for hours on end. Come to the graduation and you’ll be amazed, too.”

Since late March, nine beginning radio students have been living in Woods Hole learning the craft of telling stories with sound. The students come from as nearby as Brookline and as far away as Portugal and Australia, their age ranges from 20 to 31. The stories they’ve produced focus on our local area, and we expect some of the people they’ve profiled or talked with will be in the audience. A question and answer period will follow each piece.

Executive Director, Jay Allison comments that, “For us locals, this graduation ceremony is like unwrapping presents. The students have found wonderful stories hiding in plain sight on the Cape, Coast and Islands. Then they use the skills they’ve learned to present them, like a gift, to all of us who live here.”

The listening event will precede a brief graduation ceremony and the public is urged to join us in applauding Transom Story Workshop’s eighth graduating class.

Public radio producer Jay Allison founded Atlantic Public Media as a non-profit organization in 1993. APM created Transom.org, and produces The Moth Radio Hour (also a Peabody winner) and created the popular NPR series, This I Believe, as well as programming for WCAI, including the Sonic IDs, Creative Life and The Local Food Report.

For more information: 508-548-5527 x 2 or info@transom.org.

Web: www.atlantic.org or www.transom.org