How do we celebrate a twenty-year friendship? We have traditions for birthdays, rituals for wedding anniversaries, but no formula for honoring meaningful, long-term friendships – even if those relationships are the ones that have formed us, challenged and changed us. We, Bonnie and Allison, have been best friends since we met as six-year-olds tumbling out of church doors to pick cicada molts off of trees behind the parking lot. In our piece, we tell the story of the summer we decided to plan and throw ourselves a Friendship Anniversary Party.

Producers: Bonnie Willison, Allison Bender

The Friendship Party

Audio and Video producer based in Madison, Wisconsin. bonniewillison.com