This is the full piece, At Home, by Ben Adair
At Home explores ideas of memory, home and place through a lens particular to Southern California, Los Angeles and greater Silver Lake. Voices of longtime residents, newcomers and those who have come and gone show how even a relatively young city like L.A. makes and re-makes itself in its own unique way.
What's left after we've moved on? How do we preserve unwritten histories? Which parts, if any, of those histories should be preserved, and why? By whom?
At Home is a series of personal documentaries told via audio. You can access all nine episodes here: bit.ly/AtHomeBenAdair
Special thanks: Tim and Neda Disney, Shoshanna Scholar, Sarah Mesle, Abigail Scholar, Neda Casey, Katherine "Katt" Fox, Brandon Harvey, Eve Brenner, Walt Senterfitt, Mimi Munson, Ruth Sandoval and everyone who recorded their stories in the studio booth.
About Ben Adair: Ben Adair is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and experimental storyteller who documents personal struggles for meaning and virtue in modern times. He created and hosts the podcast First Time Last Time firstlasttime.com
About the Tandem Residency: The Tandem Residency program makes grants to artists to create original work in Tandem’s storefront location in the Silver Lake District of Los Angeles. The form and content of each residency will vary; the only requirements are that the work be original for the residency, that it have strong public participation, and that the Tandem storefront be utilized as much as possible. Tandem Radio is Tandem’s artist run podcast series. Throughout each residency artists will create material for Tandem Radio using the recording facilities built into the Tandem space.
