Community Training and Education: TWM currently acts as a clearinghouse and training hub for information and relevant community-based curriculum around our new media production skill sets: digital video, the Web, graphic design, sound engineering and animation. Our work in this area includes support for the community digital storytelling movement through a series of national and regional community digital storytelling initiatives. These include Tell It Like It is: a national youth digital storytelling workshop and festival co-sponsored by Active Element foundation; We are Not the Enemy: a regional community digital storytelling initiative designed to give voice to South Asian and West Asian community perspectives about organizing in their communities, the War on Terror, and racist profiling by government institutions like the INS. The stories produced in these workshops will be linked to larger advocacy campaigns aimed at promoting racial harmony and ending hate attacks against these groups. Silence Speaks, a cathartic experience which guides violence survivors through the digital storytelling process to help them connect personal experiences of survivorship to systemic sources of violence and oppression to then move from healing to action. And finally StoryLink 1.0, is an online grassroots initiative that provides the infrastructure for individuals and communities to create, share, and network through the use of digital stories. StoryLink 1.0 provides support for all phases of story development, archival space for the storytellers’ source material, and a dynamic, online database in which users can connect digital stories, share personal reflections, and exchange community outreach strategies. Storylink is being developed in conjunction with the Center for Reflective Community Practice at MIT, and Invent Media.
For more information please contact our Community Training and Education coordinator Rima Añosa: rima@cultureisaweapon.org.
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