DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS
As a natural extension of my passion for writing, photography, and my desire to help others find their voice, I have facilitated two-day and four-day Intensive Digital Storytelling Workshops using Final Cut and iMovie with The Center for Digital Storytelling and with Surya Govender at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Continuing Studies.
We lead students through idea generation, writing, recording, and video production of their own short videos built from still images, voice-track and music.
I'd love to build a team, or work with yours, to create a digital storytelling or other writing workshop to suit the needs of your community. I also create publishing partnerships with media, and create strategies to engage a broader community via storytelling and social media.
A great example, is this video made in our of the Emily Carr workshops by Joe Hargitt, called "Letters."
In this 2-minute digital story, Joe traces his love of writing to a childhood of letter-writing with an often-absent father.
Made in a 2012 Digital Storytelling workshop at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, facilitated by Surya Govender and Suzanne Ahearne.
TESTIMONIALS
“Suzanne, was co-facilitator at a digital storytelling workshop held recently at Emily Carr University. The course was absolutely fantastic. Both facilitators managed to get a group of people from different stages and sectors of life all on side and all committed to producing finite creative tasks, to build a final creative project in a two day period. So rewarding. I can’t thank them enough. It was daunting and they were consistently supportive and gave wonderful feedback which allowed our group of 9 individuals to complete the task - complete a 2 minute digital story. We all admitted this would have been impossible without their knowledge, skill, and above all their absolute trust in us and the process. ”
“It was a great educational experience - I learned how to make a simple, personal film from my own photographs and memorabilia, as advertised. But what raised the workshop far above the ordinary was the wonderfully supportive creative environment the two instructors created and sustained over four long hard days. For me, the workshop was transformative: I went in a civilian and came out a (beginning) artist!”