At Story Bank, we think the stories of people & their places are the most interesting of all. Join us this summer, to find out more about collecting, documenting and presenting these traditions at Story Bank Training. Sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center and Cultural Resources Inc., the four- day institute will train you to collect, document and present local stories.
Each day, participants will learn fieldwork techniques, audio and video recording, digital photography, archiving and developing public presentations based on narratives. A team of documentary specialists and folklorists will guide you through the ethnographic process as well as basic documentary techniques.
Story Bank Schedule June 23-26
Day 1: 9-12 Sense of Place (Kathleen Mundell, Folklorist, Cultural Resources, Inc.)
1-4 Capturing community stories through audio recording
(Rob Rosenthal, Audio specialist, SALT Institute for Documentary Studies )
Day 2: 9-12 1-4 Creating Documentaries w/Photo & Audio Recording(
Bill Kuykendall, Photographer, Department of New Media, UM) Day 3: 9-12 Video Documentation (Jim Starkey, Videographer, Folkfilms.com)1-4 Archiving
(Pamela Dean, Archivist, Maine Folklife Center, UM) Day 4: 9-12 Presenting Community Stories (Jo Radner, Folklorist)1-4 Writing Community Stories (
Margaret Yocom, Folklorist, GMU &Rangeley Lakes Logging Museum)
The Story Bank Institute is free to selected participants.
Participants will also have a chance to be a part of the
Story Bank at the American Folk Festival
in Bangor in August, 2008.
For more information contact Kathleen Mundell, Cultural
Resources at 236-6741
or Pauleena MacDougall, Maine Folklife Center at 581-1848.
Story Bank is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities