Weekend Audio Intensive
Eight-Week Youth Audio Cohort
A concentrated sixteen-hour workshop covering microphone placement, recording acoustics, ethical releases, and basic digital assembly for educators and cultural advocates.
Our flagship residency immerses participants in investigative interviewing, audio editing, and sound design. Cohorts build an original multi-episode oral history series documenting neighborhood elders and local community organizers.
Classroom Media Modules
Turnkey four-session lesson plans adapted for secondary humanities classrooms, complete with loaner recorder kits and guided rubric assessments.
Four stages of production
Active Listening & Inquiry
Microphone & Sound Craft
Field Capture Sessions
Assembly & Living Archive
Students examine archival field recordings, evaluate conversational pacing, and draft open-ended interview prompts centered on personal lived history.
Participants master pickup patterns, gain staging, ambient noise management, and informed interview consent protocols.
Guided field hours pair emerging youth producers with community elders to capture longform dialogue in quiet regional settings.
Producers edit spoken audio, layer ambient room tone, and master finished audio files for local dissemination and permanent preservation.
Bring a residency to your organization
We partner with school districts, non-profit centres, and regional libraries across Canada to deliver customized cohorts.