On Saturday, October 25, the San Francisco team set up shop at the Moscone Center to talk to women of all varieties who had come together for a common purpose: self-empowerment, inner-fortitude, and to see the Queen Bee herself, Oprah Winfrey (cue theme music).
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Posted by Alex on November 8, 2008, from San Francisco, California
Community Partners: The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Posted by Sarah on November 3, 2008, from San Francisco, California
Community Partners: KALW, The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Our San Francisco StoryBooth is now official. On Sunday, October 26, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay traveled out west to officially launch our StoryBooth at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and to read from his book, Listening is an Act of Love. Special thanks for all their help to Connie Wolf and Lisa Chanoff from the Museum, and to Matt Martin from partner station KALW (whose adorable daughter Reba definitely stole the show).
As we continue listening to incredible stories here in the Bay Area, our thoughts are turned to master oral historian Studs Terkel, who passed away earlier this week. For more on Studs, see here, here, and listen here. We will miss him greatly.
Posted by Alex on October 20, 2008, from San Francisco, California
Community Partners: The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Tina Olson and John Heinsius
A guy could get used to this. After my first week as a Facilitator at the San Francisco StoryBooth, I have already had the pleasure of meeting people with truly inspired stories. The interesting thing is, I have almost started to look back on their stories as if they have been a long lost memory of my own.
Of course, they’re not. They are Jack Heinsius’s memories of his mother from when he was a child, and Tina Olson’s stories of her father hiding in haystacks to avoid capture by German soldiers. They are Peter Nathan Roberts recounting the old Union songs his parents would have him sing at the dinner table when he was young. I never took a bus to the March on Washington in the 1960s as Peter did, nor have I ever started an organization to raise money for hungry children around the world as the Fredricks family has.
Introducing the StoryCorps San Francisco Team
Posted by Sarah on October 11, 2008, from San Francisco, California
Community Partners: The Contemporary Jewish Museum
From left to right: Alex Lyon, Kasha Ho, and Patricia Hemphill
These are the smiling faces of our San Francisco Facilitators! Our first day of interviews is tomorrow, and for the past few weeks they have been working tirelessly to prepare. Read a little about each of them after the jump:
Tales of the City: StoryCorps San Francisco
Posted by Sarah on September 22, 2008, from San Francisco, California
Community Partners: KALW, KQED, The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Hello from StoryCorps’ newest home, our StoryBooth at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco!
Photo: Bruce Damonte/Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
This past June, the Contemporary Jewish Museum began a new chapter in its history by opening the doors to a new building by the architect Daniel Liebskind—an adaptive reuse of the 1907 Jesse Street Power Substation. Inspired by the Hebrew phrase L’Chaim, meaning “To Life,” the building is the physical embodiment of the Museum’s mission to bring together tradition and innovation in a celebration of life and shared humanity. The Museum is designed not only as a space to experience works of art, but also–more importantly–as a space to experience other people through conversation and debate.
Sound familiar? We couldn’t be more thrilled to be here.
