Stories for Success were gathered and created in two Tyneside workshops in early 2018. Storytellers at Chilli Studios and the Linskill Centre engaged in six workshop dates to learn to tell digital stories using their own pictures and narrative and the creative potential of an Apple iPad. Each workshop concluded with the World Premiere showing […]
Derwenthorpe Stories
May 26, 2016 by
Derwenthorpe is a new housing development on the edge of York. The plans were controversial. The houses are environmentally advanced but the site was contested by some people living in more established communities nearby. Once the disputes were settled and the houses being occupied the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust organised community events to build bridges. […]
Judges of Character
June 13, 2013 by
This is the theme for the Riding Lights Summer Theatre School this year. I will again be delivering a course called Tall Stories. You'll learn how use a personal narrative to create a digital performance that will be presented to an audience by the end of the week. We will explore storytelling, digital media, writing […]
See digistories at Illuminating York
October 30, 2012 by
The Armed Forces Community Presents … Workshops are complete and the stories are finding their way onto the York Stories 2012 website. But the highlight of this project – apart from the stories themselves of course – is that five of the digital stories will be shown on a big screen in St Helen’s Square […]
Culture Shock – Award Winner
March 29, 2011 by
Culture Shock has won the Renaissance North East Museum Award in the Journal Culture Awards. Congratulations to all involved
Past Caring
January 20, 2011 by
Not a reference to a bout of indifference but the title of a workshop project with folk.us in Devon where people who are carers tell their story, usually after the person they have cared for has died.
Culture Shock Festival
October 21, 2010 by
A big screen, fireworks and secret projections mark this extravaganza of Digital Stories created in Culture Shock workshops across the North East from October 23rd to November 7th 2010.
Vote for Culture Shock
September 16, 2010 by
The digital storytelling project, Culture Shock, has been nominated for an award. The judges have said some really positive things about the value of digital storytelling. They deserve your vote
Singapore Keynote
September 14, 2010 by
I was invited to deliver the keynote address to the 2nd Asian Digital Storytelling Congress in Singapore on Sept 4th 2010.
This is the text of my presentation
