Digital Storytelling for Community Archives

An in-person workshop about digital storytelling, at Enniskillen Castle

In this workshop we’ll explore how to use your archives to tell online stories that engage curiosity and introduce new people to your group.

Through a series of structured participative exercises, we’ll think about online audiences, and the story elements that appeal to them. We’ll look at how stories can be realised using words, images and video; and at the temptations and pitfalls of using generative AI. You’ll leave the workshop with practical ideas to take back to your organisation and try out.

This will be an interactive session with plenty of discussion and time for questions. Refreshments and lunch provided.

Facilitator: Freelance Digital Specialist

Danny Birchall has been working in digital cultural heritage for over twenty years, commissioning and producing digital art, games and features. At Wellcome Collection he led the team that published Stories, featuring narrative non-fiction about the lived experience of health.

This workshop forms part of the wider ‘Spaces, Places and Belonging: Community Hub’ skills development and training programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and in partnership with Enniskillen Castle.  For more information on this programme, and to book on to other sessions, visit https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hub/