Dates for your diary
GEECS 2012 Lecture Series
We are able to confirm the following dates for the Lecture Series in 2012. Details to date are included below and more will follow.
Wednesday 4 April 2012
Topic: South Asian Connections – Cultural Context in Storytelling
Speaker: Peter Chand
In this informal lecture, British Punjabi Storyteller Peter Chand will be discussing some of the processes and techniques he has employed within his work. Besides collecting stories in India, and translating them into English from Punjabi and Hindi, he has also recently been commissioned to create a piece of work based on South Asian variations of well-known Grimm Stories. Peter will be sharing some of his research techniques and also focusing on the cultural context of these Indian stories, and highlighting what they reveal from a particular cultural viewpoint.
www.chandstory.com
Wednesday. 25 April 2012
Speaker - Dr. Nick Owen, Writer, Teacher, Academic Researcher and Director of Aspire Trust, will talk about assessment and dissemination of findings through alternative reporting. Whether it’s looking at storytelling, community attitudes, memories, oral history or arts-education work (residencies, student’s creativity, etc.), the use of arts as a reporting/recording tool (e.g., opera to present reports of an oral history of a school community, twittering events, etc.)
Thursday 17 May 2012
Speaker: Anthony Nanson of Fire Springs / Wordsmith Communication.
Topic: Ecological Enchantment of a Local Landscape
The sixth Annual GEECS Symposium will be held on 8 – 9 June 2012
Confirmed Speakers
• Darryl Jones, Head of English, Trinity College Dublin, provocation on Stoker, gothic fiction, connections to Irish culture/tradition
• Sioned Davies, lecturer, will talk about Charlotte Guest (first to translate Mabinogion into English, it’s her bicentenary)
DS7 – Digital Storytelling Festival
Thursday 7 June 2012
The George Ewart Evans Centre is very pleased to be hosting this year’s annual Digital Storytelling Festival on Thursday 7th June. It will be held at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, but all bookings will be administered by us at the Centre. Watch this place for further details, or if you have any enquiries please contact Karen Lewis klewis@glam.ac.uk
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