Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear
ديف إسي: لكل من حولك قصة يجب على العالم الإصغاء لها
Over thousands of archived and broadcast interviews, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay -- winner of the 2015 TED Prize -- has created an unprecedented document of the dreams and fears that touch us all. Full bio
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or even a stranger
important moments in that person's life,
في حياة ذلك الشخص
I was lucky enough to find my calling
كنت محظوظا كفاية لأجد حرفتي
who I was very, very close to, was gay.
of our strained conversations,
and Latino drag queens
at a gay bar in Manhattan
حانة للمثليين بمنهاتن
the modern gay rights movement.
شرارة حركة حقوق المثليين الحديثة.
and it piqued my interest.
recorder and find out more.
named Michael Shirker,
of the people we could find
the Stonewall Inn that night.
gave me the license
never would have gone
otherwise ever have spoken to.
ربما لم يكن بوسعي الحديث معهم مطلقاً.
fierce and courageous human beings
the story of Stonewall
and it changed my life.
I made many more radio documentaries,
who are rarely heard from in the media.
of being interviewed
that their stories didn't matter.
أن قصصهم لا تعني شيئا.
people's back straighten
into the microphone.
about the last flophouse hotels
عن الفنادق الرديئة
cheap hotels for decades.
the size of prison cells
from one room into the next.
with the photographer Harvey Wang.
هارفي وانغ.
with an early version of the book
بنسخة كتاب قديمة
the long, narrow hallway
the clarion call for StoryCorps,
a dozen years ago.
documentary work
to create a work of art or entertainment
by a whole lot of people,
was the purpose of this work,
من وراء العمل،
many, many people the chance
لعد كبير جدا من الناس
can come to honor someone else
أن يحتفي بآخر فيها
by a facilitator who brings you inside.
and you listen and you talk.
if this was to be our last conversation,
المحادثة الأخيرة
and say to this person
you walk away with a copy of the interview
to the American Folklife Center
لمركز الفلكلور الأمريكي
can someday get to know your grandfather
in one of the busiest places in the world
إزدحاماً في العالم
incredibly intimate conversation
but from the very beginning, it did.
من البداية حدث ذلك
with incredible respect,
at that original Grand Central Booth.
interviewing his mother, Sarah.
يجري مقابلة مع أمه سارا .
are incredibly smart
هم غاية في الذكاء
From a scale of one to 10,
different without animals?
an eight without animals,
would be different without them?
like cockroaches and snakes.
as long as they're not venomous
the insect we love to hate.
you couldn't cope with having a child?
you had really bad colic,
SL: It's when you get this stomach ache
for, like, four hours.
but Amy's was more high-pitched.
seems to like Amy more,
why you think that people like Amy more,
يميلون لها أكثر
of your Asperger's syndrome,
it's more difficult,
to get to know you love you so much.
يحبونك كثيرا.
SL: Yeah --
but less quantity? (Laughter)
the quality, but I think --
loved Claudia, then she hated Claudia,
ثم كرهتها،
is that you have a few very good friends,
you wanted when I was born?
my expectations, sweetie,
of what your child's going to be like,
عما سيكون عليه طفله،
so much as a parent, because you think --
who made you a parent.
That's a good point. (Laughter)
in the parenting books,
outside of the box with you,
as a parent and as a person,
but you are so incredibly special to me
ran on public radio,
together in a book,
they would read the letters together.
that two of my heroes
who is now an honors student in college.
crying when they hear StoryCorps stories,
قصص ستوريكوربس
something authentic and pure
when sometimes it's hard to tell
courage, decency and dignity,
بطيبة وشجاعة، بعفة وكرامة،
like you're walking on holy ground.
in Grand Central worked,
in all 50 states
and towns across America
of human voices ever gathered.
hundreds of facilitators
through the experience.
gathering the wisdom of humanity.
that the most important thing
during these interviews
of StoryCorps, you could argue
of a selection bias happening,
with every kind of person
مع كل أنواع الشخصيات
across the political spectrum --
are actually onto something.
from these interviews.
and the wisdom and the grace
of people all around us
named Danny Perasa
يدعى داني بيراسا
to talk about his love for her.
ليحدثها عن حبه لها.
the thing of it is,
"I love you" to you.
I say it to remind you
it's coming from me.
from a busted old radio,
من مذياع قديم محطم.
the radio around the house.
on the kitchen table,
على طاولة المطبخ
to me every morning.
that could possibly be wrong
is extremely rainy.
I love you. I love you.
no matter what happens at work,
in the rest of the day,
that you can hug somebody
”ارفع يديك عني“.
and saying, "Get your hands off me."
a color television set.
to black and white.
and one single snaggletooth,
more romance in his little pinky
leading men put together.
unimaginable capacity
and I've learned about strength.
and Mary Johnson.
he murdered Mary's only son,
who this person was
they became friends,
from the penitentiary,
of a conversation they had
is no longer here.
and now you're going to college.
وأنت ستدرس الجامعة.
to see you graduate.
to experience that with you.
say those things and to be
in which you are is my motivation.
that I stay on the right path.
despite how much pain I caused you,
برغم حجم الألم الذي سببته لك
to be able to share our story together,
أن نتشارك قصتنا معاً
looking at each other right now.
so I admire that you can do this.
MJ: I love you too, son.
م ج: وأنا أحبك يا بني.
of the courage and goodness of people,
بشجاعة الناس و استقامتهم،
truly does bend towards justice.
بحق صوب العدالة.
who was born Arthur Martinez
المولودة بمشاريع هارولد
with her daughter Lesley
into the woman she was always meant to be.
difficult things for me was
بالنسبة لي
I wouldn't be allowed
ليس بمقدوري أن أكون
out of the water,
in my relationship with my granddaughters,
over whether I'm he or she.
وهل أنا هو أم هي.
to talk about it.
في التحدث عن هذا.
but that, to me, is a miracle.
لكن ذلك معجزة بالنسبة لي.
You don't have to tiptoe.
and that's something I've always
that you're loved.
and I really am at peace with who I am.
في سلام مع نفسي.
and I try to live that way every day.
و أحاول عيش هذه الطريقة يوميا.
a secret about StoryCorps.
to have these conversations.
لإجراء هذه الحوارات.
will be heard long after they're gone.
on recording interviews
في تسجيل بعض المقابلات
"The Four Things That Matter Most"
”أهم أربعة أمور“
to the most important people in your life
لأهم الناس من في حياتك
we can say to one another,
in a StoryCorps booth.
with someone you care about --
ويحتاج قدرًا من الشجاعة،
and Chris a few months ago
I was completely floored.
أخذني الذهول من الفرحة.
with a very brief wish for humanity,
I wrote my 50 words,
و كتبت 50 كلمة.
Chris called and said, "Go for it."
”أسعى خلفها.“
through StoryCorps
في ستوريكوربس
can easily record a meaningful interview
تسجيل مقابلة ذات معنى
which will then be archived for history.
كي يمكن أرشفتها للتاريخ.
where everyone in the world
could have imagined 11 years ago
is already underway.
has been working furiously
StoryCorps out of our booths
by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
been two people and a facilitator
which is preserved forever,
of the StoryCorps app.
that walks you through
StoryCorps interview,
to our archive at the Library of Congress.
how we can use it
thousands of StoryCorps interviews a year,
tens of thousands
عشرات الآلاف
a national homework assignment
studying U.S. history across the country
الدارسين للتاريخ الأمريكي عبر البلاد
with an elder over Thanksgiving,
and experiences are captured.
sides of a conflict somewhere in the world
جانبي الصراع في مكان ما في العالم
about that conflict
begin to build bonds of trust;
a tradition all over the world
تقليداً في كافة أنحاء العالم
with a StoryCorps interview
بمقابلة في ستوريكوربس
or homeless shelters or even prisons
أو السجون حتى
least heard in our society
للاحتفاء بالناس المهمشين في مجتمعنا
what they've learned in life,
a StoryCorps interview with my dad
and became a well-known gay activist.
of us at that interview.
until a couple of years ago,
to be in perfect health
40 hours a week,
40 ساعة في الأسبوع،
a few days later.
for the first time at three in the morning
في الثالثة صباحا،
they were going to get to know this person
would be through that session.
any more deeply than I did,
بعمق أكثر مما فعلت.
the importance of making these recordings.
my father or my grandmother or my brother,
is fleeting and inconsequential,
enduring and important.
we are as human beings.
this wish come true.
or even a stranger.
أو صديق أو غريب.
of the wisdom of humanity,
and shout a little less.
what's really important.
that simple truth
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dave Isay - Story collectorOver thousands of archived and broadcast interviews, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay -- winner of the 2015 TED Prize -- has created an unprecedented document of the dreams and fears that touch us all.
Why you should listen
From the first interview he recorded, 2015 TED Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow Dave Isay knew he’d found his calling: preserving the stories of everyday Americans. Since then, Isay has amassed hundreds of thousands of recordings, most of previously unheard or ignored voices, all speaking in their own words. The archives of StoryCorps -- which Isay founded in 2003 -- are included at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, and now constitute the largest single collection of recorded voices in history.
StoryCorps invites friends, loved ones and strangers to conduct 40-minute interviews at intimate recording booths in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, and (until 2011) New York, as well as in mobile studios nationwide. Offering moving and surprising glimpses into the hearts of often marginalized and forgotten subjects, the interviews are a familiar feature of NPR’s Morning Edition and Storycorps.org.
At TED2015, Isay shared an audacious wish for StoryCorps: to open up the format from its signature booths with a StoryCorps app that allows anyone to add to this "digital archive of the collective wisdom of humanity." The vision: to broaden this idea, and begin to take it global.
Dave Isay | Speaker | TED.com