Aberth Digital Storytelling

Glamorgan GATES is looking for a digital storytelling tutor for its www.merthyrstories.org project. Thanks to Karen Lewis of StoryWorks for passing this on to me. Here’s the text of the message:
Glamorgan GATES is looking for a digital storytelling tutor for our merthyrstories.org project. Our current tutor is moving on. We have a core group of […]

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Some great news: the Breaking Barriers Community Arts digital storytelling project, based in south-east Wales, has just had confirmation of funding from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. This is of major importance to digital storytelling in Wales.
So now Breaking Barriers is recruiting three people to take the project on to its next strides between now and […]

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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:
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A review of the DS5 digital storytelling conference in Wales with Joe Lambert, Culture Shock, Historias Digitales del Uruguay…

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I’ve written about BBC Cymru Wales’s PS site before. PS now has a brand new sister site for teachers.  As producer Nia M Davies says PS for Teachers is all about using personal stories to “engage young people aged 14-19 in Personal and Social Education.” It’s a bilingual site, in English and Welsh. Topics tackled […]

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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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Joe Lambert of CDS just emailed some news that will be of interest to digital storytellers in the UK, Europe and beyond:
1. Joe’s giving the keynote at DS5 - the fifth Digital Storytelling Conference - in Aberystwyth, Wales, on Wednesday 16 June 2010. The cost is GBP15. http://www.dscymru.org.uk/
2 There’s a CDS Digital Storytelling workshop from […]

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Alan Thomas is a seasoned traveller. We first met at a BBC Capture Wales workshop in Haverfordwest, Wales, and we’ve met a few times since then too .. at DS4 and at BBC Wales and it’s always good to catch up. Alan has a condition called cerebellar ataxia which affects movement, balance and speech. Ever […]

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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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Two of the people I worked with while digital storytelling with the Capture Wales team had joined the BBC via Cyfle training courses. Cyfle is now looking for eight people to take part in their Multiplatform Production Scheme for TV Creatives course in Cardiff, Wales, leading to a Post Graduate Certificate - Professional Practice in […]

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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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Thanks to Sarah Goodey who sent me news of this call for submissions:
“In celebration of International Women’s Day, Women’s Arts Association is hosting an evening of short films by contemporary female filmmakers.  This will be held in Pontardawe Arts Centre on Saturday 6th March 7-9pm. We are planning a short Q&A session after the screening […]

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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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Digital storytellers can pitch tomorrow (16 October) to Channel 4 TV’s 4iP commissioners. It’s an “opportunity to hear and meet Digital Commissioners from the 4iP, Education and Cross Platform teams and learn about plans for 2010.” Other UK dates and submission guidelines are here.
Thanks to Rhodri Nwdls for letting me know about this event.
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Communities 2.0 is hiring a director (£41-44k ) to help bridge the digital divide by tackling digital exclusion in convergence areas of Wales. Communities 2.0 will also try to mitigate some of the social inequalities derived from low incomes, poor health, limited skills or disabilities. Here’s the text of the job ad with […]

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University of Glamorgan is hiring a Knowledge Catalyst Employee to help ’create a raft of digital stories for use in the context of the new Museum of Cardiff the Cardiff Story’. Closing date 30 July 2009. Only people who graduated in the last four years are apparently elligible. Here’s the text of the job ad as […]

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Here’s more about how we worked with people who had stories to tell about what the heritage of the Rhondda Valleys in Wales  means to them in Valleys Kids’ Rhondda Lives project. This post follows a question from Cheryl Colan:
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Katrina Kirkwood has just finished archiving the Rhondda Lives films on one fantastic new website: www.rhonddalives.org.uk. There are 80 stories to view.
The rationale behind the project is explained and there’s a description of how the stories were made.
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