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
Friday Feb 19, 2016
Friday Feb 19, 2016
What is Rondon? What does it mean to be Creole in Nicaragua? In a world that increasingly seems to strive for uniformity, afro-descendant Creole people on the eastern coast of Nicaragua seek to hold on to their unique culture through their food. Join us as we travel between the farm, the lagoon and the city to explore how Creole food is changing due to outside pressures.
"Why we appreciate Rondon, it is the strongest food in our gastronomy. And it comes from Africa. I have met many Africans and they cook rondon just like us. It’s a cultural thing. That makes me proud to be black. I'm proud of my Rondon." - Ms. Gay Sterling
Featuring: Connie Tinoko, Kenneth Fox, Edward (Daha) Fox, Gay Sterling
Producer: Maria Doerr
Music: Take Dis Five, Run-Down Orchestra Bluefield Sound System 2009
Zion-O, Run-Down Orchestra, Bluefield Sound System 2009
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Braden Grant Recipient Reade Levinson travels to Mongolia in hopes of witnessing a practice known as sky burial, in which the bodies of the dead are prepared for the afterlife. But as Reade learns on her journey, in Mongolia the forces of urbanization, modernization and environmental change may be threatening this sacred ritual. “The scene would be not very nice, when you look at a dog running around with someone’s hand in his mouth.”
Featuring: Ganbat Namjilsangarav, Christine Murphy, Tsogbadrakh and Tuya Banzragch, and Dr. Keith Bildstein.
Producer: Reade Levinson
Special Thanks: Christy Hartman, Jake Warga, and Generation Anthropocene
Music: All ambient recorded by Reade Levinson, sound effects downloaded from FreeSound.
Image via thinkstockphotos: http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-mongolian-vultures-in-the-wild/469839700
Wednesday Dec 23, 2015
Wednesday Dec 23, 2015
Molly Antopol's debut story collection, The UnAmericans, won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award and a "5 Under 35" Award from the National Book Foundation. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and others. She's a Jones Lecturer in Stanford's Creative Writing Program.
http://storytelling.stanford.edu/index.php/off-the-page.html
Saturday Dec 19, 2015
Saturday Dec 19, 2015
A young man’s intuition guides him toward something in the woods.
Producers: Jackson Roach, Margaret Wenzlau, Rachel Hamburg
image via wikimedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Cougar_track.jpg