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Radio Storytellers Air New Work in Woods Hole
Hear compelling Cape Cod stories come to life in voices, sounds and music woven together by students in the Transom radio storytelling workshop, who present their final projects at the Woods Hole Community Hall Thursday. Admission is free.
The "Beast of Truro."
Cross-dressers in Provincetown.
New Bedford cops.
These are only a handful of the characters — and at least one creature, real or imagined — whose tales will be told through words, sound and music at the Transom Story Workshop's Public Listening Event, Thursday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Woods Hole Community Hall.
Admission is free to this one-of-a-kind evening in which nine radio students present the stories they have been working on for the past two months during the intensive Transom workshop.
“Despite the fact I've taught this workshop five times now, I'm still surprised and amazed at the quality and depth of the stories," Transom Story Workshop instructor Rob Rosenthal said in a statement announcing Thursday's public listening event.
"The students had little to no experience” before arriving in Woods Hole eight weeks ago, Rosenthal continued.
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Patch visited the workshop Monday afternoon to find Rosenthal and his students deeply involved in listening to and critiquing the radio stories they'll be playing for the public Thursday night.
Human voices are at the center of the Transom stories: Cape Codders sharing sightings of the "Beast of Truro;" a young couple, struggling with gender identification, who spend a week at P-town's Fantasia Festival; beat cops in a tough city, the stress in their voices as plain as worry lines on a face.
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To further enrich their audio tales, the storytellers also weave in other sounds they recorded: a scanner barking in the police station; ambient crowd noise at the festival.
They sometimes use musical transitions, in a manner familiar to listeners of public radio's best-known story show "This American Life."
"The stories they’ve produced focus on our local area, and we expect some of the people they’ve profiled or talked with will be in the audience. A question and answer period will follow each piece," Lewis wrote in the event announcement, which continues:
"The event is sponsored by Atlantic Public Media, the local non-profit organization that founded the Cape and Islands public radio station, WCAI, and created the Peabody Award-winning public media website Transom.org, a showcase and workshop for new public media.
"The listening event will precede a brief graduation ceremony and the public is urged to join us in applauding Transom Story Workshop’s fifth graduating class.
"Public radio producer Jay Allison founded Atlantic Public Media as a non-profit organization in 1993. APM created Transom.org, and produces The Moth Radio Hour (also a Peabody winner) and created the popular NPR series, This I Believe, as well as programming for WCAI, including the Sonic IDs, Creative Life and The Local Food Report."
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- An Evening of Radio Storytelling in Woods Hole
- Thursday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
- Woods Hole Community Hall, 68 Water St., Woods Hole
- Free
- Limited seating
- (508)-548-5527
- www.atlantic.org
