Workshops happen 1 - 2:45 pm each day.
Workshops are included in your RWB registration, but you must register in advance for the workshops of your choice.
Some workshops have limited space.

Saturday Workshops

Listening Sessions
With Hans Ulrich Werner and Gregory Whitehead (limit to 5 per day)
Limited to 5 participants per session (pre-registration required), each participant is asked to bring a 5 minute (max) example of a radio production that he or she has completed or is currently working on and play it for comments and feedback from everyone present, including moderators Hans Ulrich Werner (Germany) and Gregory Whitehead (USA).

Wireless Imagination workshop
by Tetsuo Kogawa (via live internet) and Stephen Kelly
This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

Listening
with Andra McCartney
This workshop session will focus on soundwalk listening. We will go on a group listening soundwalk (wheelchair accessible) in the area of Ryerson University, and discuss what we hear during the walk. Following this, we will listen to some examples of soundwalk radio pieces by artists such as Hildegard Westerkamp and radio shows such as CBC Outfront, and discuss methods of making soundwalks engaging for the listener in a radio context. This workshop will take place rain or shine. If it is raining, bring an umbrella. They also work well as wind protection for your microphone!

It Goes By Once: Creative Documentary Production
by Steve Wadhams
An intensive workshop in the art and poetry of sound. Knowing how to create gripping stories for radio means knowing how to grab the ear and keep hold of it. It means listening for the vivid detail in location sounds and spoken words and finding an authentic 'voice' for the storyteller.This workshop will teach aspiring and experienced documentary producers and reporters, as well as any others who write for broadcast media, how to "compose" for the ear, especially the jittery, impatient ear that's typical of most audiences today. Ears and minds which won't and can't rewind or flip the page back to see what you were trying to say. You've got just one chance to be understood. Participants will learn how to maintain interest in a story, how to convey complicated ideas by simple images, how to write and speak so that listeners stay with you. The "grammar" of sounds and their effective, even sensual and seductive use to paint memorable mental images. Rhythm and pacing. Choosing when you want to jar or disturb your audience.

Sunday Workshops

Listening Sessions
With Hans Ulrich Werner and Gregory Whitehead (limit to 5 per day)
Limited to 5 participants per session (pre-registration required), each participant is asked to bring a 5 minute (max) example of a radio production that he or she has completed or is currently working on and play it for comments and feedback from everyone present, including moderators Hans Ulrich Werner (Germany) and Gregory Whitehead (USA).

Wireless Imagination workshop
by Tetsuo Kogawa (via live internet) and Stephen Kelly
This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and how the transmission technology has been monopolized by the specialists and authorities. It would be a minimum experience of radio transmission that could also be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter that the participant will make has only a 30 meter radius of transmission, but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

Making
with Andra McCartney
This workshop session will focus on doing a recording, and discussing options for editing such work. We will go on a recording soundwalk (wheelchair accessible) in the area of Ryerson University. Following the walk, we will listen to excerpts of these recordings and discuss how we might approach the editing process. Participants are also encouraged to bring previously-made soundwalk recordings for discussion. Please bring your own recording equipment (any kind) and headphones. This workshop will take place rain or shine. If it is raining, bring an umbrella. They also work well as wind protection for your microphone!

It Goes By Once: Creative Documentary Production
by Steve Wadhams
An intensive workshop in the art and poetry of sound.
Knowing how to create gripping stories for radio means knowing how to grab the ear and keep hold of it. It means listening for the vivid detail in location sounds and spoken words and finding an authentic 'voice' for the storyteller.This workshop will teach aspiring and experienced documentary producers and reporters, as well as any others who write for broadcast media, how to "compose" for the ear, especially the jittery, impatient ear that's typical of most audiences today. Ears and minds which won't and can't rewind or flip the page back to see what you were trying to say. You've got just one chance to be understood. Participants will learn how to maintain interest in a story, how to convey complicated ideas by simple images, how to write and speak so that listeners stay with you. The "grammar" of sounds and their effective, even sensual and seductive use to paint memorable mental images. Rhythm and pacing. Choosing when you want to jar or disturb your audience.