Aberth Digital Storytelling

I had a query recently from Liz Milner, Bristol, via Mandy Rose, asking about digital storytelling in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Here’s a list of the ones I could think of; please feel free to add others using Comments:
Hanne Jones, Christer Fasmer and Eli Lea of Digital Fortellinger . See also the end of this […]

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Great to see Love Letters to the Future nominated for this year’s SXSW Interactive Awards:
One of the notes sealed inside the time capsule is:
“Please, you have to keep doing what we could not finish” by Manuela, Argentina
http://www.loveletterstothefuture.com/
Another notable nomination is:
http://sketch.odopod.com
This is an addictive and therapeutic web sketcher with a lovely feel and texture to the […]

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‘Same Place; Different Routes’ digital stories are being screened by Breaking Barriers at Llanhilleth Institute on Thursday 28th January 2010 at 7pm.
‘Same Place; Different Routes’ has three strands examining the experiences of:

recent migrants to Wales and people who moved here some years ago,
different generations living together in the Valleys
people with a range of mental health […]

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Hela Dryw - Hunting the Wren is a Welsh Christmas tradition enacted on Twelfth Night. Villagers hunted and killed the wren and carried its body in a decorated ‘house’. They called from door to door and people paid money to peep at the dead bird:

The wren is no longer killed today for Hela Dryw (or […]

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A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.
A year ago, I pondered about Stories That Work with the Sound Turned Off. Today I saw this four-minute movie: A Thousand Words. The movie’s by Ted Chung; thanks for the link to  @ShortFilmFest) It’s a personal story - albeit fiction, maybe - but it’s an utterly engaging […]

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Telling stories of Llanberis slate and Hollywood features, more than a hundred digital storytellers gathered for the annual digital storytelling festival in Aberystwyth. Here’s my illustrated story of the day…

L to R: Annette Mees, Dai Evans (holding the new-technology version of a teaspoon) and Bonnie Shaw.

DS4 - 17 June 2009, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Huw Davies showed […]

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If you work in a museum, library or archive and you’re looking for digital storytelling inspiration, here are links to three ideas in this blog:
Archive Meets Storytelling - A step-by-step set of instructions on how to run a workshop which delivers short videos mixing considered but unscripted personal reminiscence with existing archive footage.

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How can museums resource this: recording and sharing visitors’ interpretations and stories about its artefacts?
One of the challenges around publishing personal stories made by lots of people is keeping on top of the ethical issues around the right to portray others in public. This will be especially true of teachers and also of public organisations […]

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Here’s an example from Stockholm of a visual narrative (no voice) made by editing together five very short clips. With this previous post in mind, it’s just good to see experiments like this.
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If you or your organisation would like screen-space to show digital stories - or to have your own stand - at DS4, Sophie Bennett of Aberystwyth Arts Centre can help. Her contact details are  sob at aber dot ac dot uk Tel. 01970 622338. DS4
takes place in Aberystwyth on 17th June 2009.
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May 16th is the second International Day for Sharing Life Stories - a chance to “celebrate and promote life stories, as a way to encourage critical thinking, cultural democratization and social transformation.”
The organisers are The Museum of the Person International Network and the Center for Digital Storytelling and, if you’d like to organise an activity, […]

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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 on April 27 and 28, May 5, 11 and 2.
Details from Clare Lightfoot on 01978 […]

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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 new homes in the nation’s capital just opened or about to open – tell and teach […]

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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 Wales project producer, who says: “Stories offer huge potential to reveal what people really experience […]

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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 Digital Storytelling DS4 aims to inspire and encourage and show the exciting possibilities of Digital Storytelling […]

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‘A lad in me brother’s year said to me: “Either shave your legs or get a sex change.” I went home and told me mum and she stood me on a coffee table and shaved me legs with me dad’s razor.’ - overheard on a train near Chirk, 20:45, 26 February 2009.
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Stories are as much about the place where they’re shared as anything else. The walls of the old Vulcan Hotel in Cardiff have heard some gems over the years.
My favourite Cardiff writer is John Williams who, I believe, is a regular drinker here, along with other Anglo-Welsh writers like Des Barry (who himself is a […]

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“How can people participate without  necessarily having to be centre stage?” That’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since discussing digital storytelling with a colleague, Grahame Davies, last year.
My experience of Digital Stories is that they’re usually personal. This aspect of ‘talking about myself’ raises a barrier in some people and cultures. This was […]

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Of the stories I’ve seen which use poems I can remember only one or two as being the best possible way of telling that person’s story. This is just my personal opinion.
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E.g. it’s tempting to tell the story of a trip chronologically thus
weaker: “We started in Rome, took the train to Florence where we saw Ponte Vecchio, then we headed to the coast towards Pisa….”
stronger: look at how well Simon Griffiths uses the device of how he funded his south American trip to make a great […]

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