Soundings
Soundings is the sandbox for all student work from the Stanford Storytelling Project (SSP). SSP is an arts program at Stanford University that explores how we live in and through stories and how we can use them to change our lives. Our mission is to promote the transformative nature of traditional and modern oral storytelling, from Lakota tales to Radiolab, and empower students to create and perform their own stories. The project sponsors courses, workshops, live events, and grants, along with its radio show State of the Human.
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Episodes
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Producer: Mylan Gray
When you feel at home thousands of miles away from your birthplace, what choice do you have but to return? I take a return trip to the Festival of the Rosary—an African syncretic festival in the southeast of Brazil. In returning, I learned African diasporic peoples might be connected by more than just African ancestry. Marked by cultural loss from the middle passage, this festival births a culture of its own. Its songs and rituals speak to the suffering of slavery and embrace a remembrance of forgotten homelands. As a black person from the United States, being in the presence of this grieving made room for something else to take root.
Featuring:
Ana Luzia Da Silva
Padre Jailson
Rainha Cleusa
Dayonna Tucker
Ramona Greene
Cameron Woods
Music: Original music from the Festival of the Rosary
Blear Moon
Brevyn
Kai Engel
Zion Dirty Sound
Ikebe Shakedown
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Producer: Elena Press
In the summer of 2019, I took off on a cross-country road trip to discover my father’s mysterious hippie past. Though I grew up with a dad who worked as an accounting professor, all throughout my childhood I heard stories of my dad building log cabins in Washington Woodlands, running a granola coop and my half-sister born on the kitchen table. Join me as I travel across time and space to uncover the truth of it all and learn from “the reality teacher.”
Music: Unthunk
Monplaisir
An Eagle in Your Mind
Les Hayden
Lobo Loco
Kathleen Martin
Mutherpluckin
Silicon Transmitter
Latch Swing
Saturday Jun 15, 2019
Saturday Jun 15, 2019