Pratt & Incite Institute Oral Storytelling Symposium - Incite at Columbia University

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    Pratt & Incite Institute Oral Storytelling Symposium

    Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
    10:00am
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The Pratt and Incite Institute Oral Storytelling Symposium
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
October 21–23, 2025

Through workshops and performances led by artists, historians, and community organizers, we'll investigate orality in its broadest sense—from embodied memory and sonic archives to decolonial listening practices. Whether you work in performance, visual storytelling, movement, or traditional oral history, this symposium offers space to experiment with how stories are told, held, and transformed across bodies, voices, and communities.

Programming includes Brandon Kazen-Maddox's movement-based ASL storytelling, Francine Spang-Willis's workshop on Indigenous methodologies in oral history, Cisco Bradley's session on the Free Jazz Oral History Project, and a closing documentary theater performance by Columbia School of the Arts and the Clemente Center. But that’s just scratching the surface.

The Oral Storytelling Symposium is made free and open to the public by Pratt Institute and Incite Institute, home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research and Oral History Master of Arts Program. Breakfast and lunch will be provided Wednesday and Thursday.

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