Join in on Friday, November 28
The National Day of Listening asks you to set aside an hour on Friday, November 28, to ask loved ones about their lives. The simple act of listening tells them how much they matter, and preserving that conversation on tape, CD, or with a pen and paper tells them they and their stories won't be forgotten.
The National Day of Listening is an initiative created by the StoryCorps project, and supported by NPR and its members stations, to encourage, instruct, and inspire everyday people to start a new holiday tradition: sit down with a loved one on Friday, November 28, 2008, and record a meaningful conversation to preserve for years to come.
Interview with Storycorps' Dave Isay
This Friday is the National Day of Listening, a first-ever Storycorps initiative. Storycorps founder David Isay discusses the initiative to encourage, instruct, and inspire everyday people to start a new holiday tradition: sit down with a loved one on the day after Thanksgiving and record a meaningful conversation to preserve for years to come.
A few days after participating in the Story Corps project Alison Fritz and Dan Pohlig married. Today, almost a year later, Dan says that he learned that talking and listening to his wife is crucial to their success as a couple.
Nancy Ezold has never thought much of personal limitation. Nancy Ezold now works with her son, Christopher, at the firm Nancy O'Mara Ezold, P.C. She started the firm in response to demand for her services as an employment discrimination attorney. Here she is telling Christopher how she came to practice law.
For Christopher Ezold, Storycorps was an opportunity to interview his mother Nancy about her rise as a prominent attorney in spite of job discrimination and other obstacles. Today he is continuing the conversation with his mother and his young daughter.
West Philadelphia is and has been a patch work of diverse communities. Fatima Muhammad is helping bring some of these communities together as an outreach coordinator at Welcoming Center West. She spoke with her intern and friend Li Hong Qiao who, at the time of this recording, had only been in the country for 2 months – but shared her interest in bridging the gap between the African and Asian American communities...
As an outreach coordinator for the Welcoming Center West, Fatimah Muhammad spends most of her time finding ways of bringing together Asian and African American people in her community, sometimes going from business to business to find common threads and interests. With Storycorps, she shared her story with her Chinese intern. Now that's he's moved on, Fatimah is still looking for ways to convey complicated experiences to both communities.
StoryCorps is declaring November 28, 2008 the first annual National Day of Listening. This holiday season, ask the people around you about their lives - it could be your grandmother, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood. By listening to their stories, you will be telling them that they matter and they won’t ever be forgotten. It may be the most meaningful time you spend this year. More information at www.nationaldayoflistening.org
NPR Shares Stories for the National Day of Listening
From Nov. 22 through Nov. 28 you can hear NPR hosts, correspondents and commentators talk with their parents, children, friends, and others. A new interview will be added each day, and on Thanksgiving day you can listen to Dorothy Bush Koch interview her brother President George W. Bush and first Lady Laura Bush. Listen to the stories »
StoryCorps Philadelphia
In November of 2007, the StoryCorps mobile booth came to Philadelphia, and recorded the stories of people from our area. Listen to those stories »
The StoryCorps Blog
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening. By recording the stories of our lives with the people we care about, we experience our history, hopes, and humanity. Since 2003, tens of thousands of everyday people have interviewed family and friends. Follow the StoryCorps facilitators and read their stories on The StoryCorps Blog, as they collect stories across the country. Visit the blog and read more »
Join in on Friday, November 28
