Instructor: Laurel Morales
Dates/Times:
- Wednesday, August 9, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Wednesday, August 16, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Wednesday, August 23, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Wednesday, September 6, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Wednesday, September 13, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Wednesday, September 20, 6pm – 7:30pm
Registration Fee: $200 Members / $225 Non-Members
Save $25 with CCA membership! Members use PL23 as their promo code prefix. Household members receive two tickets at a discount and individual members receive one. To learn more about membership and how to find your discount code, visit: https://www.coconinoarts.org/member-discount
Limited, need-based scholarships are available. Please email Jay Gallegos at jgallegos@creativeflagstaff.org to inquire
In six 90-minute sessions guided by a facilitator with 20 years of NPR journalism and podcast production experience, you’ll find a clear voice for your podcast within a storytelling framework. Through listening sessions, discussions, and hands-on tutorials, you will finish the course with a constructed podcast episode. Participants will give and receive feedback and support in a safe, creative environment.
This course will cover:
- Introduction to podcasting, pitching and focus sentences (8/9)
- Booking guests/storytellers, interviewing (8/16)
- Elements of story and structure, writing for the ear (8/23)
- Finding your voice as host (9/6)
- Putting it all together (9/13)
- Listening and feedback session (9/20)
This workshop is for you if…
- You want to get into podcasting or radio but don’t have the experience or connections.
- You want to build your storytelling skills.
- The idea of learning new things and practicing new skills excites you.
- You or your organization wants to produce a podcast heavily informed by storytelling techniques.
- You enjoy being a part of the creative process.
Prerequisites:
Laptop computer (limited number available for use at CCA), with audio editing software (free and low-cost software options available).
Access to a recording device (CCA has a limited number of digital audio recorders that participants can share). Please bring your own SD card. Smartphones are also acceptable.
Participants are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire upon registration.
Instructor’s Qualifications:
- Trained by Rob Rosenthal through a Transom mentorship (guest teachers Ira Glass and Jay Allison), Robert McKee, and Uniondocs.
- Master’s in Journalism from Northwestern
- 20+ years of public radio reporting and editing, NPR freelancer
- Six years podcast production experience
