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DS7 – Digital Storytelling Festival
Posted on January 18, 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.
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Communities 2.0
Posted on January 12, 2012
You will be pleased to know that the second phase of Communities 2.0 has been funded. The new phase will involve further developments in the Heads of the South Wales Valleys area. Hamish Fyfe and Karen Lewis along with Christopher Morgan and Angharad Dalton will be joined by two new staff.
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The ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD (ALMA)
Posted on January 12, 2012
We are pleased to announce that two of our nominees for The 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Jim Sells (Promotor of reading) and Liz Weir (Oral storyteller), have been shortlisted. The ALMA is the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature. The award which amounts to SEK 5 Million is awarded annually to a single recipient or to several.
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Emily Underwood
Posted on October 28, 2011
Friends of the Centre should know that Emily Underwood, our staunch associate, organiser and researcher has had to take time away to look after her daughter Lillian who is ill. We wish the family every best wish and look forward to seeing Emily back to work in the not too distant future.
Dawn Matthews has been appointed until her return, therefore please direct any Department enquiries to her at dematthe@glam.ac.uk
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Mrs Anna Camps
Posted on October 28, 2011
We welcome Mrs Anna Camps from Catalonia (Spain) as a Visiting Scholar this year. Anna will be researching the use of story-telling as a method in second language teaching. You can contact Anna through the Centre’s website.
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Participatory Arts for Well-Being: Past and Present Practices
Posted on October 28, 2011
What is Well-Being? Supported by AHRC this new project between The George Ewart Evans Centre, Birmingham and Exeter Universities seeks to understand what communities involved in participatory community arts can tell us about community well-being. The project aims to define community well-being, and to establish the complex ways in which participatory arts, past and present, have created and sustained community well-being.
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Who do you think I am?
Posted on October 28, 2011
Undertaken by the George Ewart Evans Centre, the project was supported by Wales Government and the YMCA and resulted in the presentation of short narrative films written by young homeless people in Cardiff. The stories can be accessed at: Cube Interactive
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Dick Leith (1947-2011)
Posted on September 28, 2011
It is with great sadness that the Centre has learned of the death of our friend and collaborator Dick Leith on 27th August.
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Read, Write, Excite!
Posted on September 6, 2011
This children’s literature event organised by our colleague at the University of Glamorgan Dr Jacqueline Harrett may be of interest.
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Patrick Ryan Keynote Lectures
Posted on August 23, 2011
Our Research Fellow Dr Patrick Ryan is giving two keynote lectures at the following forthcoming conferences:
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Culture Shock! Conference
Posted on August 1, 2011
Community Engagement through Digital Storytelling
Please note, this is not a George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling project so for more information please check the Culture Shock website.
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Taking the Field Website Launches
Posted on July 14, 2011
Taking the Field, a unique new project between the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of Glamorgan, has launched its own website at www.takingthefield.com.
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Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominations
Posted on June 16, 2011
We are proud to have been invited to nominate candidates for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children’s literature.
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Taking the Field on Test Match Special
Posted on June 1, 2011
Dr Emma Peplow, Research Associate on our Taking the Field project, spoke about her work collecting oral histories and stories with cricket clubs on Test Match Special last week. The interview was broadcast on Radio 4 LW, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and online on the BBC.
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Patrick Ryan Residency
Posted on April 4, 2011
We are delighted to announce that our Research Fellow Dr Patrick Ryan has been appointed Storyteller in Residence at the writer/storyteller in residence at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Canada.
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