http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/ds2/workshops.html
In May, MakingSpace will deliver three days of activity in Aberystwyth Art Centre designed to spark conversations around personal pictures and shared spaces.
For more information please get in touch. We're perfectly nice:
www.makingspace.org.uk // making_space@yahoo.co.uk // 07966900423
DROP IN OPEN DAY - Sat 10 May
All welcome!
FESTIVAL 2008
Day 1
Thursday 5 June 2008 10am – 5pm
A collaborative team of University of Glamorgan, BBC Wales and Cardiff University staff have been awarded a major research grant to examine digital storytelling, its development and how to sustain the work in Wales and elsewhere. The research examines the new creative literacies that are now being shaped and the social literacies that underpin these innovative ways of knowing the world. You can hear about what has been learned from this project, and also engage with Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic, musician with Hue and Cry and new media commentator.
Opening Address: A Public Voice - Digital storytelling, narrative and pedagogy. Prof Hamish Fyfe & Susie Prett, University of Glamorgan; Karen Lewis, Lisa Heledd, BBC Cymru Wales
Breakout Sessions: Digital Storytelling and social software; Digital storytelling and pedagogy; Sustainability of Digital Storytelling; Digital Storytelling - New forms
Afternoon Sessions: The Play Ethic - Pat Kane, Narrative Forms - Case studies with Steve Bellis & Tony Pugh, Yale College Wrexham,
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Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/
Based in Berkeley, California. Pioneers of digital storytelling.
Cipolwg ar Gymru
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/cipolwgargymru/
Welsh-language digital stories - sister site to Capture Wales.
Creative Narrations
http://www.creativenarrations.net/site/storybook/
A large selection of digital stories. This American website is pioneering and the stories are in QuickTime format. Personal and emotional, covering a range of topics, from motherhood through softball to church.
CSV's Volunteer Britain
http://www.csv.or.uk/volunteerbritain/
A project that's looking for digital story submissions from people in Britain who've volunteered. Selected entries will be shown on TV and at cinemas. Deadline for entry 16 September 2005.
digitalbridge
http://www.digitalbridge.nu
Nordic digital storytelling project. Pages and stories in the Swedish language.
Digital Storytelling Association
http://www.dsaweb.org/
This new organisation aims to encourage dialogue and collaboration between digital storytellers around the world.
The Fray
http://www.fray.com/
Criminal, Hope, Work, Drugs - those are the categories. The stories are very powerful and range from personal, emotional to humorous.
Digital Griot
http://www.digiclub.org/dg/stories.html
African-American stories.
Digital Storytelling Tutorial
www.photobus.co.uk/dstory_01.html
From start to finish, Daniel Meadows guides you through the process of making your own digital story with this new on-line tutorial. Click on 'Digital Storytelling Tutorial'. There are guides to scripting, working in the video timeline and playing your project out to master tape. You can also watch some of Daniel Meadows' digital stories here.
Dreamtime
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/storylist.htm
Old stories from Australia, mainly narrated straight to camera.
Journale
http://www.journale.com/
Firsthand accounts of American stories in Flash, QuickTime, Shockwave and other formats. Click on the Video and Media Lab links for movies. Interesting range of stories: from one by a collector of postcards depicting lynchings and several by those who escaped from the Twin Towers on September 11.
Next Exit
http://www.nextexit.com/drivein/driveinframeset.html
The late Dana Atchley was one of the pioneers of digital storytelling. You can watch his movies here in the digital drive-in.
Second Story
http://www.secondstory.com/
A commercial web design company that has designed interactive narratives for clients like museums, TV companies and organisations.
Schooltv
http://www.schooltv.nl/vertellen/
The Schooltv zone of Dutch network Teleac/NOT has a digital storytelling project.
Silence Speaks
http://www.silencespeaks.org/stories.html
Survivors of violence and abuse at home tell their own stories on this very moving site.
