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In Your Own Words
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Starts: Wednesday, March 25
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Ends: Wednesday, March 25
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YEG's Oral History Project collects the everyday stories of the region. Citizens of Edmonton are openly invited to record their own story or to interview a friend, relative, or loved one about their memories and experiences of our city. Each session will be recorded and shared online. We supply the equipment and the volunteers, you bring the memories. Presented by Open Edmonton. In Your Own Words is a program to collect the region's oral history using the recording tools at the Stanley A. Milner Library. Once a week in the evening, citizens will be openly invited to the Makerspace to record a story or interview in a reserved sound booth. Audio will be recorded onto Soundcloud, a cloud-based audio sharing site where it can be accessed by the general public.
The first hour of each day's recordings will be held for reservations. After that time, participants will be chosen on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Each week will have a theme, although stories collected that week do not exclusively need to be associated with the theme. Possible themes include war/military, arts/theater, love, winter, LGBTQ, sports, etc. Check back for each week's theme.
Open Edmonton will also accept home-made recordings of oral history, new or old.If you have previously-recorded stories in any audio format (even cassette) you'd like to share, they will arrange to pick them up, digitize them, and return them to you.
Email OpenEdmonton@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.
For more information, visit Open Edmonton.
Weekly Theme:
March 4 - Winter
Event Location
Stanley A. Milner Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2V4