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Journal articles on Digital Story Telling practices in Australia
Check out this edition of the online Journal of Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector Media and Communication (3CMedia) for some recent articles about a range of DST projects in Australia, including one on the Pelican/Hopevale Digital Story Telling Project. Papers are based on selected presentations given at the 5th annual Making Links conference, held at... »
Hopevale visit #3 – digital versions of Milbi
Checkout this little digital story, (Click here) one of a set that John Haviland edited during our visit to Hopevale. This is the story of the Night Owl, or Bunja, told in Guugu Yimmithir by Tulo Gordon and illustrated by Tulo’s paintings. Milbi is the Guugu Yimithirr word for Story. In the mid 70’s... »
Hopevale visit #2
Over the past several days we have organised Dad’s old photographs and video from Hopevale into family groups and have been visiting different families to show them what we have. In many ways these images are not all that old, others have pulled out old photos that are kept in the Lutheran Archives... »
Hopevale / Pelican Project Digital Storytelling
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... »
Visit to Hopevale QLD #1
In the ’70′s and ’80s my parents worked as anthropologists (and linguist) in the Aboriginal community of Hopevale. My father, John Haviland, first visited Hopevale in 1970, coming up as a young linguist to work on a detailed study of the Guugu Yimithirr language. Over the next two decades Mum (Leslie Devereaux) and... »
Voices from the Cape
Community Prophets has been getting a lot of press this month for their Voices from the Cape project, which worked with children in the Arukun community in Cape York Queensland in a participatory video, animation and music project in 2008. »

