Communities 2.0
The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling is proud to be a partner in the Wales Assembly Government’s Communities 2.0 programme. Communities 2.0 aims to tackle digital exclusion in the Convergence areas of Wales. For more information click here.
The centre aims to become a centre of excellence in Digital Storytelling and Participatory Media within the Communities 2.0 partnership. Digital exclusion is an issue in many communities across Wales and the centre aims to help tackle these issues through hands on community based workshops around narrative and storytelling in a digital format through digital photography, audio recording, digital video editing and DVD production.
Our commitment is to encourage and enable community groups to apply these principles and approaches to wide range of issues that are both sustainable and fit for purpose.
Meet the Team
Karen Lewis
Project Leader Communities 2.0
Karen started her career as a teacher of English, Drama and Media before moving into the voluntary sector, where she worked as a Senior Practitioner for Barnardos and Training and Communications Manager for the Special Needs Advisory Project (Wales). She spent some time as a freelance trainer and consultant, undertaking work for a range of organisations including Save the Children, Torfaen Council, Clybiau Plant Cymru, Cardiff Council and Children in Wales.
Karen then joined the BBC in 1999, where she stayed for ten years. During this period she worked in radio, television and new media and was the founder producer of the Bafta Cymru award-winning digital storytelling project, Capture Wales. Her final position at BBC Wales was as Partnerships Manager, with responsibility for relationships with external organisations and BBC Wales’ charities broadcasts.
Karen joined WIHSC in January 2009, to lead the development of StoryWorks, which has been established to support public service organisations interested in using people’s stories to improve what they do.
Chris Morgan (Mog)
Outreach Worker Communities 2.0
“My background is in digital storytelling and community based multi media work.
“I have worked with a wide variety of community groups both here in Wales and in Europe on projects that have ranged from music and film making to animation and web design.
Throughout my experiences and wide travels with digital storytelling, I feel the essential ingredient is ownership; ownership for the storyteller. The fact that this sense of ownership comes with a great deal of fun, laughs, tears and emotion for the listeners, both at the workshops and a wider audience, is a massive bonus for all involved.
“Having worked for many years in variety of media, I still find the power of that personal narrative incredibly engaging and moving and I hope that I can continue to participate and listen to the stories that walk by in human form every day.”
Angharad Dalton
Outreach Worker Communities 2.0
An International Politics graduate of the University of Wales Aberystwyth, Angharad is an environmental communications specialist having worked as a political monitor and analyst for public affairs agency StrataMatrix, a Project Manager for Sustainable Wales and then as a Development Officer with Science Shops Wales.
A fluent Welsh speaker, Angharad has a keen interest in Welsh politics and current affairs, animal rights, women’s issues and of course sustainability. Angharad engages with a number of groups and organisations outside her professional work and is currently an active member ARK, a social design group based in Cardiff, a volunteer with SUSSED and Sustainable Wales and contributes to the Community Action for Climate Change Network. Angharad’s wider interests include design – especially interiors and print and pattern, IT, music and fashion. A keen dog-lover, she dotes on Siân, her rescue Corgi and much of her spare time, when not volunteering, is taken with the sustainable renovation of her Cardiff-based victorian flat.
You can read about our outreach workers activities on their blog.
Recently our communities 2.0 Outreach Workers Mog and Angharad have run a workshop with United Welsh Housing Association tenants. Click
here to read an article about the experience by the workshop participants.
