David Seitz
David Seitz learned his basic audio writing skills in the third Community Voices class. Since then he has produced many stories on music, theater, dance, and visual art for Cultural Couch. He is deeply grateful that most of my stories bring out social justice issues in a variety of art forms, whether it be trans gender singing, the musical story of activist Bayard Rustin, or men performing Hamilton in prison.
For over twenty years, David has taught academic, nonfiction, and business writing in all kinds of genres to Wright State students from first year students to graduate students. He now also teach courses in audio writing for creative nonfiction and podcasting for professional and technical writers. In his classes, he has been able to expand on what he learned at WYSO, and he loves what his students create.
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The WYSO Race Project invites two everyday people from the Miami Valley to talk about their life experiences through the prism of skin color. These conversations can be difficult and controversial but they also can build understanding and healing.
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Teenagers want their voices to be heard, especially about the problems they see in their lives. In Springfield, a teen-led group called BATS, or Bringing Awareness to Students, partnered with WYSO to make PSAs about public health issues in their community.
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Teenagers want their voices to be heard, especially about the problems they see in their lives. In Springfield, a teen-led group called BATS, or Bringing Awareness to Students, partnered with WYSO to make PSAs about public health issues in their community.
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Culture Couch producer David Seitz visited the Glen Helen Forest preserve to bring us a story about a high school group called School Forest that grows and nurtures pine trees all year long. And they have been doing it for 75 years.
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Artists in Yellow Springs embrace creative connection through a year-long collaborative project.
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History makes you strong: The story of one painting and a Black family’s legacy in Springfield, OhioArtist Lelia Byron makes public murals and installations nationally and around the world. Before she begins each project, she interviews people in the community. Byron talked to people in Springfield, Ohio about the many meanings of home. Culture Couch producer David Seitz tells us the story of one painting and one family’s history in Black Springfield.
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Striving for the ideal body has always troubled ballet dancers. It can be even harder for Black dancers. However, this is changing. The new Artistic Director of the Dayton Ballet, Brandon Ragland, has been part of this shift. For Culture Couch, David Seitz went to a rehearsal and has this story.
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David Seitz visits Allie Martin’s sound work, This is a Black Neighborhood.
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The Dayton Gay Men’s Chorus is giving back with a free concert celebrating their 20th anniversary.
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Artist and musician Michael Bashaw has created a new sound sculpture that now stands by the Great Miami river in Dayton, Ohio. Community Voices producer David Seitz visited Bashaw’s studio to learn the evolution of this new work.