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The Kitchen Sisters are committed
to working with young and emerging voices in public media.
We teach audio production workshops at universities around the country and advanced
courses at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and the Social Documentary
graduate program at
UC Santa Cruz. We also offer special workshop training sessions through Kitchen
Sisters Productions. Our classes focus on audio and documentary production
skills: interviewing and oral history gathering techniques; capturing a sense
of place through sound; utilizing music and archival audio; expressive writing
and delivery; ProTools editing and production; how to pitch and market your story.
STUDENT
WORK
Spring Semester 2006,
Berkeley School of Journalism
Creative Documentary Storytelling
The focus of this class was
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Region Six Months after
the Storms. The class traveled to the Gulf Coast — some
alone, some in pairs. Several were housed by local New
Orleanians like Arissa Arendt, a community activist who took
in four. None of the students had been to the region before.
They came up with the story ideas - went for a week each
and spent the rest of the semester producing their stories.
Several pieces from this class were aired on NPR shows and
other venues. We are proud to present their efforts and keep
New Orleans, Biloxi, Point Cadet and the entire region in
our thoughts.
"Tough Decisions in Biloxi" Produced
by Julie Caine and Michael Fitzhugh
Airs on Mississippi Public Radio, July
25, 2006 (btwn 9-10am Central time)
Point Cadet--what
many Mississippians called Biloxi's original neighborhood--is
gone. It thrived as a seafood capital in the 50's
until global competition pummeled the industry.
The 90's brought a slow recovery as it became the
nation's newest gambling mecca. Katrina hit the
casino barges that lined the coast hard, deeply
denting the state's tax base. Looking for economic
salvation, Gov. Haley Barbour invited casinos inland
to shelter them from the storm--invited them into
Point Cadet. Interviewing lifelong residents of
one of the last coastal working class neighborhoods,
we asked how their futures might unfold. This
piece and be heard on PRX.org
photos © Julie
Caine 2006
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Michael
interviews Vincent Creel |
Statue
near Fisherman’s Church |
Miss
Diva Biloxi pageant |
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A
makeshift church in Pt. Cadet. |
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| Fisherman, Ronald
Baker has lived in Pt. Cadet for over 40 years. Ron
has never been more than 200 miles from Biloxi in his
life. His house was flattened by Katrina. |
A
remaining shotgun house. |
Phong
Nguyen, grew up in Pt. Cadet
in a Vietnamese immigrant family who owned most of
the houses on his block. Now the only place standing
is his grandfather’s house, his family is rebuilding. |
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Kenny Bahanovich —
lifelong resident of Pt. Cadet stands where his front
room used to be.
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Fixing
the Pianos of New Orleans
Produced
by
Nick Miroff
Peter
Spring, went to New Orleans to offer his skills as a piano tuner
and helped repair instruments damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Aired
on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition, May-20-2006
>
listen
Nick wrote to tell us that his piece was on the NPR 'most emailed'
list and has been one of the most requested transcripts —
" ...WeSat producers say they've been contacted by
listeners wanting to donate money and instruments to Peter,
and a guy organizing a radio conference in Russia wrote me saying
that he wants to use it as a teaching device for a seminar on
radio feature production. What a ride! "
Irvin Mayfield: Keeping Dad Close While Moving On
Produced
by Samantha Grant and Heather Smith
New Orleans jazz musician Irvin
Mayfield who lost his father in the chaos following Hurricane
Katrina. Mayfield talks about preseving the memory of a fun-loving,
chess-cheating father, while letting go of his public role as
a grieving son.
Aired on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition,
June 17, 2006 >listen
Sabine Refuge Still Reeling from Rita's Wrath
Produced by Pauline Bartolone
The Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Louisiana was
ravaged by Hurricane Rita in September 2005. Many months later,
the massive amount of debris the storm dumped in the Sabine
marshland remains, and the area may not be able to act as a
buffer between residential areas and coming storms this hurricane
season. Aired on NPR's Day to Day,
June 12, 2006 >listen
Spring
Semester 2005
Creative Radio
News Features
Class
Stories
from J-school students Yunji
De Nies, Sarah Neal, Judson True, and Sasha Khokha
were featured on Hot Soup on
KQED radio. The series, entitled "A
Presence of the Past," is a look at the
legacies of past generations and their influence on four lives.
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