City of West Hollywood x StoryCorps Studios

(Update: November 14, 2025)

The City of West Hollywood is proud to launch a partnership with StoryCorps, the nationally renowned nonprofit organization dedicated to audio recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of everyday people.

StoryCorps Airstream Mobile Recording Booth in November

The City of West Hollywood x StoryCorps Studios project launch takes place on Friday, November 14, 2025 with a week of on-site oral history recording sessions in the iconic StoryCorps Airstream Mobile Recording Booth, which is parked in West Hollywood at City’s Crescent Heights Lot. Participants who RSVP’d for sessions will enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take part in recording and preserving their stories as part of America’s living history. More information is available in this project news release.

Self-Record and Submit Your Stories

While sessions are booked in the StoryCorps Airstream Mobile Recording Booth, there is another way of sharing a story and taking part in this rare and historic opportunity to add your voice to the living legacy of West Hollywood. Read on!

Community members may self-record stories using the City of West Hollywood exclusive StoryCorps portal – it’s basically an online recording studio! Before heading there to share your story, please read the following:

• StoryCorps and the City of West Hollywood retain all rights to recorded stories.
• In a StoryCorps recording, you share a meaningful, one-on-one conversation about your experience in West Hollywood with someone important from your life that you will choose and you will confirm their interest in participation as well.
• Consider inviting someone you’d want to honor by sharing this experience with them, such as a family member, a friend, a mentor, or someone who has supported your journey.
• StoryCorps conversations are spontaneous, authentic, and unscripted. StoryCorps provides participants with a list of “great questions” to inspire your conversation, such as:
  • What brought you to West Hollywood?
  • What keeps you here?
  • How is West Hollywood different from other places you've lived/visited?
  • How has West Hollywood allowed you to live more fully as yourself?
  • Tell me about one of your most joyful West Hollywood memories.
  • What West Hollywood location stirs the fondest memories and why?

Stories collected as part of the City of West Hollywood x StoryCorps Studios project will be edited and potentially aired nationally on NPR and will be considered for an animated short story viewable via Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the StoryCorps website and social media channels, as well as City of West Hollywood communications channels.

Please click here to be taken to the City of West Hollywood self-recording portal on the StoryCorps website: www.storycorps.org/cityofwesthollywood

Looking Ahead to City of West Hollywood x StoryCorps Studios in 2026

In 2026, StoryCorps and the City of West Hollywood will host a community listening event featuring collected stories and the debut of a fully animated West Hollywood story curated and illustrated by StoryCorps. Details about this event will be finalized and publicized in 2026. Sign up for news release emails at www.weho.org/news.

This exciting City of West Hollywood x StoryCorps Studios partnership will live on in perpetuity via the StoryCorps website, the Library of Congress, and via the City of West Hollywood’s communications channels.

Background: City of West Hollywood x StoryCorps Studios

The City of West Hollywood has, for more than four decades, stood as a beacon of creativity, courage, and compassion. West Hollywood is a place where people from every walk of life have come together to build something extraordinary. By sharing your story, you are helping preserve the heart of this community for future generations. Whether you’ve lived here since the City’s founding or you are just beginning your journey, your voice is part of the fabric that makes West Hollywood what it is today: bold, diverse, and beautifully human. This is your chance to be heard, remembered, and celebrated.

StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and share humanity’s stories to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. Since 2003, StoryCorps has given more than 650,000 people the chance to record conversations about their lives. The StoryCorps Archive at the Library of Congress is the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.