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Creative Voices in Dumfries: Place, Walking and Home

Below is the second in a series of guest posts from creative writing tutor who has been facilitating a series of workshops with communitiy groups in Rutherglen, Dumfries, Paisley and Kilmarnock as part of the Digital Commonwealth Creative Voices project. The second round of creative writing workshops started in Dumfries on the 8th of February. My…

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Creative Voices in Paisley: Exploring the Commonwealth with Creative Writing

Below is the third of a series of guest blog posts from creative writing tutor  who has been working with community groups in Rutherglen, Dumfries, Paisley and Kilmarnock as part of the Creative Voices programme of activity.  During March I also delivered four workshops to a group of writers who meet each Friday at the Disabled…

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Creative Voices: Creative Writing at Lochbrae in Rutherglen

As part of the Creative Voices programme as part of the Digital Commonwealth project, residents of Lochbrae Sheltered Housing were treated to a series of workshops from writer Andrea McNicoll around the themes of place and reflecting on Glasgow of the past. We returned on the 12th of March to screen a short film produced…

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Creatively writing in Rutherglen, “We had the best of it, back then”

As part of the Digital Commonwealth Creative Voices programme, we have commissioned a number of creative tutors based around the campuses of University of the West of Scotland to delivery Creative Writing, Documentary Film and Community Songwriting to a number of different community groups to gain access to a new creative practice and to produce…

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Creative Voices

Using our expertise in documentary film, creative writing and community songwriting the Digital Common-wealth will deliver three creative voice projects involving participatory workshops and benefitting individuals and groups in four areas around University of the West of Scotland campuses (Dumfries, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire).

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Archiving Community Storytelling: Challenges and Opportunities: 13th March 2015

As part of Digital Commonwealth project, the team have hosted a number of community media meet-ups focusing on the opportunities and challenges afforded through the use of new technologies for digital storytelling within a community development setting in Scotland. Next Friday on the Paisley Campus of the University of the West of Scotland, in partnership with the…

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Digital Commonwealth featured as case study in Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack.

After being included at the first Creative Citizen’s conference on the 18th-19th September at the Royal College of Art in London, we were approached by Dr Dan Lockton to contribute to the Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack that brought together case studies of inspiring digital ideas from community based project.

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So what have we been up to this summer?

So it’s been a month since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games came to a close and the flag was passed to the Australian Gold Coast for 2018. It’s been all go at the Digital Commonwealth office as we begin to pull together all the finished content from our 57 schools, over 200 community media participants…

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Handbook of Digital Storytelling

The Digital Commmonwealth team have been working on producing a resource which helps people develop digital storytelling skills. The handbook is intended for use by the participants of the project, as well as anyone who has an interest in using digital media literacy skills for storytelling. It contains themes and examples of work created during…

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Digital Commonwealth Project in Midlothian

In East Lothian the trainers for the project were Room8 and Lasswade High and Burnbrae Primary took part. The Digital Commonwealth project in East Lothian was based around sharing memories of favourite sports or sport activities, as well as treasured items personal to the participants. Room 8 created a blog for the project which catalogued…

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