Amy Hill, Community Projects Director for the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California, ran a 3-day workshop with a group of grade-7 students from Eikendal Primary School in Cape Town. The seven students used their work-in-progress REPSSI hero books as content for their 2-minute movies. Jonathan Morgan of REPSSI provided psychosocial support during the workshop. He developed hero booking as an art-based narrative therapy tool four years ago.
Amy described the workshop as “a resounding success, better than we could have hoped for! The students were amazingly generous with their stories.”
Amy briefing the students after editing their work till the early hours of Saturday morning.
Beverley, Jonathan and students.
Amy with the students and their teacher, Drucilla.
Before creating a final DVD with stories that can be shown broadly to the public and on the Web, issues around privacy and confidentiality will need to be addressed. The students need to be comfortable that their work is made public and the stories need to be edited to remove any sensitive topics that can make the students vulnerable.
Gail Ahrends, the Khanya project manager gave the following thanks to:
- “The principal and staff from Eikendal Primary – selection of learners and arranging lunch.”
- “Scottsville Primary – availing premises and Mr Yohn for his dedication and assistance.”
- “All the Khanya staff – Estelle Malan, Beverley Job- Beziek, Neal Marthinus, Mark Carolissen and Chas Ahrends – availing themselves over after hours and over the weekend to be of assistance.”
- “Jonathan Morgan for assistance and transporting of Amy.”
- “Amy Hill for sacrificing her time to assist the learners in our country, we wish her success and trust that this is only the start of better things to come.”
- “Finally a big thank you to Drusilla [the student’s teacher]. I have not seen such dedication in a long time, please be assured that these kinds of sacrifices do not go unnoticed.”
Personally I would like to thank Gail for her hard work in organizing the event, and Kobus van Wyk, program manager of Khanya, for support and allowing the workshop to happen. May this be the beginning of many more digital storytelling workshops indeed!
As always, a big thank you to REPSSI for their support and continued effort to provide psychosocial support through hero booking.
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