The Grandparents StoryLab
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The Grandparents Storylab is a new intergenerational storytelling project that connects our youngest and oldest generations through podcasts and art.
We have spent the past year researching, workshopping and developing this new and exciting project and next spring we are ready to launch our first series!
But before we do…
We need to raise the resources to edit and complete post production on the interviews we have recorded this year.
During our pilot phase The Grandparents Storylab has been broadcast on NPR and WBAI Radio and we have developed strong partnerships with youth storytelling organizations like Indykids, a newspaper written by kids and for kids and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in Harlem.
We are so excited to see this project get off the ground and we would love to see it grow further. We have already witnessed the positive impact it has had on the kids and elders involved!
LISTEN TO OUR STORIES:
Here are a couple of examples of our work which have also been broadcast on NPR.
Double Dutch Dreamz with Malika Lee Whitney
https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/double-dutch-dreamz
IndyKids Journalists Interview 73-Year-Old Marathoner
https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/jillians-story
Our team is Clara Ibarra and Rachael Bongiorno and this year we have been grateful to collaborate with Rev. Malika Lee Whitney.
Our team has a strong background in media education, community development, radio production and journalism respectively, so we are very well equipped to build this unique and valuable podcast project.
How The Grandparents StoryLab Works:
Podcasts:
The Grandparents StoryLab creates podcasts with elders in the community and we equip children with the audio skills to interview their own grandparents or elders in their community.
Art:
We engage the imagination of children, by asking them to draw the stories they have been listening to. This is a key way we facilitate dialogue and artistic expression between generations.
Workshops
We run workshops in partnership with community organisation such as IndyKids, a news source created by kids for kids and The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling . First we teach kids audio storytelling and interview skills. Then an elder is invited to join a workshop and be interviewed by the kids. This is then edited into a sound rich podcast by our audio producers.
Subscribe to Our Stories
This campaign will provide the much needed funds to be able to finish editing these amazing interviews that we recorded at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum so that we can launch our first season in the spring.
Please donate today to help us grow!
For more information please email [email redacted]
We have spent the past year researching, workshopping and developing this new and exciting project and next spring we are ready to launch our first series!
But before we do…
We need to raise the resources to edit and complete post production on the interviews we have recorded this year.
During our pilot phase The Grandparents Storylab has been broadcast on NPR and WBAI Radio and we have developed strong partnerships with youth storytelling organizations like Indykids, a newspaper written by kids and for kids and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in Harlem.
We are so excited to see this project get off the ground and we would love to see it grow further. We have already witnessed the positive impact it has had on the kids and elders involved!
LISTEN TO OUR STORIES:
Here are a couple of examples of our work which have also been broadcast on NPR.
Double Dutch Dreamz with Malika Lee Whitney
https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/double-dutch-dreamz
IndyKids Journalists Interview 73-Year-Old Marathoner
https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/jillians-story
Our team is Clara Ibarra and Rachael Bongiorno and this year we have been grateful to collaborate with Rev. Malika Lee Whitney.
Our team has a strong background in media education, community development, radio production and journalism respectively, so we are very well equipped to build this unique and valuable podcast project.
How The Grandparents StoryLab Works:
Podcasts:
The Grandparents StoryLab creates podcasts with elders in the community and we equip children with the audio skills to interview their own grandparents or elders in their community.
Art:
We engage the imagination of children, by asking them to draw the stories they have been listening to. This is a key way we facilitate dialogue and artistic expression between generations.
Workshops
We run workshops in partnership with community organisation such as IndyKids, a news source created by kids for kids and The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling . First we teach kids audio storytelling and interview skills. Then an elder is invited to join a workshop and be interviewed by the kids. This is then edited into a sound rich podcast by our audio producers.
Subscribe to Our Stories
This campaign will provide the much needed funds to be able to finish editing these amazing interviews that we recorded at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum so that we can launch our first season in the spring.
Please donate today to help us grow!
For more information please email [email redacted]
Organizer
Clara Ibarra
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY
