One day workshops
As well as delivering digital storytelling workshops with groups, the Culture Shock! project also developed a special one-day digital storytelling workshop format in order to engage more participants in the project.
Not everyone living in the North East belongs to an organised community group, club, society or educational institution and would therefore might not get the opportunity to take part in the project.
By providing an alternative way of engaging in the digital storytelling process meant that the project was able to collect stories from participants who are still part of the North East community as a whole. The delivery of these one-day workshops helped to ensure the stories Culture Shock! collected provided a better representation of the diverse range of people living in the region.
These one-day workshops were obviously structured very differently to the longer digital storytelling projects run with groups and involved lots more staff facilitation to ensure participants completed their stories. Participants needed to be briefed before turning up to a workshop and ideally needed to come prepared to the workshop with an idea for their story and the images and photographs they wanted to use.
A number of different one-day workshop were held during the project. In County Durham, a one-day workshop was held at Beamish and two one-day workshops were held in the summer of 2009 inspired by the "Toy Tales" exhibition held at The Bowes Museum. In Tyne and Wear one day workshops were held at Newcastle City Central Library, Tyneside Cinema and the Culture Shop! in Eldon Square.