We Want Your Stories About Overcoming Differences For Our 'Common Ground' Project
KUT 90.5 | By Matt Largey
Published February 6, 2020 at 7:02 AM CST
Hazel O'Neil
Perhaps especially in an election year, we need stories about bridging differences and seeing the world from another perspective.
We're teaming up with the Austin Public Library Foundation for a storytelling project called Common Ground.
Over the coming weeks, we're inviting you to craft personal stories of overcoming differences with others — whatever that might mean to you — at one of a series of creative writing workshops.
We'll pick some of the best ones to be broadcast on KUT this summer and fall.
There will be six workshops at library branches around Austin (we've added more due to demand):
Saturday, Feb. 8, noon-2 p.m. at the Twin Oaks Branch Library
Monday, Feb. 10, 7-9 p.m. at the Windsor Park Branch Library
Thursday, Feb. 20, 6-8 p.m. at the Carver Branch Library
Sunday, March 8, 1-3 p.m. at the Central Library
Monday, March 9, 6-8 p.m. at the Central Library
Monday, March 30, 6-8 p.m. at the North Village Branch
Wednesday, April 15, 7-9 p.m. ONLINE via Zoom
Saturday, April 18, 7-9 p.m. ONLINE via Zoom (RSVP here)
The workshops are free and open to adults, but attendance is capped at 20 people per session.
If you want to get an idea of what one of these stories sounds like, check out our Library Love Stories series from 2019, which followed roughly the same process.
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Matt Largey
Matt Largey is the Projects Editor at KUT. He previously worked at WBUR in Boston. His work has appeared on many national radio shows. He's won numerous awards for his reporting, including a national Edward R. Murrow award in 2013. He's originally from Maine, but has lived in Austin since 2006. While it might sound hard to believe, he thinks Maine and Texas are remarkably similar.
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