Recently published by Magabala Books is “Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon”, a collaborative ethnography of Bardi culture as enacted through the One Arm Point Community School Culture Program. One Arm Point is an Aboriginal community on the Dampier Penninsula, North West of Broome, Western Australia. The book draws on materials made out...
One thing I love about the interweb is the way that people are sharing their skills, knowledge and methods with each other to further creative practices, rather than focusing on profit… Using creative commons licenses Curiousworks has developed an online toolkit for artists, educators, media makers, community organisers with very practical step by step...
On the theme of digital stories (see previous post) I realised that I have not posted anything about some of the foundation organisations of the digital storytelling movement- for example the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkley California which has established a model of digital story telling that has been widely taken up and...
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...
Valuing arts and creative practices as pathways to learning – especially for young people – has more advocates in the USA than in Australia. My last post about the Neighborhood Story Project is an example of a project that has a partnership with a high school to engage young people in creative activity (in...
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...