Watch Your Audience Grow

Fijian artist Thelma Thomas will work with Islander children aged under ten in making digital stories about life in western Sydney. It’s part of a celebration of all things Pacific in Liverpool June 25-27. The Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Australian Museum and NRL have joined forces to launch the Body Pacifica festival.

"The topic of each group’s project was limited only by the need to have some bearing on Alameda’s history. … one girl, for example, has an uncle who is heavily into the annual Alameda Car Show. Another group was interested in telling an immigrant’s tale, and they chose to interview a Vietnamese refugee (in Vietnamese, with subtitles), who provided family photos and her story of escaping wartime Vietnam to the safety of Alameda." - Nancy Ely

source:
http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2010/06/monday-profile-digital-storyteller-nancy-ely/

George Johnson, founder of Tel A. Vision, will be speaking at the Digital Storytelling Special Interest Group at the International Society for Technology in Education at the Denver Convention Center on June 29th according to a story in eschoolnews.com. He’ll share stories and show examples of how vision videos have helped students from Special Ed to the Gifted and from 4th grade to High School Seniors make a transition in their lives.

Also speaking will be Bernajean Porter, author of “DigiTales – The Art of Telling Digital Stories”

" This never before published photo shows HMS Vanguard (left) and HMS Diadem (right) from HMS Anson arriving at Portland, England.

 
(Photo from the collection of Ordinary Signalman Owen Vigeon, R.N.)
© Owen Vigeon all rights reserved
Scan by Philip J. Heydon, I.S.M."

quoted from http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/battleships/vanguard_1944/hms_vanguard_1944.htm

A series of making workshops around Cardiff this spring and summer will lead to an exhibition called Keepsakes at Oriel Un Canvas, St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, from 11th September to 22nd November 2010.

"Prue Thimbleby, an artist who specialises in willow sculpture and storytelling will be running workshops at Gibbonsdown in Barry and Riverside in Cardiff. Women taking part will create their own digital stories and woven sculptures. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southeastwales/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8662000/8662809.stm

via Google News Alert

"We’ve never received any medals from the British Government."

These are the words quoted by former HMS Diadem shipmate Jack Harrison in his report in Belper News as he received a medal at the Russian Embassy for the part he played in the escort of the Russian Convoys in WWII:

http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/Wartime-honour-for-Belper-veteran.6289829.jp

"Jack (85), took part in ten trips from Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands, to Murmansk, in Russia. His ship, the HMS Diadem, was one of several flanking Merchant Navy ships which were carrying supplies to Russia.

"Sailors faced freezing temperatures, battering waves, and poor conditions for weeks on end during the trips, which were aimed at protecting the cargo ships from German submarine attacks.

"Jack said: "We just saw it as our job, but the Russians saw it as us supporting their war; like we were on their side. I never thought of it like that, but they saw it that we were helping them."

"I’m very proud to have been part of it. I’m pleased that I went but I wouldn’t want to do it again if they asked me. It was talked of as the worst job in the war."""

There’s a photo on sale on eBay this week. Here’s how the seller describes the image:
"Shows elements of a four nation combined naval exercise in the English Channel. Under the command of Admiral Sir Rhoderick R McGrigor, c in c, the British Home Fleet practised manoeuvering, bombarding, and various other forms of naval warfare. Here, the French cruiser ‘Montcalm’ passes HMS Diadem, as she steams out of the anchorage at Mounts Bay, Penzance.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HMS-DIADEM-MONTCALM-1949-ORIGINAL-PHOTOGRAPH-/350352506220

I don’t long how long after end of auction images are left to be viewed.

Some interesting photos of HMS Diadem in the 1960s after she’d been re-commissioned by the Pakistan Navy:

http://www.pakdef.info/pakmilitary/navy/gallery/didoclass.html

HMS Vanguard (left)  and HMS Diadem  (right) from HMS Anson arriving at Portland, England.

From Maritime Quest’s HMS Vanguard page.
http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/battleships/vanguard_1944/hms_vanguard_1944.htm

The Community Story Tree Project says screening digital stories on GRTV in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA had given people a better sense of their neighbors:

"From the onset, the public access channel was very much tied into a project called Community Story Tree Project. It was collecting personal digital stories …The intent behind the project wasn’t to make a TV show. The intent behind the project was to really enable and empower people in two marginalized neighborhoods" - Laurie Cirivello, GRTV, Grand Rapids, MI.

www.communitystorytree.org

(Note: if viewing the site in IE7, scroll down a little to find the content; it’s fine in Firefox 3)

Via http://mediapolicy.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/how_peg_access_tv_serves_underserved_communities-31052