StoryCorps Detroit
An Airstream trailer equipped with a sound booth stopped in at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the summer of 2017 to collect stories of the Detroit region. Inside the booth, over 200 Detroiters interviewed meaningful people in their lives. Those interviews are shared through the StoryCorps Detroit podcast and broadcast series. The podcast is hosted by WDET’s Sascha Raiyn and produced by WDET’s Laura Herberg. It is available on all major podcasting apps. The broadcast series airs on WDET Fridays during Morning Edition, Sundays on Weekend Edition and Mondays on Culture Shift.
The national nonprofit behind the trailer, StoryCorps, brought its MobileBooth to the city as part of a national tour. StoryCorps seeks to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. Some of the interviews recorded by StoryCorps in cities like Detroit are broadcast nationally Fridays on NPR’s Morning Edition. StoryCorps interviews are also archived in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
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