Oral History Summer School is returning with 2 workshops in 2023! Applications are now open for our summer intensives. Come all ye documentarians, journalists, artists, media-makers, educators and those looking to learn new things in good company.

This summer, our lead instructor Suzanne Snider will be joined at Sylvan by Nicki Pombier, who will support our conversation around nontraditional communication and oral history beyond speech. Photographer Jennifer Karady--whose work has prompted many rich discussions among prior cohorts around oral history, trauma, co-creation, transmuting forms, and photography--will join us at Salt.

Oral History Summer School in Residence at Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Friday, June 2 - Friday, June 9
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland, ME

Oral History Summer School in Residence at Sylvan Motor Lodge
Sunday, July 23 - Sunday, July 30
Sylvan Motor Lodge, Hillsdale, NY

About Oral History Summer School:

Oral History Summer School was established in Hudson, New York, in 2012, as an immersive training program to help students from varied fields--writers, social workers, radio producers, artists, teachers, human rights workers--make use of oral history as an ethical interview practice in their lives and work.