Unleash your voice in Earshot: Tell audio stories in our free summer workshop

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2025, 11 P.M.

This June, join Earshot, Arts Angle Vantage’s free summer audio storytelling program, and capture sound that conveys the energy and atmosphere of people experimenting, creating, and performing. Then, produce true audio stories that take listeners to the scene where art happens.

During Earshot 2024, Addison Lowry prepares to interview Max Zheng for the story she produced about The Kentucky Opera's Youth Opera Project's production of an operatic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit."

This is the second year of this summer workshop devised to elevate new and diverse voices of high school students. Earshot culminates in a listening event where participants premiere stories they have voiced and produced. No broadcasting or journalism experience is required.

Program advisors, who are journalists with extensive experience in audio production, guide participants in recording, editing, sound collection, interviewing, writing, and storytelling for audio. Participants will use professional audio equipment from Arts Angle Vantage and the University of Louisville.

Register below before the May 16 deadline. This free program includes seven sessions that begin on June 3 and end on June 14.

WHY REGISTER NOW? Slots are limited. Up to 10 youth can participate. If more register, finalists will be chosen by lottery.

During Earshot 2024, Alexander Place interviewed Speed Art Museum staff for a story about the installation of last summer's popular exhibition Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Mirrored Room – Let’s Survive Forever," 2017. Photo, right, courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner, Ota Fine Arts, and Victoria Miro. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

• This opportunity is made possible by the University of Louisville Department of Communications and Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning.

WHO: Limited spots are available for rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors and recent graduates.

WHERE & WHEN

Where: University of Louisville

Time: Sessions meet from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dates: Tuesday, June 3 • Wednesday, June 4 • Thursday, June 5 • Tuesday, June 10 • Wednesday, June 11 • Thursday, June 12

Listening Event: Saturday, June 14, 4 to 6 p.m.

LOGISTICS

The program provides participants with

• recording equipment and other related materials

• audio editing software

• computers on loan to those who cannot bring a laptop to use for the program

EXPECTATIONS

• attendance at all sessions

• completion of work during the program, including some outside session hours

Earshot 2024 participants talk about their stories at the listening event held at The Speed Art Museum.

ABOUT US: Our FREE program for young writers gives high school students opportunities to see and write about the arts and artists, including the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, The Speed Art Museum’s “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” exhibit featuring Amy Sherald's portrait of Breonna Taylor, and many performances. We strive to prepare youth from diverse backgrounds for success by providing access to the arts and empowering them to use their voices to create arts journalism that reaches a broader public.

ADVISORS

Elizabeth Kramer, a multimedia journalist who has worked for newspapers and National Public Radio stations in Kentucky, New York and Ohio, co-founded Arts Angle Vantage. She has worked for The Courier Journal as fine arts reporter and critic, and her work has appeared on NPR and in national publications. She was a Fellow at the 2016 National Critics Institute at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and has taught high school as a Peace Corps volunteer and college as an adjunct.

Claire McInerny is a podcast producer and writer living in Louisville. She is the producer and co-creator of the podcast Refamulating. She also has produced podcasts for Feelings and Co., including It's Going To Be Okay and Terrible, Thanks For Asking. Before podcasting, she was a reporter for National Public Radio stations in Indiana and Austin, Texas, covering public schools in both places. Her work has appeared on NPR. You can see more of her work here.