Telling your story…

The final event in our storytelling series of workshops and events this summer, has us learning about how to tell our own story in the form of a family history book.

For anyone who has been doing family history research for a long time and struggling with how to put it all together into something easy to digest, this workshop may be for you.

Join other like-minded people in a free session with Mike Murray from Time Trackers about how to write a family history book. Mike will discuss:

• how to get started
• making it interesting
• social history
• putting ‘flesh on the bones’
• story structure
• some of the technicalities (format, layout, images, etc.)
• publishing

and come prepared with your own questions too!

When: Wednesday 27 April 2016, 6.30-7.30 pm
Where: South Perth Library Function Room

FREE event. Bookings essential!
Book online: http://bit.ly/21CFGDy
or call: 9474-0800

Digital Storytelling Workshop

After a successful event where we learned the power of our family stories last week, we hope to take you one step further to capturing your own story.

We will be running a Digital Storytelling Workshop at the end of this month where you will learn how to produce a 1-3 minute personal story using your own photographs and voice.

This is a very exciting workshop facilitated by Chronicle which ran similar workshops as part of their Chronicle Scarborough project a few years ago.

View some of the short films produced in past Digital Storytelling Workshops with Chronicle:

• Brave New World: https://vimeo.com/56954234
• Milky Legs: https://vimeo.com/64202418
• Laurie’s Playground: https://vimeo.com/55501730

 

For full details about the Digital Storytelling Workshop and to book, visit the booking link below:

Event details:

Digital Storytelling Workshop
Saturday 27 February, 2016
10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Cost: $25 + booking fee

Bookings Essential – Click here to view more details and book

The Power of Family Stories

Happy New Year everyone!

This year will be all about stories.

The City of South Perth has launched its new Arts & Events Programme, A Story to Tell, and we are kicking off the year in local history with our latest event, The Power of Family Stories.

The event will start us off thinking about oral history (we will explain what it is for those who don’t know!) and why it is important, as well as giving us a few tips and tricks for how we can go about recording our own family’s history.

Our two guest speakers, John Bannister and Janine Boreland, have extensive experience in capturing stories and have worked on a long list of varied projects over the years.

This talk is the first of a number of events and workshops that are taking place under the storytelling series, The Bench Talk Project. For more information visit The Bench Talk Project page.

Event details:

The Power of Family Stories
Wednesday 3 February, 2016
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Bookings Essential
Register online here or call South Perth Library to book a spot: 9474-0800