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The Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History
Applications to the 2025 cohort are now closed. If you would like to be emailed about future oral history training programs, email the Programs Manager, Liú, at .
Creative Uses of Oral History
From left to right: Tamara Santibañez, Erisa Apantaku, and Audrey Petty
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Join us for an inspiring online discussion about the many ways oral history interviews can be used to create podcasts, books, online exhibitions, and other creative and innovative strategies for community engagement and public education.
Conversation participants include Erisa Apantaku (Invisible Institute audio producer and educator, producer of You Didn’t See Nothin), Tamara Santibañez (interdisciplinary artist, author of Could this be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work and volunteer for Rikers Public Memory Project), and Audrey Petty (writer, educator, and editor of High Rise Stories).
This event is presented in conjunction with the Beauty Turner Academy of Oral History, an 11-week intensive training program aimed at diversifying the workforce of historians, documentarians, and memory workers by providing accessible oral and narrative history training to current and former public housing residents.
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Our Oral History Programs are generously supported by the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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