“Agape is a small orphanage in South Africa with an amazing children’s choir. We Are Together is a film about the kids and their incredible journey.
Filmed over three years, it follows the children’s remarkable journey as they overcome hardship and loss to embark on a life changing musical journey.”
The filmmakers profits from the film and CD will be donated to help the Agape Children’s Choir and other children in South Africa. Get involved!
Link | www.wearetogether.org
Facebook | Join group
“Hacer felices a los demás es el verdadero secreto de la felicidad; no hay otro truco. Desprendernos totalmente de nuestros propios intereses y centrarnos en los de los demás y en lo que puede hacerlos felices. Ésa es la fórmula indiscutible para dar sentido a nuestra existencia, para bailar al compás marcado por el verdadero impulso de humanidad y vida. Somos instrumentos del amor, y los instrumentos sólo tienen valor y significado cuando son escuchados por una audiencia.”
—Jaume Sanllorente
Link | www.sonrisasdebombay.org
The Organic City is a thesis project created by the combined efforts of Seamus Byrne and Sarah Mattern, students in CSU East Bay’s Multimedia Graduate Program.
The project seeks to connect with the community through this website where you can find and tell stories about local places. In addition, the project offers mobile media that can be experienced onsite with mobile media players and Pocket PC’s.
“Ultimately, we hope the project will allow us to explore the relationships between place, story, and community; as well as the ways in which new technologies can enhance our appreciation for these important components of human identity and experience.”
Link | http://www.theorganiccity.com/wordpress/
O Kyklos tis Zois - The Circle of Life by Ilias Sounas.
“Life constantly changes, as it comes full circle… Everything flows as Heracletus said, nothing is stagnant. And when people die, their soul go to the stars as Plato said and new souls are born. This is our circle…” —Ilias Sounas
Link | www.sounasdesign.com
Photo by Janet Morrell, taken in St Ives, West Yorkshire, England (CC License).
Flickr | Janet’s collections
Comfort grew up in Nigeria, the daughter of a chief, and has learned and told folktales and songs ever since she learned to talk. She studied languages and drama and became a teacher at a time when it was very unpopular in Africa to send girls to school. She left her native land when authorities warned her against telling subversive stories to her students.
This former Nigerian school principal uses stories to teach children about social justice, exploring it through current events and through folk tales from numerous cultures.
Link | Storytellers of Canada
Books: | Kokodiko, the Dance Monster
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. The simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed.
No restrictions were (or are) made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Also in Spanish, French and German.
Via | Wikipedia
Link | http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
All about digital storytelling: stories, resources for facilitators, events info, networking and more.
“The power of community digital storytelling workshops rests in their ability to inspire, connect, and incite action within and between local groups; the goal of Stories for Change is to further nurture that spirit online.”
Link | www.storiesforchange.net
“Deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie leads the audience through an exploration of music not as notes on a page, but as an expression of the human experience.”
Via | www.ted.com
Link | www.evelyn.co.uk
True stories, told in one sentence. Read and rate, tag, write and share. A truly 2.0 experience.
“One Sentence is an experiment in brevity. Most of the best stories that we tell from our lives have one really, really good part that make the rest of the boring story worth it.
This is about that one line.”
Link | www.onesentence.org
