Crossroads Keynote at BCTF’s Social Justice Summer Camp!
Crossroads team members Deblekha, Neffy, and Nova engaged educators from around the province at the BCTF’s Social Justice Educators Conference held at Evan’s Lake in early May. Delivered on a…
Designing Digital Storytelling Programs
During our initial research interviews, mentors and facilitators shared what they’d learned about Community Digital Storytelling (CDS), based on their years of experience.
How Mentors Support Community Co-Creation
Community Digital Storytelling grows out of our experiences in the world, shared as stories. Our strategy, as mentors developing new approaches to storytelling, is to create and hold open a receptive and welcoming space.
Healing In and For Communities Through Community Digital Storytelling
Doing this work in community (when safer spaces are created and held) tends to accelerate the process of individual healing, but it also activates the process of community healing—and can help ‘bring…
Healing power of community digital storytelling
Trauma, illness and grief create frightening forests of pain, with unfamiliar roads? In such a context, listening to stories suggests myriad pathways out of dark forests.”Dr. SunWolf“Folks who join a…
Creating and Holding Safe Spaces for Stories to Emerge
Brave stories require safe and supportive spaces for them to emerge into. In one on one, or smaller story-settings, creating a comfortable and safe space is primarily about the emotional…
Emergence of Community Digital Storytelling (in this region and beyond)
WHAT is Community Digital Storytelling? Participatory media, video ethnography, community-based production, place-based storytelling, community-located filmmaking, these are but a few of the many phrases that have been used over the…