It's been a busy month this month that's seen us working with a variety of different groups and setting up projects for the next couple of months.Our aim of encouraging sustainability seems to be having an impact on the ground and we're looking forward to revisiting some of the projects in a few months to see how things are developing.
This Monday (March 29th) is the screening of seven films made by members and some staff as part of the Learning through the Outdoors project based in Merthyr.
I'm really excited about this as I've not seen all of the stories myself yet. There seems to be a real enthusiasm within this group to carry the work forward and continue to develop digital storytelling as part of the activities with members of the group facilitating DS workshops.
We've offered to be on hand to support but I think they'll be fine, armed with the DS freeware we've recommended in order to run and develop workshops. We wish them all the best moving forward and look forward to coming back to the Gurnos soon.
Another series of workshops we have been involved with were run in the Tri yn Un area of the Cynon Valley. We got a great story out of this that shows how unexpected and unpredictable these workshops can be. I'm in the process of posting this film here so it should be up within the next week or so.
The participant concerned has also expressed a keen interest in taking the project further and we are aiming to support her in achieving this within the local community. We look forward to revisiting this project again soon.
I'd just like to express our thanks at GEECS to all the participants who have given so much and expressed such interest in trying to make digital storytelling in the community a sustainable activity. We'll do our best to support it and look forward to many more amazing stories form people who are often unaware that they carry these stories within them.
More stories coming soon.
