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Preparations begin for DS5 – The only event for practitioners in the UK
Saturday, October 31st, 2009DS4 – Aberystwyth
Monday, April 20th, 2009It’s time to enrol for the Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth. The date for this year is 17th June 2009 at the Arts Centre on the campus of the University of Wales. It’s always good value and if you’re travelling you can stay overnight on the campus for a very reasonable rate.
There’s more information here
Sadly I can’t be there this year as I’m running a workshop in Dorset on that date.
No – Wi Fi, t-mobile broadband or live blogging
Friday, June 6th, 2008Here on the west coast of Wales at the UKs only digital storytelling festival I have connection to the outside world only through my iPhone. Access to the university’s wifi network is denied to all but staff and students, t-mobile supplies no signal to my broadband 3g dongle and the nearest public wifi point is half an hour’s walk away. So my intention of live blogging events here is thwarted. So today we’ll continue to discuss the glorious possibility offered by connectivity, web 2.98, broadband, etc etc and it will remain theory only until I escape on the 7.27 train out of town tomorrow morning. I’ll just have to wait till then to blog from the train and bring these pages up to date on the journey home.
In the mean time I’ll continue to enjoy this festival of ideas and the good company of the delegates.
What a long journey
Thursday, June 5th, 2008I am in Aberystwyth after a train journey that was late and then became a coach tour. Regulars on the line from Shrewsbury to the coast didn’t seem to be suprised when the train terminated several stations before the destination.
The coach journey was ultimately more enjoyable. We were closer to the villages and each other too. I had met up with my friend Diane from Arizona on the way and then we met some others on their way to DS3.
By the time we reached Aberystwyth it was so late we stopped in town to eat before going up the hill to the campus. I had a call from Mary Ann who had arranged to meet me over a coffee for chat. After checking in to our rooms I met Mark, a performance poet from Belfast. He is helping 12 year olds with digital storytelling using Movie Maker “because they all have it at home”.
So the community is here and I suppose I’ll make some new friends tomorrow.
I’m writing this on my iPhone because there’s no t-mobile signal up here for my broadband dongle. I hope to find some wireless access tomorrow. Time to sleep.
Going West
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Carers stories in Huddersfield, memories of The Sixties in York. Just two of the workshops that have kept me busy in the past month. I’ve also written an article about digital storytelling for a writers magazine called Lapidus and now I’m on my way to Aberystwyth for DS3.
I will be blogging from the festival so expect a some new entries here over the next few days. It’s good to get away to listen to what other storytelling practitioners are developing in the digital world and to reflect on my own business. I’ll also be meeting friends and colleagues from previous events and the BBC.
From York it’s a long train journey to West Wales, via Manchester and Shrewsbury. I arrive in Aberystwyth at about 7.30 this evening if all the trains make their connections. So don’t expect too much until tomorrow when the event gets going.
DS3 Digital Storytelling Festival – Wales
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Details have just been posted for the third Digital Storytelling Festival – DS3 – at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in West Wales. 5/6th June 2008
This is the main festival in the UK and it’s well worth booking. It’s cheap too. I’ll be there along with many of my former BBC colleagues from Capture Wales. If you have any interest in Digital Storytelling you’ll find lots of inspiration, resources and advice. I understand that Thursday focuses on the academic work going on around digital storytelling whilst Friday is more about the practical work and the projects that are running in Wales.
The Arts Centre is on the campus of Aberystwyth University. If you’re going the cheapest and nearest place to stay is on campus. Book through the Conference Office.
Aberth Digital Storytelling
Monday, April 14th, 2008This is the blog of Gareth Morlais. Gareth was the guy who showed me my first Digital Story back in 2001. It was made in one of the pilot workshops of the BBC Capture Wales project, which has sadly just closed it’s programme.
In this blog you will find an introduction to the BBC Wales Guide to Digital Storytelling. It contains the distilled wisdom of several years experience of running workshops across Wales.
