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Founded in 2003 by Dave Isay, StoryCorps has given people of all backgrounds and beliefs, in thousands of towns and cities in all 50 states, the chance to record interviews about their lives. The organization preserves the recordings in its archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered, and shares select stories with the public through StoryCorps’ podcast, NPR broadcasts, animated shorts, digital platforms, and best-selling books. These powerful human stories reflect the vast range of American experiences, wisdom and values; engender empathy and connection; and remind us how much more we have in common than what divides us. StoryCorps is especially committed to capturing and amplifying voices least heard in the media. The StoryCorps MobileBooth, an Airstream trailer the organization has transformed into a traveling recording booth, crisscrosses the country year-round in order to gather the stories of people nationwide. With the 2015 TED Prize awarded to Dave Isay, StoryCorps launched a free mobile app that puts the StoryCorps experience entirely in the hands of users and enables anyone, anywhere to record meaningful conversations with another person and upload the audio to the Library of Congress. StoryCorps also records interviews in its permanent StoryBooths located in Chicago and Atlanta. Recording an interview in a StoryCorps booth couldn’t be easier: You invite a loved one, or anyone else you choose, to a StoryCorps recording site. There you’re met by a trained facilitator who explains the interview process, brings you into a quiet recording room and seats you across from your interview partner, each of you in front of a microphone. The facilitator hits “record,” and you share a 40-minute conversation. At the end of the session, you walk away with a copy of the interview, and a digital file goes to the Library of Congress, where it will be preserved for generations to come.

StoryCenter is an innovative participatory media organization committed to the power of personal narratives for equity, wellness and social action. Our workshops foster reflection, connection, creativity, agency and joy. We value knowledge generated through lived experience. Over the years, we have facilitated thousands of workshop in which storytellers share first-person narratives and witness the narratives of their peers. Our public program enables people to register individually for storytelling workshops. Our custom program collaborates with organizations around the world, on workshops in story facilitation, digital media, and other forms of participatory media production.

Storytelling Arts of Indiana (SAI) enriches, connects, and entertains through the art and experience of storytelling. We accomplish these goals and instill the value of storytelling in everyday life by offering: 1. Professional storytelling performances, 2. Youth and senior outreach, 3. Historical storytelling programs to ensure that stories of our past remain alive and 4. Events where community members participate by sharing their own personal stories. Now in its 34th year, SAI produces a full season of storytelling performances at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. Our programming also reaches out and touches the lives of Hoosiers directly with the following activities: 1. Weekly bedside storytelling at a local children's hospital. 2. Monthly "As I Recall Storytelling Guild" meetings, where stories are shared by people like you. 3. Summertime performances in 15 day camps in Marion County. 4. Liar's Contest open to Indiana residents during the Indiana State Fair. 5. Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship and Premiere, an annual fellowship given to an Indiana storyteller to create a new story for adults. 6. Sharing Hoosier History Through Stories Series, an Indiana storyteller is commissioned by SAI and the Indiana Historical Society to develop a story based on Indiana History. 7. If These Walls Could Tell Series, an Indiana storyteller is commissioned by SAI and Indiana Landmarks to develop a story based on restored buildings. 8. The Life Stories Project in collaboration with Freetown Village and the Indiana Historical Society, individuals record their family stories, the stories are archived in the oral history collection at the Indiana Historical Society. 9. The monthly Indy Story Slam in collaboration with Freetown Village. 10. Hear of Stories: The Life and Afterlife of Incarceration in collaboration with Trusted Mentors and St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Indianapolis.