Aberth Digital Storytelling

I went to the screening last night at the Atrium in Cardiff of 13 new digital stories, made to be exhibited at The Cardiff Story - a museum about the city which opens in autumn 2010.
The stories were broadly all on the theme of the views about Cardiff of people living in the Valleys of […]

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Interesting new multi-format digital storytelling about ‘place’ project - and it’s here in Cardiff. I’m looking forward to finding out more:
The background is in this WalesOnline news report.
The organisers (including Helia Phoenix, Roath) have already staged an empty shop project in town:
via Google news alerts
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Spanning the UK and Cape Town, University of Surrey Digital World Research Centre is advertising a Research Fellowship in Digital Storytelling. This could be the best digital storytelling opportunities I’ve ever heard of because:
- you’ll get to model and produce digital story forms that are most suitable for the intended local audiences/producers/participants by working with […]

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I’m working at the Urdd National Eisteddfod - a major European youth festival - in Aberaeron, Wales, this week. Colleagues from the BBC Welsh-language children’s news programme Ffeil have been recording viewers’ stories using an adapted London black taxi cab as an experiment here. It’s not something they’ve built themselves; it’s been hired in.
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“I was back in the hospital having my dressing changed after an operation. I’d had a lot of stitches. The nurse arrived with a pen in her mouth. She took off my old dressing and ran the pen which had been in her mouth along my chest to check all the stitches. After changing my […]

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I was asked a question on Twitter yesterday by @katycom1972:
@digitalst Would like to explore digital storytelling with my 2nd graders. Any tips on getting started? We use a MAC/Imovie 9. Thx! 
It’s incredibly difficult to fit any sensible advice into 140 characters. What I really wanted to say was:

it’s the […]

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That’s the question Hanne Jones and Eli Lea from Flimmer Film asked as they went from door to door at old people’s homes in Norway. The answers they were given were as different as the people they met.
‘My Days’ is a collection of 37 memories told by people between the ages of 79 and 104. […]

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Delivered on April 28, Pontypridd, Wales, by Gilly Adams and Georgie Meadows, who say:
“To be effective practitioners and offer compassionate and good care, we need to be able to see each patient as a special and unique individual…Using pictures as our starting point, we will explore how we can be more aware of the stories […]

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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
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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

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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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