Andre Lancaster of Freedom Train Productions is Coordinator, New York Outreach for StoryCorps.
Andre hooked myself and fellow Freedom Train Artist-In-Residence Aurin Squire up with the
Story Corps Griot Initiative
It was a BLAST! We interviewed each other for a total of an hour.
Check out these 3 minute (more or less) clips:
Sharon Interviews Aurin
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Aurin Interviews Sharon
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Our conversation was recorded on a CD which they gave to us, and is preserved at the Library of Congress and will be housed as part of the Griot Initiative.
Find a Story booth near you/and tell it on…StoryCorps
Please check us out/and help spread the word about the
Fire! New Play Festival 2008
Wednesdays and Thursdays @ 7PM in August!
8/6, 8/7, 8/13, 8/14, 8/20, and 8/21
@ South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
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what a gift, to hear just a few minutes of brilliant exchange between Sharon and Aurin. and to think that this has been preserved for generations in the Griot Initiative at the Library of Congress. (for this, they can have my tax dollars.) go, Griots, and tell yo stories…..