Pangea Day, May 10, 2008, saw people around the world sharing stories through film. May 16 will see a further celebration of international digital storytelling for the International Day for Sharing Life Stories.
Listen! – Escuche! – Escute! – Écoute!
from January 15, 2008 Press Release:
“I agree with Muriel Rukeyser that ‘the universe is made of stories, not atoms,’ and that monumental changes are only possible when the stories people tell each other about the world change. I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically endorse the International Day for Sharing Life Stories”
- Howard Rheingold, author, journalist, professor, Stanford UniversityThe Museum of the Person International Network (Brazil, Portugal, USA and Canada) and the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA) have announced Listen! – International Day for Sharing Life Stories, an international celebration of life stories to take place on May 16th 2008. They are launching the project Website, to assist with information sharing and coordination of the campaign. The goal of the campaign is to gain broad recognition of May 16 as an annual day for sharing, listening to, and gathering the stories of people’s lives.
“Our two organizations see the movement to share life stories as a critical part of the democratic process,” states Joe Lambert, founder and director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. “As our own work has expanded around the globe from our respective countries, we have found ourselves in dialogue with colleagues who have countless different approaches and perspectives to life story, but who share the sense that this work is vital to our contemporary societies.”
“What has been lacking is a common call to celebrate all these different practices,” adds Karen Worcman, founder and director of the Museum of the Person. “Whether it is helping to collect a local oral history, encouraging new learners to share their life in writing, producing stories using analog or digital media, or exhibition of life stories online or through mobile technologies, we felt we needed a day to bring all these different practices – different roads to the same destination – together. This is what inspired us to join in this call. We want this day to be especially dedicated to celebrating and promoting life story projects that have made a difference within neighborhoods, communities, and societies as a whole.”
For more information visit the International Day for Sharing Life Stories on the Web.
The project is hosted by:
Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person)
The Center for Digital Storytelling
Sponsors include
Stories for Change
