DIGITAL STORYTELLING TRAINING
In 2021, FIXT POINT Arts and Media is adapting our community-engaged oral history and performance creation process to be delivered online, facilitated by our local cultural institution partners. Together, we’ll create meaningful, community-led oral history programming while following current and future mandated closures and social distancing protocols in their own communities.
Overview
The sessions will be held over Zoom over the course of two months, consisting of classroom sessions and field work interviewing. The time commitment is roughly 16 hours of classroom time combined with 16 hours of field work over the course of two months.
Participants will:
Discover artful ways to volunteer in their community
Learn interview and recording techniques
Gain skills in community engagement through oral-history collection
Virtually collaborate with community members and The Tale of a Town to create a unique, audio-driven community creation.
Commitment:
6 week commitment
16 hours of virtual training
16 hours of field work
THIS oPPORTUNITY WILL TAKE PLACE VIRTUALLY
PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED ACCESS TO A COMPUTER & INTERNET
See training dates below
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Testimonials from Previous Workshop Participants
““I had so much in common with my first interviewee and I thought it was just a fluke how similar our experiences were. Learning that it wasn’t a fluke. This is what being in this community is – sharing these lived experiences.” ”
““I interviewed people within and close to my neighbourhood, people I would usually just say a simple ‘hi and bye’ to, but now I feel more connected to them because I know their immigration and community stories.” ”
2021 Training Dates
Schreiber
October 6th (10am - 2pm)
October 8th (10am - 2pm)
October 27th (10am - 2pm)
October 29th (10am - 2pm)
Almonte
September 22nd (10am - 2pm)
September 24th (10am - 2pm)
October 13th (10am - 2pm)
October 15th (10am - 2pm)
About The tale of a town:
The Tale of a Town – Canada is a site-specific theatre and media project developed in collaboration with The National Arts Centre of Canada that is capturing the collective community memory of our country’s main streets, one story at a time, while preserving local heritage and promoting neighbourhood culture.
Touring across Canada in our storymobile (a.k.a recording booth on wheels) we’re gathering stories in small towns and big cities alike through scheduled and impromptu interviews with independent business owners, local heroes, community stakeholders, and neighbourhood residents. These stories inspire performance installations that take place in site-specific downtown locations created in collaboration with local artists and in partnership with presenting partners from across the country. To date, we’ve interviewed over 3,500 Canadians in every province and territory.
About Fixt Point
FIXT POINT is a Toronto-based arts & media company with national reach. Our mandate is to inspire audiences and artists to imagine change, and our mission is to promote local culture and preserve local heritage through the telling of tales across multiple platforms. We endeavour to be leaders in public engagement, embedding training and outreach into our process of creation and dissemination. FIXT POINT was founded in 2006 and incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 2011
For questions, please contact dst@fixtpoint.com
This project is funded by:
Our program partners:
