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Oral History for Beginners

A Meet an Author, Be an Author Workshop

2023-10-21 13:30:00 2023-10-21 15:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Oral History for Beginners Producing a good oral history involves more than just pressing record and asking a few questions. This class will cover the entire process of conducting an oral history project, from selecting the right topic to preserving your work for posterity. Central Library -

Saturday, October 21
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-10-21 13:30:00 2023-10-21 15:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Oral History for Beginners Producing a good oral history involves more than just pressing record and asking a few questions. This class will cover the entire process of conducting an oral history project, from selecting the right topic to preserving your work for posterity. Central Library -

Producing a good oral history involves more than just pressing record and asking a few questions. This class will cover the entire process of conducting an oral history project, from selecting the right topic to preserving your work for posterity.

In this workshop, the instructor will share best practices (and occasional failed approaches) from more than three decades of experience as an oral historian. Producing a good oral history involves more than just pressing record and asking a few questions. Sam will cover the entire process of conducting an oral history project, from selecting the right topic to preserving your work for posterity. At the end of the workshop participants will learn how to build enthusiasm for the project, how to make their potential respondents comfortable, how to develop open-ended questions that yield detailed, thoughtful answers, and tips for preserving and promoting the finished project. Far more than just an academic practice, oral histories are useful in producing family histories, community history projects, and for preserving institutional memory and wisdom of community organizations and businesses.

SAMUEL LOVE is a social practice artist from Gary, Indiana who organizes public projects that connect communities to their cultural histories through publishing, multi-media installations, and performance. He is a 2019-2020 fellow with the Center for Community Progress Community Revitalization Fellowship and the
Indiana Arts Commission On Ramp Fellowship and is the editor of the forthcoming Gary Anthology for Belt Publishing.

Made possible by Friends of the Library through gifts to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation

Be sure to check out the other Meet an Author, Be an Author workshops, the Local Authors Book Fair, and networking events throughout the day!

And to get prepped, here are some book lists about writing!

AGE GROUP: | All Ages | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |

TAGS: | Writing | Meet an Author Be an Author |

Central Library

Phone: 317-275-4100

Hours
Mon, Jan 13 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jan 14 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jan 15 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Jan 16 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Jan 17 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Jan 18 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jan 19 1:00PM to 5:00PM

About the branch

As the hub of the Indianapolis Public Library system, Central Library showcases renowned architecture and services. The original 1917 building, designed by Paul Cret and constructed of Indiana limestone in the Greek Doric style, was considered one of the most outstanding secular buildings in the U.S. Its six-story glass and steel-framed addition, designed by Evans Woollen, opened in 2007.

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