Cultural documentation

Big Stories, Small Towns

January 10, 2010
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Big Stories, Small Towns

On the theme of documentary made in close collaboration with  communities check out the Big Stories, Small Towns project that happened in Port Augusta, South Australia.  Two experienced film makers lived and worked in Port Augusta for several months in 2008, producing a series of films about community stories. The material is only available online...

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Challenge for Change and NFB Filmmaker in Residence Program

January 8, 2010
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Challenge for Change and NFB Filmmaker in Residence Program

One of the projects that broke new ground for movements in participatory & social-change film-making was the Challenge for Change program. Created by the Canadian National Film Board in 1967, it ran until 1980 and resulted in over 140 films being made as collaborations between filmmakers and Canadian communities. The Challenge for Change program...

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Ethnography through Art

December 6, 2009
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Ethnography through Art

December ’09 brings to fruition two exhibitions about the interesections of ethnographic and art making practices. In Philidelphia USA, Ethnographic Terminalia opens on December 4th at the Metafactory, and on the other side of the Pacific ocean Interventions – experiments between art and ethnography is being held from 9 to 11 December at Macquarie University...

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Documenting the New Orleans Now

December 6, 2009
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Documenting the New Orleans Now

This coming Thursday (December 10th 2009) in the Casino Building in City Park, New Orleans, the Neighborhood Story Project will be launching 4 new books written by students (and one recent graduate) of John McDonogh Senior High School.  These books have been 2 1/2 years in the making and tell the stories of New...

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The Neighborhood Story Project

November 5, 2009
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The Neighborhood Story Project

If you don’t yet know about the Neighborhood Story Project (NSP) – then this blog post is for you. Based in New Orleans Lousianna, NSP is a project at the intersection of education, collaborative anthropology,  community development and the making of locally relevant literature. Their own self-description is: “through writing, interviews, and photograph, neighborhood...

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Interesting stuff in Africa

October 15, 2009
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Interesting stuff in Africa

All sorts of interesting collaborative art/social change/community doco work has been going on in various parts of Africa for many years – I recall several years ago at the first 2 Fires Conference in Braidwood NSW (Australia)  meeting a woman who had been facilitating participatory art projects with AIDS orphans with fascinating result… HIV...

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Exhibit in Side by Side Gallery – an invitation

September 18, 2009
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Exhibit in Side by Side Gallery – an invitation

We are looking for projects and artists that work in ways that bring together collaborative art and collaborative ethnography and documentary to contribute information and works from their practice to the Side by Side Gallery. See the information below…. Please distribute this information to your friends and other people and groups who might be...

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Exponer en la Galeria Side by Side – invitacìon en español

September 18, 2009
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Exponer en la Galeria Side by Side – invitacìon en español

Estamos buscando proyectos y artistas que trabajan con arte colaborativo y el etnografìa y documentaciòn para contribuir informacìon y trabajo creativo a la galeria Side by Side (Lado a Lado en español)…  Ver la informacìon abajo… Por favor distribuir este informacìon a tus amigos y cual quier persona o grupo que puenden ser interesados.

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Taller de Leñateros

August 19, 2009
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Taller de Leñateros

About 5 blocks from where I am living in San Cristobal De Las Casas is the workshop (taller in spanish) of a wonderful collective of Mayan artists who publish, write, illustrate and bind their own books, including making the paper they print on out of local and recycled materials. I visited the workshop today,...

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Hopevale / Pelican Project Digital Storytelling

April 23, 2009
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Last year I got in contact with Samia Goudie, who has been working with the Pelican Project at Hopevale doing some digital storytelling as part of the bigger Pelican project. In September 2008 the Pelican/Hopevale project ran a camp at Connies Beach near Hopevale, which included making a set of digital stories about the...

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