Hear their story: How to capture your loved one’s treasured memories
This free, two-hour workshop will show you how to capture a loved one’s audio life story and personal history yourself, using the new A Lasting Tale audio life story recording app, available on your smartphone.
We'll teach you how to structure a life story interview, and how to ask the right questions so you can keep and share treasured stories and memories from loved ones with family, friends and future generations.
You’ll be able to confidently prepare and create an audio recording capturing a personal life story, all on your own.
Workshop details
- Date: Saturday 24 October, 2020
- Time: 10am to 12pm
- Venue: Museum of the Riverina Historic Council Chambers site, corner Baylis Street and Morrow Street, Wagga Wagga
- Cost: Free. Bookings are essential through Eventbrite below, participant numbers are limited to 10.
The workshop has limited places to ensure a great experience for participants. Once places are full, a waitlist will be taken. With enough interest, we may run a second workshop.
What participants need to bring
- Your smartphone
- If you don’t have a smartphone, or want to record on a laptop, then bring it along
- Thoughts about your interview subject (it might be a loved one, or even yourself), why you want to interview them, and what stories you want recorded
Workshop outcomes
At the end of this workshop you'll be able to:
- Create a complete audio life story using the new A Lasting Tale audio life story smartphone app
- Ask probing and meaningful questions to capture a successful personal audio life story interview
- Confidently prepare, record and create an audio recording capturing a personal life story
Workshop overview
Step 1: Set up your device to record audio
- Set up your device to record audio using the A Lasting Tale audio life story mobile application, or your device’s internal audio recording tools.
Step 2: Learn how to interview
- Conduct pre-interview research on your loved one (subject)
- Set up the interview
- Make your subject comfortable and open to story sharing
- Discuss life story / personal history questioning techniques
- Develop interview questions
Step 3: Your first audio life story interview
- Conduct a short life story interview with a partner on your audio device
- Apply your recording and interviewing skills to gather one life anecdote from your partner and record it as an audio story
- Then (if you like) share your recorded audio life story with the group
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This workshop is presented by Dimity Brassil, founder of A Lasting Tale.
