Wairarapa Library Service is holding in August, Beyond the Four Walls: Audio Storytelling Using Oral Histories.

Wellington oral historians Emma-Jean Kelly and Pip Oldham will be speaking in Greytown on 19 August about their experiences creating podcasts and audio stories on subjects ranging from New Zealand’s 2020 Covid-19 lockdown and the Wahine disaster to the lives of butchers.

Dr Emma-Jean Kelly, the Audio-Visual Historian at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, will be talking about the oral history project she initiated last year on New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown, and how it grew into a podcast featured on Radio New Zealand, ‘Kei Roto i te Miru: Inside the Bubble’.

Independent oral historian Pip Oldham, whose work has included interviews with everyone from butchers to artists and people in the professions, will speak about how she came to use audio recorded for archival purposes to tell stories for audiences outside the archive, what’s involved and why it’s worth doing.

Hear Pip and Emma-Jean at the WBS Room, Greytown Town Centre, 87 Main Street, Greytown, on Thursday 19 August from 10 to 11.30am. All welcome.

Please tell anyone else who might be interested!

For more information contact Caren Wilton, email caren.library@swdc.govt.nz