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News Release
 
BOISE STATE RADIO RELEASE/April 28, 2008
Boise State Radio Hosts StoryCorps National Oral History
Project
BOISE – StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and
the unique stories of America, will arrive in Boise May 15 as part of the
program’s cross-country tour. StoryCorps’ mobile StoryBooth, an Airstream
trailer outfitted with a recording studio, will be parked on the plaza at
Boise City Hall.
The studio will be available for 24 days and will be open from 11:30 am to
5:30 pm Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm Saturdays
and Sundays. The booth will be closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as well as
an hour for lunch each of the days the booth is open. StoryCorps hopes to
collect 125 interviews from area residents during its stay in Boise.
Individuals can visit www.StoryCorps.net
to make interview reservations and listen to excerpts of other stories told
in the booth.
StoryCorps was created by award-winning documentary producer and MacArthur
“Genius” Grant recipient Dave Isay. This unprecedented project has traveled
to every corner of America, instructing and inspiring individuals to record
their stories in sound. StoryCorps is the largest multi-year oral history
project ever undertaken. Since its launch in October 2003, StoryCorps’ two
mobile and two stationary recording studios have visited 66 cities in 43
states and collected more than 10,000 stories.
In Boise, StoryCorps is partnering with Boise State Radio, Boise’s NPR
station, which will air a selection of the local stories and create special
programs around the project. Selected segments will also air nationally on
NPR’s Morning Edition.
At the MobileBooth, people participate in pairs — often friends or loved
ones — and one interviews the other. A trained facilitator guides the
participants through the interview process and handles the technical aspects
of the recording. At the end of a 40-minute session, participants walk away
with a CD of their interview. With their permission, a second copy also will
be sent to the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress,
where it becomes part of a high quality digital archive. This collection
will eventually grow into an oral history of America.
“Boise State Radio is proud to work with the City of Boise and the Boise
Co-Op to bring StoryCorps to Boise,” said Hy Kloc, associate general manager
of Boise State Radio. “This is a great opportunity for people in Idaho to
tell their story by being interviewed by a family member or loved one, and
then have that story air on NPR and be part of the oral history of the
United States.”
“As StoryCorps has traveled across the country, we’ve seen the profound
effect it has had not only on the lives of those who have participated in
the project, but also on the millions who have heard them each week on NPR,”
said Isay. “We are so proud to continue our mission to teach people to
become better listeners, foster intergenerational communication among
families and communities, and help Americans appreciate the strength in the
stories of everyday people they find all around them.”
StoryCorps opened its first StoryBooth, a freestanding soundproof recording
studio, in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal in October 2003 and in
June 2005 opened its second StoryBooth at the site of the World Trade Center
in lower Manhattan.
State Farm Insurance is a national sponsor of StoryCorps and local
sponsorship comes from the Boise Co-Op. Major funding for StoryCorps is
provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). StoryCorps is a
project of Sounds Portraits Productions in partnership with NPR and the
American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress.
Information on the Boise State Radio network, including KBSU-Arts and
Cultural Programming, Idaho Jazz Station and NPR News 91, is available at
http://radio.boisestate.edu.
About StoryCorps
StoryCorps is a Peabody award-winning project of Sound Portraits
Productions, the nationally acclaimed New York City nonprofit founded by
Isay. For two decades, Sound Portraits has celebrated the lives and
struggles of unheralded Americans in award-winning public radio
documentaries, as well as in books, CDs, museum exhibitions and Web sites.
StoryCorps has recorded 10,000 interview sessions to date.
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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kraven@boisestate.edu
Boise State University’s new Finish in Four program guarantees that
eligible students who follow a planned course of study can complete their
degree in four years. If not, Boise State will pay for the additional
required courses. More information about Boise State’s graduation guarantee
can be found at
www.boisestate.edu/finish4.
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