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: “…Did the individual storytellers work with and direct the video editor? If they spent only 2 hours doing so, I imagine the editor did a reasonable amount of preparatory work, getting clips to choose from lined up, prior to this work session?…” There were many days of preparatory work in researching, finding, selecting, rights-clearing, digitising, etc. the clips. Lona Wharton and Gareth Morris did this at the BBC and Dafydd…
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New Rhondda Lives digital stories website
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. I’m a member of the Museums 3.0 Ning group and I think that group’s members will really enjoy seeing such an innovative melding of existing public archive with personal storytelling by members of the communities depicted in the archive. I’m sure all the storytellers will be proud to have their stories displayed on Katrina’s new Rhondda Lives website. If you’d like a suggestion of one to watch first … how about…
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DS4 Festival of Digital Storytelling 2009 cribsheet
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 intergenerational stories based around old silent colour footage of farming in north-east Wales. And announced he’s secured £200k funding for a feature film mixing old and new footage, with the new being shot by 150 especially-trained film-makers/digital storytellers in Rhyl. Annette Mees described how playing Big Ball Bingo and listening to community-members’…
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DS4 speakers announced
Just announced: DS4’s programme looks great with Huw Davies (BBC Capture Wales), Annette Mees (Coney’s Shoreditch Ball Park), Bonnie Shaw (Snap-Shot-Storytelling) and fascinating breakouts. The new DS4 website is live: http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/DS4/ and you can book online for £14.50.
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DS4 call for stories
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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Newport storytelling course
Digital Storytelling courses for people aged 55+ in Newport, SE Wales at the Riverside
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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 on April 27 and 28, May 5, 11 and 2. Details from Clare Lightfoot on 01978 298382, or by e-mail at clare.lightfoot@wrexham.gov.uk Source: Wrexham Evening Leader
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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 new homes in the nation’s capital just opened or about to open – tell and teach stories to local primary school children. Cardiff City FC – Kick into Reading. Alfresco/Boomerang 1 x 30 BBC TWO Wales. Prod: Liz Lloyd-Griffiths. * soccer club
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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 Wales project producer, who says: “Stories offer huge potential to reveal what people really experience from service providers, and what they actually want. First hand accounts, in people’s own words, can be a uniquely powerful way of ‘hearing it like it is’.” Here are the details of the the workshop from the website: StoryWorks is running a three-day digital storytelling workshop in Cardiff, Wales, from 6-9 May 2009. This is…
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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 Digital Storytelling DS4 aims to inspire and encourage and show the exciting possibilities of Digital Storytelling and brings you up to date with what is happening in the world of Digital Storytelling. Whether you work in education, the community or as an artist, it is your opportunity to share experiences, explore new creative ideas, see the latest technological developments, look at examples of best practice in the U.K. and worldwide…