14th ANNUAL LEGACY ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
 

June 12 - 14, 2008.

Led by Jeff Friedman, Ph.D. and Basya Petnick, this stimulating and informative three-day workshop provides the training necessary for participants to launch their own oral history projects. While drawing on references and examples in the performing arts, the workshop is equally appropriate for those involved in institutional history, social history, family history, master’s or doctoral studies, or other projects.

Each workshop is carefully planned to match the experience levels of all participants—beginning, intermediate, or advanced. The lecture/discussion format includes opportunities to practice and apply the material presented. The workshop covers:

  • Project Design
  • Legal/Ethical Issues
  • Technology
  • Funding
  • Interviewing
  • Transcription
  • Editing
  • Creating a research-quality document

 
   
 

FORMER ATTENDEES
 

Placer County Historical Society, member; UC Riverside, doctoral dissertation researcher; SF Women’s Building, executive director; Duke University, faculty (dance); SF Holocaust Center, staff member; Oakland Ballet, dancer and administrator; Ira Gershwin Trust, staff member; University of Minnesota, doctoral candidate (medicine); The Aerospace Corporation, employees; CalTrans, employees; National Archives, former archivist; interested in history of jazz; interested in family history; interested in dance and Martha Graham; elementary public school teacher for classroom projects; community activist-UCLA for hunger and food insecurity project; graduate student-museum studies; playwright-oral histories for script; sociology major for master’s thesis-history of barbers; Yolo County Archives, “just curious”; and many, many more.

 
   
 

SELECTED EVALUATIONS
 

“Informative, thorough and complete. Good hands on experience. Excellent. Excellent. Absolute 100% satisfaction. Thank you.”--Kathleen J.

“Opened new worlds of what’s possible with oral history.“--Carolyn G.

“Excellent organization and flow of topics of importance. Good pacing.”--Mark B.

“Workshop leaders were well organized and ‘on track.’ They held the group’s interest and were responsive to individual and group needs.”--Sandra B.

“ ...  and I appreciated all the personal attention and interest in my project.”--Dan F.

“... the syllabus was well-thought out. [Workshop] days were jammed-packed and intense. Highly recommended.”--Christopher A.

 
   
 

CONTACT
 

Email:   legacy500@gmail.com for more information.
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Anna Halprin, 2006. Photo by David Sumner.