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From: "2010 WI OH Day" <treeves@library.wisc.edu>
Subject: Sterling Hall Bombing memories recorded next week
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:12:09 -0500
UW-Madison’s Libraries hosts wisconsin story project’s st
orybooth to capture sterling hall stories
madison, wi, AUGUST 16, 2010: On August 23
Wisconsin Story Project (WSP) will install the Wisconsin Storybooth in Mem
orial Library on the UW-Madison campus to collect personal recollections of
the Sterling Hall bombing. A joint project of Wisconsin Story Project and
the UW-Madison Oral History Program (a part of the UW—Madison Libraries),
the booth will be a chance to collect short recollections of those who exp
erienced life in Madison on August 24, 1970 for inclusion in the UW—Madis
on Archives (a UW—Madison member library) and as research for WSP’s nex
t documentary theater project which will be based on the Sterling Hall even
t and the era of protest in Madison that preceded it.
The booth will be in the Memo
rial Library through August 29 and open to the public. Representatives of b
oth the UW-Madison Oral History Program and Wisconsin Story Project will be
on hand from 9am to 6pm to assist community members with sharing and recor
ding their stories.
About UW-Madiso
n Libraries & its Oral History Program
The UW—Madison Libraries’
staff and resources are vital to the teaching, learning, and research and
outreach mission of the state’s flagship university. The campus oral hist
ory program aligns with the libraries’ vision by gathering, preserving, a
nd providing access to audio recordings, transcripts, and other related mat
erial to people both on and off campus. The program also works with individ
uals and groups throughout Wisconsin to assist in the oral history intervie
ws and projects.
About Wisconsin
Story Project
Founded in 2008 by Talish Bar
row, Mike Lawler, and Christina Martin-Wright, Wisconsin Story Project is a
non profit artist collective dedicated to the gathering and creative shari
ng of stories from Wisconsin. WSP recently staged its first full theatrical
production, Cancer Stories, in The Playhouse at the Over
ture Center. It hosts monthly Storyshares, live storytelling events, at The
Project Lodge in Madison, and also produces a semi-regular podcast called
the Wisconsin Storycast, available on iTunes or at wisconsinstory.org.
About the Story
booth
Built with the generous suppo
rt of the Spring Green Area Arts Coalition and American Players Theatre, th
e Wisconsin Storybooth debuted as part of an art installation called Cancer
Stories…Art in the Playhouse Gallery of the Overture Center in May 2010.
It will next be used at the annual event for the charity organization 4Pet
eSake in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and then be used to collect local memorie
s of the Sterling Hall bombing of 1970 during the fortieth anniversary of t
he event.