The Eichelberger Center For Community Voices At WYSO
The Eichelberger Center For Community Voices At WYSO Public Radio is a collaborative space for audio training, production and storytelling. Have a story to tell? Learn hands-on audio production and digital storytelling skills from public radio professionals in a supportive studio environment. Our mission is to amplify community voices. We welcome storytellers of all ages, backgrounds and experience levels.Scroll down to listen to some of the stories produced by WYSO's Community Voices producers. For information on upcoming Community Voices training opportunities, click here.
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There is a lot of local art on display at the Downtown Dayton Metro Library. And it’s all connected to the “Undesign the Redline” exhibit, which shows how the process of “redlining” segregated Dayton. -
Robert Fogarty, the editor of the Antioch Review for over 40 years passed away recently. Antioch professors started The Review in 1941 to publish essays in the social sciences. When Fogarty took over in the 1970’s he almost single-handedly built the Review’s reputation as a great literary magazine that rivaled The New Yorker.
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The Dayton Art Institute is full of spectacular and storied works of art. But how that art gets displayed is a story all its own. Join Culture Couch producer Susan Byrnes for a look behind what’s in the museum.
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You can’t separate Aminah Robinson’s artwork from the Columbus house where she lived and created. Culture Couch producer David Seitz takes us there.
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Janet Phillips is the owner of Feathers Antiques and Vintage Clothing in Dayton’s Oregon District. Her shop has been in the same location for four decades and in that time she’s seen plenty, from the insides of people’s closets to the evolution of the neighborhood.
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Aminah Robinson is a name familiar to many people in Columbus. When the African American artist died in 2015, she donated her house and studio to the Columbus Museum of Art. There was an enormous treasure trove that no one had ever seen before. We can now see many of these works in a show at the museum, Raggin On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynne Robinson’s House and Journals.
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In 2014, Loud As The Rolling Sea guest host Dr. Kevin McGruder spent a warm summer afternoon talking to Jewel Graham in a wide ranging oral history interview that covered pretty much her whole life. She was a much loved faculty member at Antioch College for many years, deeply involved in supporting the Black students in the Antioch program for interracial education during turbulent times.
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Joshua and Ethan have been BFFs for life...well, actually since middle school. Ethan came into the studio to help his friend tell this Dayton Youth Radio Story.
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Now in his 90s, Paul Graham is a soft spoken, retired chemist living in Yellow Springs, where he went to college, launched a career and a family, and eventually became a prominent civil rights activist. His parents had come north, like so many blacks in the early 20th century, and moved to Dayton, where they joined other family members and settled down.
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In this installment, we’ll hear about student activism in the 1960s and 70s in Greene County, home to two historically Black colleges – Central State and Wilberforce University AND Antioch College. Students at all three schools organized protests, marches, sit-ins, rallies, pickets and more during those years, pressing hard and relentlessly for civil rights for African Americans.
