A Digital Storytelling Workshop will be coming to Weyburn, as hosted by the Saskatchewan Genealogy Society.
Scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, January 23 and 24 at the Weyburn Credit Union Community Room, the Digital Storytelling Workshop will give residents a chance to create their own three- or five-minute digital story on their family history.
Digital storytelling is a creative way to tell a first-person narrative using written language, visual imagery and sound. With the facilitator’s assistance, participants will craft and record first-person narratives, collect photographs to illustrate their stories and add music.
This workshop will be facilitated by Evie Ruddy, a digital media artist, freelance journalist and creative writer.
Evie Ruddy’s short documentaries and personal essays have been broadcast nationally on CBC radio. Her print work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star and Briarpatch Magazine.
Past workshop participants have created stories about special family members, cultural traditions, family history, hobbies and more. To register this workshops, residents should call the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society.
These workshops are open to everyone — from teenagers to seniors — and previous technical experience is not required.
There is a maximum of six participants per workshop. Participants should bring with them a laptop, a set of headphones and about 10 to 15 digital or hardcopy photographs.
Residents can bring scanned images of census records or marriage certificates, for example, or images to be scanned, family memorabilia to be photographed or photographs of family memorabilia.
Instructions will be sent to each registered participant prior to the workshop to assist with preparation.
