Story Work for Communities and Higher Education
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 members of the Storytelling Academy at Loughborough University, UK. The first 5 stories focus on environmental issues (in particular climate change), the other 5 share … Read more
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 posts in 60 countries all around the globe. Peace Corps volunteers leave homes, families, and jobs in the hopes of building cross-cultural friendships and creating … Read more
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 fellow citizens safe and help them get through various challenges. This story, made a couple of years ago, illustrates some of the things that give me … Read more
Tania Lizarazo is an Assistant Professor in Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communications at UMBC. Her research interests include digital storytelling, Latin American cultural studies, transnational feminisms and performance studies. Initially exposed to digital storytelling as a PhD student at UC Davis, Tania collaborated on “Sexualidades Campesinas” with LGBTQ members of farm working communities in … Read more
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 … Read more
Lee Boot and Denise Johnson have collaborated on several community-based projects in Baltimore in which storytelling has played a key role. Lee is director of UMBC’s Imaging Research Center and approaches story work from the perspective of a documentary filmmaker. Denise is president of the Arch Social Community Network and has extensive experience as a … Read more
Earl Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at UMBC. He uses storytelling in the classroom as a means of exploring sonic narrative and sonic advocacy. Drawing on his background as a musician, Earl adapts traditional English assignments by adding a sound component to them, transforming the work into podcasts or other forms if recorded … Read more
Kaleigh Mrowka is an Assistant Director for Residential Life at UMBC. She uses story circles and storytelling in the context of restorative practices for proactive community building and for responding to harm with residential communities on campus. When we’re talking about restorative practices in the context of storytelling and circle work, we’re really talking about … Read more
Galina Madjaroff is a faculty member in the Erickson School of Aging Studies. She began working with digital storytelling in 2012 when she integrated the Charlestown Project into her First-Year Seminar (FYS) class, “Creating Stories about Times of Change.” This course explores common themes in adolescence and aging. Students are brought together with seniors to … Read more
“Project PLASE: Our Stories” is a compilation of the stories of PLASE clients and is a collaboration between Project PLASE and the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Media and Communication Studies Program and American Studies Department. The first series of films were screened at a community event at UMBC on May 3, 2019. Additional stories … Read more