SPECIAL PROJECTS

ORAL HISTORIES
http://projets.studioxx.org/projets/histoiresOrales_vsn1/
2005

Oral Histories is a mentoring project wich take shape through audio production workshops at Studio XX and conversations between adolescents and seniors. Conceived as a project to foster communication between adolescents and seniors, these conversations will be turned into radio documentaries and a web site devoted to them.

APPRENTICESHIP
Participants will learn:
-journalistic interview skills
-creating radio documentary
-audio mixing and editing
-and web audio skills

Radio documentaries will be presented on CKUT-FM (XX Files show) and on CIBL-FM. They will also be posted on the website of Studio XX (www.studioxx.org).

SCHEDULE
Project duration: 12 weeks (12 hrs of courses and 24 hrs of directed workshops)
from jan. 28 to 27 2005.
When: fri. (6-9pm)

PRICE: free!!!
sponsored by the Ville de Montréal

*Andrea Pare's article in The Concordian :
Radio reaches new group of DJs
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BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ANIMATORS

Chantal Dumas: is an audio and radio artist who has produced independently more than 25 radiophonic creations which are broadcast locally and internationally. She has won international prizes, among them for documentary at the Phonurgia Nova competition of France. She is currently creating a work called TANZ for Deutschlandradio Berlin.

Valerie Walker: is a consultant in computer systems who holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UCBerkeley. She is also co-host and producer of the XX Files, a radio show that gives a feminist perspective on technology, every wed. 11:30 am on CKUT 90.3 FM.