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Anna Jarrett The Travelling Storyteller Based at Batemans Bay on the South Coast NSW, Australia "Connecting people & places through stories"

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ORAL HISTORY & FAMILY STORIES Recording and documenting community histories and life stories for individuals, families, communities and organizations Story Studio was founded in 2003 to connect people and places through stories. Recording community histories and life stories is an intimate way to empower people to tell tales from their life in their own words and in their own way. These recordings provide a valuable first person document which can be used to help individuals, families and communities to explore their identity, to celebrate their heritage and to discover springboards for creating new stories. Knowing the joy that family history and sharing stories brings, I'm pleased to be able to help people record their stories. I have developed a unique storytellers approach to oral history, which facilitates an intimate process of unlocking memories, finding a thematic order to random stories and crafting stories for retelling with an authentic voice. STORY SERVICES A Storytellers Approach to Oral History — info Oral history recording and scripting for audio installations in Museums Family and life stories recording for CDs as family heirlooms and tributes DVD documentary production of community and organizational stories Radio program production Events Speaker Workshops in storytelling, writing, memory and oral history recording — Staff and volunteer guide training Life history writers workshops Recording techniques and methodology for beginner oral historians Memory making and story circle training for reminiscence groups Story consultant for museums, tour guides, media artists, community arts projects and reminiscence groups RECENT PROGRAMS & EVENTS ORAL HISTORY & STORYTELLING SEMINAR With Anna Jarrett A Storytellers Approach to Oral History Workshop Description Join professional storyteller and oral history facilitator, Anna Jarrett, in a fresh look at oral history practice and philosophy. Anna will explore the depths of meaning within oral history as story. This workshop will give you insights into the complexities and sensitivities of working with stories at every stage of oral history production from research to final representation. You will take a look at how the context of the interview shapes the story and how the process and form of representation impacts on the layers of truth within the story. It's a hearty look at the contemporary role of oral historians as story listeners, story custodians, community cultural workers, media producers and friends. Background This workshop has been developed as a way for me to share what I see as an emerging process in oral history practice. My insights, methods and stories are drawn from a combination of working on an oral history audio installation on the Kangaroo Valley pioneer dairy farmers (for the Kangaroo Valley Pioneer Museum Park ) as well as privately commissioned life stories on CD. I have presented this workshop at the conference for Oral History Association Australia (OHAA) in 2007, as well as for the Oral History Association NSW Seminar Series in July 2008. I look forward to more opportunities to share “A Storyteller’s Approach to Oral History” with you. More Information A review of the workshop will be published in the next edition of Voiceprint (OHA NSW). An article about the first stage of this emerging process was published in Voiceprint & is available on my website (put a link here to published articles-Voiceprint – A Storytellers Approach) A full program for the National Oral History Conference in 2007, “Old Stories, New Ways” is available on the website, http://www.ohaaqld.org.au/ History Alive! Audio Installation at Kangaroo Valley Pioneer Museum Park In 2005, I was commissioned to interview the pioneer families of Kangaroo Valley in New South Wales. Traditionally dairy and cedar country, this region was settled early in Australian colonial history. The main street of town and the Valley region  hold a lot of history and there are seniors in the community who know this history first hand. History Alive is an oral history project which documents and to celebrates these stories with a permanent audio installation in the Kangaroo Valley Pioneer  Museum Park (KVPMP). Contact KVPMP for more information: Ph 02 4465 1306 Anna interviews the pioneer women of Kangaroo Valley NSW Custom designed storytelling programs and productions for community and corporate groups. Australia and worldwide. Bookings & Information: send email

Last updated, Monday August 18, 2008

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