DS7 Digital Storytelling Festival (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 7th June 2012)

The seventh anniversary of the Digital Storytelling Festival in Wales promises to inspire, encourage and showcase exciting projects across a wide spectrum of digital storytelling activity. This year it is hosted by the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling (University of Glamorgan) and will be held at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. Whether your interest is in the arts, lifelong learning, community or heritage, this is your opportunity to share experiences, explore new creative ideas and look at examples of approaches to digital storytelling in the UK, Europe and worldwide.DS7 presents a jam packed day of inspirational speakers and sessions on a wide range of topics within the field and offers an exciting opportunity to network with the national and international digital storytelling community.

Fee: £40, including refreshments and lunch plus a fun filled evening of live stories and music

Keep posted to the DS7 blog for more information and sessions as they are confirmed:http://ds7festival.wordpress.com/

For information about booking please email DS7@glam.ac.uk

A flavour of what’s on offer:Cowbird (Annie Correal):

Cowbird is a community of storytellers, focused on a deeper, longer-lasting, more personal kind of storytelling than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the Web.

Annie manages content and a growing community of authors on Cowbird and she will talk about the project and how she left a job as an old-fashioned reporter to cultivate this community of storytellers from around the world. Cowbird’s short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events.

Historypin (Natasha Armstrong):

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together from across different generations, cultures and places, around the history of their families and neighbourhoods, increasing contact and building stronger communities.As Community Manager, Natasha leads Historypin’s work with schools, communities and volunteers, taking participation directly into neighbourhoods to deliver the inter-generational and community aims of Historypin and to create sustainable and scalable models of delivery. Natasha spent 5 years teaching history in inner city London schools before moving into the charity sector where she has been managing and developing education and community projects including inter-generational projects and digital multi-media projects ever since.

Center for Digital Storytelling (Joe Lambert): Center for Digital Storytelling

Joe founded the Center for Digital Storytelling (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994, with wife Nina Mullen and colleague Dana Atchley. Together they developed a unique computer training and arts program that today is known as the Standard Digital Storytelling Workshop. This process grew out of Joe's long running collaboration with Dana on the solo theatrical multimedia work, Next Exit. Since then, Joe has travelled the world to spread the practice of digital storytelling and has authored and produced curricula in many contexts, including the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, the principle manual for the workshop process, and Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community.

There will be also be sessions from DeTales (Steve Bellis presents a collaborative European project),

Tower of London Stories (Alyson Fielding), Project ASPECT (stories of climate change) and much

more……..

To book your place at DS7 please email: DS7@glam.ac.uk to request a booking form and payment details. If you should require any further information please contact Dawn Matthews dematthe@glam.ac.uk or call 44 (0)1443 668547

Os ydych angen fersiwn Gymraeg o'r ddogfen hon, cysylltwch â DS7@glam.ac.uk

DS7 is organised by the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling (University of Glamorgan). With support from Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Chapter Arts Centre and Arts Council for Wales

DTellers Road Show is pleased to be part of DS7