Digital Storytelling
What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital Storytelling is a socially engaged community arts practice, rooted in personal narrative and photography. Workshops bring people together from a diverse range of backgrounds to share stories from their lived experience.
What is a Digital Story?
Digital stories are short, first-person narrative multimedia videos, illustrated using the storyteller’s own photos, video clips and other artwork.
What happens in a workshop?
In the digital storytelling workshop, participants share their own meaningful personal story, and listen to the stories of others. Trained facilitators will work with storytellers every step of the way supporting them to create their own personal video. During the workshop participants learn new skills, including writing, audio recording, photography, video editing, listening and presentation skills. Absolutely NO experience is necessary - we will teach everything needed to make a digital story, and support storytellers throughout the entire experience!
Why Digital Storytelling?
People rarely get the opportunity to share their personal story. Digital storytelling provides a unique forum to tell stories, from the storyteller’s own perspective. The process can help participants explore their identity and life experiences. Completed videos can inspire conversation on a particular issue or topic. A digital story can be an extremely useful tool for educational purposes or promoting a cause; but most of all digital stories are a wonderful way to share and value individuals’ stories and those of a community.
In a world full of fast ideas, and the pressure to move at record speed without too much thought, the StoryCentre Canada workshop allows you to slow down - slow down and listen. Really listen. To yourself, to each other. It’s about taking the time to reflect; to think about who you are and how you want to tell your story.
Our workshops are about being in community with others, making personal connections, sharing, deep listening, building relationships.
Embrace the magic that can only come from within you!
We know that you can use AI tools to quickly churn out content, but this is not about amassing likes. This is about taking the time to be with yourself and your story for a few hours, a few days, or a few weeks. Slow Down. Breathe.
