131 - Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Since we started our intern and mentoring program in 2000, over 100 young people, ranging from age 15 to 35, have come through our doors at Kitchen Sisters Central in the historic Zoetrope building in San Francisco to work on the art and craft of audio storytelling. Many have stayed long enough to helm their own pieces and produce their first ever stories in collaboration with us. They never fail to shock and amaze. Their takes are varied, their styles singular, their voices original and provocative.

About 8 years ago we had an especially eccentric group. They somehow all found their way to us in the same moment — Matt Beagle who was a stand-up comic, Patty Fung, Tess Kenner, Caroline Bins, Anne Wootton, Madalyn Fernandez, Julia DeWitt… the place was on fire. Matt was doing stand-up at the Purple Onion, the revered comedy club across the street from our North Beach office that once hosted Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Phyllis Diller, Richard Pryor… and everyone was going to see him. We began to envision a night of all these talented, funny, emerging producers and storytellers live onstage in an evening we would call “The Kitchen Sisters Present… Night of the Living Intern.”

It happened. But only in our minds. The Purple Onion closed, the interns moved on to their first jobs and places on the staffs of some of the major news and story organizations in the country, and the evening remained a dream. Until today.

This past year Josh Gross, a high school senior, took our workshop and then started showing up one, two, three times a week after school. Watching Josh and the group of interns in the room with him kicked up Night of the Living Intern once again and as Josh’s internship drew to a close we asked him to dig through some of the stories Kitchen Sisters interns had produced in the past and create a podcast. Today’s piece features excerpts from "The Queen’s Beekeeper," produced by Justine Thieriot; "21 Collections" and "Agnes Varda: Keep Faith in Art" produced in collaboration with Selene Ross; "Jason Scott: Free Range Archivist" by Juliet Gelfman Randazzo; a piece about the Israeli artist/archivist, Hadassa Goldvicht and a story called "The Other F Word" by Josh Gross.

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0:00.0	Radio Tophia, welcome to the Kitchen Sisters Present.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:05.0	We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nicki Silva.
0:09.0	The Kitchen Sisters Present as part of Radiotopia from PRX and right now it's our annual fundraiser.
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0:46.7	token of our thanks. That's going to be a pretty good one I'll tell you because
0:50.4	there's some great music people in this collaboration.
0:53.4	Go to radiotopia.fm slash donate. Thank you so much for listening and for sharing
1:00.0	with your You know when you're in a room full of really talented, funny, deep-thinking people and the energy just sends a jolt through your system,
1:20.0	especially when those people are half your age and have come to you to glean some of your tricks and techniques,
1:26.0	your storytelling style, your method of interviewing, your use of archival audio and music,
1:32.0	and you're gleaning just as much from them?
1:38.0	To be honest, that's one of the thrills of being a kitchen sister.
1:42.7	We've been running an internship and mentoring program since the year 2000.
1:47.5	Two young fellows, Noah Miller and Paul McCarthy, made their way to our door when we were in the thick of our Lost and
1:54.4	Found Sound series on NPR. They showed up and kept showing up and and blew our
2:00.0	minds with their original thinking, their energy, their take on our stories.
2:05.7	We began to collaborate with them on the pieces that were airing on all things considered
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