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Falmouth Forum Series 2006-2007
"This I Believe" and the Power of Shared Story
November 17, 2006 - Lillie Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Jay Allison, award-winning independent radio producer, founder of WCAI and WNAN public radios on the Cape and Vineyard
Copies of Allison's recently-published book, This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, will be available for purchase before and after the lecture in the Lillie Auditorium lobby. A book signing will follow the lecture.
Abstract:
Jay Allison will talk about "citizen storytelling" and public participation in public media. Much of his work is dedicated to the notion that the airwaves belong to all of us, and if we want them to reflect our lives, we need to speak up. Allison will draw on experience with national series he has curated like "Lost & Found Sound" and "This I Believe," his websites which encourage citizens to tell their own stories, Transom.org and the Public Radio Exchange, and the integration of local voices on the Cape and Islands NPR stations.
Jay Allison is lifelong journalist and producer for public radio and television. He is known to NPR listeners as the curator of the series This I Believe on All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as the series, Lost & Found Sound, Hidden Kitchens, and the post-9/11 Sonic Memorial Project, co-produced with his friends The Kitchen Sisters.
As an independent documentary maker, Allison has won most of the major broadcasting awards, including five Peabodys and CPB's Edward R. Murrow Award, the industry's highest honor.
With his non-profit organization Atlantic Public Media, he is the founder of the public radio stations for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well as two acclaimed websites encouraging citizen involvement in public broadcasting, Transom.org and the Public Radio Exchange (prx.org).
He has shot, reported and produced special documentaries for ABC News Nightline and has written for the New York Times Magazine. Allison is the editor (with Dan Gediman, John Gregory, and Viki Merrick) of the recently-published book, This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, which contains 60 essays from his NPR series, plus 20 essays from Edward R. Murrow's original 1950s radio series. He lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts with his three children.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children’s Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL’s Communications Office in the Candle House in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and tickets are only available until they sell out or until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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