StoryCorps MobileBooth comes to Providence’s Burnside Park

Rhode Island Public Radio, a National Public Radio member station, will play host to StoryCorps MobileBooth through July 27 as the mobile recording studio makes Providence’s Burnside Park its home and invites residents to sign up for interviews. / COURTESY AARON READ/RIPR
Rhode Island Public Radio, a National Public Radio member station, will play host to StoryCorps MobileBooth through July 27 as the mobile recording studio makes Providence’s Burnside Park its home and invites residents to sign up for interviews. / COURTESY AARON READ/RIPR

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Public Radio, a National Public Radio member station, will play host to StoryCorps MobileBooth through July 27 as the mobile recording studio makes the city’s Burnside Park its home and invites residents to sign up for interviews.

A special event on June 23 featuring Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and Providence-based Big Nazo puppets kicked off StoryCorps’ visit to the capital city.

RIPR and StoryCorps have partnered to collect stories from Rhode Islanders, a selection of which will be recorded and aired through weekly NPR programming. With participant permission, all StoryCorps interviews will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps has collected more than 65,000 interviews from Americans in all 50 states, amassing one of the largest collections of human voices ever recorded.

Reservations to meet with StoryCorps at the MobileBooth, an Airstream trailer outfitted with a recording studio, in Burnside Park can be made by calling the 24-hour, toll-free reservation line at 1-800-850-4406 or by going to ripr.org and clicking on StoryCorps.

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