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The Format.Podcast Festival Highlights: Storytelling Tips, & Audio vs Video Debate | On Air Fest Recap - Ep 8.(🎧 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.)Lauren Wingard and I had a blast at On Air Fest in Brooklyn last month. In these interviews, we cover everything from audience research to the ever-evolving debate between audio and video podcasting. Lauren and I reflect on the 5 “on the street” interviews we did at On Air Fest last month and share our favorite takeaways and learnings. We hope you enjoy!- Outline - Flo and Lauren Introduction (00:00 - 09:34)* How we met* Lauren’s professional journey from Red Hat leadership development to BetterOn
2025-04-0358 min
The Kitchen Sisters PresentConstellation Prize: NightwalkingIt is Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the day when millions of Americans go to the polls to vote for who will lead their towns, their states, the nation. Souls to the polls today across the country, and so much hangs in the balance.On this fraught and tender Tuesday, when all our nerves are frayed, we offer a moment of respite and contemplation — an episode of the podcast Constellation Prize from radio producer and filmmaker Bianca Giaever, featuring writer, poet and activist Terry Tempest Williams.Constellation Prize is a podcast from The Believer Magazine. This story is Ep...
2024-11-0530 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentThe Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political MomentJuly 17, 2024, Washington, D.C. Some 200 young people from across the nation aged 14-19 — aspiring poets, storytellers, MC's, activists — are gathered in the nation’s capital for the 29th annual Brave New Voices Festival — four non-stop days of slam poetry competition, coaching, workshops, late-night freestyling and in 2024, voting information.In summer, as the election loomed larger and larger we decided to turn our microphone to young people across America to hear their thoughts and feelings about the nation, about voting, about the election. Everyone always says young people are the future. But the truth is they are the present...
2024-10-1532 min
Conversations I Want To Have Before We Both DieEpisode 5: Conversation with Bianca GiaeverBianca Giaever is a filmmaker and podcaster. I highly recommend her podcast Constellation Prize and especially the episodes called "Two Years with Franz," "The Crossing Guard," and "Caveh is God."
2024-01-041h 02
The Atlas Obscura PodcastNightwalking with Bianca GiaeverWe learn about an age-old practice of nightwalking, with the help of two women who took it on as an experiment in the early chaotic days of the pandemic. Joining the conversation is Bianca Giaever, creator of one of our favorite podcasts of the year, Constellation Prize. MORE: To hear Constellation Prize for yourself, you can head to thebeliever.net or anywhere podcasts are available. And if you want to learn more about nightwalking, check out this article Bianca wrote.
2023-12-2016 min
STARGIRLEpisode 30: Bianca Giaever [TEASER]*Full episode on Patreon*Bianca Giaever was a local legend, a mythic figure whose forest nymph-like presence lingered in the walls of Garfield High School long after she graduated. I learned about her—her confidence, adventurousness, cleverness, and drive—within the first month of my freshman year, and witnessed hoards of girls (and myself) debase themselves to try to emulate her vibes. I kept tabs on Bianca well after high school, too, and, for a few key years in the 2010s, used her viral Vimeo videos to guide me down a vague path toward what I thought I mi...
2023-12-1445 min
This DayNightwalking w/ Bianca GiaeverIt’s June 20th. Tonight, it will be dark — and maybe you will go for a walk?
Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by Bianca Giaever, host of the podcast series “Constellation Prize,” to talk about her forays into walking at night, and her correspondence with the writer Terry Tempest Williams. They also discuss the rich social and political history of walking at night.
Be sure to check out Constellation Prize, from the Believer, wherever you get your podcasts!
https://www.thebeliever.net/constellation-prize/
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2023-06-2022 minThis DayNightwalking w/ Bianca GiaeverIt’s June 20th. Tonight, it will be dark — and maybe you will go for a walk?
Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by Bianca Giaever, host of the podcast series “Constellation Prize,” to talk about her forays into walking at night, and her correspondence with the writer Terry Tempest Williams. They also discuss the rich social and political history of walking at night.
Be sure to check out Constellation Prize, from the Believer, wherever you get your podcasts!
https://www.thebeliever.net/constellation-prize/
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2023-06-2022 min
Constellation PrizeNightwalking 1: A Call From TerryThis is Episode 1 of our new 4-part series, Nightwalking. Â
Bianca receives a call from a famous writer, Terry Tempest Williams, who suggests they do a project together. They plan to embark on a ritual — taking walks at night, and writing each other daily letters. Terry promises that this will bring them closer to God. Bianca has doubts.
Music by: Ishmael Ensemble, John Caroll Kirby, and Elori Saxl.
2023-05-0229 minConstellation PrizeNightwalking 2: Dark Country RoadsBianca walks the dark country roads of Vermont, while Terry walks the quiet Utah canyons. Through their letters they grow closer, though it’s still unclear how the letters will reveal the divine. Meanwhile, Bianca’s grandfather says the project is stupid. Bianca is stressed, until she unexpectedly meets a lover.
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Music by: Greta Morgan, Peter Sandberg, Andy Mills, h hunt, Domenique Dumont, and Gideon Crevoshay.
2023-05-0235 minConstellation PrizeNightwalking 3: CoyotesTerry’s nightwalking ritual brings her closer to ecstasy. Bianca is still struggling. The moon continues to grow, until the final night of the project arrives. Terry is confident she will have a spiritual experience.
Music by: The Westerlies, Greta Morgan, Lullatone, and Zubin Hensler.
2023-05-0230 minConstellation PrizeNightwalking 4: New York CityIn the final episode of the series, Bianca goes nightwalking in New York City and talks to strangers about God. She meets an exterminator, two lonely Russian men on a Tinder date, a bodega owner, a college student questioning her faith, and a costume designer mourning a lost lover, who seems to understand the whole project.
Music by: Zubin Hensler, h hunt, and Sam Prekop.
2023-05-0229 minSTARGIRLEpisode 12: Lena DunhamLena Dunham's Girls is my favorite piece of art that's been created in my lifetime. I talk about why writing off the show as "narcissistic" is a massive missed opportunity, Lena's compulsion toward self-exposure and body horror, and her acute (unmatched?) understanding of how people behave. Happy Holidays y'all, and see you in the new year! đźŚ
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"Lena Dunham Comes to Terms With Herself" Allison P. Davis in The Cut
"Crush" by Bianca Giaever for Rachel Antonoff
"Why Lena Dunham's 'Girls' Is Like Nothing Else on TV" Emily Nussbaum in New York
"On Fin...
2022-12-231h 23
Weirdly Helpful (formerly The Best Advice Show)Night Walking with Bianca GiaeverBianca Giaever is the creator and host of the podcast Constellation Prize, distributed by The Believer Magazine. She currently works as a producer on The New York Times audio team. Her film, radio, and print stories have appeared on This American Life, Radiolab, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Believer Magazine, and the TED conference. ---CALL ZAK WITH YOUR ADVICE AT 844-935-BEST Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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2021-11-2206 min
Rancho ThatchmoApp DatingFeaturing: Adam Marnie, Nancy Loeber, Sharon Mashihi, Bianca Giaever, T.E., Amanda Daisy Lees, Tina Reichenbach, Arjun Ram Shrivatsa, Dylan Chavles, K.S.
2021-02-2446 minRancho ThatchmoFamily MattersFeaturing: Bianca Giaever, Sharon Mashihi, Jamie and Pacca Fletcher, Sara Apple Malaki, Davey Walker, Olivia Rosenberg, Danielle Reuther, June Walker, Casey Flax, Gray McGee, Greg Zucculo, Sarah Boysen, Lulu Sylbert, Sandy Bell.
2021-02-0342 min
Death, Sex & MoneyAudio We Love Fest: Constellation PrizeOur weeklong festival continues with a story about isolation, faith, and community from producer Bianca Giaever and The Believer Magazine.
Subscribe to Constellation Prize from The Believer Magazine wherever you get your podcasts. They've also offered a special 20% discount to our listeners. Just enter the code "DSM" at checkout. Then tune in on Friday, October 16th, as we end the festival week with a live Zoom show with Tracy Clayton and Josh Gwynn, hosts of one of our favorite new podcasts, Back Issue. Josh and Tracy are going to tell me about some of the things they're turnin...
2020-10-1457 min
Rumble StripCrossing Guard
A GUEST SHOW from one of my favorite radio producers….Bianca Giaever.
During a period of personal loneliness, radio-maker Bianca Giaever set out into New York City, hoping to connect with another lonely stranger. She began visiting Catholic churches, and eventually, she met Sophia — a school crossing guard. In this piece, Bianca documents Sophia’s life for many months… weaving between the ordinary life of a school crossing guard, and larger themes of loneliness, God, and the quest to live a meaningful life.
This piece is the first episode in a new podc...
2020-08-2439 minRumble StripKnots and Pandemics
Clare is the curator of the Museum Of Everyday Life, which lives in a barn on Route 16, about eight miles from Glover, Vermont, population 2000. Over the years, the Museum of Everyday Life has given us the toothbrush, the mirror, bells and whistles–celebrations of objects we use everyday in our unglamorous everyday lives. This year’s exhibit features the knot. It’s not quite finished, because as Clare was preparing the exhibit, she was also working her other job as a nurse at a small rural hospital, in the middle of a pandemic.
She showed me the ex...
2020-07-2324 minConstellation PrizeWhat is Boring? with B. WurtzThe artist B. Wurtz reflects on what is boring, and a three decade relationship with his only belt. Featuring: socks, garbage, and Andy Warhol.Â
2020-07-1411 minConstellation PrizeTwo Years With FranzBianca spends two years listening to over 500 recordings made by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright. Featuring: a tape recorder, a cat named Robert, and a hatred for MFA programs. Produced with Jay Allison for the public radio website Transom.org.
2020-07-1455 minConstellation PrizeSpool of ThreadA short reflection on a spool of thread. Featuring: the aforementioned spool of thread.
2020-07-1405 minConstellation PrizeCaveh is GodNonfiction filmmaker Caveh Zahedi, creator of The Show About the Show, talks about how his relationship to God has changed over the course of his life. Featuring: mushroom trips, a metaphorical meat locker, and an earthworm.
2020-07-1426 min
Constellation PrizeCrossing GuardBianca goes looking for a stranger and meets Sophia, a school crossing guard. They spend six months together. Featuring: Sartre, twists, and organ music.
2020-07-1438 minRumble StripFifty. A Phoenix Moment.
For many years I have privately loved the song Total Eclipse of the Heart, by Bonnie Tyler. I started to love it when it came out in 1983, when I was fourteen.
This month I’m turning fifty. And for some reason, every time I think about turning fifty, I think about singing this song that I’ve loved for over over thirty years, and making other people listen to me sing it. I guess in a way it’s a kind of phoenix moment I’m hoping for. That I’ll burn up in some exqui...
2019-11-2020 min
Midd MomentBianca Giaever ’12.5BiancaGiaever.comHell Yes! A profile of Anais Mitchell for Midd Magazine by Bianca Giaever (2019)Two Years with Franz Bianca’s work on Franz Write (2018)The Scared is Scared (2013)Holy Cow, Lisa (2012) Taken from a real conversation with Bianca’s college adviser.Music from The Scared is Scared is by Alpenglow and used with permission. Music credits:Theme song: “The Serene Quartet” by Little Red Church link“Cross Stitch” by Chad Crouch via Sound Picture “Heliotrope” by Aeronaut via Blue Dot Sessions link “Tessalit” by Azalai via Blue Dot Ses
2019-10-2839 min
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2019-09-1300 min
The FRONTLINE DispatchKIDS' SPECIAL: Muzamil's DayIn this special episode for kids, FRONTLINE follows a day in the life of Muzamil, a 12-year-old Somali boy growing up Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp. Producer Bianca Giaever and Reporter Roopa Gogineni bring him questions from American kids about what it’s like growing up in a refugee camp. Are there dentists? A fire department? What is your dreamland? Muzamil takes us through his daily life, answering questions from American kids along the way.
This episode was produced in partnership with Firelight Media. You can see pictures of Dadaab, Muzamil, and his friends here: https://to.pbs...
2018-12-2722 min
Transom - Fostering the Art of Audio StorytellingMaking Sense Of A Pile Of TapeIt must be every radio producer’s dream — a pile of tape. Why? Because a pile of tape just might be a treasure trove of radio gold. Bianca Giaever says going through it “is sort of like a child going through Christmas presents.” Bianca should know. She’s a film maker and radio producer. A couple […]
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2018-12-1120 min
Transom - A Showcase and Workshop for New Public RadioMaking Sense Of A Pile Of TapeA pile of tape just might be a treasure trove of radio gold. But how do you go manage it? Bianca Giaever has answers and a touching documentary called “Two Years with Franz” produced with Jay Allison here at Transom.
2018-12-1120 min
Sound School PodcastMaking Sense Of A Pile Of TapeA pile of tape just might be a treasure trove of radio gold. But how do you go manage it? Bianca Giaever has answers and a touching documentary called “Two Years with Franz” produced with Jay Allison here at Transom.
2018-12-1120 minRumble StripGraffiti Photographer
Steve Grody has dedicated his life to his passions. He’s an accomplished swing dance teacher. He’s a self defense instructor. And in the last twenty-eight years, he’s taken tens of thousands of photographs of graffiti in his hometown of Los Angeles. This is a conversation about the decades he’s spent wandering alleyways, climbing under bridges and through tunnels, documenting this ephemeral art.
This program is produced by Bianca Giaever. She’s a writer, filmmaker, artist and radio producer, and recently I heard a story she made with Jay Allison that was sublime...
2018-09-2811 min
The OrganistTwo Years With FranzAfter the death of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Franz Wright in 2015, his wife Beth gave producer Bianca Giaever 546 audio tapes that he made as he was dying. Unable to type because of pain in his wrists, Franz used an audio recorder to dictate his poetry, but it picked up much more: Franz talked with his wife, made phone calls, cursed at his cat, and fantasized about the first human to ever speak. Franz was known in the poetry world as a genius and a lunatic. His father was James Wright, who won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in...
2018-07-2657 minTransom - Fostering the Art of Audio StorytellingTwo Years With FranzThis is a story of art and love, of madness and beauty, of youth and age and death. It took Bianca Giaever two years of listening to 546 tapes of Pulitzer Prizes recipient Franz Wright to make. Jay Allison guided her. Listen.
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2018-06-0455 minTransom - A Showcase and Workshop for New Public RadioTwo Years With FranzThis is a story of art & love, of madness & beauty, of youth & age & death. It took Bianca Giaever 2 years of listening to 546 tapes of Pulitzer-winning Franz Wright to make. Jay Allison guided her. Listen.
2018-06-0455 min
The PayoffTasty Savings, Extreme Coupons and Shopping SecretsWith more ways than ever to buy the things you want and need, shopping can seem overwhelming, but we’ve got the inside scoop on how to start SAVING money when you SPEND money. First up, we have the results of a blind taste test party conducted by special guest Bianca Giaever, who found out all the ways you should never pay more for less taste again. Then we talk to to the co-founders of the world’s #1 couponing website, TheKrazyCouponLady.com, who explain how you should never pay full-price for anything ever again. Finally, we answer list...
2017-05-3142 min
Reply All#26 Craigslist, Horsley's ListCraigslist is the internet’s classifieds section, but it’s also one of its more shadowy corners, where the ads are anonymous and ephemeral. So we found ourselves wondering - what would we find if we replied to a couple? This week, we track down the people behind two intriguing ads.And in the second half of the show - Neal Horsley was an anti-abortion activist who created a website called "The Nuremberg Files," a website that listed the names and addresses of abortion providers around the country. He died last month, but the legacy of his webs...
2015-05-2432 min
She Does Podcast10. Bianca Giaever: Always Talk to StrangersBianca Giaever is a radio producer, filmmaker and our youngest guest to-date. You may have heard her on RadioLab or This American Life or seen her short films on NPR, New York Times or featured as Vimeo Staff Picks. She recently won a Webby for "Videos 4 U" a new series she’s heading for This American Life. In this episode, Bianca talks about her inherited curiosity and inclination to talk to strangers as well as how her personal life, questions and struggles influence the themes of her work. We talk about the paralyzing effect of your first successful project, the fo...
2015-05-2000 min
She Does10. Bianca Giaever: Always Talk to StrangersBianca Giaever is a radio producer, filmmaker and our youngest guest to-date. You may have heard her on RadioLab or This American Life or seen her short films on NPR, New York Times or featured as Vimeo Staff Picks. She recently won a Webby for "Videos 4 U" a new series she’s heading for This American Life. In this episode, Bianca talks about her inherited curiosity and inclination to talk to strangers as well as how her personal life, questions and struggles influence the themes of her work. We talk about the paralyzing effect of your first successful project, th...
2015-05-2040 min
2015 Tribeca Film Festival (audio)Tribeca N.O.W.: Online Creators ShowcaseGregory Bayne of Zero Point, Drew Droege of Chloe, Bianca Giaever of The Scared is Scared, and Jayson Musson of Adventures of Jamel discuss online filmmaking.
2015-04-2300 min
2015 Tribeca Film Festival (video)Tribeca N.O.W.: Online Creators ShowcaseGregory Bayne of Zero Point, Drew Droege of Chloe, Bianca Giaever of The Scared is Scared, and Jayson Musson of Adventures of Jamel discuss online filmmaking.
2015-04-2300 min
She DoesTeaser
Photo by Kerrin Sheldon
 Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg introduce their new podcast, which launches on January 14th, 2015. Listen to soundbites from the first episodes of the series. Find us on on iTunes and Soundcloud.Â
Thanks to our partner, Filmmaker Magazine, who will be running articles about each of our guests and co-hosting our bi-weekly Google Hangouts where YOU get to ask our guests your questions.GUESTS FEATURED IN TEASER:Bianca GiaeverKatie McKayAnna SaleKara OehlerIngrid KoppLyric CabralLina SrivastavaKa...
2015-01-0405 min
Tiny Conversations11.5. Brian Cauley on The Beauty of a QuestionOn this episode of Tiny Conversations I talk to you about one of the reasons I started this podcast. Bianca Giaever is an amazing audio maker and incredibly talented person. Her recording of a conversations with a six-year-old is a major inspiration for me. In this episode I discuss the beauty of conversation and the treasures found […]
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2014-07-2103 minTransom - Fostering the Art of Audio StorytellingForgivenessSometimes an interview blossoms and reveals depths you couldn’t have imagined when it began. That’s how this piece by Bianca Giaever feels… a gentle conversation that moves into a profound story about race, family, murder, transformation… and forgiveness. Give it a listen along with some of the Sonic IDs that Bianca produced while interning with us this summer.
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2012-09-0512 min
Third Coast Audio Library :: AllOut of the BlueA college student describes the two sides of herself in her struggle with bipolar disorder.Year: 2012Producers:Bianca Giaever
2012-06-2002 min
Third Coast Audio Library :: AllFaded Red ValentinesCollege students in my dorm recount how their parents met.Year: 2012Producers:Bianca Giaever
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