Digital Drama are working with Tim Wells and Speaking Volumes to produce new digital media with the original Ranting Poets to accompany a series of performances, discussions, film screenings and workshops in 2015.
Go to www.speaking-volumes.org.uk/SUS for further tour details or click here: Stand Up And Spit Flyer
Digital Drama received a grant from the Magna Carta Trust to create the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge as part of the 800th Anniversary Commemoration.
The Magna Carta Young Curator Badge Project engages young people in the history and cultural legacy of the Magna Carta through the creation of online media including blogs, video and animation for the Magna Carta Channel on Makewaves, the social network for schools. Students are rewarded with a Magna Carta Young Curator Badge as evidence of their learning and participation.
The Magna Carta Young Curator Badge was piloted with the Runnymede South Confederation of Schools between April and June 2015. The schools performed in the Great Charter Festival on June 15th at Royal Holloway and at the Magna Carta anniversary commemoration at Runnymede on June 16th.
Prince William greeted the performers and eight giant puppets, representing people who had campaigned for liberty and freedom over the last 800 years. Students tracked the progress of rehearsal and interpretation of the themes of liberty and freedom via videos, blogs and animation. This accompanied a specific focus on the history of the Magna Carta and its impact on communities across the world.
A selected group from Buckingham Primary School who had completed their Young Curator Badge were selected for a visit the British Library to see the Magna Carta exhibition.
Following the main activities, the roll out phase of the project involves working with Makewaves to promote the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge to their community of schools (4,000 worldwide) and young users (70,000 worldwide). Digital Drama has created links for teachers of specific project resources and ‘how to’ guides for the open badge to tie in with the Key Stage 3 curriculums for history and citizenship. Digital Drama filmed a question and answer session from students and a Magna Carta expert Professor Nigel Saul from University of London Royal Holloway that has been uploaded to the Makewaves channel as a free resource to mark the 800th anniversary.
Over 60 programmes of students’ media made for the Magna Carta Young Curators Badge can be seen here: www.makewav.es/digitaldrama/c/magnacarta
Commenting on the award, Kate Valentine, Director of Digital Drama said:
“We are delighted to have received the support of the Magna Carta Trust to roll out the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge on Makewaves. The project will enable young people to engage in the legacy of Magna Carta through creating media inspired by the themes of freedom and justice and be awarded for their achievement by the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge.”
Digital Drama has received a grant from the Magna Carta Trust to create the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge as part of the 800th Anniversary Commemoration.
The Magna Carta Young Curator Badge Project from Digital Drama engages young people in the history and cultural legacy of the Magna Carta through the creation of online media including blogs, video and animation for the Magna Carta Channel on Makewaves, the social network for schools. Students are rewarded with a Magna Carta Young Curator Badge as evidence of their learning and participation.
The Magna Carta Young Curator Badge will be piloted with the Runnymede South Confederation of Schools (network of 19 schools in the Runnymede area) between April and June 2015. The schools will be taking part in the Great Charter Festival on June 15th at Royal Holloway, performing with giant puppets to depict eight individuals who have fought for or enabled the ideas of freedom and justice over eight centuries.
As part of their contribution to the Festival and as evidence for their Magna Carta Young Curator Badge, students will track the progress of rehearsal and interpretation of the themes via videos, blogs and animation. This will be accompanied with a specific focus on the history of the Magna Carta and its impact on communities across the world.
Following the main activities, the roll out phase of the project will involve working with Makewaves to promote the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge to their community of schools (4,000 worldwide) and young users (70,000 worldwide). This project will bring young people in contact with Magna Carta historical primary source material and media skills workshops. Digital Drama and Makewaves will create teacher packs of specific project resources and ‘how to’ guides for the open badge to tie in with the Key Stage 3 curriculums for history and citizenship. Digital Drama will film a question and answer session with students and a Magna Carta expert to be uploaded to the Makewaves channel as a free resource to mark the 800th anniversary.
Commenting on the award, Kate Valentine, Director of Digital Drama said
“We are delighted to have received the support of the Magna Carta Trust to roll out the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge on Makewaves. The project will enable young people to engage in the legacy of Magna Carta through creating media inspired by the themes of Freedom and Justice and be awarded for their achievement by the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge.
Stephen Creek of Makewaves states “It’s really exciting to have the Magna Carta Young Curator Badge available for the Makewaves community of young people to earn. This is one of the first digital badges in our vast library of awards to focus on the themes of Freedom and Justice, and we are certain that Makewaves users are going to relish the challenge of working towards their badges and learning about the history of the Magna Carta.”
Project Partners:
Makewaves: (www.makewav.es) is the safe social media platform for schools.
“We want to provide every school and every young person with access to these opportunities to help them develop the skills and self confidence they will need to succeed in today’s ever changing knowledge economy.”
Magna Carta Trust: (www.magnacarta800th.com)
The Magna Carta Trust’s 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee is charged by the Magna Carta Trust to co-ordinate activities, raise the profile of the anniversary and deliver a number of key national and international aspirations. For more information, visit www.magnacarta800th.com
Digital Drama are recording memories of V.E. Day to form part of an audio installation at Rose Theatre Kingston in May 2015 marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.
‘V.E. Day Remembered’ will feature personal recollections of V.E. Day from the community. A selection of images, recorded memories and a street party for contributors will conjure up V.E. Day at the Rose Theatre on the 8th May 2015.
All memories gathered will be published in a booklet to mark the occasion.
V.E. Day was the official celebration of Victory in Europe Day, the public holiday to mark the end of World War II in Europe. In the UK millions of people celebrated in the streets on 8th May 1945 to mark the end of the European part of the war.
The project will focus on preserving and sharing the personal memories of members of the community who experienced V.E. Day first hand. Their reminiscences of such an extraordinary moment in world history will help to tell the local story of the official end of the European conflict. An installation of local streets and wartime garden complete with an Anderson Shelter will feature the recorded memories, which will also be available to listen to online via www.digitaldrama.org from May 2015.
‘V.E. Day Remembered’ will be a free audio installation open to the public on the ground floor of the Rose Theatre, running from 28th April-21st May 2015.
If would like to share your memories of V.E. Day, please get in touch with Alison Ramsey on: alison@digitaldrama.org / 07525 205148.
A great evening for the opening of audio / visual exhibition Galsworthy and Human Battles on the Home Front, produced by Digital Drama for The Rose Theatre. Ken Smith, Mayor of Kingston, spoke of Galsworthy’s humanitarian campaigns and the South West London Military Wives Choir sang for guests including the exhibition’s local contributors.
Four stars for the exhibition from Alexandra Sims of The Upcoming:
“The exhibition not only unearths the much-forgotten philanthropy of one of London’s greatest author’s but also, through local stories, connects us to an event that a century on can feel extremely distant. The combination of personal tales and Galsworthy’s biography all framed within the context of the war creates an exhibition large in scope, yet with intimate and meaningful layers that speak to us today. Small touches such as the diary excerpts and letters, written by local soldiers and the embroidered postcards written with messages of love from the front, give an intimate touch making their sacrifices seem all the more devastating.
The audio element is particularly moving, as hearing the voices of soldier’s children and grandchilden as well as their undergoing rehabilitation at Headley Court make the exhibit all the more poignant. Affecting and absorbing, Human Battles is a touching tribute to a local experience of war.”
Click here for full review and here for the Galsworthy project page.
Galsworthy related images courtesy of Cadbury Research Library and Special Collections, University of Birmingham.
