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Young Audiences Launches Digital Storytelling Residency at Grady High School
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
YOUNG AUDIENCES LAUNCHES DIGITAL STORYTELLING RESIDENCY AT GRADY HIGH SCHOOL
Turner Broadcasting Helps Fund Pilot Program at Local Atlanta School
ATLANTA, Ga. – Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC) is pleased to announce the launch of a digital storytelling residency that will be piloted at Grady High School this spring. Made possible through a generous donation from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., the launch of the program will also support Turner Voices, the company’s signature philanthropy program that identifies and develops the next generation of storytellers.
While the residency will instruct students on the essential foundations of an engaging story, the in-classroom work will primarily focus on helping students tell stories using technology. Depending on a student’s creative vision, a story can include a variety of digital media tools, including images, text, audio narration, interactive illustration, video and music.
Participating students will take part in 10 sessions where they will work collaboratively to create multiple three- to five-minute digital stories rooted in personal narrative. The sessions will be led by Young Audiences Teaching Artist Jeff Mather and a partner teacher Thaddeus Roberts at Grady, and – at the end of the program – the students’ work will be celebrated through a showcase screening of the digital stories.
“Young Audiences is delighted to partner with Turner Broadcasting and Grady High School to pilot this digital storytelling residency,” said Tony Kimbrell, Executive Director of Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center. “Technology is continually changing the way we both create and interpret art, and through this residency program we will be working with the next generation of artists to help them discover the power of digital storytelling.”
“At Turner Broadcasting, we are committed to nurturing future generations of creative-thinkers and are excited to help Young Audiences launch this digital storytelling pilot program,” said Kristina Christy, Director of Corporate Responsibility at Turner Broadcasting. “By combining the art of storytelling with 21st century technology skills, we hope to equip these high school students with the tools they need to succeed in their future endeavors – both in and outside of school.”
Young Audiences is also partnering with the Center for Digital Storytelling to train additional teaching artists to deliver the digital storytelling residency in more high schools in the future.
ABOUT YOUNG AUDIENCES, WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER
Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC) is Georgia’s leading provider of arts-in-education programming. Part of the prestigious 31 chapter national Young Audiences organization, YAWAC brings the power of live arts experiences to Georgia students from pre-school to high school. From a small organization of nine artists in 1983, YAWAC is celebrating more than 25 years of service and has grown into a force in arts education, now comprised of more than 65 professional artists and ensembles that reach nearly 640,000 students each year in over 50 counties statewide. We fulfill our mission – to transform the lives and learning of young people through the arts – by providing a dazzling and culturally diverse array of curriculum-based assemblies, workshops and residencies in music, dance, theatre, literary and visual arts. For more information, please visit www.yawac.org.
ABOUT WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER
The Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts center in the Southeast as well as one of the four largest in the nation. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines five visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization. Opening in 1968, the Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse.
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CONTACT
Carisa Turner
(404) 733-5255
carisa.turner@woodruffcenter.org
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