Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

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Since 1973, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies has taught students from all over the United States and around the world to become skilled documentarians and storytellers. At the core of Salt is a 24/7 15-week experience. Motivated individuals from all walks of life come to Salt to focus on documentary storytelling, develop new skills, and build expertise. Our faculty members are working documentarians and teaching professionals who help provide a strong foundation for students to make their best work. 

Series

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59 Pieces

The SaltCast was a bi-weekly podcast produced from 2008-2010, aimed at pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, Saltcast explored the ins-and-outs of radio production. If you want to hear more Salt radio work, including that produced by more recent students, check out http://www.prx.org/group_accounts/1185-salt !


Pieces

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Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
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Bill and Becca have been together for 10 years. And, between the 2 of them, they’ve since had over 30 other partners. It’s no secret. They’re polya...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Questioning the threat to moose in Maine

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 2
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We're introduced to Maine storytelling today through John McDonald, a humorist making his living telling stories in the state's oral tradition. One...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:07
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In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
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For teenage girls in Lewiston's Somali community, dress is a form of self-expression--but how do you dress both modest and modern? Sahro Hassan, a ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 5
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Mary Schmaling always wanted to find her birth mother. Her search led her on a journey that changed her life.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Ralph Cusack is one of the founding members of The Harbor Masters and has been organizing gay kinksters in Portland, Maine for over 30 years.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:01
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Jason Allen, aka Fatal J, is a 21 year-old from Bangor, ME who uses hip-hop to cope with the struggles in his life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 1