How I Made It

Friday, May 8, 1:45 pm PST

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Each Friday at 1:45 pm PST, SSP will host a different Stanford alum working as a professional storyteller who will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.

Joining us this week is Xandra Clark ’12, playwright, actor, journalist, documentarian, performance-maker, musician, and all-around storyteller. She is the creator/writer/performer of Polylogues, an interview-based solo show about nonmonogamy — and love in all its forms. The show has two sold-out workshop runs at The Tank (2018) and Dixon Place (2019) in NYC. You can watch the trailer for Polylogues at https://www.polyloguesplay.com/trailer.


How I Made It

Friday, May 1, 1:45 pm PST

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Each Friday SSP will host a different Stanford alum working as a professional storyteller who will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.

This Friday, former SSP Senior Producer, writer/performer, and podcaster Natacha Ruck will share how she made her one-woman stage show ““YOU’RE GOOD FOR NOTHING… I’LL MILK THE COW MYSELF.” Here’s a delightful excerpt of Natcha’s work. Natcha is also currently the Managing Editor of Duolingo’s French Podcast.


How I Made It

Friday, April 22, 1:45 pm PST
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Each Friday SSP will host a different Stanford alum working as a professional storyteller who will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more.

This Friday, Reuters reporter Reade Levinson ’16 will share how she made Why Sky Burials Are Vanishing in Mongolia, a documentary podcast joint-published by Smithsonian Magazine and Stanford’s Generation Anthropocene.


How I Made It


Friday, April 17, 1:45 pm PST

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Join the Stanford Storytelling Project for our Spring Quarter series, How I Make It. Each Friday session will feature a different SSP alum or former staffer working as a professional storyteller. That storyteller will pull back the curtain on one of their productions for outlets like Radiolab, 99 Percent Invisible, NPR, National Geographic, Reuters, and more. 

This Friday April 17, we’ll be joined by Austin Meyer ’14. Austin is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and podcaster. His films focus on international development, health, and human rights, and have been published by National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New York Times, POLITICO, and Slate among others.

Austin will be sharing how he made The Carpenter, a short documentary set in Zambia. The Carpenter was published in the National Geographic Short Film Showcase, The Atlantic Select series, and screened at the American Documentary Film Festival.


Fight the Future Movie Night

Wednesdays, 6 – 8:30 PM

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Join the SSP course Fight the Future as we screen movies that explore the intersection of social justice through science fiction. The Spring Quarter 2020 movie showtimes are:
April 15 A Scanner Darkly
April  22 Children of Men
April 29 Blade Runner
May 6 The Sleep Dealer
May 13 Never Let Me Go
May 20 The Hunger Games
May 27 Her
June 3 Dr Who: “Let’s Kill Hitler” and “Angels Take Manhattan”
June 10 Arrival

Preserving Listening Party

Preserving Listening Party 
Friday, April 10th
The Stanford Storytelling Project presents Preserving, a new podcast episode of State of the Human.
This episode investigates the act of preserving, a decision made in the present, regarding the past, looking towards the future. What can we learn from what we choose to preserve? What does preserving reveal about our values? Join us for a DJ’d listening party over Zoom! 


Learning Medicine Listening Party

Friday, March 6th
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Wallenberg 127 (Building 160)

The Stanford Storytelling Project presents Learning Medicine, a new podcast episode of State of the Human.

How do students learn to practice medicine, thoughtfully? In this episode, we’re looking at the current ways students are learning medicine amid all its problems and promises. Join us for snacks and a curated listening party!


An Evening with Sarah Broom

Wednesday, February 12
7:30pm
Cubberley Auditorium

Free and Open to the Public -Tickets Required.

Reserve Free Tickets Here:
http://bit.ly/SarahBroomStanford

Sponsored by The Stanford Storytelling Project and The McCoy Center for Ethics in Society

Join us for a special evening with Sarah M. Broom, author of The Yellow House, winner of the 2019 National Book Award and featured on dozens of 2019 Best Books lists. Through the intimate story of her family’s home, The Yellow House offers a new story about not only New Orleans but about defying the forces of race and class in the American neighborhoods we rarely see.  Broom will read from her work and discuss how its blend of memoir, journalism, and historical analysis offers us a way to recover from the mythologies that so frequently distort our understanding of ourselves and our country. 

 Sarah M. Broom’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, and O, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York State.

“Every few years, a book comes along that teaches readers of memoir how to read and writers of memoir how to write. Calling Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House a memoir feels wrong. Somehow, Broom created a book that feels bigger, finer, more daring than the form itself.” 

— Kiese Laymon.


Gerald Vizenor on Native Survivance and the Literature of Engagement

Wednesday, January 15
5:00 PM
Paul Brest Hall
RSVP required
Please join us for the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Lecture on Public Service and the University with award-winning author and Native American advocate Gerald Vizenor on January 15, 2020. The reception begins at 4:30pm, followed by the lecture from 5:00-6:00pm, in Paul Brest Hall.

Gerald Vizenor, professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is a citizen of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota. He has published more than 30 books, novels, critical theory, cultural studies, and poetry collections. Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity, a collection of essays, and Blue Ravens and Native Tributes, two historical novels about Native Americans who served in the World War I in France, are his most recent publications. Mr. Vizenor has received many awards, including the American Book Award for Griever: An American Monkey King in China, and the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award.

His presentation, entitled “Native Survivance and the Literature of Engagement” begins with a reception at 4:30pm, where you can meet and talk with Mr. Vizenor, followed by a lecture at 5:00pm in Paul Brest Hall at Stanford University. 

Please RSVP here.