{"id":971,"date":"2020-03-24T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/?p=971"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T15:42:42","slug":"the-digital-decameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/24\/the-digital-decameron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Decameron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Digital Story Festival – Where I Find Strength<\/h2>\n
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\u201cIn 1348 a party of wealthy young patricians take refuge from the plague that is raging in the city in a villa outside Florence.
\nTo pass the time, they tell each other stories\u2026\u201d
\n<\/span><\/em>(Cover copy. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Penguin Classics, 1972)<\/em><\/p>\n

As a creative response to the postponement of the 9th International Digital Storytelling Conference (<\/a>DST2020)<\/a>, the conference organizers are initiating a project we call the “Digital Decameron.”\u00a0 In Boccaccio’s original, the characters told ten stories a day for ten days.\u00a0 In our version, we will feature ten stories a week for ten weeks beginning on March 30, the original planned start of DST2020.<\/p>\n

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