| Date | Project | Description |
| 1/03 | JSP Education / Teacher Training | Jack Straw staff guided a small group of educators through a sample project. The educators participated in a "reduced" version of an oral-history based project that included interview technique, script writing overview, recording and editing of a finished piece. (The participants, from a variety of schools, would bring their classes to work with JSP over the following months.) |
| 2/03 | Olympic View Middle School | A choir of 50 students recorded their "Song for Peace." |
| 2/03 | South Park/Ranier Beach Community Centers | JSP artists/engineers helped students from two community centers record their own original hip-hop. |
| 2/03 | Hamilton Inernational Middle School | "Nepalese Exchange:" JSP artists/engineers presented a workshop for students and their teacher in preparation for a cultural exchange with a class in Nepal. Students explored the everyday sounds around them as sounds that were unique to their culture and lives. They then recorded these sounds using JSP portable recording equipment. The sounds were put on a CD that the teacher could take to Nepal to share. |
| 2/03- 3/03 | Coyote Middle School | For seven saturdays at JSP, JSP artists/engineers presented a group of middle schoolers with a series of audio activities with the goal of producing their own radio show. Coyote is an ongoing after-school program for middle schoolers, and offers a wide variety of classes for students. |
| 2/03- 3/03 | Brighton Elementary School | "Voices of Brighton," Part 2: JSp artists/engineers teamed with the second of two Brighton fifth grade classes in an oral history based project exploring the history of the Brighton school. See previous Brighton description (Nov/Dec 2002). |
| 3/03- 5/03 | Hamilton Inernational Middle School | "Immigration Stories:" Jsp artists/engineers worked with a group of ESL students in writing brief stories of their immigration. Stories included students' last memories in their native country, the flight and the emotions of their parents, and the long journey to Seattle onece in the US. The stories were recorded with sound effects at JSP. |
| 4/03 | Langley Middle School | "Spartina PSA's:" JSP artists/engineers helped a small group of students write and record a PSA about the dangers of the invasive marine grass, Spartina. |
| 4/03 | Sanislo Elementary School | Sanislo fifth graders recorded a play they had written and performed live at school. With the halp of JSP artists/engineers, they transformed the play into a radio drama. |
| 4/03- 5/03 | TOPS (The Options Program at Seward) | "People Who Have Made a Difference:" TOPS eighth-graders wrote radio dramas based on interviews they conducted with eight local figures who had made significant contributions to the community. JSP artists/engineers and interns helped students with their interview technique, script writing guidelines and introduction to foley sound effects, and recorded the interviews. The final dramas were recorded live to 2-track (ala live radio) at JSP. |
| 4/03- 5/03 | Stevens Elementary School | JSP artists/engineers assisted two fifth grade classes in creating plays for radio in a live to two-track environment. JSP assisted Stevens' teachers with the writing, preparation, and recording. |
| 4/03- 5/03 | Blind Youth Audio Project | Blind high school students from accross Washington State come to Seattle and participated in a month-long series of workshops involving music recording, original radio theater production, recording techniques, and creative use of sound. A documentary of the project has been produced for the Evergreen Radio Reading Service for the Blind. |
| 5/03 | JSP Workshops | JSP quarterly workshop series. Classes included: Basic Recording Techniques, Introduction to Digital Audio Workstation, Introduction to Field Recording, Vocal Technique, Creative Soundscaping. |
| 5/03 | NOVA Project | Nova Experimental High School drama students and their teacher recorded a PSA advertising their drama department and upcoming performances. |
| 5/03 | Asa Mercer / Seattle Arts and Lectures | JSP recorded student poets from Asa Mercer High School participated in voice and microphone techique workshops and recorded their original works in a three hour session at JSP. |
| 5/03- 6/03 | Hamilton Inernational Middle School | "Peruvian Exchange:" As part of a cultural exchange program, students explored the importance of oral-history by collecting stories from relatives. Students recorded their parents or grandparents telling a story that had heppened to them or was told to them by a relative. Students then wrote short radio dramas based on the content of the interviews. The final production, which includes interview excerpts and the scripts in English and Spanish, was recorded at JSP. |
| 6/03 | JSP Education / Teacher Training | Jack Straw staff guided a small group of educators through a sample project. The educators participated in a "reduced" version of an oral-history based project that included interview technique, script writing overview, recording and editing of a finished piece. (The participants, from a variety of schools, would bring their classes to work with JSP over the following months.) |
| 6/03 | NOVA Project | Nova Experimental High School "rock band" students recorded original music and received basic recording instruction at the JSP studios. |
| 10/03 | JSP Education / Teacher Training | Jack Straw staff guided a small group of educators through a sample project. The educators participated in a "reduced" version of an oral-history based project that included interview technique, script writing overview, recording and editing of a finished piece. (The participants, from a variety of schools, would bring their classes to work with JSP over the following months.) |
| 10/03- 1/04 | Hamilton International Middle School | "Vietnamese Celebrations:" Vietnamese students interviewed family members about their traditional celebrations, and worked with JSP artist/engineers to write vignettes about their favorite celebrations. The vignettes, in English and Vietnamese, were recorded and produced with sound effects at Jack Straw Productions' studios. The students' party at then end of the project featured many of the traditional foods featured in the stories, and students also participated in and had their audio productions available at the Tet festivities at the Seattle Center. |
| 10/03- 11/03 | TOPS | "Family Celebrations:" Seventh-grade students wrote vignettes about their special family celebrations --holidays, recipes, reunions, and more-- facilitated by Seattle writer Judith Roche, and recorded their vignettes at JSP. |
| 10/03- 12/03 | Coyote Middle School | For seven saturdays at JSP, JSP artists/engineers presented a group of middle schoolers with a series of audio activities with the goal of producing their own radio show. Coyote is an ongoing after-school program for middle schoolers, and offers a wide variety of classes for students. |
| 12/03 | Vashon Schools: Chautaqua Elem & McMurray M.S. | Fifth-grade students at Chautaqua Elementary wrote "Stories from a Different Perspective," fairy tales from the vantage point of marginal characters, with the assistance of writer Merna Ann Hecht. The stories were recorded live a'la live broadcast. At MacMurray Middle School, theater tech. students created sound designs for stage works, comprising recording, foley, and design, and created sound design cd's to accompany the full productions, all at their school. |