Connecting People Through Stories
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Posted by aurelia on 4 April, 2012
“It’s the usual Monday evening routine for me – standing outside the door, showing my face through the small glass window for an hour…”
A digital story produced by Chiang Peh Fern in a digital storytelling workshop conducted by DSA, Singapore, 9-11 Jan 2012.
Posted by angel on 13 March, 2012
That’s how one inmate ended his digital story. He was an athlete who was at the peak of his career and a face in Singapore’s world of sports. It took only one offense to shatter his dreams.
He lost everything but not his heart – the heart of a champion. He doesn’t know what’s next for him, but he’s not giving up the hope that there’s life after prison. All these became clearer as he went through the process of storytelling which invited him to journey into his heart.
His story and the stories of other inmates – we will remember for a long time.
The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) digital storytelling workshop showcase was for the DSA team a heart gripping way to bring 2011 to a close. It was hard to keep our eyes dry when we listened to them bare their hearts through their stories.
One inmate said, “The workshop has helped me a lot. I learned to use Audacity and MovieMaker. It also taught me to express and tell my story through a video. It is really useful because I am a shy boy and I haven’t told my parents how much I love them. But after the workshop, I did. Through a video.”
We enjoyed their great sense of humour. It was beautiful and redeeming to see how they are still able to see beyond their current situation and to hold on to hopes and dreams; and to desire to be better people.
The pilot project workshop was to explore how DSA can support SPS’ mission to help offenders rehab, renew, restart. We hope to see digital storytelling become an on-going programme to help inmates learn useful computer skills, gain confidence in writing and expressing themselves, getting in touch with their feelings, and reconnecting with their families, and integrate back to society.
“When we tell and listen to stories, we can almost feel our souls breathing fully and deeply. Our capacity to see options, to visualize possibilities, to imagine expands and we are somehow more alive.” – Michael Parent
Posted by aurelia on 12 March, 2012
“The truth is – that I don’t even remember reading children’s books growing up. I crossed half the planet and landed in a place called Buenos Aires when I was barely four years old… I was too busy struggling with a new language. I had to learn an alphabet that was as foreign to me as my name was to my new friends…Luckily, Isabel came to my life. With her, I have a second chance to read fairy tales, but best of all, I get to enter the world through her eyes…”
A digital story produced by Heajun Hong Phan in a digital storytelling workshop conducted by DSA, Singapore, 14-16 Dec 2011.
Posted by aurelia on 6 March, 2012
Every good product or business has a great story. This is an opportunity in one full day to discover your own story, the hidden power of metaphors and exploring both oral and digital techniques in the retelling of your own tale.
Session 1 /3 hours/ Johnny Gillet
The great stories passed down through time are metaphors for all human experiences. This is what makes them so compelling. Johnny Gillet revels in metaphor. He retells tales from the past, from distant lands and then weaves new myths to speak from his own life experience. Through stories, exercises, creative activities and lots of laughs, Johnny will enable participants to firstly identify their own true stories then marry them with their own natural metaphors. Introducing the ‘storyweb’, he will show how experiment with narratives and how this model can be used to strengthen retelling.
Session 2 /3 hours/ Angeline Koh and Carl Rognstad
Nothing is more satisfying and memorable than to see a story realised. This part of the workshop will introduce participants to the process of producing a one-minute video that powerfully communicate their personal story with their own voice and image/s. The workshop is a condensed version of the Premium digital storytelling workshop which can be learned at a 3-day workshop or learned by modules. Participants will have a hands on experience developing Story, Voice, Digital Skills (iMovie/Movie Maker), Images, and Design. (Please see note below on what to bring)
Showcase / Kennelists
The event will create a space to have your story appreciated and showcased by Kennel’s greater community of honest, accepting and diverse individuals.
24 March 2012. 9:30 am – 6 pm. Venue: Kennel (Union Experience), Blk 8D Dempsey Road, #03-03/04, Singapore 249672. Map to 8D Dempsey Road (free parking). Dempsey Hill Free Shuttle Service Schedule
Limited seats available. Register now! For more info, please email info@digitalstorytellingasia.com
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* iPad2 (and above) users need to purchase and pre-install iMovie App from iTunes.
** For Windows 7 users, please note that the Windows Live Movie Maker which comes as part of the pre-installed PC software is highly automated and stripped of many of the functions that is available in the older version Movie Maker. It allows little control when making your movie. Click HERE to download and install the free Windows Movie Maker 2.6 version which works on Windows 7.
Posted by aurelia on 4 March, 2012
CET Professionals (Adult Educators, Training Managers and HRD Professionals), training executives, and anyone who want to be refreshed and learn good skills and powerful ways to present your ideas – this is the workshop for you.
Digital Storytelling Asia and Institute for Adult Learning Singapore (IAL) offer this workshop that will help participants produce a 1-2 minute video to powerfully communicate a personal story. Participants typically embark on 3 different journeys in this workshop – a material journey in which they will birth a product – their personal digital story; an inner journey in which they will gain clarity and ownership of something important to them; and a community journey, in which they will find friends and allies in places not looked for.
Wednesday to Friday, 21 to 23 March 2012. 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: Institute for Adult Learning, 6/F (view map)
Normal price: $730 for Adult Education Network (AEN) members
and $875 for non-members.
Friends of Digital Storytelling Asia can enjoy a special rate of $790
which includes a AEN two-year membership.
Please contact Mavis at 65121212 at IAL to sign up as an AEN members first, after which she can assist you to register for the workshop. You can also email info @digitalstorytellingasia.com for assistance.
Limited seats available. For more info, please click Digital Storytelling for Personal and Professional Growth. To register, please click here.
DSA is a partner of
Singapore Memory Project
a national movement to
collect 5 million stories by 2015
when Singapore turns 50
