My friends Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling, Daniel Meadows of Capture Wales and Karen Worcman of Brazil’s Museum of the Person (she’s on Ourmedia’s Board of Advisors) are all attending the three-day International Digital Storytelling Conference, which begins today in Melbourne, Australia. Writes Joe:
As a follow-up to the 2003 BBC Digital Storytelling Conference, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is hosting a gathering to “investigate the power of personal narrative as a way to explore issues of social justice, community building and social memory.” Speakers from Latin America, Asia, Europe, North America and the Asian Pacific region will share their work and experiences in the field of narrative and new media. John O’Neal, civil rights activist, theater performer, and writer, will give the keynote address. As a long time resident of New Orleans, he will talk about the role of artists as citizens, both from a historical and broad social perspective, as well as in light of the Katrina disaster and his community. After the conference, Amy Hill will lead a workshop for survivors of violence, related to her work with Silence Speaks, and Joe will co-lead a master’s workshop with ACMI’s Helen Simondson.
Wish I could be there. Maybe next year.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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