New Museum
The Festival of Ideas | May 7, 2011
Experience our first-ever audio walking tour
StoryCorps is excited to be a part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas. As part of the StreetFest, StoryCorps will debut our Lower Manhattan audio walking tour, a co-production of NPR station KQED and StoriesEverywhere. The audio tour is a location-based media sound ramble featuring the stories of New York City’s Bowery and Lower East Side neighborhoods, from Greenwich Village to the East River, selected from StoryCorps’ extensive New York interview archive.
The walls of the neighborhood will “talk” through geo-located stories that are accessible through a 1-800 number or Getting Closer, a free iPhone app (phone numbers and call-in platform courtesy of Mobile Commons).
To experience the audio tour, visit the StoryCorps table on the corner of Bowery and Rivington on Saturday, May 7, 2011.
Enter to win a free StoryKit rental
Visit our StoryBooth in Foley Square on Saturday, May 7, 2011, for a chance to win a free StoryKit rental from StoryCorps—worth $200! A StoryKit is a wonderful way to bring StoryCorps to your home and learn how to record your story with the people most important to you.
About the Festival of Ideas
The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to effect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.
About StoriesEverywhere
StoriesEverywhere is the locative media project of Krissy Clark, an award-winning journalist and audio documentarian. Clark is the Los Angeles Bureau Chief of KQED’s The California Report, which airs on NPR stations across California. She is a frequent contributor to NPR, the BBC, and APM’s Marketplace. In 2010 Clark spent a year at Stanford on a prestigious Knight Journalism Fellowship, where she explored the intersection of journalism and location aware technology. For more information visit storieseverywhere.org.
“The Last Newspaper” | October 6, 2010–January 9, 2011
StoryCorps was proud to be a part of the “The Last Newspaper,” a major exhibition at the New Museum in New York City inspired by the ways artists approach the news and respond to the stories and images that command the headlines. The exhibition animates the Museum with signature artworks and a constant flow of information-gathering and processing undertaken by organizations and artist groups that were invited to inhabit offices within the museum’s galleries.
