Monthly Archives: April 2009

Brymbo workshops

Rural Wrexham Digital Storytelling is running a series of digital storytelling workshops between 27 April – 12 May. The project is being co-ordinated by Northern Marches Cymru with support from staff and students at Yale College.The Brymbo workshops will run … Continue reading

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Cardiff City FC – Kick into Reading

There’s a programme about storytelling on BBC TWO Wales in May that sounds interesting. Here’s the advance publicity: In a unique project Cardiff City FC*, Cardiff Library Services, and the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, Atrium – each with … Continue reading

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StoryWorks workshop, May, Cardiff

StoryWorks has been established to support public service organisations interested in using people’s stories to improve what they do. It’s based at the University of Glamorgan’s Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care and led by Karen Lewis, former Capture … Continue reading

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Aberystwyth DS4 Festival advance details

Here are the latest details about the fourth annual festival of digital storytelling in Aberystwyth, Wales, on Wednesday 17 June 2009, from a press release from Aberystwyth Arts Centre: Following on from the success of DS3 the fourth festival of … Continue reading

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Two ages of media literacy

Reinforcement of the importance of creation* in media literacy today by Jason Ohler: Media Literacy 1.0 – the era of mass media – concerns the ability to identify and evaluate the techniques of media persuasion. Media Literacy 2.0 – the … Continue reading

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Coming together to fold

Papurau Bro are Welsh-language local newspapers written by, edited by, folded & stapled and distributed by community members. They’ve thrived for three decades or more and I’d say that digital storytelling in Wales has drawn inspiration from the spirit of … Continue reading

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Registration Open for Obidos DS Conference, Portugal

http://www.storycenter.org/obidos.html “While we have most of the speakers arranged, we have created a 1 hour 15 minute session on Saturday afternoon for participants to sign up to briefly present projects, known as Five Minutes of Fame.  If you want to … Continue reading

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Early announcement of DS4 Digital Storytelling Festival

DS4, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wednesday 17 June 2009. Updates to follow.

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