Digistoryfest

The moment has arrived! The Digital Storytelling Festival 2022 has closed so now it’s time to take a look at the inspiring entries and vote for your favourites. To vote, all you have to do is hit the ‘Applause’ button at the bottom of the stories you like. The story with the most ‘claps’ will win our People’s Choice Award. The deadline for voting is 12 July 2022. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to share their stories with us — we love you for it!

To celebrate #MuseumWeek we are giving everyone a few more days to enter this year’s #DigiStoryFest. You now have until Sunday 26 June to submit an entry for this year’s contest. So, why not explore our resources and amazing open access collections to find inspiration for your story, as our colleague Beth said today! We can’t wait to see what you create.

Over on my website, www.vonverity.com, I put together a little story about a unique solution to a housing problem. In the 1940s, higher-ups at Colorado A&M (the future Colorado State University) and local leaders in the surrounding city of Fort Collins, Colorado decided to construct a community of Quonset Huts to house returning soldiers. What was meant to be a temporary solution resulted in longstanding marks on the local landscape: several of these semicircular buildings are still being used today.

A life’s story from rural Sweden during the 19th and 20th century, brought alive by music and historical objects. Narrated by the protagonist’s great-grandchild and presented by Sörmland Museum. By Josefine Svensson, Curator at Sörmland Museum. What can the traces of a 19th-century farm worker’s life tell us? Sörmland, a…

From the first trail camera to modern camera traps and augmented reality I was reading the book Why Look at Animals? by John Berger to prepare a photography project about animals in zoos. Berger writes that through the lens of a camera, ‘All animals appear like fish seen through the…

The Festival kicked off at the Opening Gala on 10–11 May, with sessions demonstrating what the competition is all about, introducing some of last year’s winners, highlighting inspiring examples of online storytelling and sharing how to use open digital cultural heritage content in creative workshops. You can watch the recordings of the Gala below; there are time stamps to help you explore the sessions, and you can find the full programme here.

In celebration of the Digital Storytelling Festival 2022 led by Europeana and The Heritage Lab, I created a story called Promenade Dress based on the famous painting The Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg. Preface In Margaret and Elizabeth’s story, we learn about their lifestyle, so the trip to New York…

This year’s Digital Storytelling Festival — the international creative contest that brings people and cultural heritage together — is almost here. Today we’re happy to share the programme for our Opening Gala, 10–11 May, packed with interactive workshops, practical tips and amazing cultural heritage. Register now — you won’t want to miss it! 10 May programme (all times CEST) 10:00–10:30 Welcome & introduction

The first edition of the Digital Storytelling Festival encouraged people to create digital stories from openly licensed cultural heritage collections. At its recent closing event, Festival participants, the Jury and cultural heritage enthusiasts celebrated and looked back at the inaugural edition. The session began with a peek behind the scenes…