Global Digital Story Festival – Where I Find Strength
“In 1348 a party of wealthy young patricians take refuge from the plague that is raging in the city in a villa outside Florence.
To pass the time, they tell each other stories…”
(Cover copy. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Penguin Classics, 1972)
As a creative response to the postponement of the 9th International Digital Storytelling Conference (DST2020), the conference organizers are initiating a project we call the “Digital Decameron.” In Boccaccio’s original, the characters told ten stories a day for ten days. In our version, we will feature ten stories a week for ten weeks beginning on March 30, the original planned start of DST2020.
The Digital Decameron – Week Ten
This week curated by: Bill Shewbridge – Media & Communication Studies, New Media Studio, UMBC Every year, UMBC students work on a variety of media production projects on campus and…
The Digital Decameron – Week Nine
This week we feature stories submitted by the group: Cristina Blendea – VR Stories from Unga Berättar – Stockholm, Sweden This VR experience is part of a project where Unga…
The Digital Decameron – Week Eight
This week curated by: Michael Meimaris – Professor Emeritus of New Technologies in Media, Communication and Education, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Evika Karamagioli…
The Digital Decameron – Week Seven
This week curated by: Bill Shewbridge – UMBC Media & Communication Studies, New Media Studio For over a decade we have used digital storytelling at UMBC in many ways on…
The Digital Decameron – Week Six
This week curated by: Tania Lizarazo – Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication; Global Studies Program, UMBC How we find ourselves As borders closed and physical…
The Digital Decameron – Week Five
This week curated by: Sara Bachman Ducey, Chair of Integrative Studies and Paul Peck Humanities Institute Director at Montgomery College Jamie Gillan, Associate Professor of English and Reading and Collaborative…
The Digital Decameron – Week Four
This week curated by: Pip Hardy & Tony Sumner – Patient Voices, UK At the Patient Voices Programme we’ve helped many people create stories of strength and resolve over the…
The Digital Decameron – Week Three
This week curated by: Mike Wilson and Antonia Liguori – Loughborough University, UK This playlist includes some examples of digital stories created during a variety of research projects led by…
The Digital Decameron – Week Two
This week curated by: Charlotte Kenniston – UMBC Shriver Center Peaceworker Program Two weeks ago, the US Peace Corps made the unprecedented decision to immediately evacuate all 7,000+ volunteers from their…
The Digital Decameron – Week One
Grete Jamissen Norway Many things give me strength in these strange days, not least all the creative examples of the Norwegian «dugnad» where people do their best to keep their…
We welcome your submissions.
We are inviting those who want to create new digital stories to do so, or find one that has inspired you, or look for one, as you might find on the StoryCenter youtube channel, that you find particularly powerful.
There are no particular rules; it could be a new story or a previously created one; it could be a direct response to the current situation, or simply a story that celebrates humanity in all its imperfection; it could be a personal story, or any story you would like to tell in the circumstances. A length of less that five minutes is suggested.
Upload your new story to youtube.com, or find a digital story and copy the URL, and send the link to: digitalstories@umbc.edu. If you are uploading a new story, make sure you add your description as part of your upload process on youtube.com
Send your stories to digitalstories@umbc.edu
We hope to grow the collection and keep it available here. Submissions will remain open indefinitely.
“The Digital Decameron” and the 9th International Digital Storytelling Conference (DST2020) are organized collaboratively by Loughborough University (UK), StoryCenter (US), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (US), SCLDA – Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (US), Montgomery College (US), Patient Voices (UK)