Story Work for Communities and Higher Education
In its first time in Latin America, the 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference will take place in Belém, Brazil, November 6 to 8, 2025. Hosted by the Museu da Pessoa, Please check back soon. More information will be coming.
The 1st International Digital Storytelling Festival will be held in Zakynthos, Greece September 27-29. Information on the festival is here: https://dstfestival.org/ We hope to see the wide range of story work happening at UMBC represented at the festival. The UMBC Digital Stories Working Group will sponsor a block of submissions (25-30 stories) and cover the … Read more
In June 2023, the 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference (DST 2023) was held in the Baltimore/Washington DC region. DST 2023: Radical Listening: Story Work for a Just Future explored how story work can help strengthen our communities and build understanding across divides. The conference was organized by Loughborough University (UK), Montgomery College (US), Patient Voices (UK), … Read more
Community Leadership Digital Storytelling Class 2023: Students in UMBC’s MPS in Community Leadership program, alongside community members who registered for the course, participated in a 3-day digital storytelling intensive in January 2023. These are their stories!
In 2023, the 11th International Digital Storytelling Conference will be held in the Washington, D.C. region of the United States. Local hosts include the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); Montgomery College (MC); and the Smithsonian Institution (SI). The three day-long conference features three uniquely different experiences. Every day is special; you won’t want to miss a … Read more
The 10th International Digital Storytelling Conference was held on June 20-22 at Loughborough University. For more information visit DST2022.org
During the Spring semester of 2021, UMBC’s Shriver Center hosted a digital storytelling workshop with some of our community partners. While everyone was still working virtually, this allowed us to connect with our community partners and to offer a service to the partners who typically would have hosted Shriver Center Service-Learning and Community Engagement students. … Read more
On June 21-22, an online 26-hour Digital Storytelling ‘marathon’ was held, following the sun across different time zones. All the presenters of the postponed DST2020 event were invited to take part in the online conference and present the paper that they were due to present back in March 2020. Recorded conference sessions and additional materials from … Read more
In September of 2020, UMBC’s Camee Maddox-Wingfield, assistant professor of anthropology, wanted to introduce her Anthropology 211 students to the process of digital storytelling and the tools of the Smithsonian Learning Lab. She reached out to Sarah Jewett who had just launched a new digital storytelling collaboration with the Montgomery College (MC) Digital Storytelling Internship … Read more
