David Seitz
David Seitz learned his 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. Some of these stories have won awards from the Public Media Journalists Association and the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors. He is deeply grateful that most of his stories address 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 25 years, David taught academic, nonfiction, and business writing in all kinds of genres to Wright State students from first year students to graduate students. In his last years at WSU, he also taught audio writing for creative nonfiction and podcasting for professional and technical writers. In his classes, he expanded on what he learned at WYSO to help students create podcast series, feature stories, and audio essays. He is teaching the current 2024 cohort of ComVox.
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We meet Aisha and Nico Ford - who had to rely on each other for mentoring through their school years – when they had very little support from adults.
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We hear from Gloria and Isabel Pappaterra, who went through a youth leadership program in Dayton called Anytown.
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This Sunday the Jeremy Winston Chorale will perform their concert “Black Bodies, Black Bones.” This features the Ohio premiere of Fortune’s Bones: A Manumission Requiem. David Seitz traces Fortune’s story and the music.
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We hear from Nate Arnett and Lynnze English as they talk about an outdoor program called Adventure Central in Dayton.
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Two groups in Dayton, OH collaborate for the first time helping Black artists bring their work to a larger portion of the public.
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This week, choirs in Southwest Ohio that sing for social justice will come together to celebrate Dr. Ysaye Barnwell.
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Wright State Theater presents “Sweat”, a provocative play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017. The play helps us understand what events led to our deepening divisions of class and race. Culture Couch producer David Seitz visited rehearsals, talked to two actors, and recorded some of the play.
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Many of us tried something new during lockdown. Some learned to cook or to knit. Naysan McIlhargey is a potter from Yellow Springs whose art took a new direction during the pandemic.
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World War II changed all the men and women who served. And one was artist Ralston Crawford. There’s a new show at the Dayton Art Institute. Culture Couch reporter David Seitz visited the exhibit Air+Space+War and brings us Crawford’s story.
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You have probably heard about the new statue, sculpted by Brian Maughan, of Wheeling Gaunt who was once enslaved and became an important leader in Yellow Springs. David Seitz tells us the story of the statue, the sculptor, and the Maughan family.