Have a look at the people across the UK who have been sharing their stories on television, on radio and on the websites below. ONLINE Your Place & Mine BBC Radio Ulster programme, which reflects the mosaic of life in Northern Ireland. A large proportion of the stories featured on its interactive website are contributed by members of the public, do not relate to items on the programme and can be published at any time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/ Capture Wales - BBC Wales digital storytelling project http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/capturewales/ Video Nation - BBC Wales project capturing your views and experiences on camera and online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/galleries/pages/videonation.shtml Island Blogging Scottish islanders write their own blogs, which involves telling stories, sharing photos and reporting news. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/islandblogging/ Your news, your pictures If an event is unfolding before your eyes and you capture it on a camera or mobile phone, either as a photograph or video, then you could send it to BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2780295.stm Get Writing BBC NI website that showcases local writers poetry or short stories. Runs competition offering entrants the chance to get their short story broadcast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ learning/getwritingni/
Storyteller - Study Ireland There have always been storytellers... http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ schools/11_16/storyteller/index.shtml
Poetry - Study Ireland Study Ireland features a wide range of contemporary poetic voices that explore five themes to give students a clear idea of how and why poems are written. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ northernireland/schools/11_16/poetry/index.shtml TELEVISION Super 8 Stories BBC Northern Ireland’s popular television series featuring home movie footage all shot by local people, which forms a 'people's archive' of life in Northern Ireland across the decades. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/super8stories/ RADIO Days Like This BBC Radio Ulster programme, which allows individuals to share a day that mattered to them the most or an experience which moved and affected them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/dayslikethis/
My Story Non-fiction stories written by members of the public, which were broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster. A selection of the stories was published in a book. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/mystory/
TRAINING: BBC Northern Ireland Community Bus Find out about workshops in the community ran across Northern Ireland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/communitybus/community/index.shtml CSV (Community Service Volunteers) This organisation is the UK's largest volunteering and training charity. It aims to involve young people aged 16-35 in voluntary service in the UK, to enrich the lives of volunteers and those they help and to generate social change. http://www.csv.org.uk
RELATED SITES:
UK & Ireland
BBC World Service - How to Write
BBC Radio - Telling Lives
BBC New Talent - Writing BBC Blast - Writing
Poetry Ireland
4Talent Northern Ireland
Centre for English Cultural Tradition and language
Festival at the Edge, Shropshire, (England)
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Centre for Digital Storytelling
Society for Storytelling
Beyond the Border St. Donats (Wales)
Digital Storytelling Photobus
North America Post Secret
USA National Storytelling Network
Storytellers of Canada Europe
Tales of Graz (Austria)
European Wonder Tale Society
La Maison du Conte (France)
Information on German Storytelling Other
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
National Literacy Trust
National Association of Writers in Education
Story Arts
The Oral History Society
MyGroupNI
BBC RAW
Community NI
North West Lifelong Learning Association (NWLLA)
Teac Mallon - Slieve Guillion Creative Arts Centre
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