Asking yourself these four questions should help you when strategically planning digital storytelling projects: 1. how will you address consents? Privacy laws in the UK are more relaxed than in other countries like France. Setting laws to one side, ask yourself: if that was me/my child in that story, would I be happy? What will be the wording of your formal release form or contract which makes the storyteller’s consent explicit? 2. who will own the copyright of the finished stories and will exhibition licences be explicitly attached and will they be exclusive or non-exclusive licences? You can have the intellectual property resting with the storyteller, with a licence granted to…
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Digital storytelling on the high street
Wouldn’t it be great if you could pop in to get some expert help and make your own digital story while shopping in town? Well, during August 2010, if you’re lucky enough to live in Newcastle in the north-east of England, you can. Culture Shop is Culture Shock‘s empty shop arts project which not only screens digital stories but also offers expert facilitation for people who’d like to make their own digital story. Some take their own photos to tell their story; others choose from a range of artifacts from museums and galleries of the North East England. I visited Culture Shop while we were visiting my wife’s friend Grainee…
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Glamorgan GATES hiring digital storytelling tutor
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 four/five older storytellers who are well skilled in digital storytelling but we are looking for someone who is knowledgeable and vibrant and will bring something new to the class and generate some new students. A recent graduate or postgraduate student would be ideal. We have approximately 5 hrs per week on offer. Please…
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Breaking Barriers is hiring three digital storytelling workers
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 March 2012. As far as the duration of funding goes, Breaking Barriers’ Ruth Garnault says: “Part of the role of these posts, however, is to ensure the long-term viability of the organisation which will lead to the posts being extended.” Here are the recruitment details Ruth sent me: JOB ADVERTISEMENT Breaking Barriers Community Arts…