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Bournemouth Workshop: What a great 3 days

by Ross Adamson 3 Comments

Two of our participants discussing e-readers

I’m just beginning to come down off the high which was the Bournemouth workshop 21st May – 2nd June.  It was a great workshop in a great setting.  The Fusion building worked fantastically for our ‘storycircle’ day and provided the right kind of environment for sharing everyone’s passion for reading.  We laughed and cried our way through stories of reading and e-reading.

Over the three days, 11 stories were produced between our 12 participants – 10 individual stories and 1 which was jointly produced.  What struck me was the variety of approaches to storytelling.  From video dramatic monologues to performance poetry, from a stop-motion tennis match between a book and ebook (find out who won shortly by watching the film!) to a heartfelt family story of the highs and lows of reading.  We even had a pop-up book exhibition.  As a thought, what will 3D digital technology come up with to match the beauty of a pop-up sky lizard?

Interviewing a participant about her story ideas.

One of our participants, writer Gail Aldwin, has just posted her experiences of the workshop on her blog.

We’ll be posting photos and the digital stories from this workshop on this website soon.  On now to our plans for the Brighton workshop in late September and Sheffield in October.  Can’t wait!

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  1. Gregory Cox says

    June 5, 2017 at 12:32 pm

    Greg here.

    I still intend to produce the video as envisioned.

    But also working on next generation presentation which will be WOW!!!!!

    Why cannot the book explain itself without further human intervention?

    A book that is multi-media and multi-sensual (it will breathe).

    The dragon will fly – I’ll start with a bird and leave the dragon to a certain Blodwen.

    Do you know that my book will communicate with other books.

    Let me know your wish list.

    Popup and popin.

    Reply
    • Bronwen Thomas says

      June 21, 2017 at 6:53 pm

      Hi Greg, good to hear from you. Please do keep us posted re your projects!!

      Reply
  2. Tricia Jenkins says

    July 1, 2017 at 1:02 am

    It was absolutely an inspiring three days. I’ll be adding some photos and some thoughts about what made this workshop so special.

    Reply

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