Digital Storytelling: Michael Feagans and Engine 11

3 October 2008 No Comment

Regular Salon-goer, friend of First Person Arts, and owner of the storytelling site Philastories.org, Michael Feagans attended a Digital Storytelling Workshop (at the Philadelphia Center for Digital Storytelling) recently and produced the following moving account of his relationship to his father and his father’s life as a black firefighter in Philadelphia at Engine 11:

You can hear more from some of Philadelphia’s black firefighters at philastories.org.  If you’d like to try your hand at creating your own Digital Story, the First Person Festival offers an introduction to the form in Storysmithing 101 (other options during the session include writing and oral storytelling).

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