Pratt & Incite Institute Oral Storytelling Symposium - Incite at Columbia University
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Pratt & Incite Institute Oral Storytelling Symposium
Tuesday Oct 21, 202510:00am - Register eventbrite.com
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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