Series for Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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- Updated: Nov 23, 2022
Students from Akins High School in Austin, TX interviewed community members about racial justice, arts, and activism.
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- Updated: Jul 21, 2021
Students from Texas School for the Blind created podcasts about their community.
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- Updated: Jul 21, 2021
Students at the Texas School for the Blind's summer SWEAT program created podcasts where they interviewed Austin community members.
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- Updated: Jul 16, 2021
Texas Folklife worked with Patton Elementary School in Austin during the Spring 2020 semester. Six students and parents submitted surveys for their traditions to be recorded and shared.
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- Updated: Mar 19, 2020
Texas Folklife and Akins High School Austin premiered a new radio and podcast series, "See It Through My Eyes.”
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- Updated: Dec 20, 2019
These stories were created during workshops for veterans, military service members, and their families during summer 2019. The workshops were part of the Creative Forces NEA grant.
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- Updated: Aug 26, 2019
Texas Folklife presents these stories from our 2019 Summer Institute, a week-long audio documentary workshop in Austin, Texas. This year's documentaries feature stories about "women in the Austin music scene," including Connie Kirk, Tameca Jones, Andrea Cortez, and Kana Harris.
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- Updated: Jul 02, 2019
Texas Folklife partnered with the 4th grade teachers and students at Highland Park Elementary School to produce these series of stories on community traditions and folklore of Austin.
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- Updated: Dec 10, 2018
Texas Folklife presents these stories from our 2018 Summer Institute, a week-long audio documentary workshop in Austin, Texas. This year's documentaries feature stories about labor and immigration.
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- Updated: Jul 03, 2018
Students from Martin Middle School in Austin, Texas produced these radio stories with assistance from Texas Folklife for the Stories from Deep in the Heart program.
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- Updated: Jun 11, 2018
In October 2017, Texas Folklife worked with a group of students at Hogg Middle School in Houston, Texas. These are the finished stories - a diverse medley of pieces reflecting the communities of Houston.
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- Updated: Nov 15, 2017
The finished radio pieces from the Texas Folklife Stories Summer Institute, a weeklong intensive audio production workshop for Austin-area students and teachers (www.texasfolklife.org).
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- Updated: Jul 02, 2019
In May 2017, middle school students at Gus Garcia Young Men's Leadership Academy worked with Texas Folklife producers to create a series of personal stories. The resulting radio pieces explore stories that aren't what they first seem to be, featuring guest musicians and explorations of student talent.
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- Updated: Jun 05, 2017
In May 2017, students at Fulmore Middle School worked with Texas Folklife producers to create a series of personal stories on their teachers and their lives. The resulting radio pieces explore Latinx culture and identity, growing up poor in rural Texas, and family legacy.
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- Updated: Jun 05, 2017
During the 2016-17 school year, Texas Folklife producers worked with Martin Middle School Innovation Academy students on a series of short radio stories. These stories cover a full range of school folklore and community heritage.
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- Updated: Jun 05, 2017
Students discuss international experiences; life as refugees; the cultures of Latin America, Africa, and Afghanistan; and coming to the United States. The students who participated in this program were mostly recent immigrants or refugees who were just beginning to learn English at the time of our program.
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- Updated: Jan 06, 2017
The finished radio pieces from the Texas Folklife Stories Summer Institute, a weeklong intensive audio production workshop for Austin-area students and teachers.
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- Updated: Jul 27, 2016
The completed audio documentaries from the Stories from O Henry Middle School. Stories include celebrity musician profiles, an insider's look at the formation of the ACL music festival, and many other stories about local Austin artists, businesses and O Henry Middle School legends.
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- Updated: Jan 23, 2016
The completed audio documentaries from the Stories from O Henry Middle School. Stories include celebrity musician profiles, an insider's look at the formation of the ACL music festival, and many other stories about local Austin artists, businesses and O Henry Middle School legends.
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- Updated: Jan 23, 2016
Stories from McCallum High School Spring 2015
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- Updated: Oct 19, 2015
This summer high school students and middle school or high school teachers and administrators participatd in Texas Folklife's 2015 “Stories from Deep in the Heart" Summer Institute, a 5-day intensive fellowship in audio documentary production with professional producers, journalists and cultural workers. Participants were guided through production of short audio documentaries on themes related to folklife----family and community traditions.
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- Updated: Jul 12, 2015
Profiles of dance majors for their spring 2015 concert, Geographies of the Body. These profiles were created by students in Kenneth Rogers' class as part of Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife and McCallum Fine Arts Academy.
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- Updated: May 05, 2015
Stories by youth producers at Grisham Middle School during the 2014-15 school year.
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- Updated: Feb 27, 2015
Select pieces from our youth producers at Kealing Middle School Fall 2014 semester.
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- Updated: Feb 24, 2015
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- Updated: Feb 23, 2015
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- Updated: Feb 23, 2015
Stories from Deep in the Heart completed a semester residency in Ms. Karydas' enrichment class and last Friday we listened to the final stories. The students successfully crafted audio documentaries about Martin Middle School and the surrounding neighborhood. Topics ranged from volleyball to ghosts, to Flea Markets-the students were surprised when they realized Ms. Karydas had invited the principal along with several other classes to the "listening" party. Full-Library and all we wrapped up another semester of Stories!
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- Updated: Dec 18, 2014
Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition is comprised of audio stories produced by Travis High School Youth during our 2011 Residency in Ms. Athey's Class. We dug into our Stories Vault-meaning our hard drives- and found some amazing stories that we've missed, or that we haven't shared before. Hope you enjoy!
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- Updated: Nov 05, 2014
Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition is comprised of audio stories produced by Travis High School Youth during our 2011 Residency in Ms. Athey's Class. We dug into our Stories Vault-meaning our hard drives- and found some amazing stories that we've missed, or that we haven't shared before. Hope you enjoy!
- From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
- Updated: Nov 05, 2014