BIddeford Additional Resources

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Studies on the Impact of Storytelling on Community Planning:

Capturing Community Memory with Oral History and New Media

Relying on Ourselves, The Spirit of Rural Community Development by Nelda K. Pearson: a section on the role of storytelling in community development in rural Appalachia

STORIES

Some particulary useful examples

Kodja Place Stories, Australia

Glasgow Community Event: Imagining the Future of the City

MAP Memory and Place, Melbourne Australian ACMI

Kids Making Movies about Local Nature Issues

Skohegan Revitalization Project: schools and community partnering to engage youth in revitalization efforts

The PlaceMeant Project in Ukiah: mapping local stories and collaborating with a local theater company

Saving the Sierra: stories about the local

The Organic City Project: capturing people's stories of downtown Oakland, California

Meadowlark Institute creates stories to use as springboards to community dialogues and planning for the future

Expressions of the Land: a project to research local views on land-use

Holding Up the Memories by Jonathan Young, a project to capture the voices of Kentucky

Common Ground: story capturing two sides of rural development

Alberta Community Walk

Chris Maser True Community is Founded on a Sense of Place, History and Trust

Community Arts Projects:http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2009/02/social_imaginat.ph

Write around the Murray Festival, an Annual Community Storytelling Festival in Australia

VOICES: Storytelling Project for Low-Income Youth in Arizona

Examples from Heart & Soul Communities

Resources from Orton: Why Storytelling and Storytelling Planning

Community Almanac

STORIES BY MEDIA TYPE

Written Stories

Why Use Written Stories

Easy to gather--people can do they on their own

Accessible to many

Letters-to-self-to-town-to-world can deepen bonds with community

Easy to extract meaning and information

Honors traditions of stories

Publishing and Sharing

Community Newsletter or Special Storytelling Newsletter

Local newspapers

Website/blog/wiki: Example from Placeography

Community Almanac

Forum: Example from Highlands Forum

Community displays: bulletin boards, etc.

Contests: Calendar stories, essays, postcard

Self-published books: lulu, scrapblog and others

In combination with visual media, Example from Stories of the Land

Public readings

Letters to the Town Stories

AUDIO STORIES

Reasons to Make Audio Stories

The equipment is relatively inexpensive and easy to use. You just need to practice a little and get comfortable with it.
A microphone is less intrusive than a video camera. People can be more natural – more themselves n the company of a good interviewer or group.
Audio forces the teller/catcher to be creative and pay attention to words, sound and language.

Audio is intimate. When you hear someone's voice on a podcast, it seems as if they're talking directly to you. Swedish researchers have found that audio creates more of a sense of co-presence than does text.
In a one-on-one interview, the sharer is heard directly and feels valued; the listener gains insight and connects to the sharer in a new way.

Adapted From NPR's Radio Diarie

Talk-based Stories

Conversation cafe/Storycircles, both neughborhood or intergroup or city-wide with someone acting as recorder (via notes, audio recorder, video recorder) or the group harvesting the values together. Damariscotta Community Conversations Flyer
Storybooths a la StoryCorps
Interviews One-on-one or Many-on-One: Example from Going Coastal
Personal Narrative podcast: Example from Coastal Stories
Story Tours: Example from The Murmur Project or Artmobs

Publishing

Community Almanac: Example from Damariscotta

Website, Blogs and wikis

CD for the town

Radio:

Example from Rural Voices Radio

VISUAL STORIES

Why Choose Visual Stories

Single Images (Still photos, paintings, etc) convey strong emotion, a single point or mood

They can speak more loudly than words, especially in this image-centered era

Images can show things differently, and show different things.

Easy to place in the landscape for an ongoing presence

Terrific way to engage people in a collaborative project (see mnural project examples)

Digital Tools

Soundslide

(It is not free, but what professionals use; also invites audio)

Look at Alan Levine's List of Storytelling Tools

Publishing

Calendars
Artshows (Visions of the Now and of the Future) Example of an Online Exhibition

Photo-stories pinned to map in town (or online via Community Almanac)
Postcards or eCards Example from Minnesota
Slide-stories (Stories in Five Images) Example from Minnesota and from Maine
Before-and-After Photo Displays in the library, at school, in the newspaper
Comic stories online or in a 'zine
Collages as Posters or Online (glogster example)
Posters or Murals about town Example from Canada, another from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, one from Philadephia, one from Duke University's Face Up! Project, from high school students in Denver--a mural club, a series from Chemainus, British Columbia
Digital & Mural Combinations UCLA example
At a story klatch, bring photos to stir the conversation/story pot
An artist working with a community